Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir

Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir (born April 25, 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]

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

On August 24, 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
2013175555————
2015194256————

Olympic results
Year
Age Slalom Giant
Slalom		 Super G Downhill Combined Team event
2014 18 34 46 29 — — N/A

Other results

Results per discipline
Discipline EC starts EC Top 30 EC Top 15 EC Top 5 EC Podium Best result
Date Location Place
Slalom3000026 November 2012 Vemdalen, Sweden48th
Giant slalom30000DNQ2 3 times
Super-G100002 December 2012 Kvitfjell, NorwayDNF
Downhill00000
Combined100001 December 2012 Kvitfjell, NorwayDNF2
Total80000

References
  1. FIS Biography
  2. Sochi 2014 profile
  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). 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. 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. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  7. Andri Yrkill Valsson (26 August 2017). "Heyrði beinið brotna". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  8. Ástrós Ýr Eggertsdóttir (2 May 2018). "Ein fremsta skíðakona landsins fær ekki bætur vegna fótbrots". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  9. Freyr Gígja Gunnarsson (2 May 2018). "Landsliðskona fær ekki bætur vegna fótbrots". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 May 2018.


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