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Gyda Westvold Hansen

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Gyda Westvold Hansen is a Norwegian Nordic combined skier who represents the club IL Nansen and was born on 20 April 2002. She became the first ever World Champion in women's Nordic combined by winning the gold medal in the inaugural World Championship race, the individual normal hill 5 km, at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021. She was the 2021 World Junior Champion in the individual normal hill and part of the Norwegian team that won the mixed team normal hill at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. The English Wikipedia article lists six World Championships medals for her, five gold and one silver, plus 23 World Cup wins, and notes that she is a cousin of the cross-country skier Therese Johaug.

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2002 1
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5+ 1
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