Kristine Gjelsten Haugen
Kristine Gjelsten Haugen 
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 Norway
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| birthday | 24th August 1992 (age 28) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Bærum , Norway | ||||||||
| size | 175 cm | ||||||||
| Career | |||||||||
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| discipline | Giant slalom , slalom | ||||||||
| society | Lommedalens IL | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 29th March 2019 | ||||||||
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Kristine Gjelsten Haugen (born August 24, 1992 in Bærum ) is a former Norwegian ski racer . Her best disciplines were giant slalom and slalom . She is the sister of Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen , who is also an alpine ski racer.
biography
After reaching the age limit, Haugen contested her first FIS race in November 2007 at the age of 15 in Hemsedal and celebrated her first victory in a giant slalom in Norefjel in January 2008. Shortly afterwards she became Norwegian junior champion in this discipline. In the winter of 2008/09 she took part in the European Cup races for the first time and reached the first points in this racing series on November 30, 2008 as 27th in the Super G of Kvitfjell . In the further course of the winter she was Norwegian junior champion two more times in super combined and downhill and also took part in a junior world championship for the first time , where she was the only result in 38th place in the downhill.
After she mainly competed in FIS races in the 2009/10 season, Haugen regularly competed in the European Cup in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 winters, and on January 30, 2012 she achieved her best-up-to-date as eighth of the giant slalom in Courchevel Result that she was able to repeat on February 28, 2012 at the giant slalom in Abetone . At the Junior World Championships 2012 in Roccaraso, she was fourth in the giant slalom and missed a medal by just a hundredth of a second.
Starting with the 2012/13 season, Haugen was mainly in the Nor-Am Cup for four years due to her biology studies that she started in January 2013 at the University of Denver . There she won her first victory in the Panorama giant slalom on December 12, 2012, and with two more victories and two third places at the end of the season she finished fourth in the overall and third in the giant slalom ranking. Since the winter of 2016/17 she started again in the European Cup and improved her best performance there at the beginning of December 2016 in the slalom in Trysil to seventh place. On December 29, 2016, she made her debut in the slalom at Semmering in the World Cup , but was eliminated in the first round. In her fourth World Cup race, the slalom in Flachau , she won her first World Cup points on January 10, 2017, finishing 26th.
In the winter of 2017/18 Haugen won the giant slalom classification of the European Cup , tied with Thea Louise Stjernesund .
At the end of March 2019, she announced her retirement from active competitive sports.
successes
World championships
- Åre 2019 : 29th slalom
World cup
- 1 place in the top 10
World Cup ratings
| season | total | Giant slalom | slalom | |||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2016/17 | 114. | 7th | 57. | 2 | 56. | 5 |
| 2017/18 | 108. | 16 | 35. | 16 | - | - |
| 2018/19 | 80. | 52 | 29 | 38 | 51. | 14th |
Nor-Am Cup
- Season 2012/13 : 3rd giant slalom ranking, 4th overall ranking, 6th slalom ranking, 8th combined ranking
- Season 2014/15 : 3rd slalom ranking, 4th overall ranking, 4th giant slalom ranking
- 2015/16 season : 2nd giant slalom ranking, 4th slalom ranking, 8th overall ranking
- 15 podium places, including 6 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 12, 2012 | panorama | Canada | Giant slalom |
| December 13, 2012 | panorama | Canada | Giant slalom |
| 5th February 2013 | Vail | United States | Giant slalom |
| February 21, 2015 | Canada Olympic Park | Canada | slalom |
| December 16, 2015 | panorama | Canada | Giant slalom |
| 17th December 2015 | panorama | Canada | Giant slalom |
European Cup
- Season 2017/18 : 2nd overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking, 3rd slalom ranking
- 6 podium places, including 2 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| March 16, 2018 | Soldeu | Andorra | Giant slalom |
| November 30, 2018 | Funäsdalen | Sweden | Giant slalom |
Junior World Championships
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2009 : 38th departure
- Mont Blanc 2010 : 16th giant slalom, 43rd descent
- Crans-Montana 2011 : 5th combination, 12th giant slalom, 18th slalom, 25th Super G, 35th descent
- Roccaraso 2012 : 4th giant slalom, 14th Super G
More Achievements
- 14 victories in FIS races
- three-time Norwegian junior champion (giant slalom 2008, downhill and super combined 2009)
Web links
- Kristine Gjelsten Haugen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Kristine Gjelsten Haugen in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Runs in the family. (No longer available online.) Ncaa.com, March 7, 2013, archived from the original on April 19, 2013 ; accessed on March 22, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Norwegian Kristine Gjelsten Haugen stops. In: skiweltcup.tv. TV-Sport Deutschland & Skiweltcup.TV, March 29, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haugen, Kristine Gjelsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bærum , Norway |