Toini Gustafsson
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| Medal record | |||
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| Women's cross country skiing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1968 Grenoble | 5 km | |
| Gold | 1968 Grenoble | 10 km | |
| Silver | 1964 Innsbruck | 3 x 5 km | |
| Silver | 1968 Grenoble | 3 x 5 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Silver | 1962 Zakopane | 3 x 5 km | |
| Bronze | 1966 Oslo | 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1966 Oslo | 3 x 5 km | |
Toini Gustafsson-Rönnlund (born January 17, 1938) is a former Swedish cross country skier who competed during the 1960's. She competed in two Winter Olympics, earning a total of four medals. Gustafsson also competed several times at the Holmenkollen ski festival, winning three times at 10 km (1960, 1967, and 1968). Additionally, she won three medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a silver in 1962 (3 x 5 km), and two bronzes in 1966 (10 km and 3 x 5 km).
For her successes in Nordic skiing and at the Holmenkollen, Gustafsson received the Holmenkollen medal in 1967 (Shared with Ole Ellefsæter). She is the first Swedish woman to ever win the Holmenkollen medal.
Today she is married with the former Swedish cross-country skier Assar Rönnlund. They are the second husband-wife team to win the Holmenkollen medal (Rönnlund earned the medal in 1968).
Gustafsson is an ethnic Finn. She was born in Suomussalmi, Finland, but was evacuated to Sweden when she was a child (see Finnish war children).
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| Olympic champions in women's 5 km cross-country skiing |
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1964: Klavdija Bojarskikh | 1968: Toini Gustafsson | 1972: Galina Kulakova | 1976: Helena Takalo | 1980: Raisa Smetanina | 1984: Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen | 1988: Marjo Matikainen-Kallström | 1992: Marjut Lukkarinen | 1994: Lyubov Yegorova | 1998: Larisa Lazutina |
| Olympic champions in women's 10 km cross-country skiing |
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1952: Lydia Wideman | 1956: Ljubov Kozyreva | 1960: Maria Gusakova | 1964: Klavdija Bojarskikh | 1968: Toini Gustafsson | 1972: Galina Kulakova | 1976: Raisa Smetanina | 1980: Barbara Petzold | 1984: Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen | 1988: Vida Vencienė | 2002: Bente Skari | 2006: Kristina Šmigun |
| Preceded by: Arto Tiainen, Bengt Eriksson, & Arne Larsen |
Holmenkollen medal with Ole Ellefsæter 1967 |
Succeeded by: King Olav V, Assar Rönnlund, Gjermund Eggen, & Bjørn Wirkola |
