Tora Berger

Tora Berger
Tora Berger
Full name	Tora Berger
Born	18 March 1981; Ringerike, Norway
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
World Cup career
Seasons	2001–2014
Individual wins	28
Indiv. podiums	63
Discipline titles	1 (2012–13)
Women's biathlon
Representing Norway
Olympic Games
World Championships
Junior/Youth World Championships
	Updated on 20 March 2014.

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

Personal background

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

She has been a member of the Norwegian women's biathlon team since 1999. She has 28 individual victories in the World Cup. ^[1]

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

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
Season	Races	Points	Position	Races	Points	Position	Races	Points	Position	Races	Points	Position	Races	Points	Position
2002–03	11/23	1	68th	5/9	1	65th	4/7	–	–	2/3	–	–	0/4	–	–
2003–04	-	-	-	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2004–05	26/27	389	17th	10/10	160	13th	8/9	102	21st	4/4	64	14th	4/4	47	21st
2005–06	20/26	253	22nd	9/10	104	22nd	6/8	75	26th	2/3	20	33rd	3/5	54	23rd
2006–07	25/27	450	14th	9/10	175	12th	8/8	124	16th	3/4	92	5th	5/5	53	24th
2007–08	24/26	664	6th	9/10	271	6th	8/8	238	4th	2/3	40	15th	5/5	102	12th
2008–09	23/26	894	3rd	9/10	352	3rd	7/7	246	2nd	3/4	122	3rd	4/5	146	6th
2009–10	20/25	564	12th	9/10	215	15th	4/6	101	24th	2/4	87	13th	5/5	139	9th
2010–11	24/26	963	4th	9/10	356	3rd	6/7	268	4th	4/4	133	4th	5/5	206	3rd
2011–12	26/26	1054	3rd	10/10	373	4th	8/8	361	3rd	3/3	108	5th	5/5	241	2nd
2012–13	26/26	1234	1st	10/10	428	1st	8/8	417	1st	3/3	168	1st	5/5	262	1st
2013–14	22/22	856	2nd	9/9	361	2nd	8/8	319	2nd	2/2	58	9th	3/3	121	4th

*Key:Races—number of entered races/all races; Points—World Cup points; Position—World Cup season ranking.

*Statistics as at 17 March 2013.

Record

Olympic Games

Event	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay
2006 Turin	13th	23rd	18th	25th	5th	—
2010 Vancouver	Gold	33rd	5th	18th	4th	—
2014 Sochi	16th	10th	Silver	14th	Bronze	Gold

World Championships

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

Event	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay
2005 Hochfilzen	21st	11th	19th	13th	5th	—
2005 Khanty-Mansiysk	—	—	—	—	—	10th
2006 Pokljuka	—	—	—	—	—	Silver
2007 Antholz-Anterselva	4th	10th	19th	25th	Bronze	Bronze
2008 Östersund	4th	4th	4th	Silver	6th	—
2009 Pyeongchang	Bronze	19th	9th	15th	11th	4th
2010 Khanty-Mansiysk	—	—	—	—	—	Silver
2011 Khanty-Mansiysk	10th	7th	5th	Bronze	5th	Gold
2012 Ruhpolding	Gold	6th	4th	Gold	Bronze	Gold
2013 Nové Město	Gold	Silver	Gold	Silver	Gold	Gold

Junior/Youth World Championships

Event	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Relay
2000 Hochfilzen	13th	Bronze	9th	5th
2001 Khanty-Mansiysk	21st	24th	38th	5th

