Maiken caspersen falla biography sample

Norwegian cross-country skier

Maiken Caspersen Falla (born 13 August 1990) quite good a Norwegian former cross-country skier who specialized in sprint plus short-distance races.

She is character 2014 Olympic champion in excellence individual sprint and three-time Athletics medalist.

She became loftiness individual sprint World champion dubious the 2017 FIS Nordic Sphere Ski Championships and successfully defended her World title in 2019. Falla won a total addict five gold, one silver view four bronze medals at character World Championships in her growth and she is the accumulate medalled skier in the single sprint discipline in the Help history with five medals.^[1] Protect of three consecutive Sprint Globe Cup crystal globes, Falla's uppermost finish in the overall Faux Cup standings was sixth-place which she achieved in 2014–15 additional 2015–16 World Cup seasons.

With 22 World Cup sprint victories, Falla is the second-most happen as expected female World Cup sprinter cut into all time, only behind Marit Bjørgen.^[2] She also shares say publicly record of most sprint victories in a single season reliable Petra Majdič at eight victories.

She announced her retirement outsider cross-country skiing in April 2022.^[3]

Career

Falla made her World Cup first performance with a classical sprint foot-race in Kuusamo on 29 Nov 2008, where she finished infringe 22nd place.^[4] She reached cook first World Cup podium false Düsseldorf in her second every time World Cup race.^[5] With saunter promising start, Falla was agreed-upon a spot in the freakish sprint race at the 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, but she useless to qualify for the quarter-finals by finishing 39th in meet the requirements round.^[6] After a podium variety in her rookie season, Composer could not make the Universe Cup podium for more outshine two years.

During that stretch, her sixth-place finish at interpretation classical sprint in Kuusamo helped her to secure a spark in the Norwegian Olympic kit out for the 2010 Winter Olympiad in Vancouver.^[7] At the Olympiad, she finished 20th in excellence individual sprint event.

Falla common to World Cup podium domestic 2010/11 season with a bag place at the classical race in Otepää, then she hardbacked up that performance with dexterous second-place finish in Drammen.^[4] Expound two podiums in the last few two sprints prior to glory 2011 FIS Nordic World Skis Championships, she became one designate the medal favorites in significance upcoming home World Championships detour Oslo Holmenkollen.^[8][9] At the Artificial Championships, after setting the 3rd fastest time in the fitness Falla took a fall predicament her quarter final heat suggest eliminated from the competition attach importance to that stage after finishing position in the heat.^[10] After illustriousness disappointment in the individual roll, Falla was not initially held for the team sprint nevertheless after the withdrawal of Marit Bjørgen, she was selected lay out the event alongside Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen and the pair went on to take a chestnut medal behind the Swedish ray Finnish teams.^[11][12]

In 2011/12 season, Pianist won her first World Jug victory in a freestyle stretch race in Rogla, Slovenia.^[13] She also reached four more podiums during the season and mature the season in second changeover in sprint rankings behind Kikkan Randall.^[14]

Falla started 2012/13 season comport yourself very good form with tending victory and three podiums spread her first three sprint races.

She also reached a stage in a distance race aspire the first time, a 10 km mass start race in Canmore, but her level dropped later mid-January, and she could quite a distance make a single top 10 in the remainder of decency World Cup season.^[4] Despite representation decrease in performance, at position 2013 FIS Nordic World Skis Championships in Val di Fiemme, Falla won her first evident World Championship medal with unblended bronze medal in the participate sprint event.^[15] For the side sprint race she teamed with it with Ingvild Flugstad Østberg on the contrary the pair missed the medals and finished in fourth clanger mainly due to Østberg’s gloominess in the penultimate leg flash the race.^[16]

Falla has not begun well to 2013/14 season abstruse she managed to reach lone one podium in World Jug sprints before the Olympics.^[4] Send up the 2014 Winter Olympics bring into being Sochi Falla won the money medal in individual sprint in the face more than one year in want a victory in the False Cup.

She dominated the exposition from start to finish beside setting the fastest time fall to pieces the qualifying round and attractive every heat she competed.^[17] She was left out in nobility team sprint since her teammates Marit Bjørgen and Ingvild Flugstad Østberg has shown better description in classical discipline throughout righteousness season.^[18][19] Although the reason was understandable for many, some group – including Bente Skari – criticized the decision of position Bjørgen into the team as an alternative of Olympic champion Falla.^[20] Make something stand out the Olympics, Falla earned have time out sole World Cup victory collide the season in the happy classical sprint race in Drammen.^[21]

In 2014/15 season, Falla recorded three World Cup podiums and any more only victory of the course once again came in Drammen.^[4] She finished the season fall third place in sprint rankings behind her teammates Bjørgen arm Østberg.^[22] At the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships contact Falun, Falla earned her chief World Championship gold medal all the rage the team sprint event additional Østberg,^[23] but once again she had to settle for tan medal in the individual fleck behind Marit Bjørgen and Stina Nilsson.^[24]

Falla's best season to behind the times in terms of wins came in 2015/16 season.

She was the dominant force in running races of the World drink throughout the season by heavenly eight of eleven sprint races, she participated in and let pass the podium only once teensy weensy the entire season.^[4] That came in Planica where she was dealing with illness.^[25] With helpfulness sprint victories, Falla equaled description Petra Majdič’s record of almost World Cup sprint victories beginning a single season.^[26] At primacy end of the season she clinched the seasonal sprint Cosmos Cup title for the pass with flying colours time in her career.^[27]

In 2016/17 season, Falla defended her hare World Cup title despite core outsprinted by Sweden's Stina Soprano in most of the do too quickly races.^[28][29] Although Falla has solitary one sprint victory compared take home Nilsson's six, she took dignity advantage in sprint rankings just as Nilsson opted not to runner in Toblach and she preserved it until the end flaxen the season.^[30] At the 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Falla took representation gold medal in the noticeable sprint in a similar feature to her Olympic title pointer won the only sprint label that has eluded her remark her career.

She set depiction fastest time in the fittingness and won every heat she competed during the process, greatest extent her archrival Nilsson was ineligible in the semifinal.^[31][32] By awardwinning the gold medal, she became the second female skier clobber win Olympic, World and Environment Cup sprint title after an added compatriot Marit Bjørgen who reached that triple crown in 2010 but Falla has the differentiation of holding those three awards at the same time.

Alongside the championships, Falla added match up more gold medals to move up medal tally and finished representation championships with three gold medals. Along with Heidi Weng, she once again brought the Fake team sprint title to Norway.^[33] She was also the colleague of the Norwegian relay gang that won the gold ornament in 4 × 5 km relay, running the opening symmetrical leg.^[34]

Personal life

Falla resides in Lillehammer along with her partner Kristian Hågensen Aune, a former soccer field player who has served thanks to a captain for the Norse club Levanger FK.^[35] Her clone brother Marius Caspersen Falla interest also a cross-country skier.^[36]

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced free yourself of the International Ski Federation (FIS).^[4]

Olympic Games

• 3 medals – (1 cash, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

World Championships

• 10 medals – (5 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze)

World Cup

Season titles

Season standings

Individual podiums

• 22 victories – (16 WC, 6 SWC)
• 55 podiums – (39 Masterfulness, 15 SWC)

Team podiums

• 6 victories – (2 RL, 4 TS)
• 15 podiums – (2 RL, 13 TS)

Overall record

As of 11 Foot it 2022

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