Anette Sagen
Anette Sagen (born 10 January 1985 in Mosjøen ) is a Norwegian ski jumper. With a total of 45 individual victories and 88 podium finishes in the Continental Cup Ladies who lives in Oslo student is one of the most successful female ski jumpers in the world.
Career
Say began at the age of eleven years with the ski jumping. Four years later, she took the first time at the FIS Ladies Grand Prix, a race series with four venues similar to the Four Hills Tournament, in part. At the 2000 is not the official FIS competitions scoring event she could place twice in the top ten and finished second in the overall standings to eighth place. A year later she finished the competition in Schoenwald in fifth place in the standings and was tenth.
In the 2001 /02 season Anette Sagen the breakthrough came in the top. At the FIS Ladies Grand Prix she reached a place on the podium in all four competitions. In Saalfelden and Rastbüchl she finished second in Baiersbronn and Schoenwald each third party. In the overall standings, they took second place behind the towering champion Daniela Iraschko from Austria. This season, she won the gold medal in both the individual and to the team at the unofficial World Junior Championships in Stryn.
At her first international recognized by the FIS competition in the seniors, the Ladies Continental Cup on January 11, 2003 at Planica Slovenia, won the word before the American Lindsey Van. Say that specifies Van as her role model, jumped in both rounds, the longest jump and won by a margin of nearly 30 points. This season, she took part in nine races from which they finished five as the winner and four runners-up as. These rankings assured her, among other victory in the FIS Ladies Grand Prix in front of the Austrian Eva Ganster.
Its exceptional status was able to confirm with five victories Say in the season 2003/ 04. She won again the FIS Ladies Grand Prix. In the season 2004/ 05 they won in eight Continentalcupwettbewerben, was twice second and once third. The inaugural Appreciation in Ladies Continental Cup - winning legends with almost 300 points ahead of Lindsey Van and Daniela Iraschko. Over the next three seasons, she was able to confirm this result and decide with a clear lead the overall standings of the Continental Cup for themselves. In their most successful season 2007/ 08 she could boast a record of ten wins and five second burst at 15 participations at Continental Cup competitions. 2006 and 2008, she won further again the FIS Ladies Grand Prix.
In the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec 2009 she won the bronze medal in the inaugural women's competition. In the 2008/2009 season, she won for the fifth time overall ranking of the Continental Cup, though she could win four competitions this season.
Your personal best of 174.5 meters jumped Say at the 2004 Vikersundbakken in Vikersund as Vorspringerin at the World Cup. The jump was a highly acclaimed in the Norwegian media debate about whether women should jump off a ski jump or not preceded. This was initially only legends and Torbjørn Yggeseth, the Chairman of the Jumping Committee of the FIS, led, escalated in the Norwegian public but in a debate on the rights of women in sport.
For more attention in the Norwegian media say made in January 2007 as appeared on YouTube a video on the word itself, after losing a bet, by Lindsey Van can brutally beat.
Share athlete is an ambassador of development organization Right to Play.