Emelie Forsberg

Emelie Tina Forsberg, born 11 December 1986, is a Swedish athlete specializing in trail running, including skyrunning and mountain running, and in ski mountaineering. She has won repeated victories in different disciplines, including European and World Championships. She grew up in the small village of Noraström in Kramfors Municipality on Sweden's High Coast, and her father died when she was a newborn. She moved to the Swedish mountains at 18 and worked as a waitress at the Storulvån Mountain Lodge in the Åre Ski Area. Her first serious trail race was the Swedish Fjällmaraton in 2009, which she won after stopping for twenty minutes before the last big ascent to eat a chocolate mud cake she had baked, and in 2014 she returned and set a new course record.