START OF THE SPORTING CAREER
• Like all Norwegians, Marit Bjoergen grew up with Cross-Country skiing and learned it early in her life
• She was active kid and besides skiing she played football and handball
• She started to compete at the age of 7 and was beaten for the first time when she was 13 in a competition in Sweden
• She lived at a farm and had to help her parents
CAREER
• In 1999 she showed up for the first time at the FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Seefeld where she finished 5th in 5 km
• World Cup debut in December 1999
• In 2000 she started again at the Junior World Ski Championships but did not crack the top 10
• First World Cup win in 2002 in Düsseldorf as she won the season kick off sprint
• The Olympic in 2002 and has been in all Norwegian Olympic teams since then
• First World Championships title in 2003 in sprint free
• Marit Bjoergen has taken part in five FIS Nordic World Ski Championships since 2001 while her first victory came in sprint in Val di Fiemme 2003
• In Oberstdorf in 2005 she captured 5 medals including three golds, in the same season she won the overall World Cup ranking for the first time and was able to defend this title the season after
• At the Olympic Winter Games in Torino 2006 she claimed silver medal in 10 km classic
• Seasons after were marked by inconsistent performance. Turning point at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec 2009 – without a medal
• Bjoergen changed the training, started to work on mental aspects of performance and focused more on balance, technique and strength
• 2009/10 season highlighted with five Olympic medals
• At the home FIS World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 she won four gold medals and one silver
• In 2011/12 season Bjoergen won the Overall World Cup
• In December 2012 Bjoergen recognized an irregularity of her hart beat and sit out FIS Tour de Ski 2012/13. Doctors did not find any health problem and Bjoergen could go to the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme
• At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme she won again four gold medals and one silver
- She won 3 Olympic gold medals in Sochi (Team sprint, 30 km F, Skiathlon)
- Bjoergen has recorded 89 World Cup victories as of 12.1.2015
- Winner of the 2015 Tour de Ski
PERSONAL
• Marit Bjorgen grew up on a farm with her mother Kristin, father Ola-Ivar and her sister Kari (02.03.1986) and brother Anders (03.03.1979) in a little town called Rognes, which is close to Trondheim
• Her boyfriend is Fred Börre Lundberg, a former Nordic Combined athlete
NATIONAL FIRSTS
• She is the most successful Norwegian female at Winter Olympic Games
• She was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 2010 – the highest award for a ski sport athlete in Norway
QUICK LINKS
Website: http://www.maritbjoergen.no/
Date | Discipline | Place | Country | Cat | Rank | Points |
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1760918.03.2018 | 10 km F Pursuit | Falun | SWE | Stage World Cup | 1 | 20.50 |
1760918.03.2018 | Overall Standings | Falun | SWE | World Cup | 1 | 0.00 |
1760817.03.2018 | 10 km C Mst | Falun | SWE | Stage World Cup | 2 | 0.18 |
1760716.03.2018 | SP F Final | Falun | SWE | Stage World Cup | 3 | |
1760716.03.2018 | SP F Qual | Falun | SWE | Qualification | 5 | 24.82 |
1760211.03.2018 | 30 km F Mst | Oslo | NOR | World Cup | 1 | 0.00 |
1759504.03.2018 | 10 km C | Lahti | FIN | World Cup | 3 | 14.46 |
1759403.03.2018 | SP F Final | Lahti | FIN | World Cup | 10 | |
1759403.03.2018 | SP F Qual | Lahti | FIN | Qualification | 23 | 67.65 |
1756028.01.2018 | 10 km F Mst | Seefeld | AUT | World Cup | 5 | 16.84 |
1751817.12.2017 | 10 km C Pursuit | Toblach | ITA | World Cup | 1 | 5.15 |
1751716.12.2017 | 10 km F | Toblach | ITA | World Cup | 5 | 13.29 |
1751110.12.2017 | 10 km F | Davos | SUI | World Cup | 9 | 18.79 |
1750403.12.2017 | Skiathlon 7.5/7.5km C/F | Lillehammer | NOR | World Cup | 4 | 29.87 |
1750302.12.2017 | SP C Final | Lillehammer | NOR | World Cup | 18 | |
1750302.12.2017 | SP C Qual | Lillehammer | NOR | Qualification | 21 | 27.50 |
1749726.11.2017 | 10 km F Pursuit | Ruka | FIN | Stage World Cup | 2 | 11.99 |
1749726.11.2017 | Overall Standings | Ruka | FIN | World Cup | 2 | 2.38 |
1749625.11.2017 | 10 km C | Ruka | FIN | Stage World Cup | 1 | 0.00 |
1749524.11.2017 | SP C Final | Ruka | FIN | Stage World Cup | 41 | |
1749524.11.2017 | SP C Qual | Ruka | FIN | Qualification | 41 | 90.27 |