Carl Johan Bergman

Carl Johan Bergman
Full name	Carl Johan Lennart Bergman
Association	Sweden
birthday	March 14, 1978 (age 42)
place of birth	Ekshärad, Hagfors parish
Career
job	college student
society	Bore biathlon
Trainer	Staffan Eklund
Admission to the national team	2001
Debut in the World Cup	2001
World Cup victories	7 (including 4 in the team)
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 2 ×
Biathlon world championships gold 2007 Antholz Mixed relay silver 2009 Pyeongchang Mixed relay bronze 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay bronze 2012 Ruhpolding sprint silver 2012 Ruhpolding persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	8. ( 2008/09 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 3 0 4th persecution 0 2 2 Mass start 0 1 0 Season 4th 4th 3
last change: January 19, 2014

Carl Johan Lennart Bergman (born March 14, 1978 in Ekshärad , Hagfors municipality ) is a former Swedish biathlete .

He was active in the World Cup for the first time in the 2000/01 season . Bergman achieved his first World Cup victory on March 16, 2006 in a sprint over 10 km in Kontiolahti , Finland, ahead of Tomasz Sikora and Sven Fischer . Further successes were a second place in the pursuit race in Fort Kent in the 2003/04 season and two third places in the sprint and in the pursuit in Pokljuka in the 2005/06 season .

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin he was defeated in the battle for the bronze medal as the final runner of the Swedish relay in the finish sprint to the French Vincent Defrasne only by a stumble a few meters from the finish.

In Oberhof he achieved a sensational victory over 4 × 7.5 km with the Swedish relay team in the 2004/05 season . In Vancouver-Whistler 2009 he did the same again with the Swedish relay. At the 2007 Biathlon World Championships in Antholz , he won the gold medal with Sweden's mixed relay. At the Biathlon World Championships in Pyeongchang in 2009 , he won the silver medal in the same discipline and bronze in 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk . Carl Johan Bergman took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. His best result was 19th place in the pursuit. With the relay he finished 4th.

After two first places in the 2011/12 World Cup , Bergman was able to secure the silver medal in the pursuit after a third place in the sprint at the World Cup in Ruhpolding . Bergman did not take part in the individual competition in order to be able to attend the birth of his first child - a daughter - in Lillehammer . For the mass start he was back in Ruhpolding and finished sixth. In the World Cup he finished sixth overall, in the Sprint World Cup he reached 3rd place behind Martin Fourcade and Emil Hegle Svendsen . He won the World Team Challenge in the Arena auf Schalke in Gelsenkirchen together with the Finn Kaisa Mäkäräinen .

After the 2013/2014 season , Bergman ended his sporting career together with Björn Ferry .

Bergman has been married to Liv-Kjersti Bergman since August 2010 . The couple has two children. Daughter Lisa was born in 2012, daughter Ida in 2015.

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		3			4th	7th
2nd place			1	1	2	4th
3rd place		3	2		2	7th
Top 10	8th	20th	15th	4th	52	99
Scoring	16	59	48	29	60	212
Starts	31	94	64	29	60	278
Status: after the 2010/2011 season

Web links

Commons : Carl Johan Bergman  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• official homepage
• Carl Johan Bergman in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Allt har ett slut! ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )