Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Cross-Country - Ladies' Team Sprint Classic - 2014 Winter Olympics

Gold Medal
Norway
 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (born 9 November 1990) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 2008. She won her first competition in the sprint event in the Tour De Ski on 31 December 2013. Her previous best individual World Cup finish was a 2nd place at a sprint event on 1 January 2013 held in Val Müstair, Switzerland during Tour de Ski.
She won 4 gold medals during the 2009 Junior World Championship in Praz de Lys-Sommand, but had to settle with a 5th place in the team sprint event during the 2009 World Championship in Liberec, along with Astrid Jacobsen. She also finished 37th in the 30 km event.
She also plays football for Gjøvik FK.

 Marit Bjørgen
Marit Bjørgen (born 21 March 1980) is a Norwegian cross-country skier and five times Olympic champion from Midtre Gauldal, Norway. Bjørgen is the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country World Cup history, with twenty-five victories. She is ranked first in the all-time Cross-Country World Cup rankings with sixty-four individual victories. One of her most notable achievements was becoming the most successful athlete at the 2010 Winter Olympics by winning five medals, including three gold medals.
She is a member of the Rognes IL and is coached by Svein Tore Samdal.






8th Place
USA
 Sophie Caldwell
Sophie Caldwell (born March 22, 1990 Peru, Vermont) is an American cross-country skier.
Caldwell has two siblings, twins John Austin Caldwell and Isabel Sands Caldwell born March 25th, 1992. Caldwell's uncle (Tim Caldwell) and grandfather (John Caldwell) are also Olympians. Caldwell's father is Sverre Caldwell and her mother is Lilly Shuell Caldwell. Sverre is the head coach and program director of the Nordic Ski Team at the Stratton Mountain School in Stratton, VT; he has been named the US coach of the year on at least three different occasions. Lilly participated in three nordic skiing Junior World Championships.
Caldwell attended Dartmouth College and majored in psychology, graduating in 2012. She was a member of Tri Delta sorority.
Caldwell made her debut in FIS Cross-Country World Cup in Quebec's sprints in December 2012 with 14th place in the individual competition. At the 2013 World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme Caldwell finished 20th in classic style sprint. In 2014 in Lenzerheide, SUI, she placed 6th in the freestyle sprint, currently her best World Cup result. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, she finished 6th in the freestyle sprint.[1] She was in position to contend for a medal midway through the A-final when Astrid Jacobsen poled between her legs, causing her to crash and taking her out of contention for a medal. She finished 12 seconds behind in 6th place. This is the best ever result by a female American cross-country skier. 

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.

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