Gunn Rita Dahle Flesjaa
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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 29 World Cup wins, beating Juliana Furtado’s seemingly unbeatable record set in the 90s. 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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