Tarjei Bø

Tarjei Bø
Association	Norway
birthday	29th July 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Stryn , Norway
size	186 cm
Weight	77 kg
Career
job	Biathlete
society	Markane IL
Trainer	Egil Kristiansen Siegfried Mazet
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2006
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	4 (3 individual wins)
Debut in the World Cup	2009
World Cup victories	33 (9 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 10 × 2 × 8 × EM medals 3 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 3 × 2 × JEM medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver Season silver 2018 Pyeongchang Season  Biathlon world championships gold 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk singles gold 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk Season gold 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay bronze 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk sprint bronze 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk persecution gold 2012 Ruhpolding Season gold 2013 Nové Město Mixed relay gold 2013 Nové Město Season gold 2013 Nové Město Mass start silver 2015 Kontiolahti Season bronze 2015 Kontiolahti Mixed relay bronze 2015 Kontiolahti sprint bronze 2015 Kontiolahti persecution bronze 2015 Kontiolahti Mass start gold 2016 Oslo Season bronze 2016 Oslo Mixed relay bronze 2019 Östersund singles gold 2019 Östersund Season gold 2020 Antholz Mixed relay silver 2020 Antholz Season  European biathlon championships gold 2009 Ufa Season gold 2019 Minsk-Raubitschy sprint gold 2019 Minsk-Raubitschy persecution silver 2019 Minsk-Raubitschy singles  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2006 Presque Isle singles silver 2006 Presque Isle persecution silver 2007 Martell persecution silver 2007 Martell Season bronze 2009 Canmore sprint bronze 2009 Canmore persecution  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2009 Ufa singles gold 2009 Ufa sprint gold 2009 Ufa persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1. ( 2010/11 )
Individual World Cup	2. (2010/11)
Sprint World Cup	1. (2010/11)
Pursuit World Cup	1. (2010/11)
Mass start world cup	3rd (2010/11)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 1 0 1 sprint 5 6th 6th persecution 1 4th 6th Mass start 2 1 6th Season 25th 10 6th
last change: March 18, 2020

Tarjei Bø (born July 29, 1988 in Stryn ) is a Norwegian biathlete . He is both an Olympic champion and a multiple world champion. In the 2010/11 season he rose to the top of the world as the youngest overall World Cup winner.

Career

Tarjei Bø from Stryn belongs to Markane IL , where he is trained by Kjetil Sæter, and is one of the most successful young Norwegian biathletes in recent years. He has lived and trained in Lillehammer for several years . He is the older brother of Johannes Thingnes Bø, who is active in the same sport .

First successes

At his first Junior World Championship in Presque Isle in 2006 , he won the singles title, finished second in the pursuit and narrowly missed a medal in sprint and relay races in fourth. In 2007 Bø won two more medals at the Junior World Championships in Martell . In the individual as fourth and in the sprint as fifth, he narrowly missed the medals, in the pursuit race he was second behind the German Florian Graf , as well as with Espen Årvaag and Magnus L'Abeé-Lund in the relay race behind the Austrians. Even at a young age, Bø had to deal with a number of setbacks. After the 2006/2007 season he fell ill and could hardly train for a few months, so that he was not nominated for the 2008 Junior World Championships. So the fifth place at the Norwegian Championships in the seniors was all the more surprising, even though he had dislocated his right arm beforehand. In spring 2008, Bø had the almonds removed. However, protracted bleeding occurred which could not be finally stopped until autumn.

After a year without a Junior World Championship, the young Norwegian competed in Canmore for the third time in 2009 . In the individual with place 23 and in the relay with the sixth place he did not achieve good results. But in the sprint and in the pursuit, Bø was able to win the bronze medals. The 2009 European Biathlon Championships in Ufa were even more successful . In individual, sprint and pursuit, he competed in the junior competitions, which he won all three. For the relay race he was appointed to the Norwegian men's team. He won the title with Dag Erik Kokkin , Henrik L'Abée-Lund and Rune Brattsveen . As a reward for his good performance, Bø was appointed to the season finale of the Biathlon World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk . He started in the sprint and missed the pursuit race by one place in 61st place. One week after his first World Cup start, Tarjei Bø once again proved his strong form. He became Norwegian champion in the individual race and relegated the overall World Cup third in 2008 and 2009 , Emil Hegle Svendsen , to second place. In the pursuit race he was runner-up and was able to leave Ole Einar Bjørndalen and other world-class biathletes behind.

Establishment and overall victory in the World Cup (season 2009/10 and 2010/11)

In Pokljuka in 2009 Bø won World Cup points for the first time as 37th in an individual. In the following sprint, he achieved his first top ten placement with fourth place and only missed the podium by 0.3 seconds. At the first World Cup race in 2010, he won the Norwegian relay for the first time in the World Cup. After his early successes in the 2009/10 season, Bø was decided early on as a participant in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . In doing so, he prevailed against the Norwegian biathlon legend Frode Andresen . At the games, Bø ran the singles in which he was 21st. He also formed the Norwegian relay team with Halvard Hanevold , Emil Hegle Svendsen and Ole Einar Bjørndalen, which won the Olympic title well ahead of the Austrians.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season , Bø was able to prove his talent again with two fourth and one fifth places in Östersund and a week later he celebrated his first World Cup victory in the sprint in Hochfilzen . In the pursuit race that followed, Bø also won. After being ailing after Christmas, he made an impressive return to the World Cup in Oberhof. He won the sprint and the mass start and in the meantime took the lead in the overall World Cup. At the start of the 2011 biathlon world championships , he won the Norwegian mixed relay. He took over as the last runner in second place, brought his team into the lead after the first shooting and extended the lead to 22 seconds over the German Michael Greis up to the finish . In the sprint race, as in the pursuit race based on it, he was able to achieve third place. The young Norwegian won his first individual gold medal in the individual race. Bø also won the relay with his teammates Bjørndalen, Os and Svendsen and was the most successful participant in this World Cup. In the end, Bø won the overall World Cup, making it the youngest male overall World Cup winner in biathlon history. Bø was named Newcomer of the Year on January 8, 2011 at the Norwegian Sports Gala .

Illness and return to the top of the world (2011/12 and 2012/13 season)

In the following World Cup season, Bø was again able to take over the yellow jersey of the overall World Cup leader after his victory in Hochfilzen, but had to give it up again due to longer periods of illness and subsequent mediocre results. The young Norwegian was also unable to repeat his successes from the previous season at the 2012 Biathlon World Championships . However, he won his fourth world title with the Norwegian season.

In the 2012/13 season , Bø was only able to participate in the World Cup from January after long health problems. So he started the season in Oberhof and was 25th in the sprint and 22nd in the subsequent pursuit. With seventh place in the Ruhpolding sprint race, Bø finally qualified for the 2013 Biathlon World Championships in Nové Město . Bø then skipped the World Cup in Antholz in order to be able to prepare for the World Championships. At the World Cup, Bø became world champion again in the first competition, the mixed relay, together with Tora Berger , Synnøve Solemdal and his friend Svendsen. He also won his next World Championship title in the men's relay with Bjørndalen, L'Abée-Lund, Bø and Svendsen. In the last race of the World Championship, the mass start, Tarjei Bø finally made it back to the top of the world. Bø won his third gold medal at this World Cup with a faultless shooting and became the third most successful athlete behind his compatriots Berger and Svendsen. At the subsequent World Cup in Oslo, Bø was once again able to underline his great form. So he won the sprint race on Holmenkollen and finished second in the subsequent pursuer. He finished the season in 15th place in the overall World Cup.

Olympic defeat in Sochi (2013/14 season)

The 2013/14 World Cup season did not go as planned either. After qualifying for the Olympic Games early in the season , he again missed a few World Cup races due to illness. Even at the Olympics, this year's highlight of the season, he did not achieve a good result. A 39th place in the sprint was followed by a 27th place in the subsequent pursuit. A 26th place in the individual race over 20 km should be his best individual result of these games. Since it was not used in the mixed relay, which was held for the first time at these games, and won gold in the line-up of Berger, Tiril Eckhoff , Svendsen and Bjørndalen, and also a repeat of the Olympic victory in the 2010 season due to a mistake in the last shooting Svendsen failed, he ended this season without a medal at major events. It was his first season since 2009/2010, which he ended without precious metal at the season highlight. In the overall World Cup, he finished 29th.

Medal collector in Kontiolahti (season 2014/15)

At the beginning of the 2014/15 World Cup season , it looked like last season would be repeated. After rather average results, but again early qualification for this year's World Championships in Kontiolahti, Finland, Bø missed all World Cup races in Oberhof and Ruhpolding due to illness. He also had to cancel the races in front of his home crowd on Holmenkollen due to another illness. He was not considered a favorite at the following World Championships . In the very first race of this World Cup, the mixed relay, he won the bronze medal together with his brother Johannes as well as Fanny Horn and Tiril Eckhoff. In the 10 km sprint, in which Johannes became world champion, Tarjei once again made it onto the podium in third place. It was the first time ever that a pair of brothers stood on the winners' podium at biathlon world championships. While Johannes fell back from the medal ranks hopelessly due to too many shooting errors in the following pursuit, Tarjei fought for the third bronze medal in the third race of the World Cup. After an average 25th place in the individual race, Bø won silver behind Germany with the Norwegian men's relay together with Ole Einar Bjørndalen, his brother Johannes and Emil Hegle Svendsen. In the mass start, Bø took up the title defending champion and again fought for the fourth bronze medal of this world championship after a shooting error. So Bø won a medal in five out of six races, nobody won more precious metal at this World Championship.

Home World Championships (2015/16 season)

The following season began for the two Bø brothers, Eckhoff and Horn Birkeland with a victory in the mixed relay competition. The highlight of this season was the World Championships in Oslo . After narrowly missing the podium with a fourth place in the pursuit race, he achieved his first podium of the season with a third place in the sprint in the following sprint in Hochfilzen. This year he did not manage to get on the podium. In the first race of 2016, he once again reached the sprint podium with a second place and also crossed the finish line third in the mass start. In the fourth sprint race of the season, he was able to achieve his third podium in this discipline with a third place. In the World Cup races in North America, Bø only took part in the competitions in Presque Isle and won the relay race together with Lars Helge Birkeland , Erlend Bjøntegaard and Johannes Thingnes Bø in the last race before the World Championships . The home world championships began with a third place in mixed relay with a medal. After that, however, things continued to be less pleasant for Bø, in individual, sprint and pursuit he did not get past a 22nd place in the sprint. In the season he managed to win with Bjørndalen, Svendsen and his brother. He then finished the mass start with a sixth place, the best result at these world championships. He was also honored with the Holmenkollen Medal at the World Cup . Even at the final world station in Khanty-Mansiysk , he did not reach a podium place. After not being able to reach a place in the top ten in the previous three seasons, he finished this season as sixth in the world. This was his second best season, although without a win.

World Cup bankruptcy and illness (season 2016/17)

The 2016/17 season started badly for Bø with illnesses at the beginning of the season. For this reason he was unable to contest a World Cup race before the World Championships in Hochfilzen and qualified for them in the last races before the World Cup in the IBU Cup . But then they were again without an individual medal, but two 14th places were his worst result and, with which the World Championships went better than the previous year. In the relay race he then had to run a penalty loop after standing and Norway only finished eighth. He then took part in the last two World Cup stations and was able to achieve his second top ten place of the season with a sixth place in the sprint, after a ninth place in the World Cup pursuit.

Third Olympic Games (2017/18 season)

Bø started the 2017/18 Olympic season with a win at the start of the IBU Cup . Then he started the biathlon world cup in Oberhof. After only finishing 20th in the individual, his first victory in over four years was achieved in the sprint. After six shooting errors, he fell back to 19th place in the pursuit. After missing the podium by almost 2 seconds in the pursuit in Hochfilzen and finishing fifth, he only came close to the podium again in the new year. After a good fifth place in the sprint, he improved by two places in the pursuit and was third in Oberhof. In the last competition before the Olympic Games , the mass start in Antholz, he finished second, just behind Fourcade.

The Olympic Games in Pyeongchang were his best so far, although he could not achieve an individual medal again. He came closest to her with a fourth place in the pursuit. Together with the Norwegian relay he was able to secure his second Olympic medal with a second place. He finished in both the individual and the pursuit in 13th place. In the rest of the season he could not achieve a top ten placement up to the last race. In the final mass start he finished sixth and, like two years ago, was one of the ten best biathletes in the world with seventh place in the overall World Cup.

Individual medal and European championships (2018/19 season)

The 2018/19 season began for him initially without a podium, only at the third World Cup in Nové Město he came third in the pursuit. After the Christmas break, he was able to achieve his next sprint podium position behind his brother in Ruhpolding. After landing outside the top ten in Antholz, he skipped the competitions in North America and took part in the European championships for the first time in ten years . He started this with three penalty minutes in the individual, but was second thanks to the fastest time. In the sprint and in the pursuit, he then won the gold medal twice. The world championships took place in Östersund this year. He started this with a 13th place in the sprint, which he was able to improve by nine places in the pursuit, so that he only just missed the podium. In the following individual he was able to win an individual medal at world championships for the first time since 2015 and he also managed to win again with the Norwegian relay. He ended the season with another podium and two other top ten places in Oslo. As in 2016, he was again sixth overall. His brother Johannes Thingnes Bø managed to win the overall World Cup. After Tarjei Bø won it in 2011, Fourcade always won in the following years.

statistics

World Cup victories

Note: In biathlon, races at the Olympic Games from 1998 to 2010 as well as the mixed relay race 2014 (OS) and all world championships (WM) since 1994 are part of the World Cup.

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. December 10, 2010  Hochfilzen Sprint (10 km) 2. December 11, 2010  Hochfilzen Pursuit (12.5 km) 3. January 7, 2011  Oberhof Sprint (10 km) 4th January 9, 2011  Oberhof Mass start (15 km) 5. March 8, 2011  Khanty-Mansiysk ( WM ) Single (20 km) 6th December 15, 2011  Hochfilzen Sprint (10 km) 7th 17th February 2013  Nové Město ( World Cup ) Mass start (15 km) 8th. February 28, 2013  Oslo Sprint (10 km) 9. 2nd December 2017  Ostersund Sprint (10 km)

No. date place discipline 1. January 7, 2010  Oberhof Season 1 2. February 26, 2010  Vancouver-Whistler ( OS ) Season 1 3. March 12, 2010  Kontiolahti Mixed season 2 4th December 12, 2010  Hochfilzen Season 3 5. March 3, 2011  Khanty-Mansiysk ( WM ) Mixed season 4 6th March 11, 2011  Khanty-Mansiysk ( WM ) Season 3 7th December 11, 2011  Hochfilzen Season 5 8th. March 9, 2012  Ruhpolding ( WM ) Season 6 9. February 7, 2013  Nové Město ( World Cup ) Mixed season 7 10. February 16, 2013  Nové Město ( World Cup ) Season 8 11. December 7, 2013  Hochfilzen Season 9 12. January 25, 2015  Antholz Season 10 13. February 6, 2015  Nové Město na Moravě Mixed season 11 14th November 29, 2015  Ostersund Mixed season 11 15th 15th January 2016  Ruhpolding Season 10 16. February 13, 2016  Presque Isle Season 12 17th March 12, 2016  Oslo ( World Cup ) Season 10 18th January 12, 2018  Ruhpolding Season 13 19th 18th March 2018  Oslo Season 14 20th 18th January 2019  Ruhpolding Season 15 21st 16th March 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Season 15 22nd 7th December 2019  Ostersund Season 16 23. 15th December 2019  Hochfilzen Season 16 24. February 13, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) Mixed season 17 25th March 7, 2020  Nové Město na Moravě Season 18 1With Halvard Hanevold , Emil Hegle Svendsen and Ole Einar Bjørndalen . 2With Ann Kristin Flatland , Tora Berger and Halvard Hanevold. 3With Alexander Os , Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 4th With Tora Berger, Ann Kristin Flatland and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. 5With Rune Brattsveen , Lars Berger and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 6th With Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Rune Brattsveen and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 7thWith Tora Berger, Synnøve Solemdal and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 8thWith Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Henrik L'Abée-Lund and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 9With Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen , Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 10With Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Johannes Thingnes Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 11With Fanny Horn , Tiril Eckhoff and Johannes Thingnes Bø. 12With Lars Helge Birkeland , Erlend Bjøntegaard and Johannes Thingnes Bø. 13 With Lars Helge Birkeland, Emil Hegle Svendsen and Johannes Thingnes Bø. 14th With Lars Helge Birkeland, Henrik L'Abée-Lund and Johannes Thingnes Bø. 15th With Lars Helge Birkeland, Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen and Johannes Thingnes Bø. 16With Johannes Dale , Erlend Bjøntegaard and Johannes Thingnes Bø. 17th With Marte Olsbu Røiseland, Tiril Eckhoff and Johannes Thingnes Bø. 18th Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen, Johannes Dale, Johannes Thingnes Bø.

World Cup Statistics

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

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place	1	5	1	2	25th	34
2nd place		6th	4th	1	10	21st
3rd place	1	6th	6th	6th	6th	25th
Top 10	7th	39	33	25th	45	149
Scoring	24	68	60	39	46	237
Starts	24	78	61	39	46	248
As of March 18, 2020

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2010	Vancouver	21st	-	-	-	1.
2014	Sochi	26th	39.	27.	-	4th	-
2018	Pyeongchang	13.	13.	4th	8th.	2.	-

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	1.	3.	3.	4th	1.	1.
2012	Ruhpolding	18th	17th	7th	17th	1.	-
2013	Nové Město	12.	18th	17th	1.	1.	1.
2015	Kontiolahti	25th	3.	3.	3.	2.	3.
2016	Oslo	22nd	54.	31.	6th	1.	3.
2017	Hochfilzen	-	14th	9.	14th	8th.	-
2019	Ostersund	3.	13.	4th	9.	1.	-	-
2020	Antholz	6th	4th	6th	4th	2.	1.	-

Junior World Championships

Results at the Junior World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2006	Presque Isle	1.	4th	2.	4th
2007	Martell	4th	5.	2.	2.
2009	Canmore	23.	3.	3.	6th

Web links

• Tarjei Bø in the database of the IBU (English)
• Tarjei Bø in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tarjei Bø. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Hushovd tok storeslem under Idrettsgallaen (Norwegian, accessed January 9, 2011)
3. ^ Bö: No World Cup races 2012 Sport1.de, November 1, 2012, accessed on January 5, 2013
4. ↑ Mass start ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Sportschau.de, February 17, 2013, accessed on February 21, 2013 
5. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen - tildelinger on snl.no, accessed on February 1, 2020
6. ↑ Tarjei Bø sliter med mystiske plager: - Vi vet ikke hva som he was valid on nrk.no, November 10, 2016, accessed on February 1, 2020