Toini Gustafsson
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| Full name | Toini Lempi Gustafsson Rönnlund | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 January 1938 Suomussalmi, Kainuu, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 162 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Skiing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | IFK Likenäs Skellefteå SK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Toini Gustafsson Rönnlund (born Toini Karvonen; 17 January 1938) is a Swedish former cross-country skier. She competed in the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics and won four medals. Gustafsson also won the 10 km race at the Holmenkollen ski festival in each of 1960, 1967, and 1968. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships she collected three medals with a silver in 1962 (3 × 5 km relay) and two bronzes in 1966 (10 km and 3 × 5 km relay).
For her successes in Nordic skiing and at the Holmenkollen, Gustafsson received the Holmenkollen medal in 1967 (Shared with Ole Ellefsæter). She is the first Swedish woman to win the Holmenkollen medal. In 1968, she was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.[1]
She was married twice and had a daughter, Eva, born in 1956. In 1968 she divorced her first husband and married Swedish former cross-country skier Assar Rönnlund, with whom she had two more children.[2] They became the second husband-wife team to win the Holmenkollen medal (Rönnlund earned the medal in 1968). Additionally, they are the only husband-wife team to win the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.[3]
Gustafsson is an ethnic Finn. She was born in Suomussalmi, Finland, but was evacuated to Sweden as a Finnish war child in 1944. She retired from competition in 1968 and later worked as a physical education teacher.[3][4]
She is the paternal grandmother of cross-country skier Elina Rönnlund.[5]
Cross-country skiing results
[edit | edit source]All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[6]
Olympic Games
[edit | edit source]- 4 medals – (2 gold, 2 silver)
| Year | Age | 5 km | 10 km | 3 × 5 km relay |
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| 1964 | 26 | 6 | 8 | Silver |
| 1968 | 30 | Gold | Gold | Silver |
World Championships
[edit | edit source]- 3 medals – (1 silver, 2 bronze)
| Year | Age | 5 km | 10 km | 3 × 5 km relay |
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| 1962 | 24 | 7 | 8 | Silver |
| 1966 | 28 | 6 | Bronze | Bronze |
References
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External links
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- Toini Gustafsson at the International Ski and Snowboard FederationLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Holmenkollen medalists – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
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- 1938 births
- Living people
- People from Suomussalmi
- Cross-country skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Holmenkollen medalists
- Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
- Olympic cross-country skiers for Sweden
- Swedish female cross-country skiers
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
- Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
- Finnish emigrants to Sweden
- Finnish refugees
- Refugees in Sweden
- 20th-century Swedish sportswomen