Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå
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| Full name | Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | Cat Woman, The Iron Woman, Mountain-bike Queen | ||||||||||||
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10 February 1973 Stavanger, Norway |
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| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Mountain bike | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
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Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå (born 10 February 1973) is a Norwegian cross-country and marathon mountain biker. She won the women's cross-country gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games and is a multiple World Champion. She has won six World Championships and six European championships. Dahle has also won four UCI World Cup XC in a row.
Gunn-Rita grew up in the village of Bjørheimsbygd in Strand, Rogaland. She had her first MTB ride in April 1995 at 22 years old. Gunn-Rita has won a total of 18 Olympic, World- and European Championship Gold Medals. She currently rides for the German-based MTB Team, Multivan Mérida Biking Team. She has been riding on Mérida bikes since January 2002 and has been a professional cyclist for 20 years. She has won the overall World Cup 4 consecutive years (2003–06) and has a total of 28 World Cup wins, equaling Juliana Furtado’s seemingly unbeatable record set in the 90s. The last two WC wins she had in 2012. Some of her greatest achievements are the Olympic Gold Medal in 2004 in Athens, 9 World Championship Gold medals, 8 European Championship Gold medals, and many Silver medals. The last rainbow jersey she won in 2013, Worlds Marathon in Kirchberg (AUS).
Current team: Multivan Mérida Biking Team Discipline: Mountain Bike, Cross-Country Olympic Distance Professional teams: American Eagle (Netherlands) 1995—1998, Øgland-DBS (Norway) 1998—2001, Multivan Mérida Biking Team (Germany/Taiwan), 2002-2016
Olympic Gold Medal: Athens, Greece (2004)
World Champion XCO Gold Medals: Rotorua, New Zealand (2006), Livigno, Italy (2005), Les Gets, France (2004), Kaprun, Austria (2002).
World Champion Marathon Gold Medals: Selva Val Gardena, Italy (2015), Kirchberg, Austria (2013), Villabassa, Italy (2008), Oisans, France (2006), Lillehammer, Norway (2005), Bad Goisern, Austria (2004).
European Championship XCO Gold Medals: Moscow, Russia (2012), Dohnany, Slovakia (2011), Kluisbergen, Belgium (2005), Walbrzych Ksiaz, Poland (2004), Kaprun, Austria (2003), Zürich, Switzerland (2002)
European Championship Marathon Gold Medals: Tartu, Estonia (2009), Alpago, Italy (2006).
World Championship XCO Silver Medals: Leogang, Austria (2012), Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada (1998).
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