Anja Pärson

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Women’s Alpine skiing
Olympic medalist
Anja Pärson
Medal record
Gold	2006 Turin	Slalom
Silver	2002 Salt Lake City	Giant slalom
Bronze	2002 Salt Lake City	Slalom
Bronze	2006 Turin	Downhill
Bronze	2006 Turin	Combined
World Championships
Gold	2001 St. Anton	Slalom
Gold	2003 St. Moritz	Giant slalom
Gold	2005 Bormio	Super-G
Gold	2005 Bormio	Giant slalom
Gold	2007 Åre	Super-G
Gold	2007 Åre	Combined
Gold	2007 Åre	Downhill
Silver	2005 Bormio	Combined
Silver	2007 Åre	Team Event
Bronze	2001 St. Anton	Giant slalom
Bronze	2007 Åre	Slalom

Anja Sofia Tess Pärson (born April 25, 1981 in Umeå, Sweden) is a Swedish alpine skier, the winner of seven World Championships gold medals and two Overall Alpine Skiing World Cup titles. She is also the reigning Olympic champion in the slalom, after her victory in that event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Pärson was introduced to ski racing by her sister, Frida, and is now trained by her father, Anders. Her first World Cup race was a giant slalom at the World Cup Finals at Crans-Montana, Switzerland on (March 15, 1998). She qualified for that race as the new junior World Champion but only finished 25th in last place. She won her first World Cup race, a slalom at Mammoth Mountain, California, in December 1998 at age 17, and her first gold medal at St. Anton, Austria in 2001. She clinched the silver medal in the giant slalom and the bronze medal in the slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and added the gold in slalom plus two more bronze medals in downhill and combined in 2006 Winter Olympics.

Pärson won the Alpine Skiing World Cup overall title in 2004 and 2005. The latter title was won by the smallest margin ever, only 3 points over her fiercest rival, Janica Kostelić. Being initially a slalom and giant slalom specialist, she won her first Super-G and downhill races in March 2005 at San Sicario, Italy, during the pre-Olympic competitions. As of February 2007, she has won a total of 34 World Cup races in four disciplines.

Pärson has won seven gold medals in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, in 2001 (slalom), 2003 (giant slalom), 2005 (giant slalom, Super-G) and 2007 (Super-G, Super-combined, downhill). These go along with two silver and two bronze medals in other events in 2001 and 2005. With her three gold medals in 2007 at Åre, Sweden, she became the first skier in history to win World Championship golds in all five disciplines.

Pärson's athletics club is Fjällvinden, Tärnaby, the same to which skiing legend Ingemar Stenmark and Stig Strand belonged. She currently lives in Monaco and stands 170 cm^[1] (5 ft 7 in) tall. She was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 2006.

1 World Cup victories
- 1.1 Overall and single discipline results
- 1.2 Individual races
2 References
3 External links

[edit] World Cup victories

[edit] Overall and single discipline results

Season	Discipline
2003	Giant Slalom
2004	Giant Slalom
2004	Slalom
2004	Overall
2005	Overall
2006	Giant Slalom

[edit] Individual races

35 wins (18 slalom, 11 giant slalom, 3 Super G, 3 downhill)

Anja Pärson in Monaco 2006.

Date	Location	Race
3 December 1998	Mammoth Mountain	Slalom
9 December 2001	Sestrières	Slalom
29 December 2001	Lienz	Slalom
5 January 2002	Maribor	Slalom
6 January 2002	Maribor	Slalom
30 November 2002	Aspen	Slalom
15 December 2002	Sestrières	KO-Slalom
19 January 2003	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Giant slalom
25 January 2003	Maribor	Giant slalom
26 January 2003	Maribor	Slalom
6 March 2003	Åre	Giant slalom
28 November 2003	Park City	Giant slalom
29 November 2003	Park City	Slalom
16 December 2003	Madonna di Campiglio	Slalom
28 December 2003	Lienz	Slalom
5 January 2004	Megève	Slalom
24 January 2004	Maribor	Giant slalom
25 January 2004	Maribor	Slalom
7 February 2004	Zwiesel	Giant slalom
8 February 2004	Zwiesel	Slalom
21 February 2004	Åre	Giant slalom
14 March 2004	Sestrières	Giant slalom
23 November 2004	Sölden	Giant slalom
23 January 2005	Maribor	Slalom
25 February 2005	San Sicario	Super-G
26 February 2005	San Sicario	Downhill
11 December 2005	Aspen	Slalom
22 December 2005	Špindlerův Mlýn	Slalom
28 December 2005	Lienz	Giant Slalom
13 January 2006	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Downhill
27 January 2006	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Super-G
4 February 2006	Ofterschwang	Giant slalom
11 March 2006	Levi	Slalom
15 March 2006	Åre	Downhill
15 March 2007	Lenzerheide	Super-G

[edit] References

^ "The Swedish team for the 2006 Olympics", Svenska Dagbladet, 2006-02-08.

[edit] External links

Anja Pärson - Official site
FIS-Ski.com - FIS site

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Olympic champions in women's slalom

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Women's Alpine skiing World Cup winners (overall)

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World champions in women's downhill

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World champions in women's slalom

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World champions in women's giant slalom

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World champions in women's Super-G

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World champions in women's combined

Preceded by Kajsa Bergqvist	Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 2006	Succeeded by Incumbent

Persondata
NAME	Pärson, Anja Sofia Tess
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Swedish Alpine skier
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Umeå
DATE OF DEATH	living
PLACE OF DEATH

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