Tanja Frieden
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Competitor for  Switzerland |
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| Gold | 2006 Turin | Snowboard Cross | |
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, although the race is arguably more remembered for the defeat of American Lindsey Jacobellis than for her victory.
In the Snowboard Cross finals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Frieden was in second place well behind Jacobellis when she 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, as well as the Swiss German dialect of her native area. She also can speak German.
She is a primary school teacher in Switzerland and lives half the year near her home town by the mountains of the Bernese Oberland. The other half she is on world tour in the ski/snowboard races.
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| Preceded by Simone Niggli-Luder |
Swiss Sportswoman of the Year 2006 |
Succeeded by Simone Niggli-Luder |
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