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Kari Traa

Traa in Bjerkreim 2008
Personal information
Born	28 January 1974 (1974-01-28) (age 51) Voss, Norway
Height	168 cm
Weight	65 kg
Medal record Women's freestyle skiing Representing  Norway Olympic Games Gold 2002 Salt Lake City Moguls Silver 2006 Turin Moguls Bronze 1998 Nagano Moguls World Championships Gold 2001 Whistler Moguls Gold 2001 Whistler Dual moguls Gold 2003 Deer Valley Moguls Gold 2003 Deer Valley Dual moguls Silver 1999 Meiringen-Hasliberg Moguls Silver 1999 Meiringen-Hasliberg Dual moguls Silver 2005 Ruka Dual moguls

Kari Traa (born 28 January 1974) is a Norwegian former Olympic freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 2002 Winter Olympics, finished second at the 2006 games, and finished third at the 1998 games.

Accomplishments

She is four times World Champion, from 2001 (moguls + parallel moguls) and 2003 (moguls + parallel moguls), and has also three silver medals (both moguls and parallel moguls in 1999, and moguls in 2005). She has a total of 37 World Cup victories.

Kari Traa missed the cut for the final round and finished 14th in the 1992 Winter Olympics at Albertville - the first official Olympic mogul competition. Kari did not compete when the Games came to her home country Norway and Lillehammer in 1994. She injured her knee after wiping out on a training run just three weeks before the Olympics. After the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan - Kari finally had an Olympic medal when she won bronze. In subsequent Winter Olympics she gained a gold medal (2002) and silver (2006).

Publicity

..... She started a company in 2002, selling sports clothes, and has later won awards for successfully launching her collections. Her autobiography Kari was issued in 2006. After finishing her active career she has been engaged in recruitment of young ski talents and participated as arranger of world cup events. She is also engaged in the festival Ekstremsportveko (Extreme Sports Week) held at her home community Voss, regarded as one of the world's largest extreme sports festivals.

..... In 2007, she was second on a similar list compiled by the TV-program God kveld, Norge!.

She was also mentioned as a sponsor for the Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis in a segment on their TV show I kveld med YLVIS where they tried to become "big" in Swahiliwood. Ylvis asked Traa to co-fund a movie production that had run out of money. She agreed and co-funded it with Svendsen Eksos, a local car-repair shop in Norway. In return, Traa's merchandise company was mentioned in the movie's dialogue.

In 2006 she received the Nynorsk User of the Year award.

See also

In Spanish: Kari Traa para niños