Lina Andersson

Lina Andersson
Lina Andersson (2006)
nation	Sweden
birthday	18th March 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Gällivare , Sweden
Career
society	Pitea Elit
status	resigned
End of career	2011
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 1 × JWM medals 4 × 1 × 1 × EYOF medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin Team sprint  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2005 Obersdorf sprint silver 2009 Liberec Team sprint bronze 2009 Liberec Season  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1998 Pontresina Season gold 1999 Saalfelden 5 km classic gold 2000 Štrbské Pleso Season gold 2001 Karpacz 5 km classic silver 2001 Karpacz 15 km freestyle bronze 2001 Karpacz Season  European Youth Olympic Festival gold 1997 Sundsvall 7.5 km classic gold 1997 Sundsvall 7.5 km freestyle gold 1997 Sundsvall Mixed relay
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 28, 1998  World Cup victories in individual 2 ( details )  World Cup victories in the team 1 ( details )  Sprint World Cup 4. ( 2005/06 , 2006/07 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 2 4th 1  Distance races 0 0 0  Season 1 2 2  Team sprint 0 1 2
last change: December 19, 2011

Lina Andersson (born March 18, 1981 in Gällivare ) is a former Swedish cross-country skier .

Athletic career

Lina Andersson (2005)

Internationally she made her first appearance at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1997 in Calgary and in the same year she won three titles at the European Olympic Winter Youth Days 1997 . At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Pontresina in 1998 , she won the gold medal with the relay. A few weeks after her World Cup debut in November 1998, she won a gold medal over five kilometers in classic style at the Junior World Championships in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer . She was able to repeat this success two years later in Karpacz . In addition, she was second in Karpacz over 15 kilometers in freestyle and third in the Swedish 4x5 kilometer relay. In between, she was able to win the relay title with the Swedish cross-country relay at the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia . She secured her first podium in the World Cup on November 26, 2000 as a member of the relay, which reached third place in Beitostølen, Norway .

Two weaker seasons followed, but Andersson was able to improve again in the winter of 2004/2005 - but was soon affected again by several illnesses. Her career highlight was the 2006 Winter Olympics , when she and Anna Dahlberg became Olympic champion in the team sprint. In the following years, however, she rarely succeeded in advancing into sprint semifinals, in 2010 and 2011 she only reached one final each. Andersson announced her retirement on April 12, 2011, not least because of chronic respiratory problems. She announced that she wanted to start studying. She took part in a total of five Nordic World Ski Championships and twelve Swedish championships and started at 102 World Cup races.

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 5, 2005	Lahti	1.2 km sprint classic
2.	January 8, 2006	Otepää	1 km sprint classic

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	February 10, 2007	Davos	4 × 5 km relay 1

¹With Anna-Karin Strömstedt , Charlotte Kalla and Britta Norgren .

Web links

Commons : Lina Andersson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lina Andersson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Lina Andersson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )