Claudia Nystad

Claudia Nystad, born Claudia Künzel on 1 February 1978 in Zschopau in East Germany, is a German top-level cross-country skier who represents the sports club WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal. Alongside her civilian sports career she serves as a sports soldier with the German Federal Armed Forces. She has won six Olympic medals, two gold, three silver and one bronze, and five world championship medals, one gold and four silver, and in the World Cup she has four individual victories and seven victories in team events. In 2005 she married the Norwegian Trond Nystad, a former coach of the American cross-country ski team, and in 2007 she donated her gold medal from the 2002 Winter Olympics to a foundation that helps abused children.