Maiken Caspersen Falla
Maiken Caspersen Falla ( born August 13, 1990 in Lørenskog ) is a Norwegian cross-country skier.
Career
Falla began at the age of four years with the cross-country skiing and starts for the club Gjerdrum IL. She has specialized in sprint and short distance races. Occasionally, however, it takes on double pursuit race.
Their first international race she contested in January 2007 Sjusjøen within the Scandinavian Cup. In November 2008, she was able to start in the pre-season race in Beitostølen. By their fourth place in the sprint she qualified there for the Norwegian World Cup team. Two weeks later Falla debuted in Kuusamo in the Cross Country World Cup. Even at their first use, she won first points as 22 of Sprint competition. A week later she took part in a FIS race in Gl. Her international breakthrough came when they finally managed next World Cup shortly before Christmas 2008 in Dusseldorf. In the sprint race Falla was there first third and one day later, together with Celine Brun - Lie in the team sprint in second. In mid-January 2009, she won the silver medal in the sprint at the Norwegian Championship in Gjøvik. The next day she also appeared in the double tracking, but finished only 16th place. In the following Sprint World Cup in Otepaeae she finished eighth. In early February 2009, she participated in the Junior World Championships in Praz- de -Lys. To start off, she won the bronze medal in the sprint. In the following double tracking they finished fifth, within a 5 km freestyle race she was only 24 in the final 4 x 3.3 km relay they could win the gold medal together with Marthe Kristoffersen, Hilde Lauvhaug and Ingvild Flugstad Østberg. Following the Junior World Championships she paused two weeks of international competitions, and then participate in the sprint competition of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, but where they failed because of the qualification. By the end of the season she took part in the sprint World Cup in Lahti and Trondheim, where she worked as a 19 and 11 more World Cup points.
During the summer of 2009 she participated in some organized in China FIS races. In the pre-season race in November in Beitostølen she could win the second place in the sprint race. On the following day they also took part in the 10 km freestyle race, but was only 34 The discharged at the same place the opening race of the World Cup 2009/10 they played as first leg of the occupied only with Junior Season Norway IV This finished only 18th place, where Falla one of the weakest lap times ran. Nevertheless, they could at a week later held in Kuusamo Sprint World Cup to reach the final and win the sixth. In early December, held Sprint World Cup in Dusseldorf they failed the qualification. On the following day, however, she could Walk like last year, together with Celine Brun - Lie in the team sprint for third place. After she had taken part in a national junior race, she could occupy the tenth place when just before Christmas in Slovenia Rogla discharged Cup Sprint. At the beginning of 2010 she paused in international competitions to prepare for the upcoming season highlights. It was not until the end of January she went on to a FIS race in Stokke, where she finished in third place. From there they traveled to the Junior World Championships 2010 in Hinterzarten, where she was 12 in the sprint race but fell short of expectations. Nevertheless, she stood in the Norwegian squad for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, where she launched only in the sprint, finishing in 20th place. After Olympics, she took to the end of the season in part, except for some junior competitions still in the World Cup sprint in Drammen and Oslo, where they could run 14 again in the points as 10th and.
At the beginning of the season 2010/11 she succeeded in Dusseldorf in second in the team sprint back on the podium. When starting in the Scandinavian Cup she succeeded in Savalen the victory in the sprint race and finished second in the race in Torsby over 10 km. Back in the World Cup, she won with her partner Marit Bjørgen the team sprint race in Liberec. Just a week later she was as third in the sprint in Otepaeae back on the podium.
In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo she won bronze in the team sprint. Also in the season 2011/ 12 started Caspersen Falla with a team sprint win in Dusseldorf. During the sprint in Davos as they came third to the finish. In the Russian Rogla they finally celebrated her first individual World Cup victory in the sprint. In the Norwegian Championships 2012 in Voss, she won the title in the sprint.
At the beginning of the 2012/13 season Caspersen Falla succeeded in Canmore the second win in a single sprint World Cup. In January 2013 she also once again a victory in the team sprint in Liberec. In the Norwegian Championships in 2013 Gåsbu she defended her title in the sprint. A little later they secured the bronze medal in this discipline at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme. In the team sprint she missed a medal and was together with Ingvild Flugstad Østberg fourth. In the 2013/14 season Caspersen Falla started weak, but again managed to secure with their partner in Nové Město na Moravě victory in the team sprint. Also in the Norwegian Championships 2014 in Molde they secured the title again in the sprint. At the next World Cup in Dobbiaco, she landed in the sprint to fourth place.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, she was Olympic champion in the discharged in free style sprint after they had already won the qualification.
Achievements
World Cup Stats
The table shows the achieved placings in detail.
- Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
- Top 10: Number of placings in the top ten
- Points ranking: number of placements within the points positions
- Start: Number overflowed race in the respective discipline