The season that just passed was her best. Now it is all over for the ski star from Norway.

Silje Øyre Slind has never skied as well as this winter.

In her fourth full season as a long-distance skier, she finished fourth overall in Ski Classics. That is one place higher than last year, when she claimed her first victory in the prestigious Ski Classics series.

This season, Øyre Slind also won her first Climb bib overall, by a single point ahead of overall winner Anikken Gjerde Alnæs.

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But that bib will be her last. After four seasons in Ski Classics, she is hanging up her skis.

Before the weekend, she visited Skiplukker’n to hang the Climb bib on the wall there – a bib she won by a one-point margin.

“This was my last bib,” says Øyre Slind.

And you are sure about that?

“As sure as I can be,” she confirms.

Best long-distance season

The 38-year-old from Team Aker Dæhlie has 12 podium finishes in the prestigious Ski Classics series, including a victory at the Engadin La Diagonela last year. This season, she recorded two runner-up finishes as her best individual results: second at Marcialonga and second at Birkebeinerrennet, beaten by just 2.5 seconds.

Last summer, she also won the international roller skiing series Champions Tour overall, after a battle to the final meter against her twin sister, Astrid.

On the podium in the World Cup

In traditional cross-country skiing, Silje Øyre Slind has two World Cup podium finishes: in the sprint and team sprint at the Olympic test event in South Korea in 2017. In the team sprint, she finished second with Anna Svendsen. In the sprint, she also finished second, behind Anamarija Lampič of Slovenia. In total, she raced 79 World Cup events for Norway.

Now she is retiring.

Her twin sister, Astrid Øyre Slind, is, however, going all in for another season. She confirmed that earlier this winter.

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