Emelie Öhrstig
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 Emelie Öhrstig | |||||||||||||
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| Full name | Frida Emelie Öhrstig | ||||||||||||
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27 February 1978 Borås, Sweden | ||||||||||||
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| Club | Piteå Elit | ||||||||||||
| Skis | Fischer | ||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 1998-2006 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Additional podiums | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Total podiums | 0 | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emelie Öhrstig, born 27 February 1978 in Borås, Sweden, is a Swedish cross-country skier and road racing cyclist. As a cross-country skier she who won a gold medal during the 2005 Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany.[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.
In April 2006 she resigned as a member of the Piteå Elit SK team and has since been listed on the website for the International Ski Federation as retired.
References
- ↑ "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
Media related to Emelie Öhrstig at Wikimedia Commons- Emelie Oehrstig at the International Ski Federation
- Emelie Öhrstig at the Internet Movie Database
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