Team

Gunn-Rita Dahle-Flesjå
Team

GUNN-RITA DAHLE-FLESJå

1st european Marathon Championships 2011

Even for an athlete of extraordinary format returning to the top level of the sport is not easy. Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå had planned to return to the elite ranks of the sport in 2010 after having taken a maternity leave in 2009. And she had been training hard and systematically to make this happen, but the results were not what she had hoped for. In 2011 however, the norwegian showed that she is likely to get back to her old strength for the Olympic games in London. She won the european Crosscountry Championships and showed a strong last part of the season with repeated worldcup podium finishes. this shows that Dahle Flesjå has a realistic chance to further add entries to her already impressive list of career successes. With eight World Championship titles and an Olympic gold medal under her belt, she only needs two more worldcup wins to become the most successful rider of all times in mountain biking’s worldcup.

SIZE: 173 cm
WEIGHT: 59 kg
PLACE OF RESIDENCE: Stavanger, Norway
DATE OF BIRTH: February 10th, 1973
LEARNED JOB: Journalism
COACH: Kenneth Flesjå
HOBBIES: writing / reading and playing with my little son
MARITAL STATE: married to Kenneth / one child
WEBSITE: www.gunnrita.com

Press conference 2012

Pressconference 2011

SUCCESSES

2011 1st European Marathon Championships, 1st norwegian national Cross Country Cham- pionships, Worldcup finishes: 3rd val di sole, 4th nove Mesto, 6th World Championships Cross Country

2010 Silver medal european championshipsmarathon, 6th world championships marathon, 3rd Roc d’Azur (cross Country)

2009 1st European marathon championships,
1st Norwegian national cross country championships,1st at Montebelluna’s Gunn-Rita-Marathon

2008 World marathon champion, 7th at World championships cross country, Worldcup finishes: 1st (Madrid), 5th (Mont Sainte Anne), 6th (Houffalize), 8th (Fort William)

2007 2nd Worldcup Houffalize, 3rd Worldcup Offenburg, 1st at MTB Bundesliga Münsingen, 1st at Sunshine Cup in Nals, 1st at Gunn-Rita Marathon

2006 World champion cross country and marathon, European champion marathon, runner-up at European championships cross country; winner of three worldcup races and the UCI-worldcup overall

2005 World champion cross country and marathon, European champion; winner of five worldcup races and the UCI-worldcup overall; Norwegian national champion and Nordic champion