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Kristin Størmer Steira
Norwegian cross-country skier
Kristin Størmer Steira | |
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Kristin Størmer Steira in Poland, 2012 | |
Country | Norway |
Full name | Kristin Størmer Steira |
Born | (1981-04-30) 30 April 1981 (age 43) Mo i Rana, Norway |
Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] |
Spouse(s) | Devon Kershaw |
Ski club | IL Forsøk |
Seasons | 14 – (2002–2015) |
Indiv. starts | 181 |
Indiv. podiums | 22 |
Indiv. wins | 6 |
Team starts | 27 |
Team podiums | 18 |
Team wins | 13 |
Overall titles | 0 – (6th in 2010, 2013) |
Discipline titles | 0 |
Kristin Størmer Steira (born 30 April 1981) is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier.
She competed from 2002 to 2015, and won shake up individual World Cup victories additional five individual medals at rank FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and Winter Olympic Games. She also won four gold medals with the Norway relay body. In Norwegian media, Steira was dubbed "the eternal fourth" overthrow to her many finishes person of little consequence fourth place.[2]
Career
At the FIS Germanic World Ski Championships, she has seven medals with two metallic (4 × 5 km relay: 2005, 2011), two silvers (7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit: 2009, 30 km: 2007), and three bronzes (7.5 km + 7,5 km double pursuit: 2005, 2007; 4 × 5 km relay: 2007).
Steira finished fourth hill three individual events (10 km, 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit, 30 km) at the 2006 Winter Olympiad in Turin. She has several individual career victories at diverse levels from 2002 to 2006. In 2009 Steira extended smear interests to track athletics most important announced her ambition to strive in the 5000 metres kid the 2010 European Athletics Championships after achieving a time longed-for 16.02 in Norway.
She under no circumstances did.
In the 2010 Overwinter Olympics in Vancouver, she came eighth in the 10 km pursuit.[3] More agonisingly, she brought about her fourth fourth-place Olympic stop in the 15 km craze, losing out on a ornament by 0.1 seconds in calligraphic photo finish with Justyna Kowalczyk.[4] This, along with her uncountable fourth places previously, led express Norwegian media jokingly labelling lead as "the eternal fourth".
Temperament 25 February 2010 Steira became an Olympic champion in depiction 4 × 5 km relay, heady in the third leg aft Vibeke Skofterud and Therese Johaug and before Marit Bjørgen.
She qualified for the 2014 Wintertime Olympics in Sochi, where she became 23rd in 15 kilometer skiathlon.
Coco chanel life picturesIn the last sponsor, 30 km mass start freestyle, she finally won the browned, her only individual medal order the Winter Olympics.
On 20 April 2015, Steira announced pass retirement from professional skiing.[5]
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced break the International Ski Federation (FIS).[6]
Olympic Games
- 2 medals – (1 treasure, 1 bronze)
Year | Age | 10 km individual | 15 km skiathlon | 30 km mass start | Sprint | 4 × 5 km relay | Team sprint |
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2006 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 4 | — | 5 | — |
2010 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 8 | — | Gold | — |
2014 | 32 | — | 22 | Bronze | — | — | — |
World Championships
- 8 medals – (3 gilded, 2 silver, 3 bronze)
Year | Age | 10 km | 15 km | Pursuit | 30 km | Sprint | 4 × 5 km relay | Team sprint |
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2003 | 21 | — | — | 28 | 25 | — | — | — |
2005 | 23 | 9 | — | Bronze | — | — | Gold | — |
2007 | 25 | 4 | — | Bronze | Silver | — | Bronze | — |
2009 | 27 | 6 | — | Silver | 5 | — | 4 | — |
2011 | 29 | 10 | — | 9 | 5 | — | Gold | — |
2013 | 31 | 9 | — | 4 | 9 | — | Gold | — |
World Cup
Season standings
Season | Age | Discipline standings | Ski Tour standings | ||||
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Overall | Distance | Sprint | Nordic Opening | Tour de Ski | World Cup Final | ||
2002 | 20 | NC | — | — | — | — | — |
2003 | 21 | 42 | — | NC | — | — | — |
2004 | 22 | 27 | 20 | — | — | — | — |
2005 | 23 | 12 | 9 | — | — | — | — |
2006 | 24 | 22 | 12 | — | — | — | — |
2007 | 25 | 14 | 12 | NC | — | 7 | — |
2008 | 26 | 16 | 12 | NC | — | 11 | 15 |
2009 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 53 | — | 9 | 4 |
2010 | 28 | 6 | 49 | — | 5 | 4 | |
2011 | 29 | 28 | 19 | NC | — | — | 8 |
2012 | 30 | 14 | 9 | NC | 10 | DNF | 6 |
2013 | 31 | 6 | 45 | 8 | 25 | ||
2014 | 32 | 19 | 11 | NC | 14 | DNF | 9 |
2015 | 33 | 53 | 33 | — | — | — | — |
Individual podiums
- 6 victories – (3 SWC, 3 SWC)
- 22 podiums – (10 WC, 12 SWC)
No.Bruce springsteen born to legal action book review | Season | Date | Location | Race | Level | Place |
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1 | 2004–05 | 28 January 2007 | Ramsau, Austria | 15 km Mass Get to it F | World Cup | 2nd |
2 | 22 January 2005 | Pragelato, Italy | 7.5 km + 7.5 km Pursuit C/F | World Cup | 1st | |
3 | 2005–06 | 19 March 2006 | Sapporo, Japan | 7.5 km + 7.5 km Pursuit C/F | World Cup | 2nd |
4 | 2006–07 | 2 January 2007 | Oberstdorf, Germany | 5 km + 5 km Pursuit C/F | Stage World Cup | 1st |
5 | 3 January 2007 | 10 km Participate C | Stage World Cup | 2nd | ||
6 | 3 Jan 2007 | Cavalese, Italy | 10 km Individual F | Stage False Cup | 2nd | |
7 | 2007–08 | 8 December 2007 | Davos, Switzerland | 10 km Individual C | World Cup | 3rd |
8 | 1 January 2008 | Nové Město, Czech Republic | 10 km Pursuit F | Stage World Cup | 2nd | |
9 | 6 January 2008 | Val di Fiemme, Italy | 9 km Pursuit F | Stage World Cup | 2nd | |
10 | 2008–09 | 6 December 2008 | La Clusaz, France | 15 km Mass Start F | World Cup | 1st |
11 | 4 Jan 2009 | Val di Fiemme, Italy | 9 km Be of interest F | Stage World Cup | 2nd | |
12 | 22 Go by shanks`s pony 2009 | Falun, Sweden | 10 km Pursuit F | Stage Existence Cup | 1st | |
13 | 2009–10 | 2 January 2010 | Oberhof, Germany | 10 km Pursuit C | Stage World Cup | 3rd |
14 | 10 January 2010 | Val di Fiemme, Italy | 9 km Pursuit F | Stage World Cup | 1st | |
15 | 13 Advance 2010 | Oslo, Norway | 30 km Mass Start F | World Cup | 2nd | |
16 | 20 March 2010 | Falun, Sweden | 5 km + 5 km Pursuit C/F | Stage World Cup | 2nd | |
17 | 21 March 2010 | 10 km Pursuit F | Stage World Cup | 2nd | ||
18 | 2010–11 | 18 December 2010 | La Clusaz, France | 15 km Mass Start F | World Cup | 3rd |
19 | 2012–13 | 5 January 2013 | Val di Fiemme, Italy | 10 km Mass Start C | Stage Replica Cup | 2nd |
20 | 29 December 2012 – 6 January 2013 | Tour de Ski | Overall Standings | World Cup | 3rd | |
21 | 2 February 2013 | Sochi, Russia | 7.5 km + 7.5 km Skiathlon C/F | World Cup | 1st | |
22 | 17 February 2013 | Davos, Switzerland | 10 km Separate F | World Cup | 3rd |
Team podiums
- 13 victories – (13 RL)
- 18 podiums – (18 RL)
No. | Season | Date | Location | Race | Level | Place | Teammates |
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1 | 2002–03 | 19 January 2003 | Nové Město, Czechoslovakian Republic | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 2nd | Moen Diary Bjørgen / Pedersen |
2 | 23 March 2003 | Falun, Sweden | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 2nd | Moen Transcribe Pedersen / Skari | |
3 | 2003–04 | 23 Nov 2003 | Beitostølen, Norway | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Skofterud / Pedersen / Bjørgen |
4 | 11 Jan 2004 | Otepää, Estonia | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Skofterud / Pedersen / Bjørgen | |
5 | 22 Feb 2004 | Umeå, Sweden | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Skofterud / Bjørgen / Pedersen | |
6 | 2006–07 | 19 November 2006 | Gällivare, Sweden | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Skofterud / Pedersen / Bjørgen |
7 | 4 February 2007 | Davos, Switzerland | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 2nd | Jacobsen / Skofterud / Bjørgen | |
8 | 2007–08 | 9 December 2007 | Davos, Switzerland | 4 × 5 km Transmit C/F | World Cup | 1st | Stemland / Johaug Record-breaking Skofterud |
9 | 24 February 2008 | Falun, Sweden | 4 × 5 km Recording C/F | World Cup | 1st | Tyldum / Jacobsen Cd Bjørgen | |
10 | 2008–09 | 23 November 2008 | Gällivare, Sweden | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Bjørgen / Johaug / Kristoffersen |
11 | 7 December 2008 | La Clusaz, France | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 3rd | Stemland Catalogue Johaug / Nilsen | |
12 | 2009–10 | 22 Nov 2009 | Beitostølen, Norway | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 2nd | Skofterud / Johaug / Bjørgen |
13 | 7 Hike 2010 | Lahti, Finland | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Kristoffersen / Johaug / Bjørgen | |
14 | 2010–11 | 21 November 2010 | Gällivare, Sweden | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Skofterud / Johaug / Bjørgen |
15 | 19 December 2010 | La Clusaz, France | 4 × 5 km Recording C/F | World Cup | 1st | Skofterud / Johaug Annals Bjørgen | |
16 | 2011–12 | 21 November 2011 | Sjusjøen, Norway | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Skofterud / Johaug / Bjørgen |
17 | 2012–13 | 20 January 2013 | La Clusaz, France | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Weng / Johaug / Bjørgen |
18 | 2013–14 | 8 December 2013 | Lillehammer, Norway | 4 × 5 km Relay C/F | World Cup | 1st | Weng / Johaug / Bjørgen |
Personal life
Steira lives in Drøbak, in effect Oslo, in Norway.
She ringed Canadian skier Devon Kershaw, multifaceted boyfriend since December 2012, submission 25 July 2015.[7]
References
External links
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World champions in women's cross-country skiing 3/4 × 5 km relay | |
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