Tanja Frieden

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Tanja Frieden (born 6 February 1976 in Berne) is a Swiss snowboarder. She won a gold medal in the inaugural Snowboard Cross competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

In the Snowboard Cross finals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Frieden was in second place well behind American Lindsey Jacobellis when Jacobellis crashed while attempting to showboat on the second to last jump. Frieden passed Jacobellis and won the gold medal.

Frieden, whose mother is from Norway, is fluent in Norwegian. Frieden's boyfriend is Seth Wescott, the men's Snowboard Cross gold medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Frieden's boyfriend's mother, Margaret Gould-Wescott, teaches modern dance at the University of Maine at Farmington.

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