Hanna Öberg

Hanna Öberg
Full name	Hanna Linnea Öberg
Association	Sweden
birthday	2nd November 1995 (age 24)
place of birth	Kiruna , Sweden
size	178 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
job	Student
society	Piteå Skidskytte Klubb
Trainer	Wolfgang Pichler
Admission to the national team	2014
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2015
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	1
Debut in the World Cup	2016
World Cup victories	4 (3 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 2 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang singles silver 2018 Pyeongchang Season  Biathlon world championships gold 2019 Östersund singles silver 2019 Östersund Season bronze 2019 Östersund Single mixed relay bronze 2020 Antholz Mass start  European biathlon championships gold 2019 Minsk-Raubitschy singles bronze 2019 Minsk-Raubitschy sprint  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2012 Kontiolahti Youth relay gold 2016 Cheile Grădiștei Junior sprint gold 2016 Cheile Grădiștei Junior pursuit silver 2016 Cheile Grădiștei Junior relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	4. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	1. ( 2019/20 )
Sprint World Cup	5th (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	4. (2019/20)
Mass start world cup	1. (2018/19)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 1 1 0 sprint 0 1 2 persecution 0 1 3 Mass start 2 1 1 Season 1 3 3
last change: March 14, 2020

Hanna Linnea Öberg (born November 2, 1995 in Kiruna ) is a Swedish biathlete .

After two junior world championship titles, Öberg made his debut in the biathlon world cup in 2016 . In the individual over 15 kilometers she was Olympic champion in 2018 and world and European champion the following year. In 2018/19 and 2019/20 she finished fifth and fourth of the overall World Cup, respectively.

Athletic career

Youth and junior area and IBU Cup debut (until 2016)

As a child, Öberg first trained cross-country skiing at the Hemmingsmark SK club and in 2005 took up biathlon at the Piteå Skidskytte Klubb . From 2011 to 2015 she attended the ski school in Sollefteå in the biathlon branch, and during this time she competed in her first international competitions in the junior division. From 2012 she took part in the youth and junior world championships for five years in a row and won the silver medal in the relay race with Linn Persson and Lotten Sjödén at her first start in Kontiolahti . She achieved her first result among the top ten in an individual competition as the pursuit seventh in 2014 . In her last year as a junior, Öberg became world champion in her age group in both the sprint and pursuit races in Cheile Grădiștei in 2016 , failed in both races and triumphed in front of Lena Häcki from Switzerland. In addition, she won the silver medal in the relay race with Anna Magnusson and Sofia Myhr , where she was used as the final runner. At the end of the 2015/16 season, the Swedish Biathlon Association named Öberg Biathlete of the Year (cross-gender, in the original: "Årets skidskytt") for her successes .

With a view to the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2019 home World Cup in Östersund - and against the background of a significant drop in performance in the World Cup team after the resignations of World Champions Helena Ekholm and Anna Carin Zidek - the Swedish coaches focused on promoting young biathletes from 2014 onwards. In the spring of 2014, Öberg, who was 18 at the time, was included in the A-squad for the summer preparation for the first time, and in 2015 when Wolfgang Pichler took over the position of head coach, which he held until 2019. Öberg later recognized the training under Pichler as an important part of her development. In the 2015/16 season she received appearances in the IBU Cup, the second highest competition series in the adult division, and achieved eleventh place in the sprint as an individual best. In addition, she missed winning a medal by just one place at the European Championships together with Tobias Arwidson in the single mixed relay.

Beginnings in the World Cup and Olympic victory (2016 to 2018)

Öberg at the World Cup in Östersund 2017

At the start of the 2016/17 season , Öberg made his debut in the local Östersund World Cup and achieved sixth place in the mixed relay with Anna Magnusson, Jesper Nelin and Fredrik Lindström . Öberg ran in second position and handed over to the leading Italian relay with just a few seconds behind. Three days later, she finished eighth in her first individual race (due to the retroactive suspension of the Russian Glasyrina, she later moved up to seventh place): In the 15-kilometer competition, she hit 16 out of 20 shots in difficult wind conditions and was at the Laura Dahlmeier's best Swede wins . In the further course of the season she reached two more top ten results in Ruhpolding as seventh of the sprint and fifth in the subsequent pursuit, but at the same time missed the points of the top 40 in eight of fourteen individual starts. In the overall World Cup, she placed 47th, making her the third best placed athlete on her team after Anna Magnusson and Mona Brorsson . The IBU Biathlon World Federation named Öberg Rookie of the Year .

