Vibeke Skofterud

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Medal record
Women's cross country skiing
World Championships
Gold 2005 Oberstdorf 4 x 5 km
Silver 2003 Val di Fiemme 4 x 5 km
Bronze 2007 Sapporo 4 x 5 km

Vibeke Westbye Skofterud (born April 20, 1980 in Askim). is a Norwegian cross country skier who has been competing since 1999. She won a complete set of 4 x 5 km medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (gold: 2005, silver: 2003, bronze: 2007) and earned her best individual finish of 13th in the 5 km + 5 km double pursuit in 2003.

Skofterud's best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 8th in the 30 km event at Salt Lake City in 2002. Her lone victory came in a pursuit race in Norway in 2006.

[edit] Trivia

  • In 2005, Vibeke turned down an offer to appear in the Norwegian edition of the men's magazine FHM. The rejection was done after pressure from the Norwegian skiing federation.
  • Vibeke's laptop with several private photos where stolen in 2004, and some of these images appeared on internet discussion groups in November 2006.

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World champions in women's cross country skiing 4 x 5 km relay

(As 3 x 5 km) 1954 Soviet Union Lyubov Kozyreva, Margarita Maslennikova & Valentina Tsaryova
1958 Soviet Union Radya Yeroshina, Alevtina Kolchina & Lyubov Kozyreva
1962 Soviet Union Lyubov Baranova, Maria Gusakova & Alevtina Kolchina
1966 Soviet Union Klavdiya Boyarskikh, Rita Achkina & Alevtina Kolchina
1970 Soviet Union Nina Baldycheva, Galina Kulakova & Alevtina Olyunina
(As 4 x 5 km) 1974 Soviet Union Nina Baldycheva, Nina Selyunina, Raisa Smetanina & Galina Kulakova
1978 Finland Taina Impiö, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Hilkka Riihivuori & Helena Takalo
1982 Norway Anette Bøe, Inger Helene Nybråten, Berit Aunli & Britt Pettersen
1985 Soviet Union Tamara Tikhonova, Raisa Smetanina, Liliya Vasilchenko & Anfisa Romanova
1987 Soviet Union Antonina Ordina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Larisa Ptistyna, & Anfisa Reztsova
1989 Finland Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen & Marjo Matikainen
1991 Soviet Union Lyubov Yegorova, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova & Yelena Välbe
1993 Russia Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Lyubov Yegorova
1995 Russia Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina & Nina Gavrilyuk
1997 Russia Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Yelena Välbe
1999 Russia Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Anfisa Reztsova & Nina Gavrilyuk
2001 Russia Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Yuliya Chepalova & Nina Gavrilyuk
2003 Germany Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel & Evi Sachenbacher
2005 Norway Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira & Marit Bjørgen
2007 Finland Virpi Kuitunen, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen & Pirjo Manninen

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