Medal record
Kari Traa in Bjerkreim 2008
Women's freestyle skiing
Competitor for  Norway
Olympic Games
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	Moguls
Silver	2006 Turin	Moguls
Bronze	1998 Nagano	Moguls
FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
Gold	2001 Whistler	Moguls
Gold	2001 Whistler	Dual moguls
Gold	2003 Deer Valley	Moguls
Gold	2003 Deer Valley	Dual moguls
Silver	1999 Meiringen-Hasliberg	Moguls
Silver	1999 Meiringen-Hasliberg	Dual moguls
Silver	2005 Ruka	Dual moguls

Kari Traa (born January 28, 1974 in Voss, Norway) is a Norwegian freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 2002 Winter Olympics, finished second at the 2006 games, and finished third at the 1998 games.

Accomplishments[link]

She is four times World Champion, from 2001 (moguls + parallel moguls) and 2003 (moguls + parallel moguls), and has also three silver medals (both moguls and parallel moguls in 1999, and moguls in 2005).^[1] She has a total of 37 World Cup victories.

Kari Traa missed the cut for the final round and finished 14th in Albertville - the first official Olympic mogul competition. Kari did not compete when the Games came to Lillehammer, Norway in 1994. She injured her knee after wiping out on a training run just three weeks before the Olympics. After the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan - Kari finally had an Olympic medal to wear when she won bronze.^{[citation needed]}

Publicity[link]

Traa attracted attention when she posed almost nude in a series of pictures in the sports magazine Ultrasport in 2001.^[2] She started a company in 2002, selling sports clothes, and has later won awards for successfully launching her collections.^[3] Her autobiography Kari was issued in 2006.^[4] After finishing her active career she has been engaged in recruitement of young ski talents and participated as arranger of world cup events. She is also engaged in the festival Ekstremsportveko (Extreme Sports Week) held at her home community Voss, regarded as one of the world's largest extreme sports festivals.

Kari Traa was elected "Sexiest woman in Norway" in 2002 by the magazine MANN.^[5] Her og Nå and TV 2 Nettavisen elected her as "Most sexy woman" in both 2003 and 2004.^[6] In 2007 she was second on a similar list compiled by the TV-program God kveld, Norge!.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

Hans Engelsen Eide (born 1965) is a Norwegian freestyle skier. He was born in Voss, and represended the club Voss Freestyleklubb. He competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, where he placed 15th in moguls.^[1]

He was Norwegian champion in moguls in 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1994.^[2]

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