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María Guðmundsdóttir (skier)

Icelandic alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ19561373 ↗
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María Guð­mundsdóttir Toney (29 June 1993 – 2 September 2022) was an Icelandic alpine ski racer. She won the Icelandic slalom championship four times and the giant slalom championship twice.

She competed at the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria, and the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek, USA, in the slalom. She retired from competing in 2018 due to repeated injuries.

Illness and death

In December 2021, María was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in the spleen, Primary Splenic Angiosarcoma. She died from the illness on 2 September 2022.

Personal life

María was born to Guðmundur Sigurjónsson and Bryndís Ýr Viggósdóttir, both known competitive skiers in Iceland. She was married to Ryan Toney.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2022, 2013, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-06-29. The account is most persuasive where María, Guðmundsdóttir and skier can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “María Guðmundsdóttir (skier)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.