Helene Olafsen
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Born | Oslo, Norway | 21 February 1990|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) (2014)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Snowboard cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Helene Olafsen (born 21 February 1990) is a Norwegian snowboarder.
She placed tenth overall in the 2007-08 Snowboarding World Cup, and fifth in her special event boardercross, where she collected 3570 of her total 4160 points. She took her first victory in a World Cup event in March 2007, and finished fifth at the 2007 Winter X Games.
In 2021, she participated on the Norwegian TV series Norges nye megahit, on which various celebrities competed to create a hit song. Olafsen sung "Ludvig Daae", named after a real man who owned a slalom centre and had "strong opinions about behavior on the slalom slope".[2] The song reached number one in Norway in December 2021.[3]
2010 Olympics[]
Olafsen progressed all the way to the big final of Snowboard Cross at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she finished fourth. Canada's Maëlle Ricker went on to win the gold medal for the host country.[4]
References[]
- ^ Norway Olympic Team and Media Guide Sochi 2014. Norway: Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. 2014. p. 96.
- ^ Eliassen, Heather Ørbeck (22 November 2021). "Låten om ildsjelden har blitt en megahit" (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ "VG-lista – Topp 20 Single 2021-48". VG-lista. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ Ladies' Snowboard Cross – Final results
External links[]
- X Games bio
- Helene Olafsen at the International Ski Federation
- Helene Olafsen at the International Olympic Committee
- Helene Olafsen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Norwegian female snowboarders
- People from Oppegård
- Snowboarders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Olympic snowboarders of Norway
- X Games athletes
- Snowboarding biography stubs
- Norwegian winter sports biography stubs