Synnøve Solemdal (born 15 May 1989) is a Norwegian former biathlete. She competed for Norway at the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics.
Career Solemdal won two bronze medals at the 2010 Junior World Championships. As of the 2010/2011 season she is part of the Norwegian team. On 11 December 2010, she along with her teammates placed third in 4 × 6 km relay in Hochfilzen.
She took her first world cup victory in the 2012–13 season, moving up from 4th after the Sprint race to take the Pursuit in Hochfilzen. She repeated the feat the following year to claim her second victory, also in the pursuit in Hochfilzen during the 2013–14 season.
At the 2012 World Championships in Ruhpolding she won a gold medal in mix relay and a bronze medal in relay. She won a gold medal in the mixed relay at the 2013 Biathlon World Championships in the Czech Republic.
Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.
Olympic Games 0 medals EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay 2014 Sochi — 35th 36th — — — 2018 Pyeongchang 40th 50th 41st — 4th — *The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.
World Championships 6 medals (5 gold, 1 bronze) EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk 62nd 42nd LAP — 5th — rowspan="5" 2012 Ruhpolding 39th 32nd 24th 18th Bronze Gold 2013 Nové Město 53rd 19th 19th 16th Gold Gold 2015 Kontiolahti 46th — — — 4th — 2016 Oslo Holmenkollen — 34th 24th — Gold — 2019 Östersund 29th 62nd — — Gold — — *During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program. **The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.
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