Kaja Norbye

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Kaja Norbye Alpine skiing
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 19th May 1999 (age 21)
place of birth Oslo , Norway
Career
discipline Super-G , giant slalom , slalom ,
combination
society Il Heming
status active
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Val di Fassa 2019 Giant slalom
silver Val di Fassa 2019 combination
bronze Narvik 2020 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 8, 2019
 Overall World Cup 80th ( 2019/20 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 36th (2019/20)
 Slalom World Cup 45th (2019/20)
 Parallel world cup 39th (2019/20)
last change: March 13, 2020

Kaja Norbye (born May 19, 1999 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian ski racer . With the exception of the downhill, it starts in all disciplines and has its strengths in giant slalom . Her older sister Tuva is also active as a ski racer.

biography

Kaja Norbye skied for the first time in her hometown Oslo when she was three years old. At the age of eight, she began to train with her ski club and to emulate her two older sisters.

She competed in her first FIS races in Sweden at the age of 16 and achieved good results straight away. In February 2016, she made her European Cup debut in the Pamporowo slalom . After missing a large part of the 2016/17 season, she returned with good FIS and European Cup results and started at a Junior World Championship in Davos for the first time in February 2018 . In combination and slalom, she achieved top 10 placements with ranks seven and eight. At the end of the season, she won her first national title in slalom. In the coming winter she was able to continuously improve her European Cup results and after two second places she won a giant slalom in Berchtesgaden . At her second Junior World Championship in Fassatall , Norbye won silver in the combined and bronze in the giant slalom. She finished the European Cup season in third place overall and won the giant slalom classification.

In March 2019 she made her World Cup debut in the giant slalom in Špindlerův Mlýn and achieved her first World Cup points with 22nd place. She was able to equalize this result in Courchevel the following December . At the 2020 Junior World Championships in Narvik , she won bronze in the giant slalom.

successes

World cup

  • 3 placements among the best 30

World Cup ratings

season total Giant slalom slalom Parallel
space Points space Points space Points space Points
2018/19 117. 9 48. 9 - - - -
2019/20 80. 38 36. 21st 45. 11 39. 6th

European Cup

  • Season 2018/19 : 3rd overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking
  • 4 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
February 10, 2019 Berchtesgaden Germany Giant slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Davos 2018 : 7th combination, 8th slalom, 29th giant slalom, 30th combination
  • Val di Fassa 2019 : 2nd combination, 3rd giant slalom, 11th slalom, 19th Super-G
  • Narvik 2020 : 3rd giant slalom

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hello Kaja Norbye! Fischer Sports , July 9, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .