Torill Fjeldstad (born February 22, 1958) is a former
Norwegian alpine skier
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Torill Fjeldstad
in Store norske leksikon
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She was born in Oslo
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. In the early 1980s she belonged to the downhill world elite. By the pass of her career she achieved five podium places in the World Cup
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*1975: 3rd place in slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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*1981: 2nd place in Piancavallo (Italy) and two third places in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee
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Location
Zauchensee, named after the lake of th ...
(Austria) and in Mégève (France)
*1982: 3rd place in Aspen
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Species
These species are called aspens:
* ''Populus adenopoda'' – Chinese aspen (China, south of ''P. tremula'')
* ''Populus da ...
(USA)
At the 1980 Winter Olympics
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Lake Placid was elected ...
in Lake Placid she finished seventh in the downhill race.Schladming
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she so nearly made the downhill podium she finished 4th in the downhill race. She retired as an alpine skier in 1984.
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1958 births
Living people
Norwegian female alpine skiers
Olympic alpine skiers for Norway
Alpine skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers from Oslo
20th-century Norwegian sportswomen
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