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Ingemar Stenmark had his brakethrough when he won the World Cup at Voss in 1974.
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Kari Traa – gold in Freestyle Moguls in the 2002 Olympics, 4 World Championship golds and 33 individual world cup wins.
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Jan Einar Thorsen – overall winner of the Super–G World Cup.
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Voss -
a famous ski resort
Voss is one of Norway’s most traditional winter sports destinations. Since 1914 Voss has been host and arranger of the Norwegian Championships and many other major skiing events in Nordic disciplines, Alpine and Freestyle. The World’s elite Alpine skiers has gathered in Voss no less than four times since 1970 for World Cup races. In recent years, the Alpine Junior World Championships and the World Cup finals of Freestyle Moguls events. FIS Alpine and World Cup Freestyle events are scheduled for this winter. Expert organisers and first class skiing facilities have made all this possible. This has also created a long line of winter sports world and olympic champions. No other winter sports destination anywhere in the world has nurtured more participants in the Olympic games!
Kari Traa, Kristen Skjeldal, Eirik Kvalfoss, Anne Elisabeth Elvebakk, Jan Einar Thorsen... These are some of the well known names we often hear on telly and sports hour. Come and explore the town they took their first ski stokes.