Jesper Nelin

Jesper Nelin
Association	Sweden
birthday	3rd October 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Värnamo
Career
society	Hestra IF, Piteå Skidskytteklubb
Admission to the national team	2012
Debut in the World Cup	2015
World Cup victories	1 relay win
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang Season  European biathlon championships silver 2019 Minsk-Raubitschy Single mixed relay silver 2019 Minsk-Raubitschy sprint
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	31. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	26. ( 2018/19 )
Sprint World Cup	30. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	30. (2019/20)
Mass start world cup	26. (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Season 1 0 2
Continental Cup balance
Overall IBU Cup	100th ( 2018/19 )
Sprint IBU Cup	72nd (2018/19)
last change: April 21, 2020

Jesper Nelin (born October 3, 1992 in Värnamo ) is a Swedish biathlete . He has competed in the World Cup since 2015 and became Olympic champion in the men's relay in 2018.

Career

Nelin comes from Borås in the south of Sweden and began his sporting career as a cross-country skier in the Hestra IF club . From 2009 onwards he took part in races at the national level, but was far from top results in most competitions. In addition, he started biathlon in 2012, where he achieved better results: In January 2015 he won the mass start bronze medal at the Swedish Championships and subsequently received his first appearances in the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in biathlon. In the summer of 2015, national coach Wolfgang Pichler accepted him into the first team, which was clearly weakened after the resignations of Carl Johan Bergman and Björn Ferry in 2014, and described him as a “very great talent” (in the original: “väldigt stor talang”) and “maybe the type [the trainers] were looking for ”(in the original:“ Kanske är han killen vi letat efter ”). Nelin was still Swedish summer biathlon champion in the sprint in August 2015 and took 16th place as the best athlete in his country at his first World Cup appearance in December in Östersund . He then started at the 2016 World Championships , where he finished 7th with the relay team led by Torstein Stenersen , Peppe Femling and Fredrik Lindström . His best individual World Championship results were a 31st place in the sprint and a 38th place in the pursuit. At the end of winter he was 61st in the overall World Cup; behind Lindström and Stenersen he was the third-best Swede.

For two years, the 16th place in Nelin's debut race remained his only top 20 individual result in the World Cup. He also missed the points of the top 40 athletes more often , especially in the 2016/17 season . Only at the start of the 2017/18 Olympic winter - again in a sprint in front of a home crowd in Östersund - did he build on his best performance with 20th place. In the same season he won the relay race in Oberhof together with Martin Ponsiluoma , Sebastian Samuelsson and Fredrik Lindström , which meant the first World Cup victory of a Swedish relay since 2009 . At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in February, Nelin qualified for a mass start for the first time in his career after three results among the top 30 in sprint, pursuit and individual . With two shooting errors and 34.6 seconds behind the winner Martin Fourcade , he finished ninth there. A few days later he won the Olympic gold medal in the relay race with his teammates Peppe Femling, Samuelsson and Lindström .

In the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons , Nelin regularly reached the points in the World Cup and was ranked 40 and 31 in the overall standings. Together with Sebastian Samuelsson and Martin Ponsiluoma, he was one of the leading biathletes in his country, but achieved differently Samuelsson and Ponsiluoma did not make the podium in any single race. Nelin's best World Cup result was a seventh place in the Oberhof mass start in January 2020. He also won the silver medal in the sprint at the 2019 European Championships behind Tarjei Bø and - together with Anna Magnusson - an additional silver medal in the single mixed relay. In the World Cup, he stood on the podium two more times in the team: in each case as third with the mixed relay in Östersund 2019 and with the men's relay in Nové Město 2020.

Personal

Nelin attended the sports high school in Torsby specializing in cross-country skiing. His younger brother, who did not pursue an international career, went to the same school with a biathlon specialization and gave him his old rifle , which marked the beginning of his biathlon career for Nelin. He lives in Östersund and is in a relationship with the Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion Hanna Öberg .

statistics

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	0Jan. 7, 2018	Oberhof	Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 1

¹with Martin Ponsiluoma , Sebastian Samuelsson and Fredrik Lindström

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					1	1
2nd place
3rd place					2	2
Top 10				1	23	24
Scoring	2	16	15th	4th	29	66
Starts	11	33	20th	4th	30th	98
Status: end of season 2019/20

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	30th	18th	24.	9.	1.	11.

World championships

Results at world championships:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
World Championships 2016 | Oslo	31.	38.	54.	-	7th	12.
World Championships 2017 | Hochfilzen	59.	44.	54.	-	11.	6th
World Championships 2019 | Ostersund	41.	33.	28.	-	7th	5.
World Championships 2020 | Antholz	19th	11.	42.	19th	10.	11.

Web links

Commons : Jesper Nelin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jesper Nelin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jesper Nelin in the IBU database (English)
• Personal website of Jesper Nelin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SM-brons till Jesper Nelin! on hestraif.se. Released January 4, 2015. Accessed April 22, 2020.
2. ↑ Lisa Edwinsson: Pichler om sitt fynd: ”Kanske är han killen vi letat efter” on dn.se. Released December 5, 2015. Accessed April 22, 2020. Archived in the Internet Archive .
3. ↑ Håkan Blidberg: SM-Guld till Högberg och Nelin on skidskytte.se. Released August 29, 2015. Accessed April 22, 2020.
4. ↑ Andreas Käck, Anna Rydén, Simon Norberg: Sitt livs lopp - då tappade han staven on aftonbladet.se. Released February 18, 2018. Accessed April 22, 2020.
5. ↑ Cornelia Wikström: Jesper Nelin: "Han gjorde en liten chansning att ta med mig i laget" on skidskytte.se. Released November 29, 2018. Accessed April 22, 2020.