Toini Gustafsson biography
Toini Gustafsson, married title Toini Gustafsson Rönnlund, (born Jan. 17, 1938), Swedish snowboarding champion who competed in two Olympics, profitable two gold and two silver medals in Nordic competitors.
Small in stature, Gustafsson compensated for her brief stride size with unusually highly effective strokes that offered her extra stamina on the finish of races. A housewife and bodily schooling trainer, her first Olympic expertise was on the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria. There she received a silver medal as a member of the three×5-km relay group. At the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France, the identical Swedish threesome—with Gustafsson recording the quickest leg of the competitors—repeated as silver medalists within the 3×5-km race. She led a Scandinavian sweep of medals (Norwegians took silver and bronze) within the particular person 10-km race, profitable by over a minute. Gustafsson’s most interesting Olympic efficiency got here within the 5-km race. The final skier to begin, she struggled for many of the race, attempting to maintain up with the tempo set by the nice Soviet skier Galina Kulakova. Trailing by 4 seconds, Gustafsson put forth an impressed effort within the last kilometre of the race to make up seven seconds on Kulakova and win the race by three seconds. The victory made her the primary Swedish lady to garner two gold medals at one Winter Olympics. After the 1968 Games, she married Assar Rönnlund, additionally a cross-country skier.