Johannes Thingnes Bø

Johannes Thingnes Bø
Association	Norway
birthday	16th May 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Stryn , Norway
size	187 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
job	Biathlete / student
society	Markane IL
Trainer	Egil Kristiansen, Siegfried Mazet
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	November 27, 2010
Debut in the World Cup	20th January 2013
World Cup victories	68 (including 47 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 10 × 8 × 2 × JWM medals 5 × 1 × 0 × JEM medals 1 × 1 × 1 × EYOF medals 1 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang singles silver 2018 Pyeongchang Mixed relay silver 2018 Pyeongchang Season  Biathlon world championships gold 2015 Kontiolahti sprint silver 2015 Kontiolahti Season bronze 2015 Kontiolahti Mixed relay gold 2016 Oslo Mass start gold 2016 Oslo Season bronze 2016 Oslo Mixed relay silver 2017 Hochfilzen sprint silver 2017 Hochfilzen persecution silver 2017 Hochfilzen Mass start gold 2019 Östersund Mixed relay gold 2019 Östersund sprint gold 2019 Östersund Single mixed relay gold 2019 Östersund Season silver 2019 Östersund persecution gold 2020 Antholz Mixed relay gold 2020 Antholz Single mixed relay gold 2020 Antholz Mass start silver 2020 Antholz persecution silver 2020 Antholz singles silver 2020 Antholz Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2012 Kontiolahti (youth) sprint gold 2012 Kontiolahti (youth) persecution gold 2012 Kontiolahti (Juniors) Season gold 2013 Obertilliach (Juniors) persecution gold 2013 Obertilliach (Juniors) Season silver 2013 Obertilliach (Juniors) sprint  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2012 Osrblie Mixed relay silver 2012 Osrblie singles bronze 2012 Osrblie persecution  European Youth Olympic Festival gold 2011 Liberec sprint silver 2011 Liberec singles silver 2011 Liberec Mixed relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	1. (2017/18, 2018/19)
Sprint World Cup	1. (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup	1. (2018/19)
Mass start world cup	1. (2018/19, 2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 3 2 1 sprint 23 4th 1 persecution 12 7th 3 Mass start 9 3 2 Season 21st 7th 6th
last change: March 14, 2020

Johannes Thingnes Bø (born May 16, 1993 in Stryn ) is a Norwegian biathlete . He is one of the most successful in his sport and was individual Olympic champion at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He is also a ten-time world champion and five-time youth and junior world champion . In January 2013 he made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup and has so far won 67 victories in this highest racing series - at the age of 20 he is also the youngest World Cup winner since Mark Kirchner in 1991 and at the age of 21 the youngest sprint world champion since Kirchner's title in 1990. Already his second Bø was able to finish the World Cup season in third place in the overall ranking, in 2018/19 he won it for the first time and won all discipline rankings this season.

Personal background

Bø is the second youngest child of Klemet Bø and Aslaug Hildegunn Thingnes Bø (both * 1957); he has three brothers and a sister. His mother runs her own physiotherapy practice in Stryn , his father works in cattle and dairy farming , his brother Tarjei , who is almost five years older, is very successful in the same sport as himself as an Olympic and overall World Cup winner and multiple world champion. Sports journalist, presenter and photographer Harald Endre Thingnes is Johannes' maternal uncle. Bø attended secondary school (Stryn vidaregåande skule) in his hometown and moved to Lillehammer in May 2012 , where many other Norwegian biathletes live and train alongside Tarjei. There he matriculated at Lillehammer University . He has been married to Hedda Dæhli since the end of June 2018 and has had a son since 2020.

Athletic career

Beginnings

Bø first played football from the age of five and eventually played in the county league. When he switched to secondary school at the age of 16, he originally wanted to choose football as a sports elective there. However, his parents convinced him - also under the impression of Tarjei's successes - to try biathlon for a month. At the end of this short period, he had already secured two titles at the Norwegian Youth Championships in Summer Biathlon 2009 and from then on concentrated exclusively on biathlon. As a result, Bø was seen as a promising talent and great young hope and won numerous other junior races. The in Åmot discharged Norwegian Championships 2010 , he finished on April 9 in the sprint over ten kilometers by 1:51 minutes behind while tenth place, but was within this Dezetts one of only two athletes with clean shooting, and with only 16 years the youngest biathlete who has ever achieved such a high ranking at the senior championships.

First winter on the international stage (2010/11)

At the start of the 2010/11 season , he made his debut in the IBU Cup in Beitostølen on November 27, 2010 and won first points in two sprint races with 28th and 16th place. However, it remained his only missions for more than two years.

Beyond expert circles, he first moved into the focus of public interest and media coverage when Tarjei said in an interview on December 10, 2010 following his own first World Cup victory in Hochfilzen :

“But I know there is a better one [than himself]: my younger brother Johannes. I'm scared when he's fit for the World Cup. It's really good! I do hope that we can run together sometime in the relay, but in the individual competition he will be a tough competitor. "

The Norges Skiskytterforbund (Norwegian Biathlon Association) nominated Bø shortly thereafter for the squad of the country in February 2011 at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Czech Liberec should represent. There he won the silver medal both in the mixed relay and in the individual and was able to win the sprint. Despite four penalties, he made up 17 seconds in this race during the final lap and won. At the beginning of March of the same year he also fought for two Norwegian junior championship titles and on March 25th he won the super sprint of the national Norgescup racing series in the U-18 category in Dombås and secured the overall standings with seven daily victories. He broke an old record of Ole Einar Bjørndalen , who celebrated five individual successes in his overall junior victory in 1990/91. At the end of the month he took part in his second Norwegian championships in Målselv ; there he reached both in the sprint and in the individual over 20 kilometers and with the relay in sixth and in the pursuit of ninth place.

First time junior world champion (2011/12)

2012 also got off to a successful start for Bø. On January 23, he was nominated for the Junior European Championships in Osrblie, Slovakia, which began shortly thereafter . There he won a complete set of medals and reached eighth place in the sprint. A few weeks later, in Kontiolahti, Finland , he experienced his career highlight to date at his first Junior World Championships , to which he traveled as the big favorite of the youth section. At first he missed a podium finish in fourth place over 12.5 kilometers by only 19 seconds - even though he had been penalized for six minutes due to his shooting errors. Together with Erling Aalvik , Marius Hol and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen , however, he then ran in the junior class to superior relay gold in front of the French quartet. In the following days he also dominated both the sprint, which he won with a lead of over 50 seconds, and the pursuit, which was designed as a handicap race and built on the time intervals between the sprint. In the latter, Bø, who made three shooting errors, crossed the finish line just under two minutes before the second-placed and faultless Matthias Dorfer . With these three gold medals, the young Norwegian became the most successful athlete of the competitions.

The season finale was once again the Norwegian championships , this time held from March 20th to 25th in Trondheim . In the individual it was enough for Bø only for a 16th place. In the following races, however, he always achieved top 10 placements. He ran to 6th in the sprint, 4th in the mass start competition and 7th in the relay.

Top positions in the IBU Cup and World Cup debut (2012/13)

In April 2012, at the age of only 18, he was accepted into the senior national squad for the 2012/13 World Cup , making him the second youngest team member of all time. In the summer of the same year he succeeded in a few test races for the first time to defeat Ole Einar Bjørndalen , Emil Hegle Svendsen and Lars Berger . At the beginning of the following winter, however, Bø dropped out due to a viral illness and the Norwegian sports director Per Arne Botnan said that he would therefore neither be nominated for the World Cup opener in Östersund nor for the first IBU Cup in Idre . A use at the second IBU Cup in Beitostølen is very likely. In fact, the convalescence took significantly longer and Johannes Thingnes Bø did not return to the team until January 5, 2013 for the fourth IBU Cup in Otepää, Estonia , when he finished 23rd in the individual over 20 kilometers with six shooting errors and 5:04 minutes back . Place occupied. It was only his third appearance in this series of competitions. The following day he finished second in the sprint with no shooting errors - 10.2 seconds behind the victorious Swede Magnus Jonsson . Instead also to the next Cup in Ostrow to travel on, he trained in preparation for the in Obertilliach discharged Biathlon Junior World Championships in Norway. He had to correct the goals he had set in advance for this season highlight in the course of the health problems; he was now aiming for relay gold and an individual medal. He said that he would probably only be able to call up his full performance again shortly after the Junior World Championships.

