Emelie Öhrstig

{{short description|Swedish skier and cyclist}}

{{Infobox skier

| name = Emelie Öhrstig

| image = Emelie Öhrstig 2005.jpg

| caption = Emelie Öhrstig

| fullname = Frida Emelie Öhrstig

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|02|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Borås, Sweden

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height =

| nationality = {{SWE}}

| club = Piteå Elit

| personalbest =

| seasons = 8 – (1998, 2000–2006)

| totalpodiums =0

| teamwins = 0

| teampodiums = 1

| individual_starts = 46

| team_starts = 16

| wcoveralls = 0 – (25th in 2005 & 2006)

| wctitles = 0

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport | Women's cross-country skiing}}

{{MedalCountry | {{SWE}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2005 Oberstdorf|Individual sprint}}

| show-medals = yes

| updated =

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Emelie Öhrstig, born 27 February 1978 in Borås, Sweden, is a Swedish cross-country skier and road racing cyclist. As a cross-country skier she who won a gold medal during the 2005 Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/22/sports/22iht-world.html?scp=1&sq=Emelie%20Oehrstig&st=cse |title="Roundup: Russian triumphs in sprint duel" (The New York Times, 23 February 2005) "NORDIC SKIING: Emelie Oehrstig of Sweden claimed gold five days before her 27th birthday, covering the difficult 0.9-kilometer course in 2:15.5. A fellow Swede, Lina Andersson earned silver in 2:16.8, beating Canada's Sara Renner by one-tenth of a second." |work=The New York Times |date=23 February 2005 |access-date=5 January 2024 |archive-date=1 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201021203/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/22/sports/22iht-world.html?scp=1&sq=Emelie%20Oehrstig&st=cse |url-status=live }} She also has eleven additional victories up to 15 km from 2002 to 2005, and her best individual finish in Turin at the 2006 Winter Olympics was 22nd in the individual sprint.

In April 2006 she resigned as a member of the Piteå Elit team and has since been listed on the website for the International Ski Federation as retired.

Along with Per Elofsson, she was an expert commentator for Viasat during 2014 Winter Olympics.{{cite news|last1=Bohman|first1=Per|title=Hon är Viasats senaste OS-värvning|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/sportitv/article17595201.ab|newspaper=Aftonbladet|accessdate=3 December 2017|language=Swedish|date=4 October 2013|archive-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204171109/https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/sportitv/article17595201.ab|url-status=live}} Prior to that, she had been an expert commentator at Sveriges Television from 2009, until joining Viasat in 2014.{{cite web|last1=Lann|first1=Rikard|title=Emelie Öhrstig blir ny SVT-expert|url=https://www.svt.se/sport/artikel/emelie-ohrstig-blir-ny-svt-expert/|publisher=Sveriges Television|accessdate=3 December 2017|language=Swedish|date=14 October 2009|archive-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204061319/https://www.svt.se/sport/artikel/emelie-ohrstig-blir-ny-svt-expert/|url-status=live}} Since August 2014, Öhrstig has been an employee at Volvo Cars. As of 2017, she is currently a director of customer experience and retail for the Swedish market.{{cite news |last1=Eriksson |first1=Carl-Fredrik |title=Här är skidstjärnans nya karriär hos Volvo |url=https://www.expressen.se/motor/bilnyheter/har-ar-skidstjarnans-nya-karriar-hos-volvo/ |newspaper=Expressen |accessdate=1 December 2018 |language=Swedish |date=14 January 2018 |archive-date=1 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201093226/https://www.expressen.se/motor/bilnyheter/har-ar-skidstjarnans-nya-karriar-hos-volvo/ |url-status=live }}