Babben Enger-Damon
Enger-Damon at the 1968 Olympics | |||||||||||||||
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Born | 19 September 1939 (1939-09-19) (age 84) Oslo, Norway | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Cross-country skiing | ||||||||||||||
Club | Romerikslagets IL, Oslo | ||||||||||||||
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Barbra Mette Stockfleth "Babben" Enger-Damon (née Enger on 19 September 1939) is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier who competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics. She won a gold medal in the 3 × 5 km relay and finished eighth in the 10 km in 1968. Domestically she won the 10 km Norwegian title in 1963 and 1964.
Enger is the daughter of Norwegian painter Erling Enger. Between the 1964 and 1968 she married American cross-country skier Larry Damon; they first lived in Norway, but later moved to Vermont in the United States.[1] Besides skiing she competed in the national championships in sailing and orienteering, a won one a gold medal in sailing and a silver and bronze medals in orienteering.[2]
Cross-country skiing results
Olympic Games
- 1 medal – (1 gold)
Year | Age | 5 km | 10 km | 3 × 5 km relay |
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1964 | 24 | 31 | 18 | — |
1968 | 28 | 21 | 8 | Gold |
References
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- 1956: Sirkka Polkunen, Mirja Hietamies, Siiri Rantanen (FIN)
- 1960: Irma Johansson, Britt Strandberg, Sonja Edström-Ruthström (SWE)
- 1964: Alevtina Kolchina, Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Klavdiya Boyarskikh (URS)
- 1968: Inger Aufles, Babben Enger-Damon, Berit Mørdre (NOR)
- 1972: Lyubov Mukhachyova, Alevtina Olyunina, Galina Kulakova (URS)
- 1976: Nina Baldycheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova (URS)
- 1980: Marlies Rostock, Carola Anding, Veronika Hesse, Barbara Petzold (GDR)
- 1984: Inger Helene Nybråten, Anne Jahren, Brit Pettersen, Berit Aunli (NOR)
- 1988: Svetlana Nageykina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Tamara Tikhonova, Anfisa Reztsova (URS)
- 1992: Yelena Välbe, Raisa Smetanina, Larisa Lazutina, Lyubov Yegorova (EUN)
- 1994: Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Lyubov Yegorova (RUS)
- 1998: Nina Gavrylyuk, Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina (RUS)
- 2002: Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel, Evi Sachenbacher (GER)
- 2006: Natalya Baranova-Masalkina, Larisa Kurkina, Yuliya Chepalova, Yevgeniya Medvedeva (RUS)
- 2010: Vibeke Skofterud, Therese Johaug, Kristin Størmer Steira, Marit Bjørgen (NOR)
- 2014: Ida Ingemarsdotter, Emma Wikén, Anna Haag, Charlotte Kalla (SWE)
- 2018: Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, Ragnhild Haga, Marit Bjørgen (NOR)
- 2022: Yuliya Stupak, Natalya Nepryayeva, Tatiana Sorina, Veronika Stepanova (ROC)
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