Due to his good performance in the IBU Cup, several failures in the regular formation (including Emil Hegle Svendsen and Ole Einar Bjørndalen ) and in preparation for the Junior World Championships, Bø celebrated his World Cup debut on January 20, 2013 in the relay race in Antholz, Italy . He was the third starter of the quartet behind Lars Helge Birkeland and Alexander Os , followed by Henrik L'Abée-Lund . With two spare rounds in prone and even one penalty loop in standing, however, he added himself to the mediocre overall picture of the completely re-formed Norwegian team, which ultimately only finished tenth.

In the first race of the Junior World Championships at the end of January, the sprint, Bø won the silver medal with a shooting error - 4.9 seconds behind the strong Russian Alexander Loginow , on whom he was just eight seconds ahead of one and a half kilometers before the end of the race. The bronze medal went to Loginov's compatriot Maxim Zwetkow . The following day, the pursuit of the top three castling occurred, in which Bø won his fourth world title. After two days of rest, however, the Norwegian was unable to build on his previous performances in the individual race. He made four shooting errors and just finished ninth, just under two minutes behind the repeated winner Loginow. On the last day of the competitions he led the Norwegian relay team as the final runner to defend their title - as stated previously as a goal - and then judged: “This is the most important race. [...] When we train in the summer, one of our goals is to win gold in this competition. "

After skipping the European Junior Championships in Bansko due to illness , Bø completed his second World Cup race on February 28 with the sprint in Oslo . While Loginow and Zwetkow, his toughest competitors in the junior competitions, were able to place in the top ten, he had to be satisfied with a shooting error and 1:39 minutes behind the winner - his brother Tarjei - with 28th place. Two days later he improved to 25th place in the pursuit race, but then decided not to take part in the mass start. In the course of his start at the penultimate World Cup of the season in Sochi , Russia , he missed participation in the Norwegian junior championships held in Sirdal due to the conflicting dates . The start of the Russian race weekend on the extremely demanding route of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games was extremely disappointing for Bø when he was only able to finish the individual race in 68th place, over seven minutes behind. In the sprint, however, he showed flawless shooting and scored more World Cup points in 20th place, before Tarjei Bø's wish from December 2010 to be able to compete in a relay with his younger brother in the final relay race on March 10th was fulfilled. Johannes handed over to him as the third runner and the Norwegian quartet only just missed the podium in fourth place. On March 16, 2013, his first World Cup season finally ended in Khanty-Mansiysk . With 20th place in the pursuit, he managed a significant improvement of 17 places compared to the sprint from the previous day - but the fact that he was still more than two minutes behind despite four faultless shooting bouts revealed his deficits in running. He could not qualify for the final mass start.

At the end of the season in Dombås , Bø won his first medals at Norwegian senior championships - two silver in individual races and the relay title Sogn og Fjordane SSK .

Breakthrough in the World Cup (2013/14)

Shortly before the start of summer training, Bø was injured in a bicycle accident on Nordsetervegen in Lillehammer in the last days of April 2013 and broke a collarbone . As a result, he had to postpone his preparation for the 2013/14 World Cup season by several weeks and could only start intensive training again in August. In mid-November, the world's biathlon elite made a guest appearance at the official season opening in Sjusjøen, Norway . Bø was well rested and finished eighth in the sprint and seventh in the mass start. In the run-up to the event, Per Arne Botnan , Sports Director of the Norwegian Biathlon Federation said:

“He has to become even more stable when shooting. But on a maximum day with full haul [shooting] he can win a race in the World Cup. He shouldn't have that as his goal yet, but it can happen. "

Immediately afterwards, the Norwegian coach Espen Nordby Andersen announced the squad nominations for the first three World Cups in winter 2013/2014, according to which Bø should pause at the second station in Hochfilzen in favor of Lars Berger .

In the first World Cup race of the winter, the mixed relay in Swedish Ostersund , they gave Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen and Tarjei Bø preference so that John launched on 28 November at the individual race in the new season. After four shooting errors, he had to be content with 27th place, but with it again collected points. Two days later he showed his strongest performance to date in the World Cup in the sprint and, thanks to a fast final lap, was the best Norwegian in ninth place; in the top ten, he was also the only athlete with two shooting errors. However, he could not take advantage of this good starting position, as the pursuit race was canceled due to strong winds. Bø's competition with Berger, who was running in his place, intensified during the World Cup in Hochfilzen after he surprisingly won the sprint and thus advertised his long-term presence in the first team. A week later, on December 14th, Bø knew how to counteract with his first World Cup victory at the third station in Le Grand-Bornand : In the absence of his brother Tarjei, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen in the sprint without shooting errors, he could with an impressive mileage at the head of the field and at the finish was 32.9 seconds ahead of Ondřej Moravec and even 37.1 seconds over the third-placed Martin Fourcade, who had dominated the season and previous years . The victory was the consequence of a continuous improvement in performance by Bø, whose potential and good form had already been indicated in the previous races. The next day, he clearly decided the persecution in his favor, cementing his place among the world's best. However, Bø experienced a drop in performance at the fifth World Cup of the season in Ruhpolding , when, as the starting runner of the Norwegian relay team, with three penalties in prone shooting, he took every chance of a top position right at the beginning of the race. In the end, the quartet only finished ninth.

Due to his convincing performance, Johannes Thingnes Bø was nominated as a member of the six-person Norwegian men's team for the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February 2014 to represent his home country there. The sprint as the first competition there, won by team-mate Bjørndalen, was extremely disappointing for him. With four shooting errors and average mileage, he only reached 55th place and thus barely qualified for the pursuit. In the following competitions - pursuit, individual and mass start - he managed to improve continuously; he made only one mistake in every four bouts and ended the mass start in eighth place. Nevertheless, Bjørndalen and Svendsen (who had won the mass start), who had already been awarded gold at these games, were given preference over the Olympic debutants for the mixed relay, which was held at the Olympic Winter Games for the first time. On the penultimate day of the games, Bø ran the relay together with his brother and the two aforementioned and impressed as the second starter with strong shooting and running results. On the safe course for medals, the final runner Svendsen made too many mistakes in the final shooting, so that the Norwegian quartet only finished fourth and Johannes Thingnes Bø missed his first Olympic medal through no fault of his own.

After the Winter Olympics, Bø decided not to start at the 2014 Junior Biathlon World Championships in Presque Isle in the United States in early March to concentrate on the remaining World Cup races of the season. This deprived him of the theoretical possibility of becoming the most successful junior biathlete of all time. However, the strategy showed impressive success when he was able to win all three races at the penultimate World Cup venue of the winter - Kontiolahti, the location of his Junior World Championship successes in 2012 - in sometimes extremely adverse wind conditions. With five wins of the season, he had achieved more daily successes than any of his competitors in the same period and improved to second place in the overall standings shortly before the end of his first full World Cup season. He was unable to finish the final three competitions in front of his home crowd at Holmenkollen in Oslo and was still overtaken by Emil Hegle Svendsen in the overall standings - with third place in both the sprint and overall World Cup, however, Bø is still lived up to the early praise for his talent and quickly established himself among the best in the world.

World Champion (2014/15)

In preparation for the new season, Bø competed at the famous Blinkfestivalen in summer 2014 , during which several cross-country and biathlon competitions on roller skis are held in Sandnes and the surrounding area . On July 31, he completed the cross-country uphill race in Lysebotn over a distance of seven kilometers and took sixth place - directly behind his brother Tarjei and in front of cross-country skiing professionals such as Petter Northug , Federico Pellegrino , Roland Clara , Finn Hågen Krogh and Devon Kershaw . In the next few days he concentrated on biathlon again, failed in the knockout shooting in the semifinals and reached fifth place in the mass start before he won the final of the super sprint (also held in the knockout system) succeeded. Almost a week later, Johannes Thingnes Bø took part in the city ​​biathlon in Püttlingen in the Saarland for the first time on August 10th . Its premiere there, however, was not particularly successful: It had to reload three times for ten seconds each in the “penalty box” and a total of eleven times. Ultimately, he finished seventh. The Norwegian Summer Biathlon Championships took place in Steinkjer from September 20th to 21st . While Bø was able to secure fourth place in the sprint, he made eight shooting errors in the pursuit, so that he fell back to 10th place.

In the first World Cup race of the 2014/15 season - the mixed relay in Östersund - Bø was not used on November 30th. Since then, however, he has started in all races so far. At the second station he sprinted to his sixth World Cup success in Hochfilzen . In doing so, he expanded his own remarkable statistics: all six World Cup podiums achieved by then were victories. A day later, this statistic became obsolete when he finished third with the Norwegian relay. Overall, however, Johannes Thingnes Bø's record this winter was still mixed. In December, inconsistent shooting performance often cost him better placements. His standing hit rate has never been as low as at that time. In January 2015, Bø managed to consolidate its performance at a high level. With the relay he only had to admit defeat to the Russians in Oberhof , in the sprint he just missed the podium in fourth. Less than a week later he led the Norwegian relay team to victory at the next World Cup station in Ruhpolding and was also able to win the sprint in a superior manner. He would probably have won the final mass start without complications, because for the first time in this discipline he managed to shoot four faultless shoots. However, Jakov Fak , who was in the lead, fell in the third round of the trail ; Bø could no longer evade and also fell. A ski change that was necessary as a result cost him valuable seconds, so that in the end he could no longer catch up with the top and only took tenth place. This was followed by further victories with the relay in Rasen-Antholz and with the mixed relay in Nové Město na Moravě in the Czech Republic and several top ten placements.

At the beginning of March, Bø traveled with the Norwegian team to the 2015 World Championships in Kontiolahti - the location of his three Junior World Championship titles from 2012 and his World Cup triples from the previous year. In the first race, the mixed relay, he was flawless. However, a penalty loop by Tiril Eckhoff prevented a better result than third place. The bronze medal was thus Johannes Thingnes Bø's first precious metal at the Senior World Championships. Two days later he made a mistake while standing in the sprint, but benefited from the even worse shooting performance of the world's best due to the wind. With his well-known strength in the cross-country ski run , he secured the title in front of the Canadian Nathan Smith and his brother Tarjei . At the age of 21 he was crowned the youngest sprint world champion since Mark Kirchner's victory in 1990. Bø could not use his excellent starting position in the pursuit race. This time he made too many shooting errors himself - he hit only twelve of 20 targets and had to be content with 31st place when he was beaten. In the individual, however, he made it back into the top ten with a seventh place and with the Norwegian relay he fought for the silver medal behind Germany. At his first world championship, Johannes Thingnes Bø was able to call a complete set of medals his own.

Since he also traveled to the last World Cup station in Khanty-Mansiysk , he decided not to take part in the Norwegian championships that were held in Sirdal at the end of March .

World Cup runner-up and double world champion (2015/16)

Johannes Thingnes Bø (2016)

The preparation for his fourth World Cup season went smoothly for Johannes Thingnes Bø. From August 21 to 23, 2015, he competed at the Norwegian Summer Biathlon Championships in Os . On roller skis, he only achieved a tenth place in the sprint with two shooting errors, but was able to fight his way to fourth place in the pursuit. He also consistently performed well in the training camps. The last practice competitions were held in November in Sjusjøen , where he dominated together with his brother.

The season started on 29 November 2015, the Swedish Östersund with the single-mixed relay. In this, Bø was not yet used to avoid double burdens, as he was set for the "normal" mixed relay later that day. There he consistently showed a remarkable early form in third place and was able to quickly increase the gap to the competitors. In the end, the quartet won over, which meant for Bø his twelfth World Cup victory - the fourth with the relay.

In total, Bø achieved seven World Cup victories and six other podium finishes during the season. With 820 points, he finally took second place in the overall World Cup behind Martin Fourcade . He also finished third in the Pursuit World Cup and was able to repeat his third place in the Sprint World Cup from the winter of 2013/14. The highlight in March 2016 was the World Championships in Oslo - the capital of his home country. In the very first competition he won the bronze medal with the Norwegian mixed relay. While he then only reached fourth place in the sprint, in the pursuit and in the individual, he won the relay on March 12th in front of the German quartet. Only one day later he showed an unexpectedly good shooting performance in the mass start and after a duel on the last lap he became world champion with a 2.8 second lead over Martin Fourcade.

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Olympic Champion 2018

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he won the gold medal in an individual race over 20 kilometers on February 15, 2018, ahead of Jakov Fak and Dominik Landertinger . Previously, he was 31st in the sprint and 21st in the pursuit.

Dominance and first overall World Cup victory (2018/19)

The 2018/19 season has been outstanding for Bø from the start. At the beginning the serial winner of the previous years Martin Fourcade could keep up with him, but from the second race he dominated the World Cup until the end of the season. Of the first eight races he won six, in Nové Město na Moravě he won all three competitions in sprint, pursuit and mass start. In Ruhpolding he won the sprint and mass start, in Antholz Bø triumphed in sprint and pursuit. In singles, a victory in Canmore was enough for him to win the individual world cup. From the sprint in Nové Město na Moravě to the shortened individual in Canmore, he stood on the podium eleven times in a row and scored nine wins. At the world championships in Östersund , Sweden , he became world champion in the sprint and took silver in the pursuit. There are also three gold medals in all three relay competitions. In the pursuit in Oslo, the penultimate competition of the season, he set a new record with his 15th win of the season, surpassing Martin Fourcade's record. With this victory he also won the Pursuit World Cup, the Sprint World Cup he won with 514 points before the season finale. At the final mass start of the season, he made the winning hat-trick in Oslo perfect and took his 16th win of the season. He also won the mass start ranking and was the third athlete to get all five crystal balls in one season after Raphaël Poirée and Martin Fourcade. Bø reached 1262 points this season and was on the podium 19 times, both values ​​were only surpassed by Fourcade in the 2016/17 season.

Second overall World Cup victory (2019/20)

In the 2019/20 season , Bø dominated the World Cup again at the beginning, winning four of the first six races. After that he skipped the four races in Germany, as his son was born during this time. His return took place in the individual in Pokljuka , Slovenia , which he won, and he continued to score several victories and podiums. Bø was able to win four of the last five races of the season and thus created the conditions for winning the overall World Cup again. In the last race of the season, fourth place was enough to push Martin Fourcade two points ahead of the front. He also won the mass start World Cup again and won a total of ten individual races this season. At the World Championships in Antholz he was particularly successful with the relays, here Bø won gold in the mixed and single-mixed relay and silver in the men's relay. In the individual competitions he was world champion in the mass start, in the pursuit and in the individual he won silver.

Awards and honors

At the age of 18, Johannes Thingnes Bø was awarded the first major honor on January 22, 2012 with the Karoline Prize . This award is the most prestigious award for young talent in Norway and is given to secondary school students who have excelled in sport, music or the arts and at the same time can demonstrate very good academic achievements.

On December 23, 2013, the jury of the Idrettsgallaen (de .: Sportgala), which has been held annually since 2002, announced Bø's nomination in the “Breakthrough of the Year” category. His competitors for the prize there were Tiril Sjåstad Christiansen ( freestyle skiing ), Caroline Graham Hansen ( soccer ), Tom Beier Jensen ( sport shooting ), Henrik Kristoffersen ( alpine skiing ) and Are Strandli / Kristoffer Brun ( rowing ). This gala is organized as a cooperation between the Norges idrettsforbund og olympiske og paralympiske komité , Norsk rikskringkasting , Norges Fotballforbund and Norsk Tipping , the country's official lottery. At the award ceremony on January 4, 2014 in Oslo Spektrum , Bø was awarded the prize. His brother Tarjei received the same award in 2011.

Note: The Idrettsgallaen awards should not be confused with being recognized as Norway's Sportsman of the Year .

In October 2019 he was awarded the Fair Play Prize by the European Fair Play Movement for reporting his own rule violation at the biathlon race on February 16, 2019 in Soldier Hollow . In the pursuit race, he only fired four of his five shots, which the rules do not allow. He reported this rule violation himself, for which he was disqualified. That cost him his World Cup points and prize money.

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Shooting performance of Johannes Thingnes Bø in the Biathlon World Cup per season (as of March 9, 2019)

In his still young career, Johannes Thingnes Bø was noticed as an extremely athletic athlete. What is remarkable is that there is still a very clear performance gap between the two disciplines of biathlon. With an average hit rate of 83 percent since his World Cup debut in January 2013, he is in the upper midfield of the competition in shooting. His rate of 89 percent in the prone position is comparable to the performance of the world's best shooters among the biathletes, but an average of only 75 percent in the standing position means only a placement in the middle to lower ranks of the starter field.

Bø's significantly stronger discipline is cross-country skiing , which is demonstrated by the fact that he won several special races in this sport in his youth. With his mileage he often manages to at least approximately compensate for the lack of consistency in shooting. His particular strength is the final lap, during which he regularly manages to effectively mobilize the last of his strength reserves and also to run out of midfield to the top positions. According to this distribution of performance, he has so far been most successful in sprint races: The ten kilometers to be run are only interrupted by two shooting bouts and thus suit good runners (or moderate shooters) who can win the race on the trail .

statistics

World cup

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. Dec 14, 2013  Le Grand-Bornand Sprint (10 km) 2. Dec 15, 2013  Le Grand-Bornand Pursuit (12.5 km) 3. March 13, 2014  Kontiolahti Sprint (10 km) 4th March 15, 2014  Kontiolahti Sprint (10 km) 5. March 16, 2014  Kontiolahti Pursuit (12.5 km) 6th Dec 12, 2014  Hochfilzen Sprint (10 km) 7th Jan. 17, 2015  Ruhpolding Sprint (10 km) 8th. March 7, 2015  Kontiolahti ( WM ) Sprint (10 km) 9. Jan. 8, 2016  Ruhpolding Sprint (10 km) 10. Feb 11, 2016  Presque Isle Sprint (10 km) 11. March 13, 2016  Oslo ( World Cup ) Mass start (15 km) 12. Jan. 22, 2017  Rasen Antholz Mass start (15 km) 13. 17th March 2017  Oslo Sprint (10 km) 14th Nov 30, 2017  Ostersund Single (20 km) 15th Dec 8, 2017  Hochfilzen Sprint (10 km) 16. Dec 9, 2017  Hochfilzen Pursuit (12.5 km) 17th Dec 15, 2017  Le Grand-Bornand Sprint (10 km) 18th 16 Dec 2017  Le Grand-Bornand Pursuit (12.5 km) 19th Jan. 14, 2018  Ruhpolding Mass start (15 km) 20th Jan. 19, 2018  Rasen Antholz Sprint (10 km) 21st Jan. 20, 2018  Rasen Antholz Pursuit (12.5 km) 22nd 7th Dec 2018  Pokljuka Sprint (10 km) 23. Dec 9, 2018  Pokljuka Pursuit (12.5 km) 24. Dec 14, 2018  Hochfilzen Sprint (10 km) 25th December 20, 2018  Nové Město na Moravě Sprint (10 km) 26th Dec 22, 2018  Nové Město na Moravě Pursuit (12.5 km) 27. 23 Dec 2018  Nové Město na Moravě Mass start (15 km) 28. Jan. 12, 2019  Oberhof Pursuit (12.5 km) 29 Jan. 17, 2019  Ruhpolding Sprint (10 km) 30th Jan. 20, 2019  Ruhpolding Mass start (15 km) 31. Jan. 25, 2019  Rasen Antholz Sprint (10 km) 32. Jan. 26, 2019  Rasen Antholz Pursuit (12.5 km) 33. Feb. 7, 2019  Canmore Short individual (15 km) 34. March 9, 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Sprint (10 km) 35. March 22, 2019  Oslo Sprint (10 km) 36. 23 March 2019  Oslo Pursuit (12.5 km) 37. March 24, 2019  Oslo Mass start (15 km) 38. Dec. 1, 2019  Ostersund Sprint (10 km) 39. 13 Dec 2019  Hochfilzen Sprint (10 km) 40. Dec 14, 2019  Hochfilzen Pursuit (12.5 km) 41. Dec 21, 2019  Le Grand-Bornand Pursuit (12.5 km) 42. Dec 22, 2019  Le Grand-Bornand Mass start (15 km) 43. Jan. 23, 2020  Pokljuka Single (20 km) 44. 23 Feb 2020  Antholz ( WM ) Mass start (15 km) 45. March 6, 2020  Nové Město na Moravě Sprint (10 km) 46. March 8, 2020  Nové Město na Moravě Mass start (15 km) 47. March 12, 2020  Kontiolahti Sprint (10 km)

No. date place discipline 1. Jan 15, 2015  Ruhpolding Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 1 2. Jan. 25, 2015  Rasen Antholz Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 2 3. Feb 6, 2015  Nové Město na Moravě Mixed season 3 4th Nov 29, 2015  Ostersund Mixed season 3 5. Jan 15, 2016  Ruhpolding Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 2 6th Feb 13, 2016  Presque Isle Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 4 7th March 12, 2016  Oslo ( World Cup ) Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 2 8th. Nov 27, 2016  Ostersund Mixed season 5 9. Nov 26, 2017  Ostersund Mixed season 6 10. Jan. 12, 2018  Ruhpolding Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 7 11. 18th March 2018  Oslo Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 8 12. Jan. 18, 2019  Ruhpolding Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 9 13. Feb. 8, 2019  Canmore Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 10 14th March 7, 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Mixed season 11 15th March 14, 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Single mixed season 12 16. 16 Feb 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 9 17th 7th Dec 2019  Ostersund Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 13 18th Dec 15, 2019  Hochfilzen Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 13 19th Feb 13, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) Mixed season 14 20th Feb 20, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) Single mixed season 12 21st March 7, 2020  Nové Město na Moravě Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 15 1With Ole Einar Bjørndalen , Erlend Bjøntegaard and Emil Hegle Svendsen . 2With Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Tarjei Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 3With Fanny Horn Birkeland , Tiril Eckhoff and Tarjei Bø. 4thWith Lars Helge Birkeland , Erlend Bjøntegaard and Tarjei Bø. 5With Marte Olsbu , Fanny Horn Birkeland and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. 6thWith Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold , Tiril Eckhoff and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 7th With Lars Helge Birkeland, Tarjei Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen. 8thWith Lars Helge Birkeland, Henrik L'Abée-Lund and Tarjei Bø. 9With Lars Helge Birkeland, Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen and Tarjei Bø. 10 With Lars Helge Birkeland, Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen and Erlend Bjøntegaard. 11 With Marte Olsbu Røiseland, Tiril Eckhoff and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen. 12 With Marte Olsbu Røiseland. 13With Johannes Dale , Erlend Bjøntegaard and Tarjei Bø. 14th With Marte Olsbu Røiseland, Tiril Eckhoff and Tarjei Bø. 15th With Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen, Johannes Dale and Tarjei Bø.

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	3	23