Marit Bjørgen

Marit Bjørgen
Full name	Marit Bjørgen
Born	(1980-03-21) 21 March 1980 (age 36) Trondheim, Norway
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Ski club	Rognes IL
World Cup career
Seasons	1999–
Individual wins	102
Indiv. podiums	165
Overall titles	4 (2004/05, 2005/06, 2011/12, 2014/15)
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 6 3 1 World Championships 14 5 3 Total 20 8 4 Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver Individual sprint 2010 Vancouver Individual pursuit 2010 Vancouver 4 × 5 km relay 2014 Sochi 15 km skiathlon 2014 Sochi 30 km freestyle 2014 Sochi Team sprint 2002 Salt Lake City 4 × 5 km 2006 Turin 10 km classical 2010 Vancouver 30 km classical 2010 Vancouver 10 km freestyle World Championships 2003 Val di Fiemme Individual sprint 2005 Oberstdorf Team sprint 2005 Oberstdorf 30 km classical 2005 Oberstdorf 4 × 5 km 2011 Oslo Individual sprint 2011 Oslo 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit 2011 Oslo 10 km classical 2011 Oslo 4 × 5 km 2013 Val di Fiemme Individual sprint 2013 Val di Fiemme 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit 2013 Val di Fiemme 4 × 5 km 2013 Val di Fiemme 30 km classical 2015 Falun Individual sprint 2015 Falun 4 × 5 km 2003 Val di Fiemme 4 × 5 km 2005 Oberstdorf 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit 2011 Oslo 30 km freestyle 2013 Val di Fiemme 10 km freestyle 2015 Falun 30 km classical 2005 Oberstdorf 10 km freestyle 2007 Sapporo Team sprint 2007 Sapporo 4 × 5 km

Marit Bjørgen (born 21 March 1980) is a Norwegian cross-country skier and six times Olympic champion from Midtre Gauldal, Norway. She is ranked first in the all-time Cross-Country World Cup rankings with 105 individual victories. Bjørgen is also the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country World Cup history, with twenty-nine victories. One of her most notable achievements was becoming the most successful athlete at the 2010 Winter Olympics by winning five medals, including three gold medals. She also won three gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics. With her 2014 medals, she became, alongside Raisa Smetanina and Stefania Belmondo, the most medaled female Winter Olympian. However she has more gold medals amongst her 10 Olympic medals than either of them. She is well known for her endurance, fitness, technical strength, mental toughness, and also her finishing sprints. She excels equally in both classic and skate style skiing, and does well through all distances from the sprint events to the long distance ones.

She is a member of Rognes IL.

Bjørgen initially excelled at the sprint events, and seven victories in that event was enough to give her second place overall in the 2003–04 FIS Cross-Country World Cup season. However, in the 2004–05 season, Bjørgen became an accomplished distance skier.

On 19 March 2006 in Sapporo, Japan, Bjørgen claimed her second FIS World Cup title. Bjørgen led the overall World Cup by 66 points, ahead of Canada's Beckie Scott going into the final race of the season, the 2 x 7.5 km double pursuit. Scott needed to win the race and for Bjørgen to finish no higher than eighth to claim the title. Scott did win the race but Bjørgen came fourth, winning the crystal globe with 1036 points to Scott's 1020. Bjørgen also won the sprint title for the season, 6 points ahead of Norway's Ella Gjømle, making the 2005–06 season the fourth season in a row that Bjørgen has won the sprint title. Bjørgen finished the distance standings in fourth place, 108 points behind Russia's Julija Tchepalova.

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