Tora Berger (born 18 March 1981) is a retired Norwegian biathlete and Olympic champion.
Personal life
Berger married in 2010, having met her husband in high school.Tarzan og Tussi er barna våre Her og Nå They have two dogs.Tren bikkja som en toppidrettsutøver Dagens Næringsliv She is the younger sister of biathlete and cross-country skier Lars Berger.
Career She has been a member of the Norwegian women's biathlon team since 1999. She has 28 individual victories in the World Cup.
At the 2008 World Championship, she received three 4th places, before earning the silver medal in the mass start.
On 18 February 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 2012 in Ruhpolding, Berger took two golds in the 15 km individual and the 12.5 km mass start.
At the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nove Mesto, she won medals in every event she entered, taking 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 silver in the Women's relay.
IBU 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 2001–02 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 Position2002–03 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 21st2005–06 20/26 253 22nd 9/10 104 22nd 6/8 75 26th 2/3 20 33rd 3/5 54 23rd2006–07 25/27 450 14th 9/10 175 12th 8/8 124 16th 3/4 92 5th 5/5 53 24th2007–08 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 1st 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.
Biathlon results
Olympic Games EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass startRelayMixed relay 2006 Turin 13th 23rd 18th 25th 5th — 2010 Vancouver Gold 33rd 5th 18th 4th — 2014 Sochi 16th 10th Silver 14th Silver Gold
World Championships 18 medals – (8 gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze) EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass startRelayMixed 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 EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay 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) 2 December 2007 Kontiolahti10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup 5 January 2008 Oberhof7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup 2008/09 2 victories (1 Sp, 1 MS) 22 January 2009 Antholz7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup 22 March 2009 Trondheim12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup 2009/10 2 victories (1 Sp, 1 In) 5 December 2009 Östersund7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup 18 February 2010 Vancouver15 km IndividualWinter Olympic Games 2010/11 6 victories (2 Sp, 2 Pu, 1 In, 1 MS) 16 December 2010 Pokljuka15 km IndividualBiathlon World Cup 15 January 2011 Ruhpolding7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup 16 January 2011 Ruhpolding10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup 21 January 2011 Antholz7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup 22 January 2011 Antholz12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup 6 February 2011 Presque Isle, Maine10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup 2011/12 4 victories (2 Pu, 1 In, 1 MS) 4 December 2011 Östersund10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup 15 January 2012 Nové Město10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup 7 March 2012 Ruhpolding15 km IndividualBiathlon World Championships 11 March 2012 Ruhpolding12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Championships 2012/13 11 victories (2 Sp, 4 Pu, 2 In, 3 MS) 29 November 2012 Östersund15 km IndividualBiathlon World Cup 1 December 2012 Östersund7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup 2 December 2012 Östersund10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup 16 December 2012 Pokljuka12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup 13 January 2013 Ruhpolding12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup 19 January 2013 Antholz10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup 10 February 2013 Nové Město10 km PursuitBiathlon World Championships 13 February 2013 Nové Město15 km IndividualBiathlon World Championships 1 March 2013 Oslo7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup 2 March 2013 Oslo10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup 3 March 2013 Oslo12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup 2013/14 1 victory (1 MS) 5 January 2014 Oberhof12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup *Results are from IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games.
Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
World Cup Season standings Season Age Discipline standingsSki Tour standingsOverallDistanceSprintNordicOpeningTour deSkiWorld CupFinal 2012 31 61 46 — — — —
Team podiums 1 podium – (1 ) No. Season Date Location Race Level Place Teammates1 2011–12 20 November 2011 Sjusjøen, Norway 4 × 5 km Relay C/F World Cup 2nd Jacobsen / Østberg / Kristoffersen
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
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