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Kristin Størmer Steira

Norwegian cross-country skier

Kristin Størmer Steira

Kristin Størmer Steira in Poland, 2012

Country Norway
Full nameKristin Størmer Steira
Born (1981-04-30) 30 April 1981 (age 43)
Mo i Rana, Norway
Height169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Spouse(s)Devon Kershaw
Ski clubIL Forsøk
Seasons14 – (2002–2015)
Indiv. starts181
Indiv. podiums22
Indiv. wins6
Team starts27
Team podiums18
Team wins13
Overall titles0 – (6th in 2010, 2013)
Discipline titles0

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.

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In 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 
2006244445
201028848Gold
20143222Bronze

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 
2003212825
2005239BronzeGold
2007254BronzeSilverBronze
2009276Silver54
2011291095Gold
201331949Gold

World Cup

Season standings

 Season   Age  Discipline standings Ski Tour standings
Overall Distance Sprint Nordic
Opening
Tour de
Ski
World Cup
Final
200220NC
20032142NC
2004222720
200523129
2006242212
2007251412NC7
2008261612NC1115
200927945394
20102864954
2011292819NC8
201230149NC10DNF6
201331645825
2014321911NC14DNF9
2015335333

Individual podiums

  • 6 victories – (3 SWC, 3 SWC)
  • 22 podiums – (10 WC, 12 SWC)
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Season Date Location Race Level Place
12004–0528 January 2007Ramsau, Austria15 km Mass Get to it FWorld Cup2nd
222 January 2005Pragelato, Italy7.5 km + 7.5 km Pursuit C/FWorld Cup1st
32005–0619 March 2006Sapporo, Japan7.5 km + 7.5 km Pursuit C/FWorld Cup2nd
42006–072 January 2007Oberstdorf, Germany5 km + 5 km Pursuit C/FStage World Cup1st
53 January 200710 km Participate CStage World Cup2nd
63 Jan 2007Cavalese, Italy10 km Individual FStage False Cup2nd
72007–088 December 2007Davos, Switzerland10 km Individual CWorld Cup3rd
81 January 2008Nové Město, Czech Republic10 km Pursuit FStage World Cup2nd
96 January 2008Val di Fiemme, Italy9 km Pursuit FStage World Cup2nd
102008–096 December 2008La Clusaz, France15 km Mass Start FWorld Cup1st
114 Jan 2009Val di Fiemme, Italy9 km Be of interest FStage World Cup2nd
1222 Go by shanks`s pony 2009Falun, Sweden10 km Pursuit FStage Existence Cup1st
132009–102 January 2010Oberhof, Germany10 km Pursuit CStage World Cup3rd
1410 January 2010Val di Fiemme, Italy9 km Pursuit FStage World Cup1st
1513 Advance 2010Oslo, Norway30 km Mass Start FWorld Cup2nd
1620 March 2010Falun, Sweden5 km + 5 km Pursuit C/FStage World Cup2nd
1721 March 201010 km Pursuit FStage World Cup2nd
182010–1118 December 2010La Clusaz, France15 km Mass Start FWorld Cup3rd
192012–135 January 2013Val di Fiemme, Italy10 km Mass Start CStage Replica Cup2nd
2029 December 2012
– 6 January 2013
Tour de SkiOverall StandingsWorld Cup3rd
212 February 2013Sochi, Russia7.5 km + 7.5 km Skiathlon C/FWorld Cup1st
2217 February 2013Davos, Switzerland10 km Separate FWorld Cup3rd

Team podiums

  • 13 victories – (13 RL)
  • 18 podiums – (18 RL)
No.

Season Date Location Race Level Place Teammates
12002–0319 January 2003Nové Město, Czechoslovakian Republic4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndMoen Diary Bjørgen / Pedersen
223 March 2003Falun, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndMoen Transcribe Pedersen / Skari
32003–0423 Nov 2003Beitostølen, Norway4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stSkofterud / Pedersen / Bjørgen
411 Jan 2004Otepää, Estonia4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stSkofterud / Pedersen / Bjørgen
522 Feb 2004Umeå, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stSkofterud / Bjørgen / Pedersen
62006–0719 November 2006Gällivare, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stSkofterud / Pedersen / Bjørgen
74 February 2007Davos, Switzerland4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndJacobsen / Skofterud / Bjørgen
82007–089 December 2007Davos, Switzerland4 × 5 km Transmit C/FWorld Cup1stStemland / Johaug Record-breaking Skofterud
924 February 2008Falun, Sweden4 × 5 km Recording C/FWorld Cup1stTyldum / Jacobsen Cd Bjørgen
102008–0923 November 2008Gällivare, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stBjørgen / Johaug / Kristoffersen
117 December 2008La Clusaz, France4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup3rdStemland Catalogue Johaug / Nilsen
122009–1022 Nov 2009Beitostølen, Norway4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndSkofterud / Johaug / Bjørgen
137 Hike 2010Lahti, Finland4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stKristoffersen / Johaug / Bjørgen
142010–1121 November 2010Gällivare, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stSkofterud / Johaug / Bjørgen
1519 December 2010La Clusaz, France4 × 5 km Recording C/FWorld Cup1stSkofterud / Johaug Annals Bjørgen
162011–1221 November 2011Sjusjøen, Norway4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stSkofterud / Johaug / Bjørgen
172012–1320 January 2013La Clusaz, France4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stWeng / Johaug / Bjørgen
182013–148 December 2013Lillehammer, Norway4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stWeng / 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