Öberg missed several of the first World Cup races in 2017/18 due to illness , but reached third place in Ruhpolding as the final runner with the Swedish relay and thus her first podium. At the 2018 Winter Olympics , she finished seventh and fifth in the sprint and pursuit. Three days later she was one of three starters in the 15-kilometer individual race without shooting errors and - without having won a race in the World Cup by then - became the Olympic champion ahead of Anastasiya Kuzmina . In the mass start she again landed in fifth place, at the end of the Olympic competitions she won the silver medal in the women's relay together with Linn Persson , Mona Brorsson and Anna Magnusson. As the final runner, she started the race in eighth place and was the only one of the leading athletes to hit all five targets without a reload cartridge in the final shooting. At the last three World Cups of the winter, she was able to confirm her form with fifth place in the Kontiolahti mass start .

Establishment among the world's best (since 2018)

Öberg after winning the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships

The 2018/19 season started for Öberg with eighth place in the individual on the Pokljuka. She then fell slightly ill, but was then able to achieve her first podium in individual races in the World Cup in Nové Město after flawless shooting and sixth place in the sprint in the pursuit as third. Further third places followed in the sprint in Oberhof and in the sprint in Ruhpolding, overall she ran consistently good races in the World Cup and was in the top ten seven times in a row in December and January. Like the entire Swedish team, Öberg skipped the World Cups in Canmore and Soldier Hollow and instead took part in the 2019 European Championships in Minsk-Raubitschky . There she won the gold medal in the individual and the bronze medal in the sprint. At the World Championships in her home town of Östersund , she achieved one of the top five places in every race, including the relay. As in the previous year at the Olympics, this included the individual title and thus also her first World Cup victory and the silver medal in the women's relay. With Sebastian Samuelsson she also won the bronze medal in the single mixed relay that was held for the first time. At the following World Cup final in Oslo , Hanna Öberg won the last race of the season, the mass start, and thus secured victory in the individual ranking for this discipline as well as fifth place in the overall World Cup.

In the winter of 2019/20 , Öberg took part in 19 individual World Cup races, in which she was one of the top ten places 13 times. She decided the mass start on the Pokljuka as well as the overall ranking of the individual World Cup, while she took fourth place in the overall World Cup. At the world championships in Antholz she won the bronze medal in the mass start after several fourth and fifth places. Together with Sebastian Samuelsson, she won her first relay race in Östersund, and she also made it onto the podium twice in the women's relay, both as the final runner. In particular, Öberg's mileage increased in 2019/20 compared to the previous seasons: in 2018 and 2019 her times were about two percent faster than the average of the World Cup field, in 2020 she undercut the average times on the route by four percent.

Personal and appreciation

Öberg was born in Kiruna in the province of Norrbotten and moved with her family to the municipality of Piteå as a child . There her father founded the Piteå Skidskytte Klubb in the mid-2000s , in which, in addition to Öberg, Anna Magnusson , who was about the same age, trained. Magnusson's and Öberg's careers ran largely parallel for a long time, so both attended the ski school in Sollefteå. Magnusson became part of the Swedish World Cup team in 2015 - a year earlier than Öberg - and won the bronze medal in the sprint won by Öberg at the 2016 Junior World Championships. In 2017, in an interview with the regional newspaper Norrbottens, both attributed a large part of the mutual success to the friendly competition among themselves. Hanna Öberg's three years younger sister Elvira won three gold medals at the youth world championships in 2018 a few weeks after Hanna's Olympic victory , which led to media comparisons between the sisters. In December 2019, both Öbergs ran together in a Swedish World Cup relay for the first time and took third place (with Linn Persson and Mona Brorsson). Hanna Öberg is in a relationship with her teammate Jesper Nelin and after graduating from school in Sollefteå , she moved to Sweden's biathlon center Östersund , where she started studying at the university .

After her Olympic victory, which was perceived as a big surprise - which followed a series of years without a win for Swedish biathletes in the international field - Öberg experienced great popularity in her home country. At the end of 2018 she received both the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal for the best performance of a Swedish athlete in the year and the radio sport Jerringpris . At the home world championships 2019 in Östersund, the organizers advertised with their likeness. Accordingly, journalists recognized their renewed success at the World Cup as a special mental achievement in view of the increased expectations. In the summer of 2019, Crown Princess Victoria awarded her the Victoria Prize .

statistics

World cup

World Cup victories

Single race	Relay race
No. date place discipline 1. March 12 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) singles 2. 24 Mar 2019  Oslo Mass start 3. Jan. 26, 2020  Pokljuka Mass start	No. date place discipline 1. Nov 30, 2019  Ostersund Mixed season 1 1with Sebastian Samuelsson

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	1			2	1	4th
2nd place	1	1	1	1	3	7th
3rd place		2	3	1	3	9
Top 10	6th	8th	8th	10	26th	58
Scoring	8th	20th	15th	10	27	80
Starts	9	26th	17th	10	27	89
Status: end of season 2019/20

winter Olympics

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	7th	5.	1.	5.	2.	11.

