Fredrik Lindström (biathlete)

Fredrik Lindström
Association	Sweden
birthday	24th July 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Bredbyn , Sweden
Career
society	Anundsjö SKF
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
Debut in the World Cup	2008
World Cup victories	4 (1 individual victory)
status	resigned
End of career	March 22, 2019
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × SM medals 2 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 2012 Ruhpolding Mass start bronze 2013 Nové Město singles  Swedish championships gold 2010 sprint gold 2010 persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	7th ( 2012/13 )
Individual World Cup	7th (2012/13)
Sprint World Cup	9th ( 2011/12 )
Pursuit World Cup	4. (2012/13)
Mass start world cup	4th (2011/12)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 0 1 sprint 1 2 2 Mass start 0 0 1 Season 3 2 1
last change: March 22, 2018

Fredrik Wilhelm Lindström (born July 24, 1989 in Bredbyn , Örnsköldsvik municipality ) is a former Swedish biathlete .

Career

Beginnings

Fredrik Lindström from Anundsjö SKF grew up in Bredbyn. He contested his first international races in Presque Isle in 2006 and in Martell in 2007 as part of the Junior World Championships. In 2006, when he was fourth in the relay, he was the best result, but in 2007 he was sixth in the relay, seventh in the sprint and 15th in the pursuit. Since the 2007/08 season, Lindström has taken part in races in the Junior European Cup and won his first sprint in Geilo . In the pursuit race that followed, he dropped to 28th place, but also reached the top position in the following sprint from Torsby . In the pursuit race that followed, he was able to confirm the top position as runner-up this time. The Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding once again brought the best result with sixth place in the relay, and the young Swede also ran 29th in the sprint, 22nd in the pursuit and 30th in the individual. In 2009, Lindström ran his fourth Junior World Championship in Canmore . Again he finished sixth, but now in the pursuit race, with the relay the Swede only finished eighth. In the sprint he was 14th and 17th in the individual.

First World Cup and first Olympic Games (2008 to 2010)

At the start of the 2008/09 season , Lindström made his debut in the men's IBU Cup . In the first sprint in Idre he was 28th, in the following pursuit race he improved to sixth place. In Hochfilzen he was allowed to represent the sick Magnus Jonsson in the World Cup for the first time . In the sprint, Lindström was 47, missing the World Cup points by seven places, but qualified for the pursuit race in which he was 55th. In the course of the season the Swede was able to run other races in Whistler , now replacing the sick Björn Ferry . In the individual, he again missed the points by a few placements in 48th place, but in the sprint he made 13th place with a faultless performance and was third-best Swede in the race after Jörgen Brink and directly behind Carl , only half a second apart Johan Bergman . In his first season in the World Cup in Vancouver, he won the race with the Swedish relay, it was only the second success of a Swedish men's relay ever. Fredrik Lindström took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. His best result was 33rd place in the pursuit. With the relay he finished 4th.

Nationally, Lindström won the sprint and pursuit titles at the 2010 Swedish Biathlon Championships .

First World Cup victory and second Olympic Games (2010 to 2014)

In the post-Olympic season , Lindström was able to win again in a relay race. This time the mixed relay race in Pokljuka , together with Helena Ekholm , Anna Carin Zidek and Carl Johann Bergman. This was the second victory of a Swedish mixed relay. At its first World Championships in 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk , the men 's relay narrowly missed a medal with a fourth place. He himself was able to achieve 11th place in both the sprint and the mass start. At the season finale in Oslo he achieved his personal best with a fifth place in the sprint and pursuit.

In the following season 2011/2012 Fredrik Lindström was able to win a sprint race in Antholz and thus celebrate his first victory in the World Cup. At the world championships of the same year he won his first medal in the mass start with a third place. The Swedish mixed relay just missed the podium with a fourth place. At the end of the season he reached the podium again in the sprint with a third place. He finished fourth in the discipline of the mass start.

