Women
NOR
Martine Ripsrud
NOR- Date of birth31 Oct 1995
- Height169 CM
- ProfessionAthlete
- HometownStange
- Place of birthN/A
- Start skatingShe took up ice skating at age four, and decided to focus solely on speed skating at age 13.
- Club Stange Sportsklubb: Norway
- HobbiesSpending time with friends. (Skoytelandslaget Facebook page, 08 Sep 2019)
- LanguagesEnglish, Norwegian
- CoachN/A
- Former CoachN/A
- General Interest
- Sport Specific Information
In 2014 she was presented with the Hedmarksnala [Hedmark Needle] by the Hedmark Skating Circuit in Norway. The honour was in recognition of the gold medal she won at the Norwegian junior sprint championships. (stange.vgs.no, 06 Jan 2014; hedmark-sk.com, 01 Jan 2014)
Dutch speed skater Ireen Wust, US speed skater Brittany Bowe, Korean speed skater Lee Sang-Hwa. (espern.no, 01 Jan 2016)
A groin injury meant she could not compete in the women's 500m at the 2023 European Championships in Hamar, Norway. (nettavisen.no, 07 Jan 2023)
In November 2017 she sustained a wound to her leg after a collision with her teammate Ida Njatun. (h-a.no, 02 Nov 2017)
In November 2017 she sustained a wound to her leg after a collision with her teammate Ida Njatun. (h-a.no, 02 Nov 2017)
Her father introduced her to the sport. "I think what made me like speed skating so much was the high speed and combining that with technique. Those things together are what made me want to do this sport."