Karin Oberhofer

Karin Oberhofer ( born November 3, 1985 in Brixen, South Tyrol) is an Italian biathlete.

The living in Feldthurns South Tyrolean Karin Oberhofer of CS Esercito ( sports promotion group of the army ) took Kontiolahti 2005 and 2006 in Presque Isle at junior world championships. In 2006, she achieved good places in the individual ( 13 ), in the sprint ( 14 ) and with the season ( 5 ). Your career in the power range, she joined a European Cup Sprint in Ridnaun ( 33 ). In the individual it has so far never been better to be in tenth in the sprint of Forni Avoltri in 2007. Your first appearances at the highest level they had at the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz. After a 75th place in the individual could be 47th in the sprint and qualify as a surprise to the prosecution ( 46 ). For the finale of the World Cup, she ran the anchor leg in the Italian season. As the third of the season, Roberta Fiandino, switched to it, the squadron was still in medal nearby. Despite a good performance upper Hofer could not hold against the strong final runners the top nations that level. Nevertheless, the Italian season at the end reached a good Make space. The major event of the year 2008, the Biathlon European Championships in Nove Mesto na Moravě in which the Italian 33 of the Single Page, 44 of the sprint and 41 of the persecution. The first World Cup points won Karin Oberhofer in the 2009/2010 season with a sprint race in Pokljuka as they finished 29th place. In a sprint in Antholz she could improve her best result yet in the same season ranked 18th. She participated in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Her best result was the 47th place in the sprint, in pursuit, she was 53 with the season it was eleventh.

2011 Oberhofer was used in three international championships. First, at the Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Ridnaun where they anchor leg surprisingly won the silver medal in the relay race with Dorothea Wierer, Roberta Fiandino and Michela Andreola. In the sprint race in fourth place when she missed another medal win just barely. Eleventh in the pursuit and tenth place in the individual completed a good championship. The Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk need to rank 15 in the individual not only the single best result at a World Cup, but also the best result in the World Cup. With four results in the points Oberhofer was like in the pre-season 56 the overall World Cup. At the World Cup sprint it was 49 with Michela Ponza, Katja Haller and Dorothea Wierer they also missed the relay race in fourth place when only one place a medal. Later in the year she competed at the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Martell and was 13 of sprints and with Alexia Runggaldier, Dominik Windisch and Rudy Zini sixth in the mixed relay race. They celebrated their biggest success in the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město. There she won the anchor leg with the Italian season at the side of Wierer, Gontier and Ponza surprising bronze and thus the first medal for an Italian women's relay at the biathlon World Cup.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).

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