Hilde Synnøve Lid (born 18 March 1971) is a Norwegian

freestyle skier Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...

. Her achievements include winning an Olympic medal in aerials in 1994, a silver medal in aerials at the 1999 world championships, and placing third overall in aerials in the world cup in 2000.

Career

Lid won a bronze medal in women's aerials at the

1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (; ) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Hav ...

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munici ...

."1994 Winter Olympics – Lillehammer, Norway – Alpine Skiing"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on March 5, 2008) She finished 6th at the

1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with some events ...

in Nagano, and placed 16th at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...

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. She won a silver medal in aerials at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1999. She placed third overall in aerials in the 1999–2000 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup. Representing the club Voss Freestyleklubb, she won two national titles during her career.

Personal life

Lid was born in

Voss Voss () is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality and a Districts of Norway, traditional district in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages inclu ...

on 18 March 1971.

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* 1971 births Living people Sportspeople from Voss Norwegian female freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics Skiers from Vestland 20th-century Norwegian sportswomen 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen {{Norway-Olympic-medalist-stub