Elisa Gasparin

Elisa Gasparin

Association

Switzerland

birthday

2nd December 1991 (age 28)

place of birth

Samedan , Switzerland

Career

job

Sports instructor
in the Border Guard

society

SC Bernina Pontresina

Trainer

Vegard Bitnes

Admission to the
national team

2007

Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup

2008

Debut in the World Cup

2010

status

active

Medal table

JEM medals	0 ×	1 ×	1 ×
SM medals	4 ×	1 ×	2 ×

Biathlon Junior European Championships
silver	2012 Osrblie	persecution
bronze	2012 Osrblie	sprint
Swiss championships
gold	2012 Ulrichen	sprint
silver	2012 Ulrichen	Mass start
bronze	2013 La Lécherette	Mass start
bronze	2014 Ulrichen	sprint
gold	2014 Ulrichen	Mass start
gold	2015 Lantsch / Lenz	sprint
gold	2015 Lantsch / Lenz	Mass start

World Cup balance

Overall World Cup

23. ( 2014/15 )

Individual World Cup

21. (2014/15)

Sprint World Cup

27. (2014/15)

Pursuit World Cup

22. (2014/15)

Mass start world cup

29. (2014/15)

Podium placements	1.	2.	3.
Season	0	1	0

last change: December 8, 2019

Elisa Gasparin (born December 2, 1991 in Samedan ) is a Swiss biathlete .

She is the younger sister of Selina Gasparin , who has been competing in the Biathlon World Cup for the Swiss Ski Association since 2005 , and the older sister of Aita Gasparin . In 2010 she competed in a World Cup race for the first time and has since been a permanent member of the Swiss women's team. After success as a junior at the European Championships in 2012 , among others , she established herself in the following seasons with several points in the World Cup and rose to the national team at the end of the 2014/15 season .

Career

Beginnings (2006 to 2010)

On March 18, 2006, Gasparin contested her first official race at the mass start in the European Junior Cup in Gurnigel . Among a total of eleven registered athletes, she finished sixth behind the winner Marion Blondeau from France. For the 2007/2008 season she was accepted into the Swiss C-squad. At the beginning of 2008, when she took part in the Biathlon Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding, Germany, she reached 13th place in the relay and 20th place in the pursuit as the best individual result. At the end of March 2008 she became Swiss champion in the junior sprint in Realp .

Her first race among the senior women as part of the IBU Cup 2008/09 ended on December 13, 2008 in Obertilliach with 44th place in the individual. The gap to the winner Romy Beer was more than ten minutes with seven shooting errors. At the beginning of April 2009 she achieved a double victory in the sprint and pursuit at the Swiss Junior Championships . In the same disciplines she recorded two top ten finishes at the end of January 2010 at the Junior World Championships in Torsby, Sweden .

In February she finished 19th in the sprint of the IBU Cup in Martell after a faultless shooting performance . After three mistakes, she fell back to 26th place in the subsequent pursuit. At the beginning of March 2010, despite eight penalty loops in the mass start, she secured another national junior title .

World Cup debut and promotion to the squad (2010 to 2012)

Gasparin made her World Cup debut on March 18, 2010 in the sprint race in Oslo . For the first time in the history of Swiss biathlon, two women competed in the World Cup. With a shooting error and almost three minutes behind the winner Simone Hauswald , she crossed the finish line in 64th place. She repeated the same result a week later in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia . At the end of the season at the Mixed Relay World Championship , a mixed Swiss relay team was used for the first time in the same place . As the second runner, Gasparin, together with her sister Selina, Benjamin Weger and Thomas Frei, achieved 13th place out of a total of 18 nations.

In the 2010/11 season Gasparin was again temporarily used in the World Cup and achieved similar placements as in the previous year. At the Junior World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě , she succeeded in early February 2011 with seventh place in the individual, the best individual result in international championships, followed by sixth place with the relay. After the first qualification for the subsequent World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, she started in the mixed relay, in the singles and in the sprint and placed in the midfield.

In the sprint race in Hochfilzen in the 2011/12 season, Gasparin was 41st and missed the first World Cup points of her career by just one place. Ten positions ahead of her sister Selina, she qualified for a pursuit competition for the first time. Between January and March 2012, she took part in three major international events, one after the other, with the Junior European Championships in Osrblie , the Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti and the World Championships in Ruhpolding. On January 27, 2012, she won the bronze medal in the sprint at the continental junior title fights. Two days later, she moved up one place in the persecution and won silver. At the end of February, she achieved two further top ten placements in the Junior World Championships with seventh place in the singles and ninth place in the sprint.

At the start of the World Championships in Ruhpolding, the Swiss mixed relay, with Gasparin as the starting runner, placed in the top ten for the first time. At the side of her sister Selina and the two juniors Irene Cadurisch and Patricia Jost , she crossed the finish line in the first Swiss women's relay at a major event as the 21st of 26 nations that started. At the end of her first season among senior women, she became Swiss champion in the sprint and runner-up in the mass start and was promoted to the B squad.

Establishment in the World Cup (since 2012)

Elisa Gasparin at the Swiss Championships in La Lécherette , March 2013

At the second World Cup of the 2012/13 season in Hochfilzen on December 9, 2012, for the first time in the history of international biathlon, three sisters, Selina, Elisa and Aita Gasparin, competed in one relay. At the World Cup premiere, the women's relay , which was completed by C-squad junior Ladina Meier-Ruge, finished 16th out of 22 nations started. Gasparin achieved the best World Cup result on January 17th, 2013 with 16th place in the sprint in Antholz and the first World Cup points in an individual discipline. For the first time in the history of Swiss biathlon, two women were placed in the points in a competition. Two days later, she posted more World Cup points in the pursuit race as 31st. With improved running and stable shooting performance, she subsequently confirmed her increase in form. After finishing twelfth with the Swiss mixed relay at the start of the World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě , she crossed the finish line in early February 2013 in the sprint and pursuit with ranks 36 and 35, each ahead of her older sister. In individual, she reached a top 40 position in 34th place in the third individual World Cup competition. As a starting runner, she was involved in 13th place in the Swiss women's relay. At the seventh World Cup in Oslo, she climbed from position 48 in the sprint to position 20 in the pursuit. She finished the season third in the mass start of the Swiss championships and was accepted into the A-squad.

In the first three World Cups of the 2013/14 season, Gasparin placed in the midfield. At the beginning of January 2014 in Oberhof in sprint and pursuit with places 19 and 23, she achieved the standard set by the association for participation in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and qualified for a mass start race for the first time. At the subsequent World Cup in Ruhpolding, together with her two sisters and Irene Cadurisch, as the final runner in the women's relay, she once again met the national selection criteria with tenth place. In her first Olympic competition on February 9, 2014, she achieved eighth place in the sprint and almost ten seconds behind a medal, the best career result to date and an Olympic diploma. After the last three World Cups, she improved her personal record by two places as 54th in the overall World Cup and became national champion in the mass start.

Gasparin (56) at the finish with Hallie Grossman after the sprint race of the 2017 European Championships

Starting out of competition, Gasparin won the individual race at the German Championships in September 2014 . At the end of December 2014, she took part in the World Team Challenge in Gelsenkirchen for the first time and, together with her teammate Benjamin Weger, came in tenth after material problems.

Personal

Elisa Gasparin grew up in Pontresina and lives in S-chanf . After attending commercial secondary school at Academia Engiadina , she completed training as a fitness instructor at the Migros Club School in Chur in 2012 and 2013 .

Since November 2014, she and her sister Aita have been working as civilian employees in the field of sports at the Border Guard .

Awards

After the 2011 season, she was named Newcomer of the Year by the Bündner Verband für Sport at the end of May .
In the election for Sportswoman of the Year on December 14, 2014 in Zurich, she came second in the “Newcomer of the Year” category behind Kariem Hussein with 20.3 percent of the votes.

statistics

World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (including the Olympic Games and World Championships, depending on the year of the event).

1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements

Top 10: Number of placements among 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
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10					4th	4th
Scoring	5	11	13	3	24	56
Starts	12	38	18th	3	24	95
As of March 22, 2015

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2014 \| SochiRussia	8th.	31.	33.	DNF	9.	12.
Olympic Winter Games 2018 \| PyeongchangKorea South	31.	35.	8th.	27.	6th	13.