Borghild Niskin

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Borghild Niskin (born 19 February 1924) is a Norwegian alpine skier who finished 7th in the women's giant slalom at the 1956 Winter Olympics at Cortina d'Ampezzo. For that honor, Niskin became the first woman awarded the Holmenkollen medal that same year (Shared with fellow Norwegians Arnfinn Bergmann and Arne Hoel.). Niskin is one of only eleven non-nordic skiers to ever win the Holmenkollen medal (Stein Eriksen, King Haakon VII, Inger Bjørnbakken, Astrid Sandvik, King Olav V, Erik Håker, Jacob Vaage, King Harald V, and Queen Sonja (all from Norway), and Ingemar Stenmark (Sweden) are the others.).

She also finished fifth in the alpine combined event at the Alpine World Skiing Championships in 1956, an extraordinary event from the Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

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• FIS-Ski: Borghild Niskin - statistics
• Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)

Preceded by King Haakon VII, Hallgeir Brenden, Veikko Hakulinen, & Sverre Stenersen

Holmenkollen medal with Arnfinn Bergmann & Arne Hoel 1956

Succeeded by Eero Kolehmainen