World championships

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay	S.-M.-Relay
Biathlon World Championships 2017 Hochfilzen	40.	49.	55.	-	6th	6th
Biathlon World Championships 2019 Östersund	4th	5.	1.	4th	2.	5.	3.
Biathlon World Championships 2020 Antholz	18th	4th	4th	3.	5.	11.	4th

European championships

event	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
EM 2016 in Tyumen	40.	22nd		13.	-	4th
EM 2019 in Minsk-Raubitschy	3.		1.		-	-

Youth / Junior World Championships

event	singles	sprint	persecution	Season
Youth World Cup 2012 in Kontiolahti	43.	51.	45.	2.
Youth World Cup 2013 in Obertilliach	DNS	42.	29	20th
Youth World Cup 2014 in Presque Isle	27.	19th	7th	7th
Junior World Championships 2015 in Minsk	13.	16.	19th	4th
Junior World Championships 2016 in Cheile Grădiştei	10	1.	1.	2.

Honourings and prices

• 2018: Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal ( Bragdguldet )
• 2018: Radiosportens Jerringpris
• 2019: Victoriapriset

Web links

Commons : Hanna Öberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Hanna Öberg in the IBU database (English)
• Homepage with blog (Swedish)
• Hanna Öberg in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hanna Öberg. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Moet: Hanna Öberg on skidskytte.se. Released August 21, 2015. Accessed April 26, 2020.
3. ↑ Svenska Skidskytteförbundet Verksamhetsberättelse 2015-2016 (PDF) on skidskytte.se. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
4. ↑ Patrik Jemteborn: A-landslaget träningsgrupp våren / sommaren 2014 on skidskytte.se. Released April 24, 2014. Accessed April 26, 2020.
5. ↑ Hanna Öberg: Nya landslaget on hanna-oberg.se. Released May 6, 2015. Accessed April 26, 2020.
6. ↑ "Wolfgang lärde mig vad som krävs" - Hanna Öberg hyllar Pichler on aftonbladet.se. Released May 1, 2019. Accessed April 26, 2020.
7. ↑ Simon Sjöstrand: Succédebut av Öberg: "Fattar ingenting" on aftonbladet.se. Released November 30, 2016. Accessed April 26, 2020.
8. ↑ Jaka Lucu: Always redefining the perfect race. In: Biathlonworld , number 50/2019, pp. 66–69. Available online as a PDF . “I had missed so much of the season, it was tough. I was never seriously ill, I was ailing, started exercising again, was ailing again, and so on. I had a lot of time before the Olympics. "
9. ↑ Albin Julin: Svenskan kraschade: ”Det såg inte bra ut” on expressen.se. Released December 8, 2018. Accessed April 27, 2020.
10. ↑ Hanna Öberg in the IBU database (English)
11. ↑ Henrik Skiöld ( TT ): Började på pappas vall - slutade med OS-guld on eposten.se. Released February 15, 2018. Accessed April 27, 2020.
12. ↑ Simon Jakobsson: Så blev 95-duon OS-hopp: "Allt är möjligt" on kuriren.nu. Published on April 25, 2017. Accessed on April 26, 2020. "Hanna Öberg: - Största delen är att vi har haft varandra." (In German, for example: "The most important thing is that we had each other.")
13. ^ Moa Höjer: Elvira Öberg: "Man har hunnit brottas en del" on kuriren.nu. Released March 18, 2018. Accessed April 25, 2020.
14. ↑ Patric Sellen: Elvira Öberg, 18, bättre än storasyster Hanna on svt.se. Released February 16, 2018. Accessed April 25, 2020.
15. ↑ APA : Swede Öberg sensation winner on derstandard.de. Released February 15, 2018. Accessed April 27, 2020.
16. ↑ Saskia Aleythe: Crown over the cap. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. (14.03.2019), Sport, p. 30. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
17. ↑ Anders Lindblad: Psyket Öbergs främsta styrka. In: Svenska Dagbladet. (March 13, 2019). Retrieved via press reader .
18. ↑ Hanna Öberg mottog pris av kronprinsessan på Öland on dn.se. Released July 14, 2019. Accessed April 27, 2020.