Toini Gustafsson

Toini Gustafsson Ronnlund, born Toini Karvonen on 17 January 1938 in Suomussalmi in Finland, is a Swedish former cross-country skier who was evacuated to Sweden as a Finnish war child in 1944. She competed in the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics and won four medals, two golds and two silvers. At the world championships she collected a silver in the 1962 relay and two bronzes in 1966, in the 10 km and the relay, and she won the 10 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1960, 1967 and 1968. She received the Holmenkollen medal in 1967 and was the first Swedish woman to win it, and in 1968 she was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. She married the Swedish skier Assar Ronnlund, and they are the only husband and wife to have won the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. She retired in 1968 and later worked as a physical education teacher.