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Tora Berger
Tora Berger 2006.jpg
Full nameTora Berger
Born
(1981-03-18) 18 March 1981 (age 37)
Ringerike, Norway
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
World Cup career
Seasons2001–2014
Individual wins28
Indiv. podiums63
Discipline titles1 (2012–13)
Updated on 20 March 2014.

Tora Berger (born 18 March 1981) is a retired Norwegian biathlete and Olympic champion.[1]




Contents





  • 1 Personal background


  • 2 Career


  • 3 World Cup


  • 4 Record

    • 4.1 Olympic Games


    • 4.2 World Championships


    • 4.3 Junior/Youth World Championships


    • 4.4 Individual victories



  • 5 Awards and nominations


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links




Personal background[edit]


Berger married in 2010, having met her husband at high school.[2] They have two dogs Tussi (Eeyore in English) and Tarzan – Tarzan often joins her on training runs.[3] Whilst away from home during the biathlon season she enjoys knitting[4] and reading (especially books about crime[2]). Outside biathlon she enjoys hunting and fishing.[4]



Career[edit]


She has been a member of the Norwegian women's biathlon team since 1999. She has 28 individual victories in the World Cup.
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Tora Berger


At the 2008 World Championship, she received three 4th places, before earning the silver medal in the mass start.


On February 18, 2010, she became the first Norwegian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in biathlon by winning the women's 15 km individual at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. By doing this, she won Norway's 100th Olympic gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games, as well as winning the 10th Norwegian biathlon gold medal. This historic medal makes Norway the first ever nation to win 100 gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games.


At the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nove Mesto, she won gold in the mixed relay, silver in the sprint and gold in the pursuit before becoming the first woman to defend her 15k individual title. She followed this up with a stunning final-leg performance in the relay, making up a deficit of nearly 40 seconds on the leaders to take another gold medal, before taking silver in the mass start. As the holder of 18 world championship medals she is second in the table of total medals, one medal behind Uschi Disl. At the same championships, she also became the first biathlete (male or female) to win 6 medals at a single biathlon world championships, with four golds and two silvers.


Berger competed in Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi where she won 3 medals. Gold in the Mixed relay together with Tiril Eckhoff, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen, a silver in the Women's Pursuit, and a bronze in the Women's relay,



World Cup[edit]


Although Tora Berger had been part of the Norwegian women's biathlon team since 1999, up until the end of the 2011/12 season she had never been the world cup winner either overall or in any of the individual disciplines. Her highest finish was third in the overall standings in the 2008/09 and 2011/12 seasons, second in the Pursuit discipline in the 2008/09 season, and second in the Mass Start discipline in the 2011/12 season.


Success came in the 2012/13 world cup season, with Tora taking 11 wins and missing the podium only seven times. Her 19 podium finishes equalled Magdalena Forsberg's record for the highest number of podium finishes in a single season. She won all three races at Oslo Holmenkollen to secure the crystal globes for both the Overall women's world cup and the Pursuit discipline. By the end of the season she had also won the crystal globe for the Individual, Sprint and Mass Start disciplines, completing a clean sweep of the five women's crystal globes (a feat last achieved by Magdalena Forsberg in the 2001/2 season). With Berger's contribution, Norway also won the 2012/13 season's Women's Nation Cup, Women's Relay Cup and Mixed Relay Cup.























































































































































































































Season
Overall
Sprint
Pursuit
Individual
Mass Start

Races

Points

Position

Races

Points

Position

Races

Points

Position

Races

Points

Position

Races

Points

Position
2002–0311/23168th5/9165th4/72/30/4
2003–04---
2004–0526/2738917th10/1016013th8/910221st4/46414th4/44721st
2005–0620/2625322nd9/1010422nd6/87526th2/32033rd3/55423rd
2006–0725/2745014th9/1017512th8/812416th3/4925th5/55324th
2007–0824/266646th9/102716th8/82384th2/34015th5/510212th
2008–0923/268943rd9/103523rd7/72462nd3/41223rd4/51466th
2009–1020/2556412th9/1021515th4/610124th2/48713th5/51399th
2010–1124/269634th9/103563rd6/72684th4/41334th5/52063rd
2011–1226/2610543rd10/103734th8/83613rd3/31085th5/52412nd
2012–1326/2612341st10/104281st8/84171st3/31681st5/52621st
2013–1422/228562nd9/93612nd8/83192nd2/2589th3/31214th
*Key:Races—number of entered races/all races; Points—World Cup points; Position—World Cup season ranking.

*Statistics as at 17 March 2013.



