Maiken Caspersen Falla

Maiken Caspersen Falla
Born	(1990-08-13) 13 August 1990 Fet, Akershus, Norway
Height	161 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Ski club	Gjerdrum IL
World Cup career
Seasons	2008–
Individual wins	4
Indiv. podiums	17
Medal record Women's cross-country skiing Representing Norway Olympic Games 2014 Sochi Sprint World Championships 2015 Falun Team sprint 2011 Holmenkollen Team sprint 2013 Val di Flemme Individual sprint 2015 Falun Individual sprint

Maiken Caspersen Falla (born 13 August 1990) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 2007. She became Olympic champion in the individual sprint event at the 2014 Winter Olympics after having won both the qualification, quarterfinal, semifinal and final.

Career

Falla finished 39th in the individual sprint event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec.

She finished 20th in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Falla has three individual World Cup victories, taken in skate sprints in Rogla in 2011, Canmore in 2012 and in Drammen in 2014. She also has four first places from team sprint events in Liberec and Düsseldorf in 2011, in Liberec in 2013 and in Nove Mesto in 2014.

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Falla was selected for the Team Sprint with her teammate Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen. The pair took Bronze behind the Swedish and Finnish teams. Two years later, at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 at Val di Fiemme in Italy, Falla won the bronze medal in the individual sprint event.

References

• Maiken Caspersen Falla at the International Ski Federation