Facts: - seasons: 1999 -- 2011 - caption: petra majdic competing at tour de ski 2010 - height: 1.78 m ftin 0 on - additionalpodiums: 24 - totalpodiums: 48 - updated: 2011-03-18 - club: Sd atrans trojane - medaltemplates: women 's cross-country skiing - skis: fischer - birth date: 22 december 1979 - fullname: petra majdic - name: petra majdic - image: majdic petra tour de ski 2010.jpg - birth place: ljubljana , slovenia , yugoslavia - wins: 24 -rrb- 6 -lrb- tour de ski -rrb- 2 -lrb- world -lrb- cup finale -rrb- all wins -rrb- 16 -lrb- world cup Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of petra majdic .
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petra majdic -lrb- born 22 december 1979 in ljubljana -rrb- is a slovenian former cross-country skier .her best results came in classic style races .she won twenty-four world cup races , twenty in sprint races , but she also won a marathon -lrb- 30 km race -rrb- in trondheim in 2009 .she is the first slovenian cross-country skier to win the world cup race , the first to get a medal at the world championships and the first to get an olympic medal .with 20 wins , majdic is the second-most successful sprinter in fis cross-country world cup history and with 24 wins in total she 's the fourth-most successful world cup competitor of all time .