Bjorn Ferry

Bjorn Ferry
Full name	Bjorn Ferry
Association	Sweden
birthday	August 1, 1978 (age 42)
place of birth	Stensele, Sweden
Career
society	Storuman IK
Trainer	Staffan Eklund Wolfgang Pichler
Debut in the World Cup	2001
World Cup victories	9 (including 2 in the team)
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Vancouver 2010 persecution  Biathlon world championships gold Antholz 2007 Mixed relay bronze Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 Mixed relay silver Ruhpolding 2012 Mass start
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	6. ( 2006/2007 )
Individual World Cup	13. ( 2010/2011 )
Sprint World Cup	2. (2006/2007)
Pursuit World Cup	2. ( 2013/2014 )
Mass start world cup	7. ( 2007/2008 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 0 2 sprint 2 4th 2 persecution 4th 3 1 Mass start 1 3 0 Season 2 3 3
last change: 2017

Björn Ferry (born August 1, 1978 in Stensele , Storuman municipality ) is a former Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion in biathlon.

life and career

Björn Ferry made his debut in 2001 at the first World Cup station of the season in Hochfilzen . He was already in the points in his third individual race. With the relay, Ferry surprisingly won a World Cup race with the Swedish team in Oberhof in 2005 .

At the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 and in Turin in 2006 , he started in all possible races. His best individual placement at the Olympics was a 14th place in the 2006 sprint. With the relay, he narrowly missed a medal in the same games as fourth. At the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz , he won the gold medal after finishing fourth in the singles with Sweden's mixed relay. On January 19, 2008 he achieved his first World Cup victory in a single race in the pursuit of Antholz.

Ferry celebrated his greatest success by winning the pursuit race at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver .

After the 2013/14 season , in which he won two more races, the sprint and the mass start of Pokljuka , Ferry ended his sporting career together with Carl Johan Bergman .

Ferry started for the Storuman IK club and is a multiple Swedish champion. His coach was Wolfgang Pichler until the 2010/2011 season , most recently he was trained by Staffan Eklund.

He lives in Storuman and is married to the five-time world champion in arm wrestling , Heidi Andersson .

Political commitment

In the public debate about the climate crisis, Ferry campaigns against the use of airplanes as a mode of transport. In principle, he only accepts assignments abroad, for example for sports moderation, if he can travel by train or by night train for longer journeys.

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
January 19, 2008	Antholz	Italy	persecution
January 24, 2009	Antholz	Italy	persecution
February 16, 2010 (OS)	Vancouver Whistler	Canada	persecution
December 18, 2010	Pokljuka	Slovenia	sprint
January 16, 2011	Ruhpolding	Germany	persecution
March 6, 2014	Pokljuka	Slovenia	sprint
March 9, 2014	Pokljuka	Slovenia	Mass start

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place		1	4th		2	7th
2nd place		4th	1	2	1	8th
3rd place	1	1			2	4th
Top 10	6th	24	25th	7th	45	107
Scoring	18th	56	45	31	52	202
Starts	31	84	63	31	52	261
Status: after the 2010/2011 season

Web links

• Björn Ferry's website
• Björn Ferry in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Train instead of low-cost airlines: The shame of flying. n-tv, January 20, 2019, accessed on January 21, 2019 .