Tora Berger

Career

Berger won the silver medal behind the Russian season and ahead of France at the 2nd Mixed Relay World Championships in 2006 with the Norwegian season. At the 2007 World Championships in Antholz they could achieve each Bronze in the same competition and the women's relay. In the first pursuit race of the World Cup season 2007/2008 she won a World Cup race for the first time in Kontiolahti.

At the 2008 World Championships in Östersund, Sweden Berger finished in the first three individual races ( sprint, pursuit, individual ) three times the fourth, missed some barely a medal. In the last individual race, the mass start, it was the whole race in a promising position. With the German Magdalena Neuner, the Russian Ekaterina Jurjewa and the Ukrainian Vita Semerenko Berger went almost immediately after the last shooting at the final round. By the end, they gave themselves for the win a duel with Magdalena Neuner, the Berger only narrowly lost at the end. The silver medal in the mass start race was the first individual medal ever for the Norwegian.

At the 2009 World Championships in South Korean Pyeongchang she brought by a third behind Kati Wilhelm and Teja Gregorin bronze in the individual race over 15 km. Your greatest sporting success came Tora Berger by Olympic gold medal in the individual competition of Vancouver 2010. Concluding the season Berger won the title in the sprint at the Norwegian Championships. Further success in their careers reach Tora Berger at the Biathlon World Championships 2012 in Ruhpolding with the world titles in singles and mass start, their first two World Cup titles in individual races. She also won gold with the mixed relay and finished with the Norwegian Women's Season 3 Rank order Tora Berger won at the Biathlon World Championships 2012 four medals and became the most successful athlete of the championships. Then she was first elected to Norway's Sportswoman of the Year.

As a third in the World Cup last year 's Tora Berger managed a perfect start to the 2012/2013 season. In Östersund, Sweden, she won the individual race, the sprint and pursuit. Later in the season she won more races and was regularly represented on the podium. Basis for their good results were reliable and above all very fast shooting bouts with whom she made the anchor leg for two victories of the Norwegian women's relay. Although Berger is not one of the fastest runners in the field, among other things due to their running style, she kept thanks to their consistently good performances to the Biathlon World Championships 2013, the lead in the overall World Cup. In the first race of the World Championships, the mixed relay, put it as the first runner with a clean shooting the basis for the common winning the gold medal with Synnøve Solemdal, Tarjei Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen. After the second place in the sprint, she won the pursuit, in the individual event and together with Hilde fens, Ann Kristin Flatland and Synnøve Solemdal the women's relay, before they even silver in the mass start competition brought the end of the world championships. With a medal in every race (4x gold, 2x silver ) they thus ended as the best athlete an almost perfect World Cup. On the way home World Cup in Oslo at Holmenkollen, she won all the competitions and thus secured prematurely both winning the overall World Cup and the World Cup pursuit.

At the Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi Berger won three medals: gold with the mixed relay, silver in the pursuit and bronze in the women's relay. In the overall World Cup Berger finished with only four points behind second place behind Kaisa Mäkäräinen.

After the 2013/2014 season Tora Berger ended her career.

Private

Tora Berger is the sister of biathletes and cross-country world champion Lars Berger. In June 2010, she married her long-time friend.

Statistics

World Cup wins

Placements in the Biathlon World Cup

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