Maiken Caspersen Falla

Maiken Caspersen Falla
Born (1990-08-13) 13 August 1990
Fet, Akershus, Norway
Height 161 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Ski club Gjerdrum IL
World Cup career
Seasons 2008–
Individual wins 9
Indiv. podiums 25

Maiken Caspersen Falla (born 13 August 1990) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 2007. She became Olympic champion in the individual sprint event at the 2014 Winter Olympics after having won both the qualification, quarterfinal, semifinal and final.

Career

Falla finished 39th in the individual sprint event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec.

She finished 20th in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Falla has three individual World Cup victories, taken in skate sprints in Rogla in 2011, Canmore in 2012 and in Drammen in 2014. She also has four first places from team sprint events in Liberec and Düsseldorf in 2011, in Liberec in 2013 and in Nove Mesto in 2014.

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Falla was selected for the Team Sprint with her teammate Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen. The pair took Bronze behind the Swedish and Finnish teams. Two years later, at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 at Val di Fiemme in Italy, Falla won the bronze medal in the individual sprint event.

World Cup results

Individual victories

No. Season Date Location Discipline Level
1 2011-12 18 December 2011 Slovenia Rogla, Slovenia Sprint F World Cup
2 2012-13 15 December 2012 Canada Canmore, Canada Sprint F World Cup
3 2013-14 5 March 2014 Norway Drammen, Norway Sprint C World Cup
4 2014-15 11 March 2015 Norway Drammen, Norway Sprint C World Cup
5 2015-16 27 November 2015 Finland Ruka, Finland Sprint C Stage World Cup
6 19 December 2015 Italy Toblach, Italy Sprint F World Cup
7 1 January 2016 Switzerland Lenzerheide, Switzerland Sprint F Stage World Cup
8 3 February 2016 Norway Drammen, Norway Sprint C World Cup
9 11 February 2016 Sweden Stockholm, Sweden Sprint C World Cup

References

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