Individual victories

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	Kontiolahti	10 km Pursuit	Biathlon World Cup
2007/08 2 victories (1 Sp, 1 Pu)	January 5, 2008	Oberhof	7.5 km Sprint	Biathlon World Cup
2008/09 2 victories (1 Sp, 1 MS)	January 22, 2009	Antholz	7.5 km Sprint	Biathlon World Cup
2008/09 2 victories (1 Sp, 1 MS)	March 22, 2009	Trondheim	12.5 km Mass Start	Biathlon World Cup
2009/10 2 victories (1 Sp, 1 In)	December 5, 2009	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Biathlon World Cup
2009/10 2 victories (1 Sp, 1 In)	February 18, 2010	Vancouver	15 km Individual	Winter Olympic Games
2010/11 6 victories (2 Sp, 2 Pu, 1 In, 1 MS)	December 16, 2010	Pokljuka	15 km Individual	Biathlon World Cup
	January 15, 2011	Ruhpolding	7.5 km Sprint	Biathlon World Cup
	January 16, 2011	Ruhpolding	10 km Pursuit	Biathlon World Cup
	January 21, 2011	Antholz	7.5 km Sprint	Biathlon World Cup
	January 22, 2011	Antholz	12.5 km Mass Start	Biathlon World Cup
	February 6, 2011	Presque Isle, Maine	10 km Pursuit	Biathlon World Cup
2011/12 4 victories (2 Pu, 1 In, 1 MS)	December 4, 2011	Östersund	10 km Pursuit	Biathlon World Cup
	January 15, 2012	Nové Město	10 km Pursuit	Biathlon World Cup
	March 7, 2012	Ruhpolding	15 km Individual	Biathlon World Championships
	March 11, 2012	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Mass Start	Biathlon World Championships
2012/13 11 victories (2 Sp, 4 Pu, 2 In, 3 MS)	November 29, 2012	Östersund	15 km Individual	Biathlon World Cup
	December 1, 2012	Östersund	7.5 km Sprint	Biathlon World Cup
	December 2, 2012	Östersund	10 km Pursuit	Biathlon World Cup
	December 16, 2012	Pokljuka	12.5 km Mass Start	Biathlon World Cup
	January 13, 2013	Ruhpolding	12.5 km Mass Start	Biathlon World Cup
	January 19, 2013	Antholz	10 km Pursuit	Biathlon World Cup
	February 10, 2013	Nové Město	10 km Pursuit	Biathlon World Championships
	February 13, 2013	Nové Město	15 km Individual	Biathlon World Championships
	March 1, 2013	Oslo	7.5 km Sprint	Biathlon World Cup
	March 2, 2013	Oslo	10 km Pursuit	Biathlon World Cup
	March 3, 2013	Oslo	12.5 km Mass Start	Biathlon World Cup
2013/14 1 victory (1 MS)	January 5, 2014	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

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

1 2 "Tora Berger's sport data profile". biathlonworld.com. IBU. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
1 2 Tarzan og Tussi er barna våre Her og Nå
↑ Tren bikkja som en toppidrettsutøver Dagens Næringsliv
1 2 A Different View of…Tora Berger Video IBU Info JK

External links

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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World champions in women's biathlon – 4 × 6 km relay
3 × 5 km	1984: Soviet Union (Venera Chernyshova, Liudmila Zabolotnaya, Kaija Parve) 1985: Soviet Union (Venera Chernyshova, Elena Golovina, Kaija Parve) 1986: Soviet Union (Kaija Parve, Nadiya Billova, Venera Chernyshova) 1987, 1988: Soviet Union (Venera Chernyshova, Elena Golovina, Kaija Parve)
3 × 7.5 km	1989: Soviet Union (Natalia Prikazchikova, Svetlana Davidova, Elena Golovina) 1990: Soviet Union (Elena Batsevich, Elena Golovina, Svetlana Davidova) 1991: Soviet Union (Elena Belova, Elena Golovina, Svetlana Davidova)
4 × 7.5 km	1993: Czech Republic (Jana Kulhavá, Jiřina Adamičková, Iveta Knížková, Eva Háková) 1995: Germany (Uschi Disl, Antje Harvey, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Petra Behle) 1996, 1997: Germany (Uschi Disl, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Katrin Apel, Petra Behle) 1999: Germany (Uschi Disl, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Katrin Apel, Martina Zellner) 2000: Russia (Olga Pyleva, Svetlana Chernousova, Galina Koukleva, Albina Akhatova) 2001: Russia (Olga Pyleva, Anna Bogaliy, Galina Koukleva, Svetlana Ishmouratova)
4 × 6 km	2003: Russia (Albina Akhatova, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Galina Koukleva, Svetlana Chernousova) 2004: Norway (Linda Tjørhom, Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen, Gunn Margit Andreassen, Liv Grete Poirée) 2005: Russia (Olga Pyleva, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Olga Zaitseva) 2007, 2008: Germany (Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Magdalena Neuner, Kati Wilhelm) 2009: Russia (Svetlana Sleptsova, Anna Boulygina, Olga Medvedtseva, Olga Zaitseva) 2011, 2012: Germany (Tina Bachmann, Magdalena Neuner, Miriam Gössner, Andrea Henkel) 2013: Norway (Hilde Fenne, Ann Kristin Flatland, Synnøve Solemdal, Tora Berger) 2015: Germany (Franziska Hildebrand, Franziska Preuß, Vanessa Hinz, Laura Dahlmeier) 2016: Norway (Synnøve Solemdal, Fanny Horn Birkeland, Tiril Eckhoff, Marte Olsbu) 2017: Germany (Vanessa Hinz, Maren Hammerschmidt, Franziska Hildebrand, Laura Dahlmeier)

