Nathalie Santer-Bjørndalen

Nathalie Santer Bjørndalen ( born March 28, 1972 in San Candido, born Nathalie Santer ) is a former Italian biathlete. She owns the Belgian and Italian citizenship.

Life and career

Your best time in biathlon Santer had at the beginning of the 1990s. In the 1992/93 season you get into the individual races of Östersund and Lillehammer two second places at the end of the season she won the overall World Cup fourth place. Even more successful was the following season for Santer. This season, she has succeeded in individual and sprint from Bad Gastein their first two World Cup victories in individual she had a lead of over two minutes on the second place. Behind the White Russian Svetlana Santer Paramygina occupied at the end of season 1993 /94 Biathlon World Cup in the standings to second place, which meant the best overall World Cup ranking of her career.

In the following years, however, Santer could not build on these successes. Although she succeeded in the 1995/96 season with sixth place in the World Cup, the third top - 10 ranking of her career, at the same time but also their last. Your third and last World Cup victory could Santer in the 1999/00 season in the sprint in Ruhpolding celebrate where they only gossamer prevailed before the Germans Katrin Apel.

From the season 2006/ 07 she participated for the Belgian Biathlon Association at the World Cup and prepared as their last major competitions, the World Championships in February 2007 in Antholz ago. This step was necessary because she could no longer qualify for the Italian Biathlon World Cup team, but they once again wanted to participate in the World Championships in South Tyrol their homeland.

Nathalie Santer married on 27 May 2006 her longtime partner, the Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen. Since then she said Nathalie Santer Bjørndalen. The marriage was abolished in October 2012 by mutual agreement. Also Santer's sisters Saskia ( Biathlon ) and Stephanie ( alpine) are sporting success. Only the violation of Stephanie prevented first time in 2006 attended three sisters at the same Olympics.

Santer Bjørndalen finished the World Cup Final in Oslo in the sprint race on March 13, 2008 her career.

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