Fanny Horn Birkeland
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Full name | Fanny Horn Birkeland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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birthday | March 8, 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth |
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society |
IL Heming Oslo SSL |
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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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
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2with Synnøve Solemdal, Hilde Fenne and Tora Berger
4thwith Synnøve Solemdal, Tiril Eckhoff and Marte Olsbu
4thwith Marte Olsbu, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Johannes Thingnes Bø
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winter Olympics
Results at Olympic Winter Games:
winter Olympics | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | Mixed relay | |
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2014 |
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World championships
Results at Biathlon World Championships:
World Championship | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | Mixed relay | |
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2011 |
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29 | 23. | 30th | 28. | 5. | - |
2012 |
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33. | - | - | - | 3. | - |
2013 |
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54. | 35. | 37. | - | - | - |
2015 |
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41. | 78. | - | - | 4th | 3. |
2016 |
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31. | 42. | 19th | 9. | 1. | - |
2017 |
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63. | 72. | - | - | - | - |
Web links
- 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 )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Horn Birkeland, Fanny |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Horn, fanny; Horn, Fanny Wave Beach |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo , Norway |