Anna Carin Zidek

Anna Carin Zidek
Full name	Anna Carin Helena Cecilia Zidek
Association	Sweden
birthday	1st April 1973 (age 47)
place of birth	Sveg , Sweden
Career
society	Lillhärdals IF
Trainer	Wolfgang Pichler
Admission to the national team	2003
Debut in the World Cup	2002
World Cup victories	16 (12 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2011
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 2 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin Mass start silver 2006 Turin sprint  Biathlon world championships silver 2005 Hochfilzen Mass start silver 2007 Antholz sprint bronze 2007 Antholz persecution gold 2007 Antholz Mixed relay silver 2009 Pyeongchang Mixed relay bronze 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 1993 Harrachov Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2. ( 2005/06 ) 3rd ( 2006/07 )
Individual World Cup	1st ( 2009/10 )
Sprint World Cup	1st ( 2006/07 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 2 3 0 sprint 6th 4th 3 persecution 2 2 4th Mass start 2 2 0 Season 4th 3 3

Anna Carin Zidek (* 1. April 1973 in Sveg as Anna Carin Helena Cecilia Olofsson ) is a former Swedish biathlete .

Career

Anna Carin Zidek came to biathlon in 2003 after she was previously active as a cross-country skier and z. B. with the Swedish cross-country skiing relay at the Junior World Championships in 1993 was runner-up. The athlete, also known by the nickname “Aco” (derived from her maiden name “Olofsson”), quickly established herself among the world's best. She won silver in the mass start at the 2005 World Championships in Hochfilzen . At the World Cup in Antholz , she came on the podium for the first time with a second place in the 15 km individual race. In the overall World Cup of the 2004/05 season she was tenth.

In the following 2005/06 season she won her first three World Cup races: in early December 2005 in the individual from Hochfilzen and a week later in Osrblie in the sprint and pursuit. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she won the silver medal in the 7.5 km sprint and the gold medal in the mass start competition over 12.5 km, which was held for the first time at the Olympic Games. With this success she became the first Swedish Olympic champion in biathlon.

At the 2007 World Championships in Antholz, Zidek first won silver again in the sprint, then bronze in the pursuit and finally the gold medal with the Swedish mixed relay.

Despite her pregnancy, she took part in the 2008 World Championships in Östersund. She remained weak in the mixed relay but without the hoped-for medal, the world championship and the 2007/08 season were over for her from then on. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , her best result was fourth in the pursuit. Here she benefited from a time credit, as she was late in the race. Tora Berger, who originally crossed the finish line fourth, therefore ended up fifth. Anna Boulygina finished fifth, but like Berger was downgraded one place. With the relay, Zidek finished fifth.

Zidek was one of the strongest runners in the World Cup. She was trained by the German trainer Wolfgang Pichler , initially as a "one-woman" team. Later, the Swedish roster included other athletes such as Helena Ekholm , Anna Maria Nilsson and Sofia Domeij .

In mid-July 2011, Zidek announced her retirement from competitive sports.

Personal

Zidek gave birth to a son on June 28, 2008 in Canada. The father is Tom Zidek, chief engineer of the Canadian team, whom she married two months earlier. After a short break, she was back in the Biathlon World Cup since November 2008, initially under the double name Olofsson-Zidek and in the 2010/11 season only under the name of her husband.

Zidek was in the same class as Olympic curling champion Anna Le Moine in elementary school .

successes

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	2	6th	2	2	4th	16
2nd place	3	4th	2	2	3	14th
3rd place		3	4th		3	10
Top 10	14th	34	25th	12	28	113
Scoring	23	66	53	30th	32	204
Starts	29	80	62	30th	32	233

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna Carin Zidek ends career: "I have no more motivation". biathlon-online.de, July 18, 2011, accessed on July 8, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Anna Carin Olofsson: "My son will be a summer athlete ..." biathlon-online.de, July 4, 2008, accessed on December 11, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Bästa vänner - och medaljhopp i OS. dn.se , January 14, 2006, accessed December 11, 2010 (Swedish). 

Web links

Commons : Anna Carin Zidek  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Anna Carin Zidek in the IBU database (English)