Lotte Smiseth Sejersted (born 5 March 1991) is a Norwegian former

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. She won a silver medal at the 2009 Junior World Alpine Skiing Championships in

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, in the downhill event. She took another two medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships: a silver in the combined and a bronze in the downhill. In 2011, she won

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in the downhill at the Junior World Alpine Skiing Championships in

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. She made her

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debut in October 2009 in

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, but was disqualified. The same happened in two races in

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in mid-December 2009, before she collected her first World Cup points with a 28th place in the

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event in

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. She competed at the

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and 2013 Alpine Skiing World Championships. At the 2011 World Alpine Skiing Championships in

, Smiseth Sejersted set the fastest time in the second downhill training but during the main event she lost one ski and couldn't finish the course. However she also secured her best senior World Championship result that year, finishing tenth in the combined competition. At the

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, she finished sixth in the downhill. Her best results in the

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were a pair of fifth places which were obtained in downhills in

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in March 2011 and

in December 2013. She took a total of 16 national titles between 2007 and 2014, including five in downhill, four in Super-G, four in combined, two in giant slalom and one in slalom: in 2011 she won all five titles in the same year. In January 2016 Smiseth Sejersted crashed in a World Cup downhill race in Zauchensee, suffering ligament injuries which ruled her out for the rest of the season. Subsequently in April 2017 she announced her retirement from competition. She represented the sports club

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, and hails from

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. She attended the

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* * * 1991 births Living people Skiers from Bærum Norwegian female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Norway 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen {{Norway-alpine-skiing-bio-stub