Hedda Berntsen

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Hedda Berntsen (born 24 April 1976) is a Norwegian winter-sports athlete who has competed in telemark, alpine, freestyle, and skicross. She was the world champion in Telemark classic in 1997. She later excelled in alpine slalom, earning bronze at the 2001 World Championships and several top-10 World Cup results during 2000–01. She switched to freestyle skiing and skicross, winning silver at the 2008 Winter X Games and, at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the silver medal in women's skicross.

Berntsen comes from Filtvet and is the older sister of Ingrid Berntsen, a freestyle skier. She studied at Middlebury College from 1995 to 1999. Her first international win was gold in classic telemark at the 1997 World Championships. After a challenging period in alpine skiing and being dropped from the national team in 2003, she turned to freestyle/skicross, where she later found success, including a World Cup victory in 2009 at Les Contamines.