Dorothea Wierer (, ; born 3 April 1990) is an Italian former biathlete. Together with Karin Oberhofer, Dominik Windisch and Lukas Hofer she won a bronze medal in the Mixed relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea she won again the bronze medal in the Mixed relay with Lisa Vittozzi, Lukas Hofer and Dominik Windisch. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, she won her first individual medal in the Sprint. She is the 2019 Mass Start World Champion and the 2020 Pursuit and Individual World Champion.
Career Wierer won her first Biathlon World Championships medal, placing third in the Women's relay together with Nicole Gontier, Michela Ponza and Karin Oberhofer at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě, which was the first ever medal for Italian women at the Biathlon World Championships. At the 2019 Championships in Östersund, she won the gold medal in the 12.5 km Mass Start, also a first for Italian women in Biathlon. She has currently won 12 medals in total, including 4 Golds, 5 Silvers and 3 Bronzes.
At the start of the 2015–16 season, Wierer recorded the first win in her career in the Biathlon World Cup in Östersund and as of the end of 2021–22 season, Wierer has finished on the podium 45 times with 13 wins. She has also finished on the podium in 23 relays, including five victories. She has won the 2018–19 Overall World Cup (first Italian to do so, including men). Wierer defended the overall title in the 2019–20 Season (the first woman to do since Magdalena Forsberg in 2001/02On 21 December 2021, Tora Berger was jointly awarded the 2013-14 Biathlon World Cup after the disqualification of Olga Zaitseva, so Berger also won 2 Overall in a row after her win in 2012-13. However, it wasn't the case in March 2020. ) and has also won 4 disciplines cup, the 2015–16 Individual World Cup, the 2018–19 Pursuit World Cup, the 2019–20 Mass Start World Cup and the 2020-21 Individual World Cup.
In February 2019, Wierer became the third biathlete (after French Martin Fourcade and Marie Dorin Habert) to achieve a victory in everyThis means every discipline at the World Cup / World Championships level as of the 2018–19 season; this includes Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, Mass Start, Women's Relay, Mixed Relay, and Single Mixed Relay. Later at the 2019 World Championships, Johannes Thingnes Bø achieved the same feature, while Sturla Holm Lægreid did that in March 2022. Ole Einar Bjørndalen has also won in 7 different disciplines at the World Cup / World Championships level (Individual, Sprint, Pursuit, Mass Start, Men's Relay, Mixed Relay, and the Team event which has not been raced since 1998); however, he never competed in a Single Mixed Relay during the later stages of his career. Halvard Hanevold also won in the same disciplines and retired before the introduction of Single Mixed Relay in 2015. biathlon discipline.
Record Olympic Games 4 Medals (1 Silver, 3 Bronze)
Wierer has won four medals from Olympic Games. In Sochi, she won a bronze medal in the mixed relay. In Pyeongchang, she won another bronze medal in the same discipline, mixed relay. In Beijing she won her first individual medal in Sprint. At the 2026 Winter Olympics, she won a silver medal in the mixed relay event. EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass startRelayMixed relay 2014 Sochi DNS 6th 17th 26th 6th Bronze 2018 Pyeongchang 7th 18th 15th 6th 9th Bronze 2022 Beijing 18th Bronze 6th 22nd 5th 9th 2026 Milano Cortina 5th 44th 9th 5th 11th Silver *The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.
World Championships 12 Medals (4 Gold, 5 Silver, 3 Bronze) EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass startRelayMixed relaySingle mixed relay 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk – 28th 9th 21st 4th – rowspan="6" 2012 Ruhpolding 41st 61st – – 12th – 2013 Nové Město 58th 21st 30th – Bronze 4th 2015 Kontiolahti 4th 20th 9th 27th Bronze 7th 2016 Oslo 8th 5th Silver 20th 7th 8th 2017 Hochfilzen 16th 21st 10th 8th 5th 4th 2019 Östersund 8th 10th 20thGold – Bronze Silver 2020 Antholz-AnterselvaGold 7thGold Silver 10th Silver 9th 2021 Pokljuka 9th 20th 4th 8th 9th 6th 5th 2023 Oberhof 15th 19th 11th 14th Gold Silver – 2024 Nové Město 14th 10th 21st 20th 11th 10th – 2025 Lenzerheide - 21st DNS - 7th 7th 7th *The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.