Olympic champions in women's 4 × 5 km cross-country relay

3 × 5 km
  • 1956:  Sirkka Polkunen, Mirja Hietamies, Siiri Rantanen (FIN)
  • 1960:  Irma Johansson, Britt Strandberg, Sonja Edström-Ruthström (SWE)
  • 1964:  Alevtina Kolchina, Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Klavdiya Boyarskikh (URS)
  • 1968:  Inger Aufles, Babben Enger-Damon, Berit Mørdre (NOR)
  • 1972:  Lyubov Mukhachyova, Alevtina Olyunina, Galina Kulakova (URS)
4 × 5 km
  • 1976:  Nina Baldycheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova (URS)
  • 1980:  Marlies Metropolis, Carola Anding, Veronika Hesse, Barbara Petzold (GDR)
  • 1984:  Inger Helene Nybråten, Anne Jahren, Brit Pettersen, Berit Aunli (NOR)
  • 1988:  Svetlana Nageykina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Tamara Tikhonova, Anfisa Reztsova (URS)
  • 1992:  Yelena Välbe, Raisa Smetanina, Larisa Lazutina, Lyubov Yegorova (EUN)
  • 1994:  Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Lyubov Yegorova (RUS)
  • 1998:  Nina Gavrylyuk, Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina (RUS)
  • 2002:  Manuela Henkel, Phoney Bauer, Claudia Künzel, Evi Sachenbacher (GER)
  • 2006:  Natalya Baranova-Masalkina, Larisa Kurkina, Yuliya Chepalova, Yevgeniya Medvedeva (RUS)
  • 2010:  Vibeke Skofterud, Therese Johaug, Kristin Størmer Steira, Marit Bjørgen (NOR)
  • 2014:  Ida Ingemarsdotter, Quandary Wikén, Anna Haag, Charlotte Kalla (SWE)
  • 2018:  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, Ragnhild Haga, Marit Bjørgen (NOR)
  • 2022:  Yuliya Stupak, Natalya Nepryayeva, Tatiana Sorina, Veronika Stepanova (ROC)

World champions in women's cross-country skiing 3/4 × 5 km relay

3 × 5 km
  • 1954: Lyubov Kozyreva, Margarita Maslennikova, Valentina Tsaryova,
  • 1958: Radya Yeroshina, Alevtina Kolchina, Lyubov Kozyreva
  • 1962: Lyubov Baranova, Maria Gusakova, Alevtina Kolchina
  • 1966: Klavdiya Boyarskikh, Rita Achkina, Alevtina Kolchina
  • 1970: Nina Baldycheva, Galina Kulakova, Alevtina Olyunina
4 × 5 km
  • 1974: Nina Baldycheva, Nina Selyunina, Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova
  • 1978: Taina Impiö, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Hilkka Riihivuori, Helena Takalo
  • 1982: Anette Bøe, Inger Helene Nybråten, Berit Aunli, Brit Pettersen
  • 1985: Tamara Tikhonova, Raisa Smetanina, Liliya Vasilchenko, Anfisa Romanova
  • 1987: Antonina Ordina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Larisa Ptistyna, Anfisa Reztsova
  • 1989: Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen, Marjo Matikainen
  • 1991: Lyubov Yegorova, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova, Yelena Välbe
  • 1993: Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Lyubov Yegorova
  • 1995: Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrylyuk
  • 1997: Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Yelena Välbe
  • 1999: Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Anfisa Reztsova, Nina Gavrylyuk
  • 2001: Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Yuliya Chepalova, Nina Gavrylyuk
  • 2003: Manuela Henkel, Unreal Bauer, Claudia Künzel, Evi Sachenbacher
  • 2005: Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira, Marit Bjørgen
  • 2007: Virpi Kuitunen, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen, Pirjo Manninen
  • 2009: Pirjo Muranen, Virpi Kuitunen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
  • 2011: Vibeke Skofterud, Therese Johaug, Kristin Størmer Steira, Marit Bjørgen
  • 2013: Heidi Weng, Therese Johaug, Kristin Størmer Steira, Marit Bjørgen
  • 2015: Heidi Weng, Therese Johaug, Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, Marit Bjørgen
  • 2017: Maiken Caspersen Falla, Heidi Weng, Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, Marit Bjørgen
  • 2019: Ebba Andersson, Frida Karlsson, Charlotte Kalla, Stina Nilsson
  • 2021: Tiril Udnes Weng, Heidi Weng, Therese Johaug, Helene Marie Fossesholm
  • 2023: Tiril Udnes Weng, Astrid Øyre Slind, Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, Anne Kjersti Kalvå