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Marit Bjørgen has competed for Norway Marit Bjørgen has won 8 gold medals at the Olympic Games Marit Bjørgen has won 4 silver medals at the Olympic Games Marit Bjørgen has won 3 bronze medals at the Olympic Games

Marit Bjørgen is a ski racer who has competed for Norway. She competed at the 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018 Winter Olympic Games. With her 15 Olympic medals, of which 8 gold, she is the most decorated Winter Olympian ever, and third on the all-time list, behind Michael Phelps and Larisa Latynina. Her 8 gold medals are tied with Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Bjorn Daehlie with most gold medals won at the Winter Olympic Games. She was also the most successful (female) athlete of Vancouver 2010 and Pyeongchang 2018. She also became the oldest female individual gold medalist, when she won the skiathlon event at Pyeongchang 2018, a month before her 34th birthday. The only time she was not able to complete a race at the Olympic Games, she was suffering from bronchitis and stomach pains.

She is married to Olympic medalist Fred Borre Lundberg.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Result
2002 Women's 15km 50th
Women's Mass Start 14th
Women's Relay Silver
2006 Women's 10km Silver
Women's Skiathlon DNF
Women's Sprint 18th
Women's Team Sprint 4th
Women's Relay 5th
2010 Women's 10km Bronze
Women's Skiathlon Gold
Women's Sprint Gold
Women's Mass Start Silver
Women's Relay Gold
2014 Women's 10km 5th
Women's Skiathlon Gold
Women's Sprint 11th
Women's Team Sprint Gold
Women's Mass Start Gold
Women's Relay 5th
2018 Women's 10km Bronze
Women's Skiathlon Silver
Women's Team Sprint Bronze
Women's Mass Start Gold
Women's Relay Gold

2002[]

Distance Round Time
15 kilometres Final 47:07.4
Mass Start Final 1:37:02.6
Relay Final 49:31.9
(13:15.9 split)

2006[]

Distance Round Time
10 kilometres Final 28:12.7
Skiathlon Final DNF
Sprint Qualification 2:16.38
Quarterfinal 2:16.8
Semifinal Did not advance
Final
Team Sprint Semifinal 17:14.4
(8:58.2 split)
Final 16:48.1
(8:43.1 split)
Relay Final 55:21.8
(13:25.3 split)

2010[]

Distance Round Time
10 kilometres Final 25:14.3
Skiathlon Final 39:58.1
Sprint Qualification 3:38.05
Quarterfinal 3:35.4
Semifinal 3:39.3
Final 3:39.2
Mass Start Final 1:30:34.0
Relay Final 55:19.5
(12:49.9 split)

2014[]

Distance Round Time
10 kilometres Final 28:51.2
Skiathlon Final 38:33.6
Sprint Qualification 2:33.17
Quarterfinal 2:35.42
Semifinal 2:52.27
Final Did not advance
Team Sprint Semifinal 16:43.45
(8:24.03 split)
Final 16:04.05
(8:04.93 split)
Mass Start Final 1:11:05.2
Relay Final 53:56.3
(12:56.3 split)

2018[]

Distance Round Time
10 kilometres Final 25:32.4
Skiathlon Final 40:52.7
Team Sprint Semifinal 16:33.28
(8:03.11 split)
Final 15:59.44
(7:52.24 split)
Mass Start Final 1:22:17.6
Relay Final 51:24.3
(11:52.8 split)
Norway Cross-Country Skiing 2018 • Women's team sprint Norway
Marit Bjoergen
Maiken Caspersen Falla
Norway Cross-Country Skiing 2018 • Women's relay Norway
Marit Bjoergen
Ragnhild Haga
Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen
Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg
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