Gunilla Ahren

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Gunilla Ahren
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Gunilla Ahren is a Swedish Paralympic alpine skier. She represented Sweden in Paralympic Alpine skiing at the 1984 Paralympic Winter Games, and 1988 Paralympic Winter Games. She won of six medals: four golds, one silver and one bronze. [1]

Career

She competed at the 1984 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck in the LW6 / 8 category. Ahren won four gold medals: in the slalom (achieved time 1:16.04), [2] in the giant slalom (with a time of 1:28.68 ), [3] downhill (race ended in 1:09.20), [4] and alpine super combined. [5]

She competed 1988 Winter Paralympics. She won silver in the special slalom race (gold for Martina Altenberger in 1: 15.63 and bronze for Eszbieta Dadok in 1: 37.46), [6] and bronze in downhill in 1:17.64 (on the podium in front of her, Martina Altenberger with 1: 13.87, and Nancy Gustafson in 1: 14.51. [7]

She competed at the 1990 World disabled ski championships. [8]

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References

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