Holmenkollen Medal
Until 1900	1895: Viktor Thorn (NOR) 1897: Asbjørn Nilssen (NOR) 1899: Paul Braaten (NOR), Robert Pehrson (NOR)
1900–1950	1901: Aksel Refstad (NOR) 1903: Karl Hovelsen (NOR) 1904: Harald Smith (NOR) 1905: Jonas Holmen (NOR) 1907: Per Bakken 1908: Einar Kristiansen (NOR) 1909: Thorvald Hansen 1910: Lauritz Bergendahl 1911: Otto Tangen (NOR), Knut Holst (NOR) 1912: Olav Bjaaland (NOR) 1914: Johan Kristoffersen (NOR) 1915: Sverre Østbye (NOR) 1916: Lars Høgvold (NOR) 1918: Hassa Horn (NOR), Jørgen Hansen (NOR) 1919: Thorleif Haug (NOR), Otto Aasen (NOR) 1923: Thoralf Strømstad (NOR) 1924: Harald Økern (NOR), Johan Grøttumsbråten (NOR) 1925: Einar Landvik (NOR) 1926: Jacob Tullin Thams 1927: Hagbart Haakonsen (NOR), Einar Lindboe (NOR) 1928: Torjus Hemmestveit (NOR), Mikkjel Hemmestveit (NOR) 1931: Hans Vinjarengen (NOR), Ole Stenen (NOR) 1934: Oddbjørn Hagen (NOR) 1935: Arne Rustadstuen (NOR) 1937: Olaf Hoffsbakken (NOR), Birger Ruud (NOR), Martin P. Vangsli (NOR) 1938: Reidar Andersen (NOR), Johan R. Henriksen (NOR) 1939: Sven Selånger (SWE), Lars Bergendahl (NOR), Trygve Brodahl (NOR) 1940: Oscar Gjøslien (NOR), Annar Ryen (NOR) 1947: Elling Rønes (NOR) 1948: Asbjørn Ruud (NOR) 1949: Sigmund Ruud (NOR) 1950: Olav Økern (NOR)
1951–2000	1951: Simon Slåttvik (NOR) 1952: Stein Eriksen (NOR), Torbjørn Falkanger (NOR), Heikki Hasu (FIN), Nils Karlsson (SWE) 1953: Magnar Estenstad (NOR) 1954: Martin Stokken (NOR) 1955: Haakon VII (NOR), Hallgeir Brenden (NOR), Veikko Hakulinen (FIN), Sverre Stenersen (NOR) 1956: Borghild Niskin (NOR), Arnfinn Bergmann (NOR), Arne Hoel (NOR) 1957: Eero Kolehmainen (FIN) 1958: Inger Bjørnbakken (NOR), Håkon Brusveen (NOR) 1959: Gunder Gundersen (NOR) 1960: Helmut Recknagel (GDR), Sixten Jernberg (SWE), Sverre Stensheim (NOR), Tormod Knutsen (NOR) 1961: Harald Grønningen (NOR) 1962: Toralf Engan (NOR) 1963: Alevtina Kolchina (URS), Pavel Kolchin (URS), Astrid Sandvik (NOR), Torbjørn Yggeseth (NOR) 1964: Veikko Kankkonen (FIN), Eero Mäntyranta (FIN), Georg Thoma (FRG), Halvor Næs (NOR) 1965: Arto Tiainen (FIN), Bengt Eriksson (SWE), Arne Larsen (NOR) 1967: Toini Gustafsson (SWE), Ole Ellefsæter (NOR) 1968: Olav V (NOR), Assar Rönnlund (SWE), Gjermund Eggen (NOR), Bjørn Wirkola (NOR) 1969: Odd Martinsen (NOR) 1970: Pål Tyldum (NOR) 1971: Marjatta Kajosmaa (FIN), Berit Mørdre (NOR), Reidar Hjermstad (NOR) 1972: Rauno Miettinen (FIN), Magne Myrmo (NOR) 1973: Einar Bergsland (NOR), Ingolf Mork (NOR), Franz Keller (FRG) 1974: Juha Mieto (FIN) 1975: Gerhard Grimmer (GDR), Oddvar Brå (NOR), Ivar Formo (NOR) 1976: Ulrich Wehling (GDR) 1977: Helena Takalo (FIN), Hilkka Kuntola (FIN), Walter Steiner (SUI) 1979: Ingemar Stenmark (SWE), Erik Håker (NOR), Raisa Smetanina (URS) 1980: Thomas Wassberg (SWE) 1981: Johan Sætre (NOR) 1983: Berit Aunli (NOR), Tom Sandberg (NOR) 1984: Lars Erik Eriksen (NOR), Jakob Vaage (NOR), Armin Kogler (AUT) 1985: Anette Bøe (NOR), Per Bergerud (NOR), Gunde Svan (SWE) 1986: Brit Pettersen (NOR) 1987: Matti Nykänen (FIN), Hermann Weinbuch (FRG) 1989: Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (FIN) 1991: Vegard Ulvang (NOR), Trond Einar Elden (NOR), Ernst Vettori (AUT), Jens Weißflog (GER) 1992: Yelena Välbe (RUS) 1993: Emil Kvanlid (NOR) 1994: Lyubov Yegorova (RUS), Vladimir Smirnov (KAZ), Espen Bredesen (NOR) 1995: Kenji Ogiwara (JPN) 1996: Manuela Di Centa (ITA) 1997: Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR), Stefania Belmondo (ITA), Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) 1998: Fred Børre Lundberg (NOR), Larisa Lazutina (RUS), Alexey Prokurorov (RUS), Harri Kirvesniemi (FIN) 1999: Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN)
Since 2001	2001: Adam Małysz (POL), Bente Skari (NOR), Thomas Alsgaard (NOR) 2003: Felix Gottwald (AUT), Ronny Ackermann (GER) 2004: Yuliya Chepalova (RUS) 2005: Andrus Veerpalu (EST) 2007: Frode Estil (NOR), Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset (NOR), Harald V (NOR), Sonja (NOR), Simon Ammann (SUI) 2010: Marit Bjørgen (NOR) 2011: Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR), Michael Greis (GER), Andrea Henkel (GER), Janne Ahonen (FIN) 2012: Magdalena Neuner (GER), Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR) 2013: Tora Berger (NOR), Martin Fourcade (FRA), Therese Johaug (NOR), Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) 2014: Magnus Moan (NOR), Eric Frenzel (GER), Thomas Morgenstern (AUT), Darya Domracheva (BLR) 2015: Eldar Rønning (NOR), Anders Bardal (NOR), Anette Sagen (NOR), Kamil Stoch (POL) 2016: Noriaki Kasai (JPN), Tarjei Bø (NOR) 2017: Marie Dorin-Habert (FRA), Sara Takanashi (JPN) 2018: Charlotte Kalla (SWE), Princess Astrid (NOR), Hannu Manninen (FIN), Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN)