Marit Bjørgen

Marit Bjørgen is the most successful female cross-country skier of all times. In a career spanning almost two decades, Bjørgen won 114 individual World Cup races. She won a total of 15 Olympic medals, five of them at the 2018 Pyeongchang games.



Marit Bjørgen (NOR)

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Words

  • decade = a period of ten years
  • individual = alone, by herself
  • spanning = lasting