Erna Friðriksdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Erna.
As the flag bearer for Iceland, Erna Friðriksdóttir enters the stadium at the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Paralympics, on 12 March

Erna Friðriksdóttir (born 2 November 1987[1][2]) is an Icelandic alpine skier. She competes in Paralympic alpine skiing, in the sitting category, using a monoski.[3]

She qualified to represent Iceland in alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, competing in the women's slalom and the women's giant slalom.[4] She was Iceland's sole representative,[5] and her country's flagbearer during the Games' opening ceremony.[6] This was only Iceland's second participation in the Winter Paralympic Games. For its previous participation, in 1994, it had fielded a single male athlete (Svanur Ingvarsson), in ice sledge speed racing.[7] Erna was thus Iceland's first ever Paralympic alpine skier, and its first female Winter Paralympian.

In Vancouver, competing in the women's slalom, she completed the first run in 2:04.05 (14th and last of those who finished the race), crashed twice during the second and struggled to pick herself up, eventually reaching the finish line. She was, however, recorded as disqualified for her second run.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Erna Fridriksdottir" Archived 2010-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, biographical information on the website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
  2. ^ "FRIDRIKSDOTTIR Erna" Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, International Ski Federation
  3. ^ "Erna Fridriksdottir" Archived 2010-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, biographical information on the website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
  4. ^ "Erna Fridriksdottir" Archived 2010-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, biographical information on the website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
  5. ^ List of Iceland's athletes Archived 2012-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, official website of the 2010 Paralympics
  6. ^ "Flagbearers from Opening Ceremony" (PDF). IPC. 12 March 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-20.
  7. ^ Iceland at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  8. ^ "Women's Slalom - Sitting" Archived 2010-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, official results


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