Benjamin Weger

Benjamin Weger
Association	Switzerland
birthday	5th October 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Geschinen , Switzerland
size	180 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
job	college student
society	SC Obergoms
Trainer	Markus Segessenmann
Admission to the national team	2006
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
Debut in the World Cup	2009
status	active
Medal table
JWM 0 × 1 × 0 × JEM 0 × 0 × 1 × SJWM 0 × 2 × 0 × SM 4 × 1 × 0 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2009 Canmore sprint  Biathlon Junior European Championships bronze 2008 Nové Město na Moravě sprint  Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships silver 2008 Haute-Maurienne sprint silver 2008 Haute Maurienne persecution  Swiss championships gold 2012 Ulrichen Mass start gold 2013 La Lécherette sprint silver 2013 La Lécherette Mass start gold 2014 Ulrichen sprint gold 2014 Ulrichen Mass start
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	14. ( 2018/19 )
Individual World Cup	06. ( 2019/20 )
Sprint World Cup	10. ( 2014/15 )
Pursuit World Cup	07th ( 2011/12 )
Mass start world cup	13. (2018/19)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 1 0 sprint 0 0 2 persecution 0 0 1
last change: March 14, 2020

Benjamin Weger (born October 5, 1989 in Geschinen , Wallis ) is a Swiss biathlete .

Career

Benjamin Weger is a student and lives in Geschinen. The athlete of the SC Obergoms , trained by Markus Segessenmann, began biathlon in 2006. A year later he was promoted to the Swiss national team. Towards the end of the 2005/06 season he made his international debut as part of the Junior European Cup. In Gurnigel he was in the top ten for the first time in his fourth race, a mass start. In 2007 he took part in the Junior World Championships in Martell . In the individual, Weger was 15th, in the sprint on 13th and in the pursuit on 11th place. In 2008 he was seventh in the individual, fourth in the sprint and fifth in the pursuit in Ruhpolding . Between the two Junior World Championships, he was among the top ten in the Junior European Cup several times during the season. The 2008 European Junior Championship in Nové Město na Moravě also went well for the young Swiss. The worst result was the ninth place in the individual, in the sprint he won the bronze medal and missed another in the pursuit. Towards the end of the season he won a pursuit race of the Junior European Cup in Cesana San Sicario after a second place in the sprint. In the summer Weger competed in the junior competitions as part of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2008 in Haute-Maurienne and won silver in the sprint behind Martin Fourcade , in the pursuit he only had to admit defeat to Jakov Fak .

Ivan Joller , Benjamin Weger and Christian Stebler (from left to right) at the award ceremony for the sprint race at the 2013 Swiss Championships.

Since the 2008/09 season Weger no longer starts in the juniors. He made his senior debut in Obertilliach as part of the IBU Cup . In his first race, an individual, the Swiss only narrowly missed a top ten finish in eleventh place. At the beginning of 2009 he made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof . He contested his first race with the Swiss relay and finished ninth. He had his first use in a single race two days later and was 85th of the sprint race. In the 2009/2010 season Benjamin Weger finished 19th in the sprint in Ruhpolding and won his first points in the World Cup. Benjamin Weger took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. His best result was 55th place in the individual. With the relay he finished 9th.

In the 2010/11 season Weger achieved his best result so far on December 16, 2010 with second place in the Pokljuka singles . It was also the best result for a Swiss biathlete.

At the start of the 2011/2012 Biathlon World Cup , Weger had his best start to the season so far in Östersund with 13th place in the sprint and seven in the pursuit. In Hochfilzen he improved again with two third places in the sprint and in the pursuit. He is the first Swiss in this sport who could achieve more than one podium in his career.

In November 2012 Weger received the Oberwalliser Sport Award as Sportsman of the Year , one month later the award as Swiss Young Sportsman of the Year .

After a mixed start to the 2012/2013 Biathlon World Cup , Weger achieved his first top ten position of the season in the sprint in Oberhof at the beginning of January 2013 with ninth place. In the subsequent pursuit, he rose another four positions. In both races he made only one shooting error.

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	1					1
3rd place		2	1			3
Top 10	2	8th	8th	1	19th	38
Scoring	9	34	26th	12	29	110
Starts	16	54	34	12	29	145
As of March 22, 2015

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
2010 Winter Olympics | Vancouver	69.	-	55.	-	9.
Olympic Winter Games 2014 | Sochi	64.	-	47.	-	14th	12.
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	15th	6th	6th	27.	15th	13.

Web links

Commons : Benjamin Weger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Benjamin Weger in the database of the IBU (English)
• Benjamin Weger in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Benjamin Weger at Swiss-Ski (PDF file; 53 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benjamin Weger. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Weger - a biathlete with a future. In: NZZ Online. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 17, 2010, accessed on December 17, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Benjamin Weger shines in Hochfilzen. In: NZZ Online. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 9, 2011, accessed December 10, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Rhone newspaper Oberwallis: Honor for Kummer and Weger at the Sport Awards ( Memento from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )