Erna Friðriksdóttir, Date of Birth

    

Erna Friðriksdóttir

Icelandic paralympic skier

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1987

Profession: alpine skier

Nationality: Iceland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Erna Friðriksdóttir

  • Erna Friðriksdóttir (born 2 November 1987) is an Icelandic alpine skier.
  • She competes in Paralympic alpine skiing, in the sitting category, using a monoski.She qualified to represent Iceland in alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, competing in the women's slalom and the women's giant slalom.
  • She was Iceland's sole representative, and her country's flagbearer during the Games' opening ceremony.
  • This was only Iceland's second participation in the Winter Paralympic Games.
  • For its previous participation, in 1994, it had fielded a single male athlete (Svanur Ingvarsson), in ice sledge speed racing.
  • Erna was thus Iceland's first ever Paralympic alpine skier, and its first female Winter Paralympian. In Vancouver, competing in the women's slalom, she completed the first run in 2:04.05 (14th and last of those who finished the race), crashed twice during the second and struggled to pick herself up, eventually reaching the finish line.
  • She was, however, recorded as disqualified for her second run.

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