Dilnigar Ilhamjan
Chinese cross-country skier
Dilnigar Ilhamjan (Uyghur: دىلنىگار ئىلھامجان; born 3 May 2001), or Dinigeer Yilamujiang (Chinese: 迪妮格尔·衣拉木江), is a Chinese cross-country skier. An ethnic Uyghur from the far-northern city of Altay in Xinjiang, she is the first Chinese cross-country skier to win a medal in an FIS event. She made her maiden Olympic appearance during the 2022 Winter Olympics, where she was one of the two last torch bearers.
Dilnigar also served as a representative to the 19th Communist Youth League Congress.
Personal life
Her father, who taught her to ski and is still her coach, received a bronze medal in the 1993 national cross-country skiing competition.
Sports career
Originally competing as a track and field athlete, she started learning to ski when she was 12. She pursued cross-country skiing initially primarily as a hobby. In 2012 she started taking part in local competitive sports events as a long-distance runner. She first started skiing competitively in 2017. Norwegian coach Kristian Bjune Sveen travelled to Xinjiang to give her training, while Dilnigar also spent 3 years training in Norway herself, alongside Bayani Jialin, a Chinese skier of Kazakh ethnicity.
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