Emelie Öhrstig

Medal record
Women's cross country skiing
World Championships
Gold 2005 Oberstdorf Individual sprint

Emelie Öhrstig (born 27 February 1978) is a Swedish cross-country skier who won a gold medal at the 2005 Nordic World Ski Championships.[1] She also has eleven additional victories up to 15 km from 2002 to 2005, and her best individual finish in Turin at the 2006 Winter Olympics was 22nd in the individual sprint.

A native of the southern Sweden city of Borås, the seat of Borås Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Öhrstig had the highest score in the 2005 sprint category at the Championships held in the southwest German skiing town of Oberstdorf. In April 2006 she resigned as a member of the Piteå Elit team and has since been listed on the website for the International Ski Federation as retired.

References

  1. ^ "Roundup: Russian triumphs in sprint duel" (The New York Times, 23 February 2005) "NORDIC SKIING: Emelie Oehrstig of Sweden claimed gold five days before her 27th birthday, covering the difficult 0.9-kilometer course in 2:15.5. A fellow Swede, Lina Andersson {shown alongside her in appended photograph}, earned silver in 2:16.8, beating Canada's Sara Renner by one-tenth of a second."

External links

2001: Pirjo Manninen (FIN) * 2003: Marit Bjørgen (NOR) * 2005: Emelie Öhrstig (SWE) * 2007: Astrid Jacobsen (NOR) * 2009: Arianna Follis (ITA) * 2011: Marit Bjørgen (NOR)