12 Facts About Pernilla Wiberg

Pernilla Wiberg competed on the World Cup circuit between 1990 and 2002, where she became one of the few all-event winners.

Until the end of her career in 2002, Pernilla Wiberg won an additional 21 World Cup races, earning her a total of 24 World Cup race victories, including at least one victory in each of the five different alpine disciplines.

Pernilla Wiberg dethroned the previous years World Cup Overall winner Katja Seizinger by over 500 points.

Pernilla Wiberg won her first ever World Cup downhill in the World Cup finale weekend, making her one of the first women ever to win World Cup races in all 5 disciplines.

Pernilla Wiberg led the World Cup Super-G standings until the final race, and needed only a 5th-place finish in the Super-G on World Cup finale weekend to secure the season Super-G title.

Pernilla Wiberg considers the Super-G her second best event after the slalom and her favorite event to ski, but it is where she has had the most bad luck and disappointment through her 4th place in Lillehammer, mistakes at the 96 and 97 worlds, and highly unlucky loss of the Super-G season crystal globe in the 97 season.

Pernilla Wiberg won the giant slalom gold in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the combination gold medal in 1994 at Lillehammer.

At both of these Olympics, Pernilla Wiberg was the most successful Swedish athlete.

In 1998 in Nagano, she won the downhill silver medal; Pernilla Wiberg holds this achievement to be the best of her career.

In 1991, Pernilla Wiberg was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.

Pernilla Wiberg was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee in 2002 and served an eight-year mandate until 2010.

Pernilla Wiberg is today a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of 114 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.