Slovenian Cross-Country Skiers - Olympic Cross-Country Skiers of Slovenia, Petra Majdi?, Tone Poga?nik, Vesna Fabjan, Teja Gregorin (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Olympic Cross-Country Skiers of Slovenia, Petra Majdi?, Tone Poga?nik, Vesna Fabjan, Teja Gregorin, Nataa La?en, Katja Vinar. Excerpt: Petra Majdi (born 22 December 1979 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian cross-country skier. Her best results have come in classic style races. She has twenty World Cup race victories, sixteen of which have come in sprint races, but she also won a marathon (30 km race) in Trondheim in 2009. She is the first Slovenian cross-country skier to win the World Cup race, the first to get a medal at the World Championships and the first to get an Olympic medal. With 16 wins, Majdi is the second-most successful sprinter in FIS Cross-Country World Cup history, together with Bente Skari. She first appeared in World Cup on 9 January 1999 in Nov Msto, where she ended 10 km classic as 69th. In 2000 she won her first point in Falun with 30th place in 10 km freestyle. She showed talent for sprint events a year later in Asiago, where she earned her first podium for a 3rd place finish in 1.5 km freestyle sprint. But real breakthrough came late for Majdi; after achieving two more podium finishes in 2002, she struggled for four years to make a major progress. Cross-country skiing was a marginal sport in Slovenia at that time. and she was often frustrated about her training conditions and especially about her skis. As a skier from outside the World Cup elite, and from a low-ranked country, she was unable to get the same quality skis as her competitors. The only way forward was even more hard work, as only top results could provide her with a chance to get equal terms with others. Her first victory came at the end of successful 2006 season in 1 km classic sprint of Drammen. First win, 3rd place in 45 km classic marathon of Mora and 9th... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8736333