Anna Karin Strömstedt

Anna -Karin Elisabet Strömstedt Olsson ( born January 1, 1981 in Vansbrosimningen ) is a Swedish biathlete and cross-country skier former.

Anna -Karin Strömstedt starts for Vansbrosimningen Allmänna Idrottsklubb SK. She is married and lives in Borlänge. They began in the late 1990s, first as a cross-country skier of their sporting career. The first major international assignment had the Swede at the Junior World Championships, where she over 5 -kilometer freestyle was in Pontresina 26. About two months later the debut followed in cross-country skiing World Cup in Falun, where she was in a 5 -kilometer freestyle race 71. In 2000, she took in Štrbské Pleso again at the Junior World championships and was 45th on 5 -kilometer freestyle and 36th of the freestyle sprints. By 2004, over and over again then served in unterklassigen race, the Continental Cup, the Marathon Cup and FIS races, frequently with good finishes to podiums. In February 2004, she participated in Umeå again at a World Cup race in part, but not finished this 10-kilometer classic race. 2004 and 2005 won two FIS Strömstedt and a Scandinavian Cup race. In addition, it was now increasingly used in the World Cup and won in February 2005 in Reit im Winkl than 20th of classic sprints first World Cup points. In December 2005, she came in Nové Město na Moravě to a fifth and the first time a top ten place in a freestyle sprint. In January 2006, she came in Otepaeae over the 10-kilometer Classic again a tenth place. The highlight of the season was the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In the double- tracking of Pragelato Plan Strömstedt reached with a 47th place as well as about 30-kilometer freestyle with number 30 no outstanding results. Your best performance, it reached Anna Dahlberg, Elin Ek and Britta Johansson Norgren in the relay race in which she came on the anchor leg to use, had to be acquitted herself Claudia Kuenzel and Sabina Valbusa the final sprint and thus a medal in fourth place when just missed. A few weeks after the games reached Stromstad with Britta Norgren in Sapporo as a third-place team sprints another remarkable World Cup result. At season's end, the Swede won national championships in both the 10- kilometer Classic behind Elk and Norgren and behind Dahlberg and Norgren in freestyle sprint bronze medals. The last relay race before the World Championships 2007 in Sapporo Strömstedt with Lina Andersson, Charlotte Kalla and Norgren could reach their only World Cup victory in Davos in the relay race. At the World Championships, she was 40th of persecution and did not finish about 30-kilometer classic race. Since then inserts were rare in the cross-country World Cup points are no longer won the Swede.

For the 2010/11 season changed Strömstedt from cross-country biathlon. In Beitostølen she gave her debut for the season opener in the IBU Cup, where they initially 35, after decades of Sprint race was. A week later the World Cup debut followed in Östersund. As 61 of the sprint they missed the pursuit race for a place. In Presque Isle she could win a sprint for the first time as 31 points in the World Cup. Your best ever placement in the World Cup reached Strömstedt the third event of the World Cup 2011/2012 Hochfilzen, when she came to 16th in the sprint to the finish.

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