Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir

Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir (born April 25, 1995 in Akureyri, Iceland) is an alpine skier from Iceland.[3] She competed for Iceland at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events. She had the best results of the athletes who represented the country at the Winter Olympics as well.[4][5][6]

Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir
Personal information
BornApril 25, 1995 (1995-04-25) (age 25)[1]
Akureyri, Iceland[2]
Sport
Country Iceland
SportAlpine skiing

On August 24, 2017, Helga broke her leg while training on the Folgefonna glacier in Norway.[7] Due to a difficult infection in the fracture she has not been able to train since the accident.[8] The Icelandic Health Insurance agency came to the conclusion that Helga was not entitled to injury compensation as she was training with a foreign athletic club abroad, despite she was there on behalf of the Icelandic ski national team who paid for her training as there were no suitable training sites in Iceland due to the time of year.[9]

References
  1. FIS Biography
  2. Sochi 2014 profile
  3. Henry Birgir Gunnarsson (14 February 2015). "Hef lagt líf mitt og sál í að búa til besta skíðamann sem Ísland hefur átt". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  4. "Úthlutun úr Afrekssjóði ÍSÍ fyrir árið 2014". olympic.is (in Icelandic). The National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  5. Andrésdóttir, Ásta (4 February 2014). "Eleven Icelandic Officials, Five Athletes to Attend Sochi". Iceland Review. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  6. "Iceland's Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics team hits the slopes". IceNews. 18 February 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  7. Andri Yrkill Valsson (26 August 2017). "Heyrði beinið brotna". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  8. Ástrós Ýr Eggertsdóttir (2 May 2018). "Ein fremsta skíðakona landsins fær ekki bætur vegna fótbrots". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  9. Freyr Gígja Gunnarsson (2 May 2018). "Landsliðskona fær ekki bætur vegna fótbrots". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 May 2018.


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