Pernilla Wiberg
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Wiberg in 2011
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| Disciplines |
Downhill, Super G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Combined |
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| Club | Norrköpings SK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
15 October 1970 Norrköping, Sweden |
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| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 13 March 1990 – (age 19) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | March 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | pernilla-wiberg.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 4 – (1992-2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 3 (2 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 5 – (1991-2001) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 6 (4 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 12 – (1991-2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 1 – 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 4 – SL ('97), K ('94, '95, '97) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pernilla Wiberg (born 15 October 1970) is a Swedish former alpine ski racer and businesswoman, She competed on the World Cup circuit between 1990 and 2002, where she became one of the few all-event winners. Having won two Olympic gold medals, four World Championships and one World Cup overall title, she is one of the most successful alpine ski racers of the 1990s. On club level, she represented Norrköpings SK. She was born in Norrköping.
After competing without much success in two junior world championships in 1987 and 1988, Wiberg got her international breakthrough in the early 1990s. In her World Cup debut in Vemdalen, Sweden, on 13 March 1990, she finished 5th in slalom, and five days later she finished 3rd in giant slalom in Åre. In the following season of 1991, she claimed three World Cup victories and a giant slalom gold medal at the 1991 World Championships in Saalbach. Her Alpine World Championship gold was the first for a Scandinavian woman in 33 years. Until the end of her career in 2002, Wiberg won an additional 21 World Cup races, earning her a total of 24 World Cup race victories, including at least one victory in each of the five different alpine disciplines. In five World Championships she won six medals: four gold, one silver, and one bronze.
Her finest season was in 1996-1997 when she won ten World Cup races and took the overall, slalom, and combined titles. She dethroned the previous years World Cup Overall winner Katja Seizinger by over 500 points. In the slalom discipline she was incredibly dominant with 5 wins, 2 silvers, 1 bronze, and 1 4th in 9 World Cup slalom races. She won her first ever World Cup downhill in the World Cup finale weekend, making her one of the first women ever to win World Cup races in all 5 disciplines. She also led the World Cup Super G standings until the final race, and needed only a 5th-place finish in the Super G on World Cup finale weekend (with Gerg's 2nd-place finish) to secure the season Super G title. Unfortunately on pace for a 2nd or 3rd-place finish and to easily reach this, she went off course, losing the season Super G crystal globe to Gerg.
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