Emil Hegle Svendsen

Emil Hegle Svendsen
Full name	Emil Hegle Svendsen
Association	Norway
birthday	12th July 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Trondheim , Norway
size	185 cm
Weight	77 kg
Career
society	Trondhjems Skiskyttere Strindheim IL
Trainer	Joar Himle
Admission to the national team	2007
Debut in the World Cup	2005/06
World Cup victories	61 (37 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2018
Medal table
Olympic medals 4 × 3 × 1 × World Cup medals 12 × 6 × 3 × JWM medals 4 × 1 × 1 × NM medals 8 × 5 × 6 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver singles gold 2010 Vancouver Season silver 2010 Vancouver sprint gold 2014 Sochi Mass start gold 2014 Sochi Mixed relay bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Mass start silver 2018 Pyeongchang Mixed relay silver 2018 Pyeongchang Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 2007 Antholz Mixed relay gold 2008 Östersund singles gold 2008 Östersund Mass start silver 2008 Östersund Season gold 2009 Pyeongchang Season silver 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay gold 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk Season gold 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk Mass start silver 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk persecution gold 2012 Ruhpolding Mixed relay gold 2012 Ruhpolding Season silver 2012 Ruhpolding sprint gold 2013 Nové Město Mixed relay gold 2013 Nové Město sprint gold 2013 Nové Město persecution gold 2013 Nové Město Season bronze 2013 Nové Město Mass start silver 2015 Kontiolahti singles silver 2015 Kontiolahti Season bronze 2016 Oslo persecution gold 2016 Oslo Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2003 Kościelisko singles gold 2004 Haute-Maurienne persecution gold 2004 Haute-Maurienne Season gold 2005 Kontiolahti singles gold 2005 Kontiolahti sprint silver 2005 Kontiolahti persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1st ( 2009/10 )
Individual World Cup	1. ( 2010/11 , 2013/14 )
Sprint World Cup	1st (2009/10)
Pursuit World Cup	2. ( 2008/09 , 2011/12 )
Mass start world cup	1. (2010/11)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 8th 2 1 sprint 11 8th 12 persecution 12 8th 8th Mass start 6th 3 7th Season 24 10 6th
last change: end of career

Emil Hegle Svendsen (born July 12, 1985 in Trondheim ) is a former Norwegian biathlete and Olympic champion in biathlon.

Career

He won a total of four junior world titles (2004 in Haute-Maurienne in the pursuit and relay race and 2005 in Kontiolahti in the individual race and sprint).

Beginnings in the biathlon world cup

In the 2005/06 season he took part in World Cup races for the first time and was able to achieve three fifth places as the best place, two of them in the sprint over 10 km in Brezno-Osrblie and Ruhpolding and one in the 15 km mass start race at Holmenkollen in Oslo . His first World Cup season, in which he participated in twelve of the 26 individual competitions, Svendsen finished 22nd in the overall World Cup ranking. At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 he was nominated for the 15 km mass start race in San Sicario , which he surprisingly finished sixth.

First podium places and first World Championship medals

In the 2006/07 season he achieved his first podium finishes with second place in the mass start in Ruhpolding and two third places in the sprints of Ruhpolding and Pokljuka .

At the 2007 World Championships in Antholz he won his first senior medal with bronze in the mixed relay. On December 13, 2007, Svendsen achieved his first victory in a World Cup race in the 20 km individual race from Pokljuka. At the 2008 World Championships in Östersund , Sweden , he was world champion in individual races as well as in the mass start and also won the silver medal with the Norwegian relay. In the overall World Cup ranking, his best results so far were two third places, which he took in the 2007/08 season behind his compatriot Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Russian Dmitri Jaroschenko and in 2008/09 behind Bjørndalen and Poland's Tomasz Sikora .

Double Olympic victory and overall World Cup victory in 2009/10

Svendsen in Kontiolahti , 2010

In the Olympic winter 2009/10 Svendsen started with a victory in the Östersund singles and took over the yellow jersey of the overall World Cup leader. Two days later he was second in the sprint behind Bjørndalen. During the season he won the pursuit in Hochfilzen , the sprint and the mass start in Oberhof .

At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , he won the silver medal in the sprint over 10 km behind the French Vincent Jay . In the subsequent 12.5 km pursuit race, he finished eighth. Emil Hegle Svendsen celebrated the greatest success of his career at this time when he won the gold medal in the individual over 20 km ahead of Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Sjarhej Nowikau , who shared second place. Together with his compatriots Bjørndalen, Halvard Hanevold and Tarjei Bø , he also won the men's relay and was crowned double Olympic champion in Vancouver. The victory in the overall World Cup rounded off the Norwegian’s most successful World Cup season to date.

The post-Olympic season 2010/2011

In the new 2010/11 season he began - as in the previous year - with a victory in the Östersund singles. He also won the sprint and came second in the pursuit. In the following races he had to be satisfied with results beyond the podium and lost the lead in the overall World Cup to his young compatriot Tarjei Bø . With a second place in the mass start in Oberhof and a victory in the individual in Ruhpolding , however, he reported back in the fight for the overall World Cup. He won again in the sprint and in the pursuit of Fort Kent . At the World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia , he won silver in the pursuit, as well as gold in the mass start and with the relay. At the end of the season he still won the pursuit and the mass start at his home races in Oslo , but lost the fight for the overall World Cup by five points against Bø. So he finished second ahead of the Frenchman Martin Fourcade , who was to develop into his worst competitor in the years that followed.

World Cup 2011/2012

The 2011/12 season began for him with two podiums in Östersund. In the further course of the World Cup winter, he won the pursuit in Hochfilzen, the sprint in Nové Město na Moravě , as in the previous year the mass start in Oslo and the final race, the mass start in Khanty-Mansiysk. At the World Championships in Ruhpolding , he won silver in the sprint and gold again in the relay, but lost the title in the mass start to Fourcade. Especially towards the end of the season, Svendsen mostly had no chance against the French and so he ended the season again in second place overall, ahead of the two Germans Andreas Birnbacher and Arnd Peiffer .

Triumph at the World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě

In the World Cup 2012/2013 Svendsen showed consistently high-level performance. However, apart from the pursuit in Pokljuka up to the world championship this season, he could not win a World Cup race and was overshadowed by Martin Fourcade, who traveled as the top favorite to the season highlight in Nové Město na Moravě. There Svendsen turned the tables and left Fourcade just behind in both the sprint and pursuit races. He was also able to win the gold medal in the two relay competitions. After he missed the individual race over 20 km due to illness, he managed to win the fifth medal with bronze in the final mass start competition. This made him the most successful biathlete at these world championships. After the high point of the season, Svendsen missed the other races at home in Holmenkollen as well as the test competitions for the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, so that he had to let Fourcade go again in the fight for the overall World Cup.

Another double Olympic victory in 2014

After the first races of the season were rather mediocre for Svendsen, he was able to win several World Cup races in the further course of the season. For tactical reasons, he skipped a few races with a view to the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, in order to be able to call up his maximum performance at the peak of the season. The first Olympic races, however, were rather disappointing. Only in the last individual race, the mass start, was he able to triumph in the finish sprint ahead of his long-term rival Fourcade. In the mixed competition held for the first time at these games, Svendsen won his second gold medal together with Tora Berger , Tiril Eckhoff and Bjørndalen and thus repeated his double triumph in Vancouver 2010. Svendsen awarded the hoped-for Olympic victory in the men's relay at the last shooting, which the Norwegian team reached in the end fourth place. For the fourth time in a row Svendsen was second in the overall World Cup.

Transition year 2014/2015

The 2014/2015 World Cup season got off to a strong start for Svendsen in Östersund. After a victory and another place on the podium, Svendsen initially took over the yellow jersey of the overall leader, which he had to give back to Martin Fourcade after the season, however, after poor results . In the overall World Cup he lost more and more ground and fell so far behind that he was not the best-placed Norwegian in the World Cup for the first time in a long time, after the young Johannes Thingnes Bø had again trumped strong. Also at the upcoming World Championships in Kontiolahti this year he was not considered a favorite for the first time. In the mixed relay, preference was given to the Bø brothers. Even in the sprint and in the pursuit, he did not make it to the podium. It was only in the individual race that the Norwegian achieved his best individual performance with a faultless shooting performance and won silver behind Martin Fourcade. Together with Johannes and Tarjei Bø and Bjørndalen, he again won silver behind Germany. It was the first World Cup since 2008 that Svendsen ended without a title. He did not stop the persecution of Khanty-Mansiysk because of poor material.

In the 2015/16 season he came in 10th place in the overall World Cup standings, to which several podium finishes also contributed. In the Pursuit World Cup he even took 7th place. At the 2016 Biathlon World Championships in Oslo he only came 17th in the men's sprint, but was able to work his way up to 3rd place in the pursuit. He also won the gold medal for Norway with the relay.

Season 2016/17

This season went better than the previous one. It brought him back several podium places, with two second places and one third place standing out in the pursuit races. This brought him to 7th place in the overall standings and 5th place in the Pursuit World Cup, plus a third place in the Sprint World Cup. At the 2017 World Championships in Hochfilzen, however, he did not make it into the top 20 in the individual races. Even with the relay it was only 8th place.

Third Olympic season 2017/18

Svendsen in Oberhof in January 2018

His entry into his last World Cup season was quite satisfactory with an 11th place in the individual, as well as a 4th place in each sprint and pursuit in Östersund . He had to skip the next two stations, however, only in Oberhof could he participate again (2nd place in the sprint and 4th place in the pursuit). In Ruhpolding he didn't get along at all and in Antholz it was also quite bad with 32nd place in the sprint, but he was able to work his way up to 5th place in the pursuit. He was also able to convince in the mass start with 7th place. At the Winter Olympics he came in sprint to 18th place, in the pursuit race that followed, he fell back to 20th place. In the mass start, however, he won another bronze medal behind Martin Fourcade and Simon Schempp . Before that, he had reached 10th place in the individual. At the end he reached the silver medal with the Norwegian men's relay after he had also won silver in the mixed relay.

In April 2018, Svendsen ended his career as an active biathlete.

Balance sheet

With his successes at the World Championships in Nové Město 2013, Svendsen rose to become the most successful biathlete at World Championships behind Ole Einar Bjørndalen and later Martin Fourcade . In addition, Svendsen won at least one world title on all individual routes and in both relay competitions. Apart from him, only Bjørndalen managed to do this. His constancy was particularly reflected in the results of the overall World Cup. Although he only won the World Cup once, at the end of the season he was always at least third place from 2007/2008 to 2013/2014. With 37 World Cup victories, he is in fourth place in the all-time list of the best, behind Bjørndalen, Martin Fourcade and Raphaël Poirée .

Others

In 2012 Emil Hegle Svendsen received the Holmenkollen Medal together with Magdalena Neuner . Emil Svendsen is also not related to the Norwegian biathlete Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen, who is about the same age .

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place	8th	11	12	6th	24	61
2nd place	2	8th	8th	3	10	31
3rd place	1	12	8th	7th	6th	34
Top 10	15th	59	54	32	51	211
Scoring	24	91	73	52	52	292
Starts	27	97	76	52	52	304
Status: end of career

World Cup victories

Award ceremony of the pursuit race in December 2012 on the Pokljuka plateau; Svendsen before Moravec and Fourcade

Note: In biathlon, races at the Olympic Games from 1998 to 2010 (OS) and all world championships (WM) since 1994 belong to the World Cup.

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. Dec 13, 2007  Pokljuka singles 2. Feb 14, 2008  Östersund (World Cup) singles 3. Feb 17, 2008  Östersund (World Cup) Mass start 4th Feb. 27, 2008  Pyeongchang sprint 5. 0March 8 2008  Khanty-Mansiysk persecution 6th 13 Mar 2008  Oslo sprint 7th 0Dec 6, 2008  Ostersund sprint 8th. Dec 12, 2008  Hochfilzen sprint 9. Dec 13, 2008  Hochfilzen persecution 10. Jan. 23, 2009  Antholz sprint 11. 28 Mar 2009  Khanty-Mansiysk persecution 12. 0Dec 3, 2009  Ostersund singles 13. Dec 12, 2009  Hochfilzen persecution 14th Jan. 14, 2010  Ruhpolding sprint 15th Jan. 16, 2010  Ruhpolding Mass start 16. Feb. 18, 2010  Vancouver (OS) singles 17th 0Dec 2, 2010  Ostersund singles 18th 0Dec 4, 2010  Ostersund sprint 19th Jan. 12, 2011  Ruhpolding singles 20th Feb 10, 2011  Fort Kent sprint 21st Feb 12, 2011  Fort Kent persecution 22nd March 12 2011  Khanty-Mansiysk (WM) Mass start 23. 19 Mar 2011  Oslo persecution 24. 20 Mar 2011  Oslo Mass start 25th Dec 10, 2011  Hochfilzen persecution 26th Jan. 14, 2012  Nové Město na Moravě sprint 27. 0Feb 5, 2012  Oslo Mass start 28. 18 Mar 2012  Khanty-Mansiysk Mass start 29 Dec 15, 2012  Pokljuka persecution 30th 0Feb 9, 2013  Nové Město na Moravě (World Cup) sprint 31. Feb 10, 2013  Nové Město na Moravě (World Cup) persecution 32. 0Jan. 3, 2014  Oberhof sprint 33. 0Jan. 4, 2014  Oberhof persecution 34. Jan. 11, 2014  Ruhpolding singles 35. Jan. 12, 2014  Ruhpolding persecution 36. 03 Dec 2014  Ostersund singles 37. Dec 20, 2014  Pokljuka persecution