In the 2012/2013 season , Lindström was unable to build on his good placements from the previous season. However, thanks to his consistent results, both in the overall World Cup and in the individual World Cup, he achieved seventh place in the overall ranking. In the pursuit classification he finished fourth without having achieved a single podium. At the World Championships in Nové Město , he again won the bronze medal. This time in the individual race, in the sprint, he finished eighth and was able to improve to seventh place in the pursuit. At the 2014 Winter Olympics , he finished in the top twenty in all individual races and finished sixth in the mass start.

Third relay victory and Olympic victory (2014 to 2019)

In the following years, Lindström was unable to build on his previous performance and only achieved a few top ten results. A fourth place in the mass start in the 2014/15 season was his season best. In the following season he could not achieve a top ten result. He started the 2016/17 season more successfully with a ninth place in the individual and a second in the sprint. But he was unable to maintain this level throughout the season. At the world championships , he achieved his third top ten place of the season with sixth place in the mass start. He finished fourth in the final pursuit of the season.

In the Olympic season 2017/18 started Linström with a seventh place in the sprint and fifth in the pursuit of success. The season started successfully for the Swedish season with fourth place in Hochfilzen. In Oberhof, the men's relay , consisting of Lindström, Martin Ponsiluoma , Sebastian Samuelsson and Jesper Nelin , celebrated their first victory since 2009. The relay at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang built on this performance and Lindström won the gold medal in the men's relay with Peppe Femling , Sebastian Samuelsson and Jesper Nelin. Before that, he had already finished eighth in the individual race and 15th in the mass start.

After the sprint race in Oslo in the 2018/19 season , in which he finished 68th, he ended his career as a competitive athlete.

statistics

World Cup victories

All victories at biathlon world cups, listed separately according to individual and relay races. The columns can be sorted by clicking the symbol in the table header.

Single race	Relay race
No. date place discipline 1. Jan. 20, 2012  Antholz Sprint (10 km)	No. date place discipline 1. 13 Mar 2009  Vancouver (Whistler) Season 1 2. Dec 19, 2010  Pokljuka Mixed relay 2 3. 0Jan. 7, 2018  Oberhof Season 3 1with David Ekholm , Mattias Nilsson and Carl Johan Bergman 2with Helena Ekholm , Anna Carin Zidek and Carl Johan Bergman 1with Martin Ponsiluoma , Jesper Nelin and Sebastian Samuelsson

World Cup statistics

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			3	4th
2nd place		2			2	4th
3rd place	1	1		1	1	4th
Top 10	4th	15th	14th	7th	38	78
Scoring	21st	57	51	31	51	211
Starts	27	73	58	31	51	240
As of February 25, 2018

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
2010 Winter Olympics | Vancouver	38.	33.	77.	-	4th
Olympic Winter Games 2014 | Sochi	18th	13.	15th	6th	10.	-
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	39.	29	8th.	15th	1.	11.

World championships

Results at world championships:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
World Championships 2011 | Khanty-Mansiysk	11.	25th	61.	11.	4th	-
World Championships 2012 | Ruhpolding	6th	10.	10.	3.	16.	4th
World Championships 2013 | Nové Město	8th.	7th	3.	12.	11.	13.
World Championships 2015 | Kontiolahti	20th	24.	38.	12.	-	16.
World Championships 2016 | Oslo	30th	34.	29	-	7th	12.
World Championships 2017 | Hochfilzen	30th	17th	38.	8th.	11.	6th

Junior World Championships

Results at Junior World Championships:

World Championship		sprint	persecution	singles	Season
year	place
2006	Presque Isle	38.	38.	50.	4th
2007	Martell	7th	15th	46.	6th
2008	Ruhpolding	29	22nd	30th	6th
2009	Canmore	14th	6th	17th	8th.

Web links

Commons : Fredrik Lindström  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fredrik Lindström in the database of the IBU (English)
• official website (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fredrik Lindström sköt bort sig i sista tavlingen. In: svt.se. Sveriges Television, March 22, 2019, accessed March 23, 2019 .