Dorothea Wierer

Dorothea Wierer
Association	Italy
birthday	3rd April 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Brunico , Italy
size	160 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
job	Treasury
society	GS Fiamme Gialle
Trainer	Andreas Zingerle , Andrea Zattoni
Admission to the national team	2006
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	1
Debut in the World Cup	2009
World Cup victories	16 (11 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 3 × 4 × 3 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 5 × 1 × 2 × JEM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × SWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2014 Sochi Mixed relay bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Mixed relay  Biathlon world championships bronze 2013 Nové Město Season bronze 2015 Kontiolahti Season silver 2016 Oslo persecution gold 2019 Östersund Mass start silver 2019 Östersund Single mixed relay bronze 2019 Östersund Mixed relay gold 2020 Antholz persecution gold 2020 Antholz singles silver 2020 Antholz Mixed relay silver 2020 Antholz Mass start  European biathlon championships silver 2011 Ridnaun Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2008 Ruhpolding singles bronze 2008 Ruhpolding Season gold 2009 Canmore persecution bronze 2009 Canmore Season gold 2011 Nove Mesto sprint gold 2011 Nove Mesto persecution gold 2011 Nove Mesto singles silver 2011 Nove Mesto Season  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2011 Ridnaun persecution silver 2011 Ridnaun sprint  Summer biathlon world championships gold 2013 Forni Avoltri sprint
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	1. ( 2015/16 )
Sprint World Cup	2. (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup	1 . (2018/19)
Mass start world cup	1 . (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 4th 0 0 sprint 3 4th 3 persecution 2 7th 7th Mass start 2 3 1 Season 5 6th 8th
last change: March 14, 2020

Dorothea Wierer (born April 3, 1990 in Bruneck , South Tyrol ) is an Italian biathlete . At the 2019 World Championships , she became the first Italian woman to become world champion in biathlon and was able to win two more titles at the 2020 World Championships . In addition, she was able to win the overall World Cup 2018/19 and defend this title in the World Cup 2019/20 .

Career

Wierer began biathlon at the age of ten and was promoted to the Italian national team in 2006. She has been a member of the B national team since 2010; today she is part of the A elite team.

Youth sector (until 2009)

Since the 2006/07 season, Wierer started in the Italian Cup and later in the Junior European Cup . In the following season races of the Alpine Cup were added. In 2007 she took part in her first youth world championships in Martell . With a tenth place in the individual, 16th in the sprint and 14th in the pursuit as well as a tenth place in the relay, Wierer achieved good results.

The results were even better at the 2008 Youth World Cup in Ruhpolding , where the Italian won the individual title, finished eighth in the sprint and 21st in the pursuit. With Alexia Runggaldier and Monika Messner, she also won the bronze medal in the relay behind the teams from Germany and Norway. At the European Junior Championships in 2008 in Nové Město na Moravě the ranks 17 in the individual, 26 in the sprint and five in the relay were added. Later in the year Wierer took part in the 2008 Summer Biathlon World Championships for Juniors in Haute-Maurienne , where she just missed medals as fifth in the sprint and fourth in the pursuit race and with the relay.

For the 2008/09 season Wierer made his debut in the IBU Cup . She contested her first races in Obertilliach and immediately won her first points as 34th in an individual and 21st in a sprint. This was followed by the first race in the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof in 2009 . With 69th place in the sprint, she achieved her best individual result for a long time in the first race, which lasted until she won World Cup points for the first time. As the season progressed, she was able to improve her best performance in the IBU Cup up to eleventh place in a pursuit race in Martell. In Canmore Wierer successfully competed again at the Youth World Cup and won the title in the pursuit after she just missed a medal in fourth place in the sprint. With Nicole Gontier and Runggaldier, she also won the bronze medal in the relay race again. In the singles she came in seventh.

Junior area (2010 and 2011)

The first season as a junior was less successful for Dorothea Wierer; she was only used twice in the IBU Cup and at her fourth Junior World Championships in Torsby the Italian won no medals this time, although she still achieved good results: In the individual, she came in sixth place, was 13th in the sprint and eleventh of persecution.

In Hochfilzen , Wierer was used again in the World Cup early in the 2010/11 season . With Michela Ponza , Katja Haller and Karin Oberhofer , she reached ninth place in her first relay race. The change from Oberhofer to Wierer was strange, as Wierer was several seconds late and Oberhofer had to wait for her teammate. However, this did not affect the overall result, to which Wierer contributed a good performance with only two spare rounds. In Ruhpolding , she was able to win points in a World Cup race for the first time as 24th of the sprint. Dorothea Wierer had her final breakthrough at the 2011 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě in the Czech Republic . In individual, sprint and pursuit she was junior world champion and won the silver medal with the relay. She was also successful at the subsequent European Championships in Ridnaun, winning silver and gold in the junior sprint and junior pursuit as well as her first medal in the senior category with silver in the women's relay. Based on these results, Wierer was nominated for the 2011 Biathlon World Championships . There Wierer finished ninth in the pursuit race and achieved her first top 10 result.

