Elena Møller Rigas, born 29 January 1996 in

Albertslund Albertslund is a Copenhagen suburb in Albertslund Municipality, Denmark. It is located west of central Copenhagen, with a population of around 30,000. Albertslund is a planned community or new town mainly built in the 1960s and 1970s. The sub ...

is a Danish inline and

speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marath ...

. She was selected as flag-bearer for Denmark at the opening ceremony of the

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. She participated in the women's mass start.

Biography

Rigas started out as a

roller skater Roller skating is the act of travelling on surfaces with roller skates. It is a recreation, recreational activity, a sport, and a form of transportation. Roller rinks and skate parks are built for roller skating, though it also takes place on s ...

in the

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district of

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in 2000. The following year she joined Vesterbro Rulleskøjteklub but moved to Vallensbæk Rulleskøjteklub in 2005. She participated three times in the European roller skating championships before taking up ice skating. At the 2015 Junior European Roller Skating Championships in

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, Austria, she won three gold, a silver and a bronze medal.

Personal records

Rigas has achieved the following personal records in speed skating:

References

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* 1996 births Living people Danish female speed skaters People from Albertslund Municipality Olympic speed skaters for Denmark Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from the Capital Region of Denmark 21st-century Danish sportswomen {{Denmark-speed-skating-bio-stub