Aita Gasparin

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Aita Gasparin biathlon
Aita Gasparin at the Swiss Ski Handover Day in Dübendorf, October 2011
Association SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 9th February 1994 (age 26)
place of birth Samedan , Switzerland
size 163 cm
Weight 53 kg
Career
job Sports instructor
in the Border Guard
society SC Bernina Pontresina
Trainer Vegard Bitnes
Admission to the
national team 		2011
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup 2012
Debut in the World Cup 2012
status active
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 60th ( 2014/15 )
Sprint World Cup 59th (2014/15)
Pursuit World Cup 63rd (2014/15)
Mass start world cup 39th (2014/15)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
Season 0 1 0
last change: December 8, 2019

Aita Gasparin (born February 9, 1994 in Samedan ) is a Swiss biathlete .

After starting out in gymnastics and cross-country skiing , she switched to biathlon in 2010. The A-team athlete has been taking part in IBU and World Cup races since the 2012/13 season . With seventh place in the pursuit of the junior women at the Biathlon European Championships 2013 , two podium places in the IBU Cup 2013/14 and top ten results in the women's relay, she recorded her greatest international successes. Her older sisters Selina and Elisa Gasparin also belong to the biathlon squad of the Swiss-Ski Association and regularly compete in the World Cup.

Career

Beginnings (2006 to 2012)

Aita Gasparin began her sporting career as an apparatus gymnast at the Getu TZ Engiadina training center and came to biathlon via cross-country skiing . From 2006 and 2009 she won two bronze and one silver medals in the K5 and K6 strength classes in the team competition of the Swiss championships in apparatus gymnastics. In addition, she has been a member of the Graubünden cross-country skiing team since 2007 and won eleven Graubünden championship medals in the following years. At the women's run as part of the Engadin Skimarathon , she took first place in the U16 age group in 2009 and 2010.
As a confirmation , she received a biathlon rifle from her two sisters . After switching to biathlon at the Engadin Nordic base , she was accepted into the candidate group of the national association in 2010. Classified as a youth, she achieved fourth place in the mass start of the juniors at her first Swiss championships in Les Rasses on March 6, 2010, behind her sister Elisa, Irene Cadurisch and Stefanie Schnydrig .

Aita Gasparin (left) with Ladina Meier-Ruge, September 2012

In February 2011 Gasparin qualified for the first time for a major international event with the European Youth Olympic Festival in Liberec . After finishing in twelfth position in the individual, immediately behind her teammate Patricia Jost , she was 26th in the sprint as the best Swiss woman and ninth in the mixed relay. At the end of March 2011 she was second in the mass start and third in the sprint at the Swiss Youth Championships . In the overall ranking of the RWS Swiss Cup, she finished third behind Patricia Jost and Ladina Meier-Ruge . After the end of the season she was promoted to the youth C-squad.

At the beginning of the following season Gasparin reached second place in the sprint in the lower-class Alpine Cup in Pokljuka in mid-December 2011 and fourth and fifth in the sprint and pursuit in Martell at the beginning of the new year . At the first highlight of the season, the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in January 2012, she achieved two top 20 placements in the sprint and in the pursuit. With the mixed relay consisting of two cross-country skiers and two biathletes, she missed the podium by 13 seconds in fourth. The youth world championships in Kontiolahti followed one month later , in which she finished between 34 and 41 in individual, sprint and pursuit. At the end of March 2012, she climbed to second place in the sprint of the Swiss Youth Championships compared to the previous year. Because of the numerous exuberant competitions that took place at the same time as the international title fights, it was only seventh in the final table of the RWS Swiss Cup. In the course of an internal structural adjustment, she remained as the youngest female member of the newly merged nine-member C-team.

IBU and World Cup debut (since 2012)

Aita Gasparin at the Swiss Championships in La Lécherette , March 2013

After successful performance tests in preparation for the 2012/2013 season, Gasparin recommended himself to participate in the IBU Cup . In her first race of the continental series in Beitostølen , Norway , she finished 39th in the individual points on November 30, 2012 and immediately reached the World Cup standard. She celebrated her World Cup debut on December 9, 2012 with the Swiss women's relay in Hochfilzen as 16th of 22 nations started. For the first time in the history of international biathlon, three sisters competed in a relay, which was completed by C-team junior Ladina Meier-Ruge. At the beginning of January 2013 she appeared again in the relay at the World Cups in Oberhof and Ruhpolding and took 15th and 17th place with her teammates, each with a different line-up. In the meantime, she ran at the IBU Cup in Ridnaun in the sprint and in the pursuit to positions 18 and 24 as well as at the German Cup in Kaltenbrunn as a guest starter in the J18 / J19 category, second behind the youth Olympic champion Franziska Preuß .
At the start of the youth world championships in Obertilliach , she was twelfth in the sprint and twelfth in the pursuit at the end of January 2013. She finished the individual race with six shooting errors in 31st place. In the final junior relay, she and Ladina Meier-Ruge and Patricia Jost missed the medal ranks by about 22 seconds after a race to catch up. Due to the good performance Gasparin was called up in the four-man women's team for the World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě .
In her first World Cup race - at the same time the first individual competition of her career in the World Cup - she crossed the finish line on her 19th birthday with two shooting errors in the sprint as the 94th of 114 athletes who had started. In the individual, after four misses, she was just eleven minutes behind the winner, Tora Berger , in 84th place. As the final runner in the women's relay, she and her teammates made a world championship premiere as 13th out of 24 classified nations. At the European Championships , which were held a week later in Bansko , she was 11th in the women's singles and then rose from 18th in the sprint to seventh in the pursuit. In March 2013, she won the 14th women's run and 45th Engadin Skimarathon in the U20 age group and was 15th out of 1900 women overall over the marathon distance. At the end of the season, she won both youth titles at the Swiss championships .

In the following season , Gasparin started consistently as a runner in the Swiss women's relay. At the beginning of January 2014, together with her two sisters and Irene Cadurisch in Ruhpolding, she fulfilled the standard required by the association for participation in the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi with tenth place . In the individual that followed, Gasparin, in 46th place, missed her first World Cup points by just nine seconds, but qualified for a pursuit race for the first time. Before that she competed in the IBU Cups in Beitostølen and Ridnaun and placed in the points in two sprint competitions. After the World Cup in Antholz , where she was used again in the sprint, she was selected by Swiss Olympic for the Winter Olympic Games. In her first Olympic competition on February 14, 2014, she reached 62nd place in the individual with five shooting errors. Running in third position, she later contributed to the first top ten result of a women's relay, which with ninth place missed an Olympic diploma by just under 13 seconds. A week later, Gasparin repeated her placement from the previous year in the 15th women's run of the Engadin Skimarathon. On March 8, 2014, her 37th place in the pursuit at the seventh World Cup in Pokljuka earned her first World Cup points in an individual discipline. On the fringes of the World Cup, she was also elected to the IBU Athletes Committee for a period of four years . The following week, she was third in the sprint and in pursuit of the second highest series of competitions twice at the IBU Cup final in Martell. At the end of the season, she finished third in both races of the Swiss Junior Championships and was accepted into the B-squad for the 2014/15 season .

On January 16, 2015, she finished in the top 30 at the sprint in Ruhpolding. At the subsequent World Cup in Antholz, she and her sister Elisa as well as Lena Häcki and Flurina Volken improved on eighth place the existing record placement of a Swiss women's relay from the previous year. After lower individual placements at the Biathlon World Championships , she achieved her best career result so far at the last World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk with 21st place in the sprint. With a good pursuit race, she qualified for the first time for the mass start at the end of the season, which she finished again in 21st place. As part of the squad selection for the following season, she rose to the A-squad.

Personal

Aita Gasparin lives with her parents in Pontresina . She attended the Academia Engiadina in Samedan and passed the Matura in June 2014.
Since November 2014 she and her sister Elisa have been working as civilian employees in the area of ​​sport at the Border Guard .

In 2011 she entered into a partnership with a Swiss bakery manufacturer as an individual sponsor , who also supports her sister Selina. Like her two sisters, she is looked after by the Norwegian Vegard Bitnes, who has been a base trainer in the Upper Engadin since June 2011 .

statistics

World Cup placements

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

  • 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
  • Top 10: Number of placements among 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  
2nd place  
3rd place  
Top 10 6th 6th
Scoring 1 7th 6th 1 28 43
Starts 10 28 15th 1 29 83
Status: end of season 2016/17

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

Individual competitions Relay competitions
sprint persecution singles Mass start Women's relay Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2014 winter Olympics | SochiRussiaRussia  - - 62. - - 9.
Olympic Winter Games 2018 winter Olympics | PyeongchangKorea SouthSouth Korea  - - 68. - - -

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships singles sprint persecution Mass start Season Mixed relay Single mixed relay
year place
2013 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město na Moravě 84. 94. - - 13. -
2015 FinlandFinland Kontiolahti 78. 81. - - - 13.
2016 NorwayNorway Oslo 63. 73. - - 16. 14th
2017 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen 28. 48. 50. - 13. 14th

Performance development

Shooting performance by Gasparin (World Cup including relay races, partly without mixed), status: after the 2015/16 season, source: IBU

Web links

Commons : Aita Gasparin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aita Gasparin. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ A performance show for young Engadin gymnasts . In: Engadiner Post , April 22, 2008, p. 13, accessed on December 7, 2012 (PDF file; 2.6 MB).
  3. ↑ Engadine women fulfilled expectations . In: Engadiner Post , November 19, 2009, p. 17, accessed on December 7, 2012 (PDF file; 7.7 MB).
  4. ↑ In conversation with Selina Gasparin from Switzerland. (No longer available online.) Biathlon-online, October 6, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 7, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.biathlon-online.de  
  5. ↑ a b Aita Gasparin on the trail of her sisters . In: Die Südostschweiz , February 13, 2013, accessed on February 13, 2013.
  6. ↑ Youth Festival (EYOF) - Liberec 2011 - Selected athletes. (No longer available online.) Swiss Olympic Association, January 31, 2011, archived from the original on December 12, 2012 ; Retrieved December 7, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Youth Games (YOG) - Innsbruck 2012 - Team. (No longer available online.) Swiss Olympic Association, December 13, 2011, archived from the original on December 11, 2012 ; Retrieved December 7, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Three national team members for the first time. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, March 30, 2012, archived from the original on December 8, 2012 ; Retrieved December 7, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Swiss season with three Gasparins. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, December 4, 2012, archived from the original on January 1, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2012 .
  10. ^ Aita Gasparin and Patricia Jost to the World Cup. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, February 4, 2013, archived from the original on January 9, 2014 ; Retrieved February 4, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Olympic ticket: Swiss women create a sensation. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, January 8, 2014, archived from the original on January 9, 2014 ; accessed on January 9, 2014 .
  12. ↑ All three Swiss women in pursuit. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, January 10, 2014, archived from the original on January 11, 2014 ; accessed on January 11, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Swiss Olympic Team - Portrait - Aita Gasparin. Swiss Olympic Association, accessed on January 22, 2014 .
  14. ↑ New IBU Athletes Committee elected. Biathlon-online, March 14, 2014, accessed on March 14, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Aita Gasparin can definitely celebrate in Sochi . In: Die Südostschweiz , February 1, 2014, accessed on February 1, 2014.
  16. ^ Gasparin sisters as sports instructors in the border guard corps. Swiss Federal Chancellery, October 3, 2014, accessed on November 29, 2014 .
  17. ^ Sponsorship - Aita Gasparin. Roland Murten, accessed on February 9, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gasparin, Aita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Samedan , Switzerland