Beginnings in the World Cup and first relay medals (2012 to 2014)

In the 2011/12 season , Wierer ran in the World Cup for the first time from the start. However, she could not build on the results of the previous season and reached only once, at the sprint in Nové Město, the points. Nevertheless, she was nominated for the 2012 World Cup in Ruhpolding and finished the season 87th in the overall World Cup.

The following 2012/13 season , in which Wierer regularly scored World Cup points , went better . At the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město, she surprisingly won bronze as a starting runner with the Italian relay at the side of Gontier, Ponza and Oberhofer and thus the first medal for an Italian women's relay at a biathlon world championship. She was 50th in the sprint and 59th in the pursuit. In her last race of the season, the pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk , Wierer achieved her best individual placement of the season with 19th place. At the 2013 Summer Biathlon World Championships , she won the gold medal in the sprint.

In the Biathlon World Cup 2013/14 Wierer started with her best individual result to date, a 7th place in the sprint of Östersund. This season she achieved a total of five top 10 placements and with a third place in the pursuit on the Pokljuka, her first individual podium finish in the World Cup. She also appeared for the first time at the Winter Olympics , which took place in Sochi . There she was sixth in the sprint and won bronze with the mixed relay .

Breakthrough and establishment among the world's best (2015 to 2018)

At the World Cup in Oberhof in January 2018

For the 2014/15 season, Wierer established himself among the best in the world, achieved three podium finishes with two second places and one third place and was 7th in the overall World Cup ranking at the end of the season. At the 2015 Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti, she barely missed her first individual medal at a World Championships just 0.4 seconds behind Kaisa Mäkäräinen . With the relay she won bronze again.

At the World Cup in Östersund in 2015 , she achieved her first World Cup victory with a victory in the individual. Since this was the first race of the season, she then wore the yellow jersey of the overall leader in the World Cup. With another victory in the individual in Ruhpolding and an eighth place at the Biathlon World Championships 2016 in Oslo, she was able to win the individual World Cup with two points ahead of Marie Dorin-Habert at the end of the season . At the World Cup, she won silver with second place in the pursuit and thus her first individual World Championship medal. At the World Cup in Hochfilzen, she won a race with the Italian relay for the first time. Wierer also won the mass start in Canmore, Canada . In the overall World Cup, she finished third.

The 2016/17 season got off to a consistently successful start for Wierer. In December she was already on the podium twice and in January she achieved several top 10 results. The world championships in Hochfilzen were less successful; unlike in previous years, they did not win a medal at the major event. During the rest of the season, the Italian only finished in the top ten once, but in fifth place in the overall World Cup.

Similar to the previous ones, Wierer started the 2017/18 Olympic winter with two World Cup podiums in December. January was even more successful and in Ruhpolding she won her first race in almost two years with the individual. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , Korea , she was seventh in the individual and sixth in the mass start, but missed the individual medal she was aiming for. However, Wierer again won bronze with the Italian mixed relay. This then won a race for the first time in Kontiolahti at the first World Cup after the games. In the overall standings, Wierer landed again in fifth place.

Two-time overall World Cup winner and three-time World Champion (since 2019)

After finishing second in the sprint in Pokljuka 2018 , Dorothea Wierer wore the yellow jersey for the second time. She defended this in the pursuit, which she also finished in second place. In the sprint in Hochfilzen on December 13, 2018, Wierer won a sprint race in the World Cup for the first time with 0.6 seconds ahead of Kaisa Mäkäräinen , and in January 2019 for the first time in a pursuit and in her home town of Antholz . At the overseas races in Canmore and Soldier Hollow , she could not reach a podium and had to hand over the yellow jersey to her teammate Lisa Vittozzi after the pursuit in Soldier Hollow . With Lukas Hofer , she won a single mixed season there for the first time. With this victory she is the third biathlete, after Martin Fourcade and Marie Dorin-Habert , to achieve a World Cup in all disciplines.

The 2019 World Championships in Östersund also began for her with a medal, bronze in the mixed relay. In the further course of the title fights, she achieved silver in the single mixed relay, again with Hofer, and on the final day, thanks to a good shooting performance with gold in the mass start, she won her first major individual title and thus the first ever World Championship title for an Italian lady win. This also gave her back the yellow jersey. She then kept this until the end of the season and was the first Italian to win the overall World Cup. She also won the World Cup in the pursuit.

In the World Cup season 2019/20 started Wierer with a victory with the Italian mixed relay in Östersund. She was also able to win the sprint in the same place, as well as the one in Hochfilzen. In Le Grand-Bornand , she was also on the podium as second in the mass start, which meant that she went into the Christmas break as the leader in the yellow jersey.

At the 2020 World Championships in Antholz, Wierer won the gold medal in the pursuit and the gold medal in the individual after finishing seventh in the sprint. She also won the overall World Cup again and was the first athlete since Magdalena Forsberg in the 2001/02 season to defend her title. In addition, she won the World Cup in the mass start for the first time.

Unlike she originally announced in 2017, Wierer will continue her career after the World Cup in Antholz.

