Synnøve Solemdal

Synnøve Solemdal (born 15 May 1989) is a Norwegian biathlete.

Synnøve Solemdal lives in Lillehammer and starts for Tingvoll IL. Biathlon operates since 2002, since 2008 it belongs to the Norwegian national team. She ran her first Junior World Championships 2008 in Ruhpolding. In the three individual races she ran in the top 20, a 12th place in the Sprint was the best result. With the relay, which also included the sisters Ada and Elise Ringen, she won the silver medal behind the German team. Apart from an eleventh place in the Norwegian sprint in Canmore reached at the Junior World Championships the following year, only single-digit results, including a fifth place in the sprint. Even more successful was Solemdal at the Junior European Championships in Ufa Again she missed than 17 of the sprint the top ten, but it reached in the next three races. In individual, she won the silver medal behind Olga Wiluchina from Russia. Next international championship in the Junior Women were the Junior Biathlon World Championships 2010 in Torsby, where she and after a 22nd place in the individual sprint behind Maren Hammerschmidt and Sophie Boilley and in a pursuit Boilley and Anastasia Kalina respectively the bronze medals and Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen Marie Hov in the relay race was won silver. There followed the Biathlon European Championships 2010 in Otepaeae where Solemdal fifth in the individual was in the sprint behind Tiril Eckhoff and Kalina and bronze in the pursuit won the gold medal.

In the women Solemdal replaces since 2008. Your first race she contested at the beginning of the 2008/09 season in Idre within the IBU Cups. In her first sprint it was only 57, but then went in pursuit race to fifth place before. According to their good results at the Junior World and European Championships Solemdal could compete in Biathlon World Cup in Trondheim for the first time. At their first sprint they missed the Pursuit than 61 to only one place. Things went better a week later at the season final in Khanty-Mansiysk. As 34 of the sprint she qualified not only for the tracker, but also won her first World Cup points. The first international championship for the women were the Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk. In individual she placed 63rd, was 43 in the sprint and do not finished as runner overtook her pursuit race. In the relay, it was used as the first leg, reaching with Ann Kristin Flatland, Fanny Horn and Tora Berger fifth place. After she was able to improve since the 2008/ 09 season ever in the World Cup and establish, she made her breakthrough in the 2011/12 season, when they reached included two top ten finishes in the first third of the season. In pursuit race at the World Cup in Hochfilzen 2012 Synnøve Solemdal celebrated her first victory in a World Cup race. In the previous sprint they had ranked No. 4.

After the 2014 Winter Olympics was noted in Solemdal mononucleosis, it was bound to bring the World Cup 2013/2014 season prematurely.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

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