Junior/Youth World Championships EventAge ClassIndividualSprintPursuitRelay 2007 Martell Youth (U19) 10th 16th 14th — 2008 Ruhpolding Youth (U19)Gold 8th 21st Bronze 2009 Canmore Youth (U19) 7th 4thGold Bronze 2010 Torsby Junior (U21) 6th 13th 11th — 2011 Nové Město Junior (U21)GoldGoldGoldSilver
World Cup Season Age Overall Sprint Pursuit Individual Mass start Races Points Position Races Points Position Races Points Position Races Points Position Races Points Position2008/09 18 2/26 0 N/A 2/10 0 N/A 0/7 – – 0/4 – – 0/5 – –2010/11 20 9/26 86 54th 5/10 30 58th 3/7 36 46th 0/4 – – 1/5 20 40th2011/12 21 16/26 5 91st 9/10 5 78th 4/8 – – 3/3 – – 0/5 — —2012/13 22 17/26 171 38th 9/10 63 40th 5/8 87 29th 3/3 21 39th 0/5 — —2013/14 23 21/22 399 16th 9/9 143 19th 7/8 141 17th 2/2 60 7th 3/3 55 20th2014/15 24 22/25 745 7th 9/10 333 4th 6/7 214 5th 2/3 70 14th 5/5 128 13th2015/16 25 25/25 944 3rd 9/9 327 3rd 8/8 348 2nd 3/3 154 1st 5/5 148 8th2016/17 26 26/26 719 5th 9/9 246 8th 9/9 286 5th 3/3 45 23rd 5/5 156 5th2017/18 27 22/22 681 5th 8/8 228 8th 7/7 264 4th 2/2 60 6th 5/5 131 11th2018/19 28 25/25 904 1st 9/9 330 2nd 8/8 327 1st 3/3 89 7th 5/5 194 2nd2019/20 29 21/21 793 1st 8/8 305 2nd 5/5 186 2nd 3/3 114 2nd 5/5 223 1st2020/21 30 26/26 821 5th 10/10 282 4th 8/8 220 7th 3/3 103 1st 5/5 144 8th2021/22 31 21/22 577 9th 9/9 196 13th 6/7 185 9th 2/2 44 11th 4/4 152 3rd2022/23 32 20/20 911 2nd 7/7 310 2nd 6/6 285 3rd 3/3 143 5th 4/4 169 4th2023/24 33 7/21 150 40th 3/7 48 43rd 2/7 51 39th 2/3 51 18th 0/4 / /2024/25 34 19/21 446 13th 7/7 206 9th 6/6 138 13th 2/3 0 / 4/5 106 15th2025/26 35 12/21 456 13th 4/7 168 10th 4/7 133 15th 2/3 106 5th 2/4 49 27th Updated as of 22 March 2026, all the point totals count the dropped results, if there are any.