No. date place discipline 1. Dec 17, 2006  Hochfilzen Season 1 2. Jan. 11, 2007  Ruhpolding Season 2 3. Dec 9, 2007  Hochfilzen Season 3 4th Jan. 4, 2008  Oberhof Season 3 5. Jan. 10, 2008  Ruhpolding Season 4 6th Jan 15, 2009  Ruhpolding Season 3 7th Feb 22, 2009  Pyeongchang (World Cup) Season 5 8th. Jan. 7, 2010  Oberhof Season 6 9. Feb. 26, 2010  Vancouver (OS) Season 6 10. Dec 12, 2010  Hochfilzen Season 7 11. 11th Mar 2011  Khanty-Mansiysk (WM) Season 7 12. Dec 11, 2011  Hochfilzen Season 8 13. 1st Mar 2012  Ruhpolding (WM) Mixed season 9 14th 9 Mar 2012  Ruhpolding (WM) Season 10 15th Feb 7, 2013  Nové Město (World Cup) Mixed season 11 16. Feb 16, 2013  Nové Město (World Cup) Season 12 17th Dec 7, 2013  Hochfilzen Season 13 18th 19th Feb. 2014  Sochi (OS) Mixed season 14 19th Jan 15, 2015  Ruhpolding Season 15 20th Jan. 25, 2015  Antholz Season 16 21st Jan 15, 2016  Ruhpolding Season 16 22nd March 12 2016  Oslo (World Cup) Season 16 23. Jan. 11, 2017  Ruhpolding Season 17 24. Nov 26, 2017  Ostersund Mixed season 18 25th Jan. 12, 2018  Ruhpolding Season 19 1With Frode Andresen , Lars Berger and Halvard Hanevold . 2With Halvard Hanevold, Frode Andresen and Ole Einar Bjørndalen . 3With Alexander Os , Halvard Hanevold and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. 4thWith Rune Brattsveen , Halvard Hanevold and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. 5 With Lars Berger, Halvard Hanevold and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. 6thWith Halvard Hanevold, Tarjei Bø and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. 7th With Alexander Os, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Tarjei Bø. 8th With Rune Brattsveen, Lars Berger and Tarjei Bø. 9With Tora Berger , Synnøve Solemdal and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. 10 With Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Rune Brattsveen and Tarjei Bø. 11 With Tora Berger, Synnøve Solemdal and Tarjei Bø. 12With Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Henrik L'Abée-Lund and Tarjei Bø. 13With Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen , Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Tarjei Bø. 14thWith Tora Berger, Tiril Eckhoff and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. 15thWith Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Erlend Bjøntegaard and Johannes Thingnes Bø . 16 With Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Tarjei Bø and Johannes Thingnes Bø. 17th With Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen and Henrik L'Abée-Lund. 18thWith Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold , Tiril Eckhoff and Johannes Thingnes Bø. 19thWith Lars Helge Birkeland , Tarjei Bø and Johannes Thingnes Bø.

World Cup ratings

• 1 × winner of the overall World Cup (2009/10)
• 3 × 2nd place (2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2012/13)
• 2 × 3rd place (2007/08 , 2008/09)

World championships

Svendsen during the pursuit at the 2008 World Championships in Östersund

Results at Biathlon World Championships:

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2007	Antholz	-	7th	5.	-	-	3.
2008	Ostersund	1.	12.	12.	1.	2.	-
2009	Pyeongchang	DNS	-	-	12.	1.	-
2010	Khanty-Mansiysk (Mixed Relay World Championship)						2.
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	4th	5.	2.	1.	1.	-
2012	Ruhpolding	8th.	2.	5.	18th	1.	1.
2013	Nové Město		1.	1.	3.	1.	1.
2015	Kontiolahti	2.	36.	19th	15th	2.	-
2016	Oslo	32.	17th	3.	28.	1.
2017	Hochfilzen	27.	36.	DNS	28.	8th.	8th.

winter Olympics

Award ceremony of the mixed relay at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2006	Turin	-	-	-	6th	-
2010	Vancouver	1.	2.	8th.	13.	1.	-
2014	Sochi	7th	9.	7th	1.		1.
2018	Pyeongchang	10.	18th	20th	3.	2.	2.

Norwegian championships

Emil Hegle Svendsen won a total of eight gold, five silver and six bronze medals at Norwegian Biathlon Championships during his active career . Specifically, these were:

• 2007 Folldal : 1 × gold (individual), 1 × silver (relay)
• 2008 Stryn : 2 × gold (sprint, pursuit), 1 × bronze (relay)
• 2009 Lillehammer : 1 × silver (individual)
• 2010 Simostranda : 1 × gold (sprint), 1 × silver (mass start), 1 × bronze (relay)
• 2011 Målselv : 1 × silver (individual), 1 × bronze (pursuit)
• 2012 Trondheim : 1 × gold (sprint), 2 × bronze (mass start, relay)
• 2013 Dombås : 1 × gold (pursuit), 1 × bronze (sprint)
• 2015 Sirdal : 1 × gold (season)
• 2016 Dombås : 1 × gold (relay)
• 2017 Mo i Rana : 1 × silver (relay)

Web links

Commons : Emil Hegle Svendsen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Emil Hegle Svendsen in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Emil Hegle Svendsen. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ^ After Björndalen: With Svendsen another biathlon star stops. Retrieved April 9, 2018 .