Vilde Nilsen (born 12 January 2001) is a Norwegian Paralympic

cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

and

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...

Career

She made her Paralympic debut during the

2018 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 49 , athletes = 569 , events = 80 in 6 sports , opening = 9 March , closing = 18 March , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Eun-jungSeo Soon-seok , stadium = Pyeongchang Olymp ...

at the age of 17. Vilde Nilsen claimed a silver medal in the women's 1.5km sprint classic standing cross-country skiing event as a part of the

, which is also her first Paralympic medal. She won the gold medal in the women's 10km standing cross-country skiing event at the

2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships The 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships was an international disability sport competition held in Lillehammer, Norway from 8 to 23 January 2022. It was the inaugural edition of the World Para Snow Sports Championships with para-alpine skii ...

held in Lillehammer, Norway. She also won the silver medal in the women's long-distance standing cross-country skiing event.

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* 2001 births Living people Norwegian female biathletes Norwegian female cross-country skiers Paralympic biathletes for Norway Paralympic cross-country skiers for Norway Paralympic silver medalists for Norway Paralympic bronze medalists for Norway Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Sportspeople from Tromsø Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing 21st-century Norwegian women 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-biathlon-bio-stub