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| Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 April 1989 Porsgrunn, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Disability class | H4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Suzanna Tangen (born 27 April 1989) is a Norwegian para-cyclist who represents the Grenland Sykleklubb. She competes in the H4 category.
During the Idrettsgallaen 2023, she was nominated for the award for "breakthrough of the year" and the Idrettsgallaen 2024, she was nominated for the award "female para athlete of the year".
At the age of 2, Tangen contracted inflammation of the spinal cord which caused temporary paralysis. She got better but the strength in her legs remained weak. She is one of 13 siblings and grew up in Porsgrunn. At the age of 20, she took part in the Lars Monsen series on NRK, "Ingen Grenser". [1]
Since 2015, Tangen has lived and trained in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [2]
Tangen has also been active in alpine skiing through the use of sit-skis, but as a competitive athlete she focuses on paracycling. She has won medals from both the World Championships and European Championships. [2]
In 2022, Tangen won a silver medal in the road race at the European Championships in Austria and later that year two silvers during the World Championships in Baie-Comeau, Canada. [3] [4] On 12 August 2023, she won bronze in the 46.8 km (29.1 mi) road race in the H4 class in paracycling during the World Championships in Glasgow. [5] During the European Championships in Rotterdam in August 2023, Tangen won silver, again in the road race. [6]
Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian former cross-country skier and double Olympic champion. He won a total of 13 World Championship and two Winter Olympic gold medals with 20 medals overall, and 18 individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 13 podium places. He is also the record holder for most stage wins (13) in Tour de Ski. By winning his ninth gold medal in the Nordic World Ski Championships in 4 × 10 km relay in Val di Fiemme 2013, he leveled the achievement of Bjørn Dæhlie who had been the most successful World Champion male skier up to that point. He is considered by many as the greatest cross-country skier of all time.
Ezinne Okparaebo is a Norwegian sprinter. She is Scandinavia's fastest woman ever over 60m and 100m. Okparaebo has won the 100m national title 13 times. She moved to Norway as a nine-year old and grew up in Ammerud. She visited the Haugen skole, where her sprinting talent was discovered on a sports school day. She has been the top female sprinter in Norway since 2005, and is competing for the club IL Norna-Salhus. She won the silver medal at 60 metres for women in the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the bronze medal in the same discipline in 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
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