Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir Explained
Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir (born 25 April 1995 in Akureyri, Iceland) is an alpine skier from Iceland.[3] She competed for Iceland at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events. She had the best results of the athletes who represented the country at the Winter Olympics as well.[4] [5] [6]
On 24 August 2017 Helga broke her leg while training on the Folgefonna glacier in Norway.[7] Due to a difficult infection in the fracture she has not been able to train since the accident.[8] The Icelandic Health Insurance agency came to the conclusion that Helga was not entitled to injury compensation as she was training with a foreign athletic club abroad, despite she was there on behalf of the Icelandic ski national team who paid for her training as there were no suitable training sites in Iceland due to the time of year.[9]
World Championship results
| Year |
| Age | Slalom | Giant
Slalom | Super G | Downhill | Combined | Team Event |
| 17 | | | | | | — |
| 19 | | | | | | — | |
Olympic results
| Year |
| Age | Slalom | Giant
Slalom | Super G | Downhill | Combined | Team event |
| 18 | | | | | — | | |
Other results
European Cup results
Results per discipline
| Discipline | EC starts | EC Top 30 | EC Top 15 | EC Top 5 | EC Podium | Best result |
|---|
| Date | Location | Place |
|---|
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 November 2012 |  Vemdalen, Sweden | 48th |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 times |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 December 2012 |  Kvitfjell, Norway | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 December 2012 | Kvitfjell, Norway | |
| Total | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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Notes and References
- http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/athlete-biography.html?sector=AL&competitorid=164905&type=result FIS Biography
- Web site: Sochi 2014 profile . 2014-02-21 . 2014-02-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140220200008/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-helga-maria-vilhjalmsdottir . dead .
- News: Henry Birgir Gunnarsson. Hef lagt líf mitt og sál í að búa til besta skíðamann sem Ísland hefur átt. 2 May 2018. Vísir.is. 14 February 2015. is.
- Web site: Úthlutun úr Afrekssjóði ÍSÍ fyrir árið 2014 . is . 23 January 2014 . olympic.is . The National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland . 24 January 2014.
- News: Andrésdóttir . Ásta . 4 February 2014 . Eleven Icelandic Officials, Five Athletes to Attend Sochi . https://archive.today/20140204235027/http://icelandreview.com/news/2014/02/04/eleven-icelandic-officials-five-athletes-attend-sochi . dead . 4 February 2014 . . 4 February 2014 .
- News: . Iceland’s Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics team hits the slopes . IceNews . 18 February 2014 . 21 February 2014 .
- News: Andri Yrkill Valsson. Heyrði beinið brotna. 2 May 2018. Morgunblaðið. 26 August 2017. is.
- News: Ástrós Ýr Eggertsdóttir. Ein fremsta skíðakona landsins fær ekki bætur vegna fótbrots. 2 May 2018. Vísir.is. 2 May 2018. is.
- News: Freyr Gígja Gunnarsson. Landsliðskona fær ekki bætur vegna fótbrots. 2 May 2018. RÚV. 2 May 2018. is.
