Fourth place at the flower ceremony after the individual race of the European Championships 2017
Elisabeth Högberg grew up in Jädraås near Ockelbo and now lives in Östersund . She starts for the club I 21 IF Sollefteå . She has been running biathlon since 2001. In 2005 in Kontiolahti and 2007 in Martell , she started at the Junior World Championships. Her best result here in 2007 was a 21st place in the pursuit. Things went better with the season, with which she was fifth in Kontiolahti and sixth in Martell. Högberg has been competing in the Biathlon World Cup since the 2007/08 season . At the start of the season in Kontiolahti, she finished in three races between 42 and 45. On her first appearance in the relay, Högberg in Hochfilzen with her compatriots Anna Carin Olofsson , Anna Maria Nilsson and Helena Jonsson , thanks to her good leadership as a starting runner, was able to finish third without shooting errors Reach place. In Östersund she took part in the biathlon world championships in 2008 and achieved her best international result to date as 36th of the individual. With the season she came in eighth place. A year later at the World Championships in Pyeongchang Högberg reached 91st place in the sprint. The Swede achieved World Cup points for the first time in the 2009/10 season . In Hochfilzen she was 37th in the pursuit race, in Pokljuka she was able to improve her best result to 32nd place. Elisabeth Högberg took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was 77th place in the individual. With the relay she finished 5th.
In the following years stagnation and further development alternated. Högberg achieved her best result so far and first top ten placement in 2014 with ninth place in the Östersund singles.
Awards
In May 2020 Elisabeth Högberg was awarded “Årets Prestation” by the Swedish Biathlon Association, which is awarded once a year. The association honored Högberg's best season of her career and the fact that she has so much motivation and discipline to prepare for the competition winter on her own every year. She is also a great role model for her younger teammates with her behavior, both on the way to the venues and during the competitions.
statistics
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
Sweden
Ruhpolding
Pyeongchang
Nové Město
Kontiolahti
Vancouver
