Anja Sofia Tess Pärson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˌanjaˈpæːʂɔn]; born 25 April 1981, in Tarnaby, Sweden) is a former Swedish-Sámi alpine skier. She is an Olympic gold medalist, seven-time gold medalist at the World Championships, and two-time overall Alpine Skiing World Cup champion. She has won a total of 42 World Cup races.
Pärson was introduced to ski racing by her sister, Frida, and is now trained by her father, Anders. Her first World Cup race...
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Anja Sofia Tess Pärson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˌanjaˈpæːʂɔn]; born 25 April 1981, in Tarnaby, Sweden) is a former Swedish-Sámi alpine skier. She is an Olympic gold medalist, seven-time gold medalist at the World Championships, and two-time overall Alpine Skiing World Cup champion. She has won a total of 42 World Cup races.
Pärson was introduced to ski racing by her sister, Frida, and is now trained by her father, Anders. Her first World Cup race was a giant slalom at the World Cup Finals at Crans-Montana, Switzerland (on 15 March 1998). She qualified for that race as the new junior World Champion but only finished 25th in last place. She won her first World Cup race, a slalom at Mammoth Mountain, California, in December 1998 at age 17, and her first gold medal at St. Anton, Austria, in 2001. She clinched the silver medal in the giant slalom and the bronze medal in the slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and added the gold in slalom plus two more bronze medals in downhill and combined...
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