Ebba Årsjö
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Born | 12 January 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Alpine skiing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | LW4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ebba Årsjö (born 12 January 2001) is a Swedish para alpine skier who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
Career[]
Årsjö competed at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships where she won gold medals in the slalom, and parallel event.[1]
She competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics and won gold medals in the super combined and slalom standing events. She also won the bronze medal in the downhill standing event.[2][3][4]
In 2022, she received the Victoria Award.[5]
On 9 November 2022, she announced she would no longer compete in downhill skiing.[6]
Personal life[]
She was born with Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome which resulted in muscle reduction in her right leg.[7]
References[]
- ^ "World Cup with World Championships feeling for home star Ebba Aarsjoe". paralympic.org. 27 January 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ "Ebba Årsjö". paralympics.se. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Burke, Patrick (5 March 2022). "Slovakia's Farkašová wins first gold medal of Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Skier Mollie Jepsen speeds to Canada's 1st gold medal of Beijing Paralympics". CBC. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Eliott Brennan (8 June 2022). "Årsjö makes history as first Swedish Para athlete to win Victoria Prize". Inside the Games. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ Björn Nordling (9 November 2022). "Ebba Årsjö slutar med störtlopp" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ "Ebba Årsjö". paralympic.org. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
Categories:
- Living people
- 2001 births
- Swedish female alpine skiers
- Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing
- 21st-century Swedish women