Bente Landheim from Tynset IF competed in her first international races since 2007 in the IBU Junior Cup . The highlight of her first season was the 2008 Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding , where the Norwegian was 34th in the individual, 24th in the sprint and 23rd in the pursuit race. The poor results resulted from poor shooting performance, in cross-country she was one of the fastest runners in the World Cup. For the 2008/09 season she moved to the IBU Women's Cup. There she contested her first sprint race in Idre and immediately won her first points as 24th. After she was not used in the IBU Cup the following season , she celebrated a strong comeback in the 2010/11 season . At the start of the season in Beitostølen , Landheim was second in a sprint race and only had to admit defeat to Russian Anastassija Kalina . For the finals of the 2010/11 season , Landheim made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup and was 55th of a sprint in her first sprint at Holmenkollen in Oslo . At the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2011 in Nové Město na Moravě , she was ten in the individual, nine in the sprint and six in the pursuit, at the junior races within the framework of the Biathlon European Championships in Ridnaun on 15 in the individual, 20 in the sprint and 14 in pursuit. She was appointed to the women's team for the relay race and finished ninth on the side of Tiril Eckhoff , Ane Skrove Nossum and Birgitte Røksund . In the 2011/12 season , Landheim was regularly used in World Cups. In Hochfilzen she won the World Cup points for the first time as 27th in the pursuit race, in a pursuer in Nové Město she improved her best result to 25th place.
Nationally, Landheim won the silver medal in the relay race at the Norwegian Championships 2009 in Lillehammer with Berit Aasen and Tora Berger representing the North Østerdal region . Even as a junior she celebrated several successes here. She also won three junior titles in cross-country skiing, one of them even in classical technique. Sporadically she also takes part in lower-class international cross-country skiing races.
Biathlon World Cup placements
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
Norway
