Jeanette Lunde

Jeanette Lunde (born 28 March 1972) is a former Norwegian sportsperson who competed in alpine skiing and sailing. She competed in both the Winter and Summer Olympics, the second Norwegian woman to do so.

Alpine skiing

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As an alpine skier she finished eleventh in the downhill discipline and 32nd in the super-G at the 1994 Winter Olympics. She also finished seventeenth in downhill at the 1993 World Championships. Her highest placing in the World Cup was a 66th place in 1993–94. She raced in the World Cup from 1992 to 1995, and finished twice among the top fifteen, with a thirteenth place from Tignes in December 1993 and a fifth place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in January 1994; both in downhill.[1]

She represented the sports club Stabæk IF,[2] and later Geilo IL.[3] She became Norwegian champion in downhill once.[4]

Sailing

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In Lake Louise in December 1995, which would be her last World Cup race, Lunde sustained a knee injury.[3] Another knee injury in 1997 forced her to quit alpine skiing altogether. She took up sailing and participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's double-handed dinghy (470) event with Carolina Toll. Ranked seventeenth in the world before the contest, they finished sixteenth at the Olympics.[5]

Lunde was the second Norwegian woman who participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.[4]

Personal life

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Jeanette Lunde hails from Snarøya.[3] She is the daughter of sailor Peder Lunde and alpine skier Aud Lunde, a paternal granddaughter of sailors Peder and Vibeke "Babben" Lunde and great-granddaughter of sailor Eugen Lunde. All these people, except for Aud, were Olympic medallists.

Jeanette Lunde stands at 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in).[4]

References

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  1. ^ Jeanette Lunde at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
  2. ^ "Alpinlagene er klare". Norwegian News Agency. 28 April 1992.
  3. ^ a b c "Jeanette ut på båre". Aftenposten. 4 December 1995.
  4. ^ a b c "Jeanette Lunde". Dagbladet. 12 August 2000.
  5. ^ "Jeanette Lunde og Carolina Toll" (in Norwegian). Norwegian broadcasting Corporation. 8 September 2000. Retrieved 4 January 2007.