Emil Hegle Svendsen
Emil Hegle Svendsen (born 12 July 1985 in Trondheim ) is a Norwegian biathlete and Olympic champion in biathlon.
Career
He won a total of four junior world championship titles (2004 in Haute -Maurienne in the pursuit and the relay race and in 2005 in Kontiolahti in single race and the sprint ).
In the season 2005/ 06 he first participated in World Cup races and was able to achieve as best placement three fifth places, two each in the sprint over 10 km in Brezno - Osrblie and Ruhpolding and a in the 15 -km mass start races at Holmenkollen in Oslo. His first World Cup season, in which he participated in twelve of the 26 discharged individual competitions, Svendsen graduated as 22 the overall World Cup standings. At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006, he was nominated for the 15 -km mass start race in San Sicario, which he finished in sixth surprising.
In the season 2006/ 07 he achieved his first podium with second place in the mass start in Ruhpolding and two third ranks in the sprints of Ruhpolding and Pokljuka.
At the 2007 World Championships in Antholz, he won bronze in the mixed relay his first medal at the senior citizens. On 13 December 2007 Svendsen succeeded in the 20 -km individual race of Pokljuka his first victory in a World Cup race. At the 2008 World Championships in Östersund, Sweden, he became world champion in the individual competition and the mass start and also won the Norwegian relay team silver medal. In the overall World Cup his previous best results were two third places he Einar Bjørndalen and the Russian Dmitri Yaroshenko and 2008/ 09 finished second in the 2007/ 08 season behind compatriot Ole Bjørn behind Dalen and Poland Tomasz Sikora. In 2010 Svendsen celebrated his first overall World Cup victory of his young career so far.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, he won behind the Frenchman Vincent Jay the silver medal in the sprint over 10 km. During the subsequent pursuit race over 12.5 kilometers, he finished eighth. The greatest success of his career celebrated Emil Hegle Svendsen, when he won the gold medal in singles over 20 km before Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Syarhey Nowikau who shared second place.
2012 was Emil Hegle Svendsen together with Magdalena Neuner the Holmenkollen medal.
Others
Emil Svendsen is not related to the roughly the same Norwegian biathlete Julie Bonnevie - Svendsen.
Achievements
Olympic Winter Games
- Turin 2006: 6th single
- Vancouver 2010: 1 Single, 1st Squadron, 2nd sprint, 8th Pursuit, Mass Start 13
- Sochi 2014: first mass start, first mixed relay, Season 4, 7 persecution, 7 single, 9 Sprint
World Championships
- Antholz 2007: 3 Mixed Relay, 5th persecution, 7 Sprint
- Östersund 2008: first mass start, first single, Season 2, 8 Mixed Relay, 12 Sprint, 12 tracking
- Pyeongchang 2009: 1st Season
- Mixed Relay World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk 2010: 2 Mixed Relay
- Khanty-Mansiysk 2011: first mass start, 1st Squadron, 2nd Pursuit, 4 Single, 5 Sprint
- Ruhpolding 2012: 1st Squadron, 1st Mixed Relay, 2nd Sprint, fifth persecution, 8 single, 18 mass start
- Nove Mesto 2013: 1st Sprint, 1st Pursuit, 1st Squadron, 1st Mixed Relay, 3rd Mass Start
Overall World Cup
Biathlon World Cup statistics
- World Cup victories: 35 (as of: January 12, 2014)
Note: In the sport of biathlon races belong in the Olympics from 1998 to 2010 (OS ) and all World Championships ( World Cup ) since 1994 for the World Cup. It lists only individual victories, no seasons.
- World Cup rankings
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).