Record[edit]



Olympic Games[edit]






























Event
Individual
Sprint
Pursuit
Mass start
Relay
Mixed relay

Italy 2006 Turin
13th
23rd
18th
25th
5th


Canada 2010 Vancouver

Gold
33rd
5th
18th
4th


Russia 2014 Sochi
16th
10th

Silver
14th

Bronze

Gold


World Championships[edit]


  • 18 medals – (8 gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze)













































































Event
Individual
Sprint
Pursuit
Mass start
Relay
Mixed relay

Austria 2005 Hochfilzen
21st
11th
19th
13th
5th


Russia 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk





10th

Slovenia 2006 Pokljuka






Silver

Italy 2007 Antholz-Anterselva
4th
10th
19th
25th

Bronze

Bronze

Sweden 2008 Östersund
4th
4th
4th

Silver
6th


South Korea 2009 Pyeongchang

Bronze
19th
9th
15th
11th
4th

Russia 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk






Silver

Russia 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk
10th
7th
5th

Bronze
5th

Gold

Germany 2012 Ruhpolding

Gold
6th
4th

Gold

Bronze

Gold

Czech Republic 2013 Nové Město

Gold

Silver

Gold

Silver

Gold

Gold


Junior/Youth World Championships[edit]

















Event
Individual
Sprint
Pursuit
Relay

Austria 2000 Hochfilzen
13th

Bronze
9th
5th

Russia 2001 Khanty-Mansiysk
21st
24th
38th
5th


Individual victories[edit]


28 victories (7 Sp, 9 Pu, 5 In, 7 MS)






























































































































Season
Date
Location
Discipline
Level

2007/08
2 victories
(1 Sp, 1 Pu)
December 2, 2007
Finland Kontiolahti
10 km Pursuit
Biathlon World Cup
January 5, 2008
Germany Oberhof
7.5 km Sprint
Biathlon World Cup

2008/09
2 victories
(1 Sp, 1 MS)
January 22, 2009
Italy Antholz
7.5 km Sprint
Biathlon World Cup
March 22, 2009
Norway Trondheim
12.5 km Mass Start
Biathlon World Cup

2009/10
2 victories
(1 Sp, 1 In)
December 5, 2009
Sweden Östersund
7.5 km Sprint
Biathlon World Cup
February 18, 2010
Canada Vancouver
15 km Individual
Winter Olympic Games

2010/11
6 victories
(2 Sp, 2 Pu, 1 In, 1 MS)
December 16, 2010
Slovenia Pokljuka
15 km Individual
Biathlon World Cup
January 15, 2011
Germany Ruhpolding
7.5 km Sprint
Biathlon World Cup
January 16, 2011
Germany Ruhpolding
10 km Pursuit
Biathlon World Cup
January 21, 2011
Italy Antholz
7.5 km Sprint
Biathlon World Cup
January 22, 2011
Italy Antholz
12.5 km Mass Start
Biathlon World Cup
February 6, 2011
United States Presque Isle, Maine
10 km Pursuit
Biathlon World Cup

2011/12
4 victories
(2 Pu, 1 In, 1 MS)
December 4, 2011
Sweden Östersund
10 km Pursuit
Biathlon World Cup
January 15, 2012
Czech Republic Nové Město
10 km Pursuit
Biathlon World Cup
March 7, 2012
Germany Ruhpolding
15 km Individual
Biathlon World Championships
March 11, 2012
Germany Ruhpolding
12.5 km Mass Start
Biathlon World Championships

2012/13
11 victories
(2 Sp, 4 Pu, 2 In, 3 MS)
November 29, 2012
Sweden Östersund
15 km Individual
Biathlon World Cup
December 1, 2012
Sweden Östersund
7.5 km Sprint
Biathlon World Cup
December 2, 2012
Sweden Östersund
10 km Pursuit
Biathlon World Cup
December 16, 2012
Slovenia Pokljuka
12.5 km Mass Start
Biathlon World Cup
January 13, 2013
Germany Ruhpolding
12.5 km Mass Start
Biathlon World Cup
January 19, 2013
Italy Antholz
10 km Pursuit
Biathlon World Cup
February 10, 2013
Czech Republic Nové Město
10 km Pursuit
Biathlon World Championships
February 13, 2013
Czech Republic Nové Město
15 km Individual
Biathlon World Championships
March 1, 2013
Norway Oslo
7.5 km Sprint
Biathlon World Cup
March 2, 2013
Norway Oslo
10 km Pursuit
Biathlon World Cup
March 3, 2013
Norway Oslo
12.5 km Mass Start
Biathlon World Cup

2013/14
1 victory
(1 MS)
January 5, 2014
Germany Oberhof
12.5 km Mass Start
Biathlon World Cup
*Results are from IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games.


Awards and nominations[edit]


  • 2013: Awarded the Holmenkollen medal

  • 2013: Winner of Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year 2012

  • 2013: Winner of the "Female athlete of the year" for 2012 at the Sports Gala 2013

  • 2013: Nominated for the "Name of the year" for 2012 at the Sports Gala 2013

  • 2012: Nominated for the "Female athlete of the year" for 2011 at the Sports Gala 2012

  • 2011: Nominated for "Name of the year" for 2010 at the Sports Gala 2011

  • 2011: Nominated for "Female athlete of the year" for 2010 at the Sports Gala 2011

  • 2010: Nominated for "Female athlete of the year" for 2009 at the Sports Gala 2010


References[edit]




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  2. ^ ab Tarzan og Tussi er barna våre Her og Nå


  3. ^ Tren bikkja som en toppidrettsutøver Dagens Næringsliv


  4. ^ ab A Different View of…Tora Berger Video IBU Info JK




External links[edit]





  • Tora Berger at the International Biathlon Union



Awards
Preceded by
Alexander Dale Oen

Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year
2012
Succeeded by
Magnus Carlsen
















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