page_title: Eva Nansen
section_title: Ski pioneer
hierarchical_section_title: Eva Nansen / Ski pioneer
caption_attribution_description: English: Eva Nansen, wife of Fridtjof Nansen, skiing near Christiania (Oslo), Norway around the time of her marriage.
context_page_description: Eva Helene Nansen was a celebrated Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer. She was also a pioneer of women's skiing.
context_section_description: Eva Sars (Nansen) was a competent skier. She and Cecilie Thoresen Krog drew attention as the only girls at the Husebyrennet ski jumping event, when they arrived on skis. Later she came to have great influence on gaining the right for women to participate in winter sports on equal terms with men. During Easter 1892 she probably became the first woman to cross the Hardangervidda mountain plateau on skis, when she did so with her husband Fridtjof Nansen. On this occasion she wore a somewhat challenging ski costume for the time, designed by Nansen and made by her, in which her skirt only reached slightly below the knees. In the article Skiløbningen, published in the newspaper Verdens Gang in March 1893, she argued against those who moralized against female skiing.
caption: Eva Nansen, 1889
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