Yelena Välbe

Medal record

Välbe (center) in 2004 TV interview.
Women's cross-country skiing
Olympic Games
Gold 1992 Albertville 4 x 5 km
Gold 1994 Lillehammer 4 x 5 km
Gold 1998 Nagano 4 x 5 km
Bronze 1992 Albertville 5 km
Bronze 1992 Albertville 15 km
Bronze 1992 Albertville 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit
Bronze 1992 Albertville 30 km
World Championships
Gold 1989 Lahti 10 km freestyle
Gold 1989 Lahti 30 km
Gold 1991 Val di Fiemme 10 km
Gold 1991 Val di Fiemme 15 km
Gold 1991 Val di Fiemme 4 x 5 km
Gold 1993 Falun 15 km
Gold 1993 Falun 4 x 5 km
Gold 1995 Thunder Bay 30 km
Gold 1995 Thunder Bay 4 x 5 km
Gold 1997 Trondheim 5 km
Gold 1997 Trondheim 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit
Gold 1997 Trondheim 15 km
Gold 1997 Trondheim 30 km
Gold 1997 Trondheim 4 x 5 km
Silver 1989 Lahti 4 x 5 km
Silver 1991 Val di Fiemme 30 km
Silver 1995 Thunder Bay 15 km

Yelena Välbe, née Trubitsyna (Russian: Трубицына, born 20 April 1968 in Magadan, Russian SFSR) is a Russian former cross-country skier.

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, Välbe won a record-high fourteen gold (1989: 10 km freestyle, 30 km; 1991: 10 km, 15 km, 4x5 km; 1993: 15 km, 4x5 km; 1995: 30 km, 4x5 km relay), and three silver medals (1989: 4x5 km, 1991: 30 km, 1995: 15 km), including all five golds at the 1997 championships in Trondheim (5 km, 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit, 15 km, 30 km, and 4x5 km).[1] She also won three gold (all in relays) and four bronze medals in various Winter Olympic Games as well as the FIS Cross-Country World Cup five times (1989, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997) (she also finished second in 1990, 1993, 1996, and third in 1994). Välbe also won the 5 km (1991) and 15 km (1992) competitions at the Holmenkollen ski festival. She received the Holmenkollen medal in 1992.

Together with Bjørn Dæhlie of Norway, she holds the record for the number of podiums (81) in FIS Cross-Country World Cup events. She is placed third for the number of wins (45), behind Marit Bjørgen (47) and Bjørn Dæhlie (46). In 2010, Välbe was elected as President of the Russian Cross-Country Ski Association.

Formerly she was married with Estonian cross-country skier Urmas Välbe.

Notes

  1. ^ "VM i Trondheim i 1997" (in Norwegian). Ski-VM 2011 AS. http://www.oslo2011.no/no/holmenkollen/historikk_vm_og_ol/1997/. Retrieved 27 January 2011. 

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