Borghild Niskin

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Borghild Niskin Alpine skiing
Borghild Niskin in November 1952.
Full name Borghild Solveig Niskin
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday February 19, 1924
place of birth Hole , Norway
date of death January 18, 2013
Place of death Niskinnveien
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
 

Borghild Solveig Niskin (born February 19, 1924 in Hole ; † January 18, 2013 in Niskinnveien ) was a Norwegian ski racer . Niskin was a 17-time Norwegian champion and a three-time Olympic participant. In 1956 she was the first woman to be awarded the Holmenkollen Medal .

biography

When she made her Olympic debut in St. Moritz in 1948 , Niskin and Laila Schou Nilsen formed Norway's two-man Alpine women's team. She achieved her best placement in the slalom with 19th place, and she was 23rd in the downhill. A 24th place in the giant slalom two years later was her only result at the 1950 World Cup in Aspen . The 1952 Winter Games in Oslo were much more successful . As the best Norwegian she was sixth in the giant slalom and eleventh in the slalom, only in the downhill she did not finish. In the same year she was third in slalom and combination of the SDS races in Grindelwald . Niskin confirmed this success at the 1954 World Championships in Åre , Sweden , where she was eighth in downhill and combined and also eleventh in slalom and 17th in giant slalom, and at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In her third participation in the Olympics, she was eight tenths of a second behind bronze medalist Dorothea Hochleitner, seventh in the giant slalom, ninth in the downhill and eleventh in the slalom. In the combined ranking, which only counts for the world championship, she finished fifth. For these achievements, she was the first woman ever to be awarded the Holmenkollen Medal together with Arnfinn Bergmann and Arne Hoel in 1956 . She was only one of nine non-Nordic skiers since 1895 to receive this honor.

statistics

winter Olympics

(also counted as world championships)

* The combination only counted as a world championship competition

World championships

  • Aspen 1950 : 24th giant slalom
  • Åre 1954 : 8th combination, 8th downhill, 11th slalom, 17th giant slalom

Norwegian championships

Niskin became 17 times Norwegian Champion :

  • 7 × downhill (1949 to 1954 and 1956)
  • 3 × giant slalom (1951, 1953, 1955)
  • 5 × slalom (1946, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1955)
  • 2 × combination (1949, 1950)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Per Erik Hagen: Borghild Niskin (88) er død. Budstikka, January 19, 2013, accessed January 22, 2013 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Results of the 1950 World Cup ( memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com
  3. ↑ Results of the 1954 World Cup ( memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com
personal data
SURNAME Niskin, Borghild
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niskin, Borghild Solveig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Get
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2013
Place of death Niskinnveien