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Eva Svensson (born 27 May 1987) [1] is a Swedish orienteering and ski-orienteering competitor, and junior world champion in both sports.
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Eva Svensson (born 27 May 1987) [1] is a Swedish orienteering and ski-orienteering competitor, and junior world champion in both sports.
She became Junior World Champion in sprint in Dubbo in 2007, and received a bronze medal in 2006. [2] [3] She received silver medals in relay in both the 2006 and 2007 junior world championships.
Svensson received four individual gold medals and two bronze medals at the Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007. At the Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships in Salzburg in 2007, she won a gold medal in the long distance, a gold medal in the middle distance, a bronze medal in the sprint, as well as being part of the Swedish winning team in the relay. [4]
Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen is a Norwegian cross-country skier. Her first Olympic medal was a silver 4 × 5 km relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she took the bronze medal in the 10 km classical interval start event. Pedersen is the oldest woman ever to win a cross country skiing World Cup race, which she did at age 41 in January 2006 in Otepää, Estonia.
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