Saturday, February 15, 2014

Cross-Country - Ladies' Relay 4 x 5km - 2104 Winter Olympics

Gold 
Sweden
 Anna Haag
Anna Margret Haag (born 1 June 1986, Köping, Västmanland, as Anna Hansson) is a Swedish cross-country skier who has been competing since 2003. She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec.
Haag's best individual World Cup finish is a third place in a 10 km event 21 November 2009. Her lone victory was at a FIS race in Sweden in the 10 km event in 2008.
On 19 February 2010, Haag won the Olympic silver medal in the 15 km pursuit. Three days later, on 22 February, she won another silver medal, in the team sprint together with Charlotte Kalla.
At the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Haag in 4 x 5 km team relay, 3rd stage, won gold.

 Ida Ingemarsdotter
Ida Maria Erika Ingemarsdotter (born 26 April 1985) is a Swedish cross-country skier who has been competing since 2003. She finished eighth in the individual sprint at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo.
Ingemarsdotter has a total of five individual victories at various levels up to 15 km since 2003. Her best individual World Cup finish was first place in a sprint event in Milan in 2012.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she finished fifth in the 4 x 5 km relay, 15th in the individual sprint, and 42nd in the 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit events. Ingermarsdotter also competed in the 30 km event, but did not finish.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics Ingemarsdotter won gold in the team relay.


 Charlotte Kalla
Charlotte Kalla (born 22 July 1987) is a Swedish cross-country skier who has been competing since 2004. She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km relay at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec. Her best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fifth in the 10 km event at Sapporo in 2007.
On 6 January 2008, Kalla won the second edition of Tour de Ski in her debut in the event.
On 6 May 2012, Kalla signed for Piteå Elit for the season 2012/13.

 Emma Wikén
Emma Christina Wikén (born 1 May 1989) is a Swedish cross-country skier who competes in the cross-country World Cup. During the Swedish championships in skiathlon in Falun 2013, Wikén won gold.[1] At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wikén won gold in the 4×5 km relay along with Ida Ingemarsdotter, Anna Haag and Charlotte Kalla.


USA
8th Place
 Kikkan Randall
Kikkan Randall (born December 31, 1982 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American cross-country skier from Anchorage, Alaska. She is the niece of former cross-country skiing Olympians Betsy Haines (1980) and Chris Haines (1976). She won the silver medal in the individual sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, becoming the first American woman to win a medal in cross country skiing at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and in 2013 teamed up with Jessie Diggins to win the first ever FIS Nordic World Ski Championships gold medal in the team sprint.

 Sadie Bjornsen
With only two full seasons on the U.S. Ski Team under her belt, Sadie Bjornsen is already making waves in the nordic world.

A product of the Alaska Pacific University pipeline, Bjornsen recovered from offseason back and foot injuries to win her second and third U.S. titles and earn her first top-10 in a World Cup sprint. Along the way, she helped the 4x5k relay team finish an historic fourth at World Championships and had impressive races on the Sochi Olympic course.

Her eventful 2013 season followed an impressive 2012 campaign, which saw the Washington state native score her first career World Cup points in a team sprint with Kikkan Randall. In 2011 she earned All-America honors as a college freshman at APU and skied in her first World Championships in Oslo, Norway.

The young sprint specialist is looking forward to her first shot at the Olympics, and with the freestyle sprint on center stage, Bjornsen’s time could be now.

 Liz Stephen
Elizabeth "Liz" Stephen (born January 12, 1987) is an American cross country skier who has competed since 2005. Her best World Cup finish was fourth in a team sprint event at Whistler Olympic Park in January 2009 while her best individual finish was 24th in a 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit event also at Whistler Olympics Park in January 2009.
At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Stephen had her best finish of 14th in the 4 x 5 km relay and her best individual finish of 15th in the 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit.
It was announced on 19 January 2010 that she had qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics where she finished 51th in the 10 km and 58th in the 15 km mixed pursuit.
At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, Stephen finished 16th in the Women's 30 kilometre Freestyle, as the first of the four Americans in the class, with a time of 1:30:07.
Stephen was named to the U.S. team for the 2014 Winter Olympics. In the 15 kilometer skiathlon, she placed 12th (out of 61 competitors) with a time of 40:09.6.

Jessica Diggins
Jessica "Jessie" Diggins (born August 26, 1991) is an American cross country skier from Afton, Minnesota.
She won a gold medal with Kikkan Randall in the team sprint in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme.
Diggins was named to the U.S. team for the 2014 Winter Olympics. In her first event, the 15 kilometer skiathlon, she placed 8th (out of 61 competitors) with a time of 40:05.5.

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