Ingvild Ryggen Carstens

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Ingvild Ryggen Carstens
Full nameIngvild Ryggen Kristinsdatter Carstens
Born (1980-10-14) 14 October 1980 (age 41)
Trondheim, Norway

Ingvild Ryggen Kristinsdatter Carstens (born 14 October 1980) is a Norwegian ski mountaineer and former heptathlete.

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Carstens hails from Trondheim, and attended the Trondheim Cathedral School. [1] Currently she lives in Innsbruck, Austria, where she studied at the university. [2]

Selected results

Together with Malene Haukøy and Mari Fasting, she participated in the Norwegian women's relay team at the 2011 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering, which finished eighth. [3]

As a heptathlete she achieved 4.478 points as her personal best; in May 2004 in Las Vegas. [4]

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References

  1. Ingvild Ryggen Carstens, Wyoming athletics
  2. Personal information, Facebook
  3. 6. ISMF World Championships - women's relay Archived 2013-11-09 at the Wayback Machine , ISMF.
  4. "7-kamp/Heptathlon". Norwegian Athletics. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012.