Maiken Caspersen Falla
| Maiken Caspersen Falla | |
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| Born |
13 August 1990 Fet, Akershus, Norway |
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Ski club | Gjerdrum IL |
| World Cup career | |
| Seasons | 2008– |
| Individual wins | 13 |
| Indiv. podiums | 37 |
| Overall titles | 0 – (6th in 2015 and 2016) |
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.
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.
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
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