Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir

Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir
Personal information
Born25 April 1995 (1995-04-25) (age 29)[1]
Akureyri, Iceland[2]
Sport
Country Iceland
SportAlpine skiing

Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir (born 25 April 1995 in Akureyri, Iceland) is an alpine skier from Iceland.[3] She competed for Iceland at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events. She had the best results of the athletes who represented the country at the Winter Olympics as well.[4][5][6]

On 24 August 2017 Helga broke her leg while training on the Folgefonna glacier in Norway.[7] Due to a difficult infection in the fracture she has not been able to train since the accident.[8] The Icelandic Health Insurance agency came to the conclusion that Helga was not entitled to injury compensation as she was training with a foreign athletic club abroad, despite she was there on behalf of the Icelandic ski national team who paid for her training as there were no suitable training sites in Iceland due to the time of year.[9]

World Championship results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
Slalom 		Super G Downhill Combined Team Event
2013 17 55 55 — — — —
2015 19 42 56 — — — —

Olympic results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
Slalom 		Super G Downhill Combined Team event
2014 18 34 46 29 — — —

Other results

European Cup results

Results per discipline

Discipline EC starts EC Top 30 EC Top 15 EC Top 5 EC Podium Best result
Date Location Place
Slalom 3 0 0 0 0 26 November 2012 Sweden Vemdalen, Sweden 48th
Giant slalom 3 0 0 0 0 DNQ2 3 times
Super-G 1 0 0 0 0 2 December 2012 Norway Kvitfjell, Norway DNF
Downhill 0 0 0 0 0
Combined 1 0 0 0 0 1 December 2012 Norway Kvitfjell, Norway DNF2
Total 8 0 0 0 0

References

  1. ^ "FIS Biography". Archived from the original on 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  2. ^ "Sochi 2014 profile". Archived from the original on 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  3. ^ Henry Birgir Gunnarsson (14 February 2015). "Hef lagt líf mitt og sál í að búa til besta skíðamann sem Ísland hefur átt". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Archived from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Úthlutun úr Afrekssjóði ÍSÍ fyrir árið 2014". olympic.is (in Icelandic). The National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland. 23 January 2014. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  5. ^ Andrésdóttir, Ásta (4 February 2014). "Eleven Icelandic Officials, Five Athletes to Attend Sochi". Iceland Review. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  6. ^ "Iceland's Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics team hits the slopes". IceNews. 18 February 2014. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  7. ^ Andri Yrkill Valsson (26 August 2017). "Heyrði beinið brotna". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Archived from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  8. ^ Ástrós Ýr Eggertsdóttir (2 May 2018). "Ein fremsta skíðakona landsins fær ekki bætur vegna fótbrots". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Archived from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  9. ^ Freyr Gígja Gunnarsson (2 May 2018). "Landsliðskona fær ekki bætur vegna fótbrots". RÚV (in Icelandic). Archived from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.


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