Private

Dorothea Wierer grew up as the third of five children in Niederrasen in the Antholz Valley ; a brother and a sister were also active as biathletes in the youth field. She attended sports high school in Mals and passed her Matura there in 2009 . Since then she has been working for the Finanzwache and is promoted in their sports group.

In May 2015, Wierer married her long-term partner, the Trentino cross-country ski trainer Stefano Corradini . The couple live in Castello-Molina in the Fiemme Valley .

statistics

World cup

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. 03 Dec 2015  Ostersund singles 2. Jan. 14, 2016  Ruhpolding singles 3. 0Feb 6, 2016  Canmore Mass start 4th Jan. 11, 2018  Ruhpolding singles 5. December 13, 2018  Hochfilzen sprint 6th Jan. 26, 2019  Antholz persecution 7th 17th Mar 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Mass start 8th. 0Dec. 1, 2019  Ostersund sprint 9. December 12, 2019  Hochfilzen sprint 10. Feb 16, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) persecution 11. Feb. 18, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) singles

No. date place discipline 1. Nov 13, 2015  Hochfilzen Season 1 2. 10 Mar 2018  Kontiolahti Mixed season 2 3. 16 Dec 2018  Hochfilzen Season 3 4th 17th Feb 2019  Midway Single mixed season 4 5. Nov 30, 2019  Ostersund Mixed season 2 1With Lisa Vittozzi , Karin Oberhofer and Federica Sanfilippo . 2With Lisa Vittozzi, Dominik Windisch and Lukas Hofer . 3With Lisa Vittozzi, Alexia Runggaldier and Federica Sanfilippo. 4th With Lukas Hofer.

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	4th	3	2	2	5	16
2nd place		4th	7th	2	6th	19th
3rd place		3	7th	1	8th	19th
Top 10	10	34	31	15th	53	143
Scoring	18th	68	55	34	59	234
Starts	24	86	60	34	59	263
As of March 13, 2020

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2014	Sochi	DNS	6th	17th	25th	6th	3.
2018	Pyeongchang	7th	18th	15th	6th	9.	3.

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	-	27.	9.	20th	4th	-
2012	Ruhpolding	41.	61.	-	-	12.	-
2013	Nové Město	58.	21st	30th	-	3.	4th
2015	Kontiolahti	4th	20th	9.	26th	3.	7th
2016	Oslo	8th.	5.	2.	20th	7th	8th.
2017	Hochfilzen	16.	21st	10.	8th.	5.	4th
2019	Ostersund	8th.	10.	20th	1.	-	3.	2.
2020	Antholz	1.	7th	1.	2.	10.	2.	9.

Junior World Championships

Results at the Junior World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2007	Martell	10.	16.	14th	12.
2008	Ruhpolding	1.	8th.	21st	3.
2009	Canmore	7th	4th	1.	3.
2010	Torsby	6th	13.	11.	-
2011	Nové Město	1.	1.	1.	2.

World Cup ratings

Results at biathlon world cups (discipline and overall world cup) according to the point system

season	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2010/11	-	-	56.	32	45.	37	39.	21st	52.	90
2011/12	-	-	75.	6th	-	-	-	-	87.	6th
2012/13	39.	21st	40.	63	29	87	-	-	38.	171
2013/14	7th	62	18th	145	15th	143	21st	55	16.	405
2014/15	14th	70	4th	335	5.	215	11.	131	7th	751
2015/16	1.	154	3.	327	2.	348	8th.	148	3.	965
2016/17	22nd	47	8th.	246	5.	287	5.	156	5.	721
2017/18	6th	60	8th.	228	4th	264	11.	131	5.	681
2018/19	7th	89	2.	330	1.	327	2.	194	1.	904

Shooting results

Shooting performance Dorothea Wierer (World Cup races including relays)

Web links

Commons : Dorothea Wierer  - Collection of Images

• Dorothea Wierer in the database of the IBU (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dorothea Wierer. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ World Cup in Östersund - Wierer celebrates first victory, Hildebrand tenth on zdfsport.de, accessed on December 3, 2015
3. ↑ Kaisa Mäkarainen dominates the sprint in Pokljuka on de.biathlonworld.com, December 8, 2018, accessed on December 9, 2018.
4. ↑ Wierer misses the overall tour on sportnews.bz, February 16, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019.
5. ↑ Italy's Hofer / Wierer Duo Capture Soldier Hollow Single Mixed Relay on biathlonworld.com, February 17, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019 (English).
6. ↑ Thomas Debelyak: Gold madness in Antholz: Wierer is world champion! on sportnews.bz. February 16, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020.
7. ↑ Dorothea Wierer: "With the World Championships in Antholz 2020 I will say goodbye to biathlon" on www.biathlon-news.de, July 28, 2017, accessed on October 4, 2019.
8. ↑ South Tyrol's model biathlete Dorothea Wierer got married on www.biathlon-news.de, May 31, 2015, accessed on October 4, 2019.
9. ↑ IBU data center . IBU. Retrieved February 22, 2019.