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Pernilla Wiberg (born October 15, 1970 in Norrköping) is a Swedish former alpine skier, who
competed on a high level between 1990 and 2002. On club level, she
represented Norrköpings SK.[1]
Career
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 8 March
1990, she finished 5th in slalom, and five days later she finished
3rd in giant slalom in Ã…re. The following season of 1990/91, she claimed
three World Cup victories and a giant slalom gold medal at the World Championships in Saalbach. 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 1997 she won the overall World Cup. In the World
Championships she won a total of six medals including four gold
medals.[1]
Wiberg won the giant slalom gold in the 1992
Winter Olympics in Albertville and the combination gold medal
at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. She was at
both these olympics the most successful Swedish athlete.[2] She
participated in the olympic games of Nagano
1998, where she won the downhill silver medal. Wiberg herself holds
this achievement to be the best of her career.[3]
In her final olympics in Salt Lake City 2002, she failed to
reach the top ten, finishing 14th in downhill and 12th in super-G.[1]
The olympic super-G was to be her final international race, as she
a few weeks later announced her retirement following a surgery to
her knees.[4]
Awards
In 1991, Wiberg was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold
Medal. The jury's motivation was: "For the sensational giant
slalom victory in the World Championships, secured through a bold
and skillful second leg."[5] The
same year, 1991, she was awarded Jerringpriset, an
award she received again the following year.[6]
International Olympic
Committee
Wiberg was elected a member of the International Olympic
Committee in 2002. Since then, Wiberg has been a member of the
following commissions: Athletes’ (2002-), Sport and Environment
(2002), Ethics (2003-), Coordination for the XXI Olympic Winter
Games in Vancouver in 2010 (2003-), Nominations (2003-).[7] On 2
September 2008, IOC announced that Wiberg is to chair a commission
appointed by the president of IOC, Jacques Rogge. The commission will
analyse the projects of the shortlisted cities candidating for 1st
Winter Youth Olympic Games.[8]
Personal
life
Together with her partner Bødvar Bjerke, Wiberg has two
children; Axel (b. 2003) and Sofia (b. 2007).[9][10] Since
1995, she lives in Monaco.[3]
World Cup
victories
Overall and single
discipline results
Race
victories
| Date |
Location |
Race |
| January 6, 1991 |
 Bad
Kleinkirchheim |
Slalom |
| March 10, 1991 |
 Lake Louise |
Giant Slalom |
| March 23, 1991 |
 Waterville Valley |
Slalom |
| February 28, 1992 |
 Narvik |
Giant Slalom |
| December 6, 1992 |
Steamboat
Springs |
Slalom |
| December 12, 1993 |
 Veysonnaz |
Slalom |
| January 6, 1994 |
 Morzine |
Slalom |
| January 15, 1994 |
 Cortina
d'Ampezzo |
Super-G |
| February 6, 1994 |
 Sierra Nevada |
Combined |
| March 12, 1995 |
Lenzerheide |
Slalom |
| March 12, 1995 |
Lenzerheide |
Combined |
| November 26, 1995 |
Vail |
Slalom |
| December 22, 1995 |
Veysonnaz |
Slalom |
| December 29, 1995 |
Semmering |
Slalom |
| December 1, 1996 |
Lake
Louise |
Super-G |
| December 28, 1996 |
Semmering |
Slalom |
| January 4, 1997 |
 Maribor |
Slalom |
| January 10, 1997 |
Bad
Kleinkirchheim |
Super-G |
| January 19, 1997 |
 Zwiesel |
Slalom |
| February 2, 1997 |
Laax |
Combined |
| March 9, 1997 |
Mammoth Mountain |
Slalom |
| January 3, 1999 |
Maribor |
Slalom |
| December 18, 1999 |
St. Moritz |
Downhill |
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