Overall record ResultIndividualSprintPursuitMass startRelayMixedrelaySinglemixedrelayTotalIndividual eventsTeam eventsAll events 1st place 7 4 2 4 3 3 1 17 7 24 2nd place 0 6 10 2 4 9 1 18 14 32 3rd place 0 8 8 2 8 6 0 18 14 32 Podiums 7 18 20 8 15 18 2 53 35 88 Top 10 19 55 49 27 60 30 6 150 96 246 35 113 94 59 70 30 6 301 106 407 8 19 5 0 0 0 0 32 0 32 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starts 43 133 99 59 70 30 6 334 106 440 * Results in IBU World Cup races, Olympics and World Championships. ** Updated as of 24 Feb 2025
Individual podiums 17 victories (7 Individuals, 4 Sprints, 2 Pursuits, 4 Mass starts) 53 podiums (7 Individuals, 18 Sprints, 20 Pursuits, 8 Mass starts)
No. Season Date Location Level Race Place 1 2013–14 8 March 2014 Pokljuka World Cup Pursuit 3rd 2 2014–15 7 December 2014 Östersund World Cup Pursuit 3rd 3 18 December 2014 Pokljuka World Cup Sprint 2nd 4 9 January 2015 Oberhof World Cup Sprint 2nd 5 2015–16 3 December 2015 Östersund World Cup Individual 1st 6 6 December 2015 Östersund World CupPursuit 2nd 7 9 January 2016 Ruhpolding World CupPursuit 3rd 8 14 January 2016 Ruhpolding World CupIndividual 1st 9 21 January 2016 Antholz-Anterselva World CupSprint 2nd 10 23 January 2016 Antholz-Anterselva World CupPursuit 3rd 11 5 February 2016 Canmore World CupSprint 3rd 12 6 February 2016 Canmore World CupMass start 1st 13 6 March 2016 Oslo World Championships Pursuit 2nd 14 19 March 2016 Khanty-Mansiysk World CupPursuit 3rd 15 2016–17 4 December 2016 Östersund World Cup Pursuit 3rd 16 17 December 2016 Nové Město na Moravě World CupPursuit 2nd 17 18 December 2016 Nové Město na Moravě World Cup Mass start 3rd 18 2017–18 8 December 2017 Hochfilzen World CupSprint 3rd 19 6 January 2018 Oberhof World CupPursuit 2nd 20 11 January 2018 Ruhpolding World CupIndividual 1st 21 20 January 2018 Antholz-Anterselva World CupPursuit 2nd 22 2018–19 8 December 2018 Pokljuka World CupSprint 2nd 23 9 December 2018 Pokljuka World Cup Pursuit 2nd 24 13 December 2018 Hochfilzen World CupSprint 1st 25 15 December 2018 Hochfilzen World Cup Pursuit 3rd 26 22 December 2018 Nové Město na Moravě World Cup Pursuit 2nd 27 26 January 2019 Antholz-Anterselva World Cup Pursuit 1st 28 17 March 2019 Östersund World ChampionshipsMass start 1st 29 2019–20 1 December 2019 Östersund World CupSprint 1st 30 13 December 2019 Hochfilzen World CupSprint 1st 31 22 December 2019 Annecy-Le Grand-Bornand World CupMass start 2nd 32 15 January 2020 Ruhpolding World CupSprint 3rd 33 16 February 2020 Antholz-Anterselva World ChampionshipsPursuit 1st 34 18 February 2020 Antholz-Anterselva World ChampionshipsIndividual 1st 35 23 February 2020 Antholz-Anterselva World ChampionshipsMass start 2nd 36 2020–21 28 November 2020 Kontiolahti World Cup Individual 1st 37 20 December 2020 Hochfilzen World CupMass start 3rd 38 14 January 2021 Oberhof World CupSprint 2nd 39 13 March 2021 Nové Město na Moravě World CupSprint 3rd 40 19 March 2021 Östersund World CupSprint 2nd 41 2021–22 12 January 2022 Ruhpolding World CupSprint 3rd 42 23 January 2022 Antholz-Anterselva World CupMass Start 1st 43 11 February 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games Sprint 3rd 44 6 March 2022 Kontiolahti World CupPursuit 2nd 45 2022–23 4 December 2022 Kontiolahti World CupPursuit 2nd 46 5 January 2023 Pokljuka World Cup Sprint 3rd 47 7 January 2023 Pokljuka World Cup Pursuit 2nd 48 19 January 2023 Antholz-Anterselva World Cup Sprint 1st 49 9 March 2023 Östersund World Cup Individual 1st 50 12 March 2023 Östersund World Cup Mass Start 1st 51 2025–26 2 December 2025 Östersund World Cup Individual 1st 52 18 December 2025 Annecy-Le Grand-Bornand World CupSprint 3rd 53 20 December 2025 Annecy-Le Grand-Bornand World CupPursuit 3rd *Results are from IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games. *Bolded lines are WCH or WOG races
Relay podiums 7 victories (3 Women relays, 3 Mixed relays, 1 Single mixed relay) 35 podiums (15 Women relays, 18 Mixed relays, 2 Single mixed relays)