David Ekholm

David Ekholm
Full name	Karl David Ekholm
Association	Sweden
birthday	January 16, 1979
place of birth	Eksharad ,  Sweden
Career
Admission to the national team	2002
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Biathlon world championships silver 2009 Pyeongchang Mixed relay  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 1999 Pokljuka Season
World Cup balance

Karl David Ekholm (born January 16, 1979 in Ekshärad , Hagfors municipality ) is a former Swedish biathlete .

Career

David Ekholm started biathlon in 1993 . The student from Östersund , who starts for Bore Biathlon , has been a member of the national team since 2002. His trainers were Wolfgang Pichler and Leif Andersson . He made his international debut in 1999 in Pokljuka at the Junior World Championships. In the individual races he could not achieve any success, but with the Swedish team he won gold. The next big appearance for the young athlete was at the European Championships in Haute-Maurienne . The best result was a tenth place with the relay. In 2002 he made his debut at the last station of the Biathlon World Cup at Holmenkollen in Oslo , where he was 75th in the sprint.

From now on he was used again and again in the World Cup. However, he usually only performed better in the seasons. In 2004, he first took part in a senior world championship in Oberhof . In the individual races he could not achieve good results, but he finished sixth in the relay. In the same year he also took part in the World Military Championship. With Björn Ferry , Carl Johan Bergman and Jakob Börjesson , he finished ninth in the patrol run, which is only held at military world championships. In the sprint that Raphaël Poirée won, Ekholm was 37.

In the 2004/05 season he won a World Cup in Oberhof with the Swedish relay . But at the Biathlon World Championships in 2005 in Hochfilzen , the season was only seventh. In the 2005/06 season Ekholm was able to present itself better in the World Cup for the first time. In Hochfilzen, he won the first 28 points in a sprint. In Osrblie he finished 19th in the individual his best result so far in an individual race, which he was able to achieve again in a sprint in Östersund the following season. The highlight of Ekholm's career was participation in the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin . He started in the individual (35th), sprint (39th) and pursuit (40th). For the season, the fourth just missed a medal by a hair's breadth, Ekholm could not qualify.

At the 2007 World Championships in Antholz , he could not achieve a good result in the individual as 52nd again, but with the relay he was seventh. At the 2009 World Championships in Pyeongchang , he finished fifth in the individual, his first top 10 placement in the World Cup. He also won the silver medal with the mixed relay. He finished the World Cup 2008/2009 in 54th place.

Ekholm is married to the Swedish biathlete Helena Ekholm .

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					2	2
2nd place					1	1
3rd place
Top 10	1				22nd	23
Scoring	3	9	5	1	22nd	40
Starts	18th	58	23	1	22nd	122

Web links

Commons : David Ekholm  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• David Ekholm in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helena Jonssons fullträff. aftonbladet.se, July 18, 2010, accessed July 18, 2010 (Swedish).