Dorothea Wierer

Dorothea Wierer ( born April 3, 1990 in Brunico, South Tyrol) is an Italian biathlete.

Life

Dorothea Wierer lives in Niederrasen and is coached by Alex Inderst and their technology coach Manuel Tovagliari. The third of five children attended the Sports High School in times and placed there in 2009 from a high school. Since then she has worked in the Finance Guard. With the sport of biathlon she began at the age of ten years, in 2006 they moved to the Italian national team on. Since 2010 she is a member of the B- team. Since the 2007/ 08 Wierer first started in Italiencup, later in the European Cup for Juniors. In the following season, also races of the Alpine Cup were added. In Martell she took in 2007 at their first junior world championships. With a tenth place in individual, 16th place in the sprint and 14 in the pursuit and a tenth place in the relay Wierer achieved good results. Even better, the results were at the Junior World Championships 2008 in Ruhpolding, where the Italian won the singles title, Eighth of the sprint and pursuit was 21. With Alexia Runggaldier and Monika Messner she also won the bronze medal behind the representations from Germany and Norway. At the Junior Championship 2008 in Nové Město na Moravě the ranks of 17 26 came in the individual, sprint and five in the relay added. In the further course of the year Wierer participated in the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2008 Junior in Haute Maurienne, where she missed a fifth place in the sprint as well as fourth place in the pursuit race and with the season nearly medals. In Canmore Wierer met again successful at the Junior World Championships and won the title in the tracking after they have missed out on fourth place in the sprint just a medal. With Nicole Gontier and Runggaldier they also again won the bronze medal in the relay race. In individual they came in at number seven. In Torsby the Italian In 2010, for the fourth time at a Junior World Championships in part, won no medals this time, yet again reached good results. In individual they came to sixth place, was 13th in the sprint and pursuit of the Eleventh.

For the 2008/09 season Wierer debut at the Women in the power range. Your first race she contested here in Obertilliach IBU Cup and won as a Single Page 34 and 21 of a sprint once first points. This was followed in Oberhof 2009, the first race in the Biathlon World Cup on. With a ranking of 69 in the sprint she reached her first race in a long time best single result, the stock had to first win of World Cup points. In the rest of the season it could take up to an eleventh place improve their best performance in the IBU Cup in a pursuit race in Martell. In Hochfilzen Wierer was used early in the season 2010/11 again in the World Cup. With Michela Ponza, Katja Haller and Karin Oberhofer, it reached ninth place in their first season of racing. Strange it was the change from Oberhofer on Wierer because Wierer was several seconds too late when changing Oberhofer and as long as had to wait for her teammates. However, affect the overall result was not to the Wierer with only two spare rounds contributed a good performance. In Ruhpolding she won the sprint for the first time as 24 points in a World Cup race. Very successful Dorothea Wierer was at the Biathlon Junior World Championships in 2011 in the Czech Ski Resort Nové Město na Moravě. In the individual, in the sprint and pursuit it was Junior World Champion and won the silver medal in the relay. In the Biathlon World Championships in 2011 Wierer occupied in the pursuit race in ninth place and reached her first top-10 result. They celebrated their biggest success in the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město. There she became the first leg of the Italian season at the side of Gontier, Ponza and Oberhofer surprising bronze and thus the first medal for an Italian women's relay at the biathlon World Cup. In the sprint she was 50th, 59th in the Pursuit

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