Fanny Horn Birkeland

Fanny Horn Birkeland
Full name	Fanny Horn Birkeland
Association	Norway
birthday	March 8, 1988
place of birth	Oslo ,  Norway
Career
society	IL Heming Oslo SSL
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2010
Debut in the World Cup	2009
World Cup victories	7 (1 individual victory)
status	resigned
End of career	2017
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 2 × NM medals 3 × 4 × 7 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2014 Sochi Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 2012 Ruhpolding Season bronze 2015 Kontiolahti Mixed relay gold 2016 Oslo Season  Norwegian championships bronze 2006 Trondheim Season bronze 2007 Folldal Season gold 2008 Stryn Season gold 2009 Lillehammer Season silver 2010 Simostranda Mass start bronze 2010 Simostranda Season bronze 2011 Målselv Season bronze 2012 Trondheim sprint silver 2012 Trondheim Season gold 2013 Dombås Season bronze 2013 Dombås sprint bronze 2013 Dombås persecution silver 2014 Voss Season silver 2017 Mo i Rana Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	27. ( 2013/14 )
Individual World Cup	21. ( 2015/16 )
Sprint World Cup	23. ( 2014/15 )
Pursuit World Cup	19. (2013/14)
Mass start world cup	27. (2013/14)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 1 0 0 Season 6th 1 4th
last change: end of career

Fanny Horn Birkeland , b. Fanny Welle-Strand Horn (born March 8, 1988 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier .

Career

biathlon

Fanny Horn-Birkeland from IL Heming started in 2007 in the Junior European Cup. Early on it ran into a single-digit place in Geilo . The first major event was the 2008 Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding , where she was among the top ten in three of the four races. In the sprint she was ninth, tenth in the pursuit race and with the relay she just missed a medal in fourth place with Vilde Ravnsborg Gurigard and Anne Lise Aas. In 2009 she ran the 2009 European Biathlon Championships in Ufa . She competed in the individual races in the junior area, where she was 12th in the individual, eighth in the sprint and eleventh in the pursuit. In the adult category , she was fifth together with Birgitte Røksund , Synnøve Solemdal and Kjersti Isaksen as the starter of the season. A year later she started at the 2010 European Biathlon Championships in Otepää , where she was 27th in the individual, seventh in the sprint and 16th in the pursuit. With Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen , Tiril Eckhoff and Solemdal, she also missed a medal by just one place in the relay race, finishing fourth. She had already been able to compete in the biathlon World Cup for the first time at the beginning of the 2009/10 season .

Fanny Horn-Birkeland's first race was an individual in Östersund , where she finished 62nd. After the three races at the start of the season, it ran over the season but mainly in the IBU Cup 2009/10 . In her first race in a sprint in Altenberg , she just missed the podium in fourth place. At the end of the season, three more races followed in the World Cup, in which she was able to improve her best position up to 48th place in a pursuit race on Holmenkollen in Oslo . For the 2010/11 season , Fanny Horn-Birkeland belonged to the Norwegian elite squad for the first time after good performance in the preseason and restructuring in the squad after the Olympic season. In Hochfilzen , she won her first World Cup points as the 30th of a sprint.

Fanny Horn-Birkeland was able to achieve success at an early age. At the Norwegian Biathlon Championships 2007 in Folldal , she won the bronze medal starting with Karen Kristoffersen and Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen for the Oslo og Akershus region . A year later she was able to win her first title in a relay race with Eckhoff and Bonnevie-Svendsen in Stryn . In 2009 the title was defended in Lillehammer with Nicolaisen for Eckhoff in the team. In 2010 she was able to win a relay medal, now bronze, in Simostranda with Nicolaisen and Eckhoff. In addition, she won her first individual medal at national championships behind Tora Berger with silver in the mass start.

On February 19, 2017, she announced that she would end her career at the end of the 2016/17 season.

Cross-country skiing

From 2008 Fanny Horn-Birkeland competed in races of the FIS and the Scandinavian Cup also in cross-country skiing.

Private

Fanny Horn Birkeland is married to the Norwegian biathlete Lars Helge Birkeland .

statistics

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place		1			6th	7th
2nd place					1	1
3rd place					4th	4th
Top 10		6th	3	1	27	37
Scoring	10	38	32	11	27	118
Starts	20th	58	40	11	27	156
Status: end of career

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. Jan. 16, 2015  Ruhpolding sprint

No. date place discipline 1. Dec 11, 2011  Hochfilzen Season 1 2. 0Dec 9, 2012  Hochfilzen Season 2 3. 0Feb 6, 2015  Nové Město na Moravě Mixed relay 3 4th Jan. 29, 2015  Ostersund Mixed relay 3 5. 11th Mar 2016  Oslo ( World Cup ) Season 4 6th Nov 27, 2016  Ostersund Mixed relay 5 1with Elise Ringen , Synnøve Solemdal and Tora Berger 2with Synnøve Solemdal, Hilde Fenne and Tora Berger 3with Tiril Eckhoff , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Tarjei Bø 4thwith Synnøve Solemdal, Tiril Eckhoff and Marte Olsbu 4thwith Marte Olsbu, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Johannes Thingnes Bø

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2014	Sochi	-	-	-	-	(3.)	-

World championships

Results at Biathlon World Championships:

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	29	23.	30th	28.	5.	-
2012	Ruhpolding	33.	-	-	-	3.	-
2013	Nové Město	54.	35.	37.	-	-	-
2015	Kontiolahti	41.	78.	-	-	4th	3.
2016	Oslo	31.	42.	19th	9.	1.	-
2017	Hochfilzen	63.	72.	-	-	-	-

Web links

Commons : Fanny Horn Birkeland  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Fanny Horn Birkeland in the IBU database (English)
• Fanny Horn Birkeland in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Fanny Horn Birkeland in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )