Helena Ekholm

Helena Ekholm
Full name	Hanna Helena Ekholm
Association	Sweden
birthday	September 6, 1984
place of birth	Helgum
Career
job	Student
society	I 21 IF Sollefteå
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2002
Debut in the World Cup	2005
World Cup victories	17 (13 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
World Cup medals 3 × 1 × 4 ×
Biathlon world championships gold 2007 Antholz Mixed relay gold 2009 Pyeongchang persecution silver 2009 Pyeongchang Mixed relay bronze 2009 Pyeongchang Mass start bronze 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay gold 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk singles bronze 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk persecution bronze 2012 Ruhpolding singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1.  ( 2008/09 )
Individual World Cup	1.  ( 2010/11 , 2011/12 )
Sprint World Cup	1.  ( 2008/09 )
Pursuit World Cup	3rd ( 2010/11 )
Mass start world cup	1st  ( 2008/09 ) 3rd ( 2007/2008 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 4th 1 3 sprint 2 4th 4th persecution 3 2 2 Mass start 4th 2 2 Season 4th 3 3

Hanna Helena Ekholm , née Jonsson [ ˈjunːson ] (born September 6, 1984 in Helgum , Sollefteå municipality ) is a former Swedish biathlete .

life and career

Helena Ekholm made her debut in Östersund in 2005 in a relay race (15th) in the Biathlon World Cup . At the following World Cup in Hochfilzen , she contested her first individual race (41st). In spring 2006 she took part in the Mixed World Championship in Pokljuka and was sixth. After she did not get past a 16th place in her first season, the following season began quite successfully for her. At the third season World Cup in Hochfilzen, she came fourth in the individual and eighth in the sprint. Also in the season she was fourth with the Swedish team. At the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz , she continued her upward trend and also took fourth place in the sprint. As a highlight, she won the gold medal with Sweden's mixed relay. She celebrated her first World Cup victory in the last race of the 2006/07 season , a mass start race in Khanty-Mansiysk .

At the World Cup opening of the 2008/09 season , Helena Ekholm was able to achieve her second individual World Cup success and the first in the individual competition in front of her own audience in Östersund with a faultless shooting. In the pursuit of the Biathlon World Championships in 2009 , she started from fifth place and achieved the world championship title through good shooting performance, and she also won silver in the mixed relay and bronze in the mass start. After the sprint race at the World Cup in Vancouver , she won the yellow jersey of the overall World Cup leaders with her fourth win of the season. She finally crowned the season by winning the overall World Cup. Although she was tied with the German Kati Wilhelm in first place, the overall World Cup victory went to Ekholm due to the higher number of victories this season. The Swede also won the Sprint and Mass Start World Cup this season. In 2010 Ekholm took part in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Her best result was a tenth place in the mass start. With the relay she finished fifth. She got off to a furious start in the World Cup, winning two of the first five races of the season in addition to the first race of the season, an individual in Östersund. But she did not maintain this level for the whole season and in the end had to admit defeat to Magdalena Neuner and Simone Hauswald and came third. After the 2011/12 season, Helena Ekholm ended her career.

Helena Ekholm has been married to the Swedish biathlete David Ekholm since July 17, 2010 . She has three younger siblings, Jenny Jonsson , Malin Jonsson and Mattias Jonsson, who are all also active in biathlon.

Sporting successes

Helena Ekholm in Trondheim, March 2009

Individual world cup victories

date	place	discipline
March 18, 2007	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km mass start
December 4, 2008	Ostersund	15 km individual
January 25, 2009	Antholz	12.5 km mass start
February 15, 2009	Pyeongchang	10 km pursuit (WM 2009)
March 13, 2009	Vancouver	7.5 km sprint
December 2, 2009	Ostersund	15 km individual
December 12, 2009	Hochfilzen	10 km pursuit
December 17, 2009	Pokljuka	15 km individual
January 16, 2010	Ruhpolding	12.5 km mass start
December 12, 2010	Hochfilzen	10 km pursuit
January 9, 2011	Oberhof	12.5 km mass start
February 4, 2011	Presque Isle	7.5 km sprint
March 9, 2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km individual (WM 2011)

Relay World Cup victories

date	place	discipline
February 7, 2007	Antholz	Mixed relay (WM 2007)
January 15, 2010	Ruhpolding	Season
December 19, 2010	Pokljuka	Mixed relay
January 6, 2011	Oberhof	Season

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place	4th	2	3	4th	4th	17th
2nd place	1	5	2	2	3	13
3rd place	3	3	2	2	3	13
Top 10	13	30th	18th	21st	35	117
Scoring	20th	56	42	29	38	185
Starts	23	61	45	30th	38	197

Awards

• 2009 - Victoria Award (Sports Award in Sweden)
• 2009 - Bragdguldet (award from the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet )
• 2009 - Radiosportens Jerringpris (audience award in Sweden)

Web links

Commons : Helena Ekholm  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Helena Ekholm's website
• Helena Ekholm in the database of the IBU (English)
• Helena Ekholm at biathlon.xc-ski.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Their daughter was born in June 2013. Helena Jonssons full hit. aftonbladet.se, July 18, 2010, accessed July 18, 2010 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ Helena Jonsson awarded the Victoria Prize. biathlon-online.de, July 17, 2009, accessed on June 9, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Biathlon WC Östersund: Prestigious award goes to Helena Jonsson. biathlon-online.de, December 2, 2009, accessed on June 9, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Helena Jonsson moved to tears over the Jerringpriset award. biathlon-online.de, January 19, 2010, accessed on June 9, 2010 .