Toril Førland

Toril Førland
nation	Norway
birthday	24th April 1954 (age 66)
place of birth	Oslo , Norway
Career
discipline	slalom
society	Bærum Ski Club
status	resigned
End of career	1974
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Junior European Championship 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Sapporo 1972 combination  Alpine Junior European Ski Championships gold Madonna di Campiglio 1972 Giant slalom silver Madonna di Campiglio 1972 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Overall World Cup 24. ( 1972/73 )  Slalom World Cup 13. (1972/73)

Toril Førland (born April 24, 1954 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian ski racer . She was one of the best slalom runners in the world in the early 1970s.

She got her first World Cup points as a 15-year-old in March 1970. Almost two years later she won gold in giant slalom and silver in slalom at the Junior European Championships in Madonna di Campiglio . Finally, she won the bronze medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo in the combination only counting for the world championship.

In the following two years she placed six times in the top ten at World Cup races. She achieved her best result in January 1973 with fourth place in the Chamonix slalom .

At the 1974 World Championships , she reached two eighth places in slalom and downhill. In the combined ranking, this resulted in 5th place.

Web links

• Toril Førland in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Toril Førland in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Toril Førland in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )