Marte Elden Explained

Marte Elden
Birth Date:4 July 1986
Birth Place:Levanger, Norway
Club:Henning SL
Seasons:5 – (2006, 20082011)
Wins:0
Totalpodiums:1
Teampodiums:0
Individual Starts:33
Team Starts:5
Wcoveralls:0 – (20th in 2011)
Wctitles:0

Marte Elden (born 4 July 1986, in Levanger) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who competed between 2005 and 2011.

Cross-country skiing

She won a gold medal at the 2005 Junior World Championship. She made her World Cup debut on 19 November 2005 in Beitostølen, and collected her first World Cup points with a 22nd place on 9 February 2008 in Otepää. She finished among the top ten for the first time on 23 February 2008 in Falun, with a tenth place. She represents the sports club Henning SL, and lives in Namdalseid.[1]

Athletics

Elden was also a talented athlete. She finished sixth in the 800 metres and fourth in the 1500 metres in the 2003 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, and competed without reaching the final at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics.[2] Her personal best time in the 800 metres was 2:06.77 minutes, achieved in July 2003 in Gothenburg.[3] In the 1500 metres she had 4:25.06 minutes, achieved in July 2002 in Stockholm.[3] She represented Namdalseid IL and Steinkjer FIK.

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[4]

World Cup

Season standings

 Season  Age Discipline standingsSki Tour standings
OverallDistanceSprintNordic
Opening
Tour de
Ski
World Cup
Final
19
21 53 30 42
22 81 53 32
23 86 60
24 20 18 88 9 23

Individual podiums

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marte Elden (1986) - Skattelister 2007. Norwegian. 14 August 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724174903/http://skattelister.aftenposten.no/skattelister/11385040/Marte%20%20Elden. 24 July 2011. dead.
  2. http://www.friidrett.no/friidrett/statistikk/internasjonal/ke.htm Norwegian international athletes - surname E
  3. http://www.friidrett.no/friidrett/statistikk/at/sen/K800.htm Norwegian all-time list, 800 m women
  4. Web site: ELDEN Marte . . FIS-Ski . International Ski Federation . 15 December 2019.