Clare Egan works for Cape Nordic , previously she worked for Craftsbury Nordic Ski Club . She started cross-country skiing in middle school and was a Maine Champion as a high school student and twice for the New England Junior Olympic team . In 2010 she received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College , a year later she made her master's degree in linguistics from the University of New Hampshire , majoring in international relations . During this time the athlete from Cape Elizabeth joined the university's winter sports team and was voted the most valuable athlete of the 2010/11 season and was in the final selection for the university's athlete of the year. Since 2011 it has started in the US Supertour , where it achieved top 10 results several times, and it also achieved several top 15 results at US championships. Since the 2012/13 season , Egan has also competed in biathlon. In February 2013 she reached second place in the Biathlon-NorAm-Cup in Jericho in the sprint as well as in the mass start behind Katrina Howe and in front of Andrea Mayo and thus also placed on the podium for the first time. At the US Biathlon Championships in 2013 , she also won the title in the mass start race.
In March 2018, Clare Egan was elected as chairman of the athletes' commission of the International Biathlon Union and as such has been a member of the board since September 2018.
Egan originally wanted to end her career after the 2018 Winter Olympics. Also encouraged by Armin Auchentaller, the new coach of the US team, she continued her active career. At the first World Cup of the 2018/19 season on the Pokljuka plateau in Slovenia, she set the fastest time in a World Cup race in the pursuit race for the first time in her career and also achieved the first top 10 placement in an individual race. In the last race of the season, the mass start at Holmenkollen in Norway, she achieved her first podium finish in the World Cup with third place behind Hanna Öberg and Tiril Eckhoff .
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Results at biathlon world cups (discipline and overall world cup) according to the point system
United States
Kontiolahti
Oslo
Hochfilzen
Ostersund
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