Pernilla_Wiberg

Pernilla Wiberg

Pernilla Wiberg (born October 15 1970 in Norrköping) is a former Swedish alpine skier, who competed on a high level between 1990 and 2002. On club level, she represented Norrköpings SK.

Career

After competing without much success in two junior world championships in 1987 and 1988, Wiberg got her international breakthrough in the early 1990s. In her World Cup debut in Vemdalen, Sweden, on 8 March 1990, she finished 5th in slalom, and five days later she finished 3rd in giant slalom in Åre. The following season of 1990/91, she claimed three World Cup victories and a giant slalom gold medal at the World Championships in Saalbach. Until the end of her career in 2002, Wiberg won an additional 21 World Cup races, earning her a total of 24 World Cup race victories, including at least one victory in each of the five different alpine disciplines. In 1997 she won the overall World Cup. In the World Championships she won a total of six medals including four gold medals.

Wiberg won the giant slalom gold in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the combination gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. She was at both these olympics the most successful Swedish athlete. She participated in the olympic games of Nagano 1998, where she won the downhill silver medal. Wiberg herself holds this achievement to be the best of her career. In her final olympics in Salt Lake City 2002, she failed to reach the top ten, finishing 14th in downhill and 12th in super-G. The olympic super-G was to be her final international race, as she a few weeks later announced her retirement following a surgery to her knees.

Awards

In 1991, Wiberg was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. The jury's motivation was: "For the sensational giant slalom victory in the World Championships, secured through a bold and skillful second leg. The same year, 1991, she was awarded Jerringpriset, an award she received again the following year.

International Olympic Committee

Wiberg was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee in 2002. Since then, Wiberg has been a member of the following commissions: Athletes’ (2002-), Sport and Environment (2002), Ethics (2003-), Coordination for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 (2003-), Nominations (2003-). On 2 September 2008, IOC announced that Wiberg is to chair a commission appointed by the president of IOC, Jacques Rogge. The commission will analyse the projects of the shortlisted cities candidating for 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games.

Personal life

Together with her partner Bödvar Bjerke, Wiberg has two children; Axel (b. 2003) and Sofia (b. 2007). Since 1995, she lives in Monaco.

World Cup victories

Overall and single discipline results

Season	Discipline
1994	Combined
1995	Combined
1997	Overall
1997	Slalom
1997	Combined

Race victories

Date	Location	Race
January 6 1991	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Slalom
March 10 1991	Lake Louise	Giant Slalom
March 23 1991	Waterville Valley	Slalom
February 28 1992	Narvik	Giant Slalom
december 6 1992	Steamboat Springs	Slalom
december 12 1993	Veysonnaz	Slalom
January 6 1994	Morzine	Slalom
January 15 1994	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Super-G
february 6 1994	Sierra Nevada	Combined
March 12 1995	Lenzerheide	Slalom
March 12 1995	Lenzerheide	Combined
November 26 1995	Vail	Slalom
december 22 1995	Veysonnaz	Slalom
december 29 1995	Semmering	Slalom
december 1 1996	Lake Louise	Super-G
december 28 1996	Semmering	Slalom
January 4 1997	Maribor	Slalom
January 10 1997	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Super-G
January 19 1997	Zwiesel	Slalom
February 2 1997	Laax	Combined
March 9 1997	Mammoth Mountain	Slalom
January 3 1999	Maribor	Slalom
december 18 1999	St. Moritz	Downhill