Vida Vencienė

Olympic medal record
Women's cross-country skiing
	1988 Calgary	10 km
	1988 Calgary	5 km

Vida Vencienė (maiden name Vida Mogenytė; born 21 May 1961 in Ukmergė) is a former cross-country skier who represented the USSR and later Lithuania from 1988 to 1994. She won a gold medal over 10 km and a bronze over 5 km at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary for the USSR.

Her best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 7th in the 30 km event in 1989. She also finished 2nd in a 10 km event in a World Cup event in Leningrad in 1988.

External links

Vida Venzene at the International Ski Federation

Olympic champions in women's 10 km cross-country skiing

1952: Lydia Wideman (FIN)
1956: Lyubov Kozyreva (URS)
1960: Maria Gusakova (URS)
1964: Klavdiya Boyarskikh (URS)
1968: Toini Gustafsson (SWE)
1972: Galina Kulakova (URS)
1976: Raisa Smetanina (URS)
1980: Barbara Petzold (GDR)
1984: Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen (FIN)
1988: Vida Vencienė (URS)
2002: Bente Skari (NOR)
2006: Kristina Šmigun (EST)
2010: Charlotte Kalla (SWE)
2014: Justyna Kowalczyk (POL)

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