1. Grete Eliassen was born on September 21,1986 and is an American-Norwegian freestyle skier.
20 Facts About Grete Eliassen
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Grete Eliassen won a bronze medal in Slopestyle at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, behind Kaya Turski and Keri Herman.
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Grete Eliassen has won six medals at the Winter X Games in slopestyle and halfpipe events including back to back gold medals in 2005 and 2006.
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Grete Eliassen was born in Lutsen, Minnesota to a Norwegian father and an American mother.
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Grete Eliassen started skiing at the young age of two.
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Grete Eliassen grew up near some of the finest mountains in North America.
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Grete Eliassen moved to Norway for a year when she was five.
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At the age of sixteen, Grete Eliassen won the Super-G at the Junior World Championship in France and placed third in slalom skiing at the European Junior Olympics in Slovenia.
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Grete Eliassen realized that racing was not the type of skiing that satisfied her and soon after she fell in love with freeskiing.
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Grete Eliassen captured back to back gold medals at the Winter X Games.
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Grete Eliassen is the only female skier to medal in both the first Halfpipe and Slopestyle X Games events.
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In 2007, Grete Eliassen won all the open events, US Open, European Open, and Nippon Open.
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Grete Eliassen was named "Women Skier of the Decade" by Fri Flyt magazine.
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From fall 2008 until spring 2010, Grete Eliassen co-produced and was featured in the ski film "Say My Name" with one of her sponsors, Red Bull.
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Grete Eliassen won ESPN Best Performance in a Leading Role and IF3 Montreal Best Female Performance for her role in the film.
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Grete Eliassen graduated from the University of Utah in May 2013 with a business marketing degree.
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Grete Eliassen enjoys waterskiing, wakeboarding, golf, tennis, rock-climbing, skateboarding and biking when not skiing.
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Grete Eliassen is very involved within the community of female athletes.
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Grete Eliassen is very passionate about giving young girls the same opportunities as boys when it comes to sports.
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In 2016 Grete Eliassen was elected to serve as the president of the Women's Sports Foundation, serving as president from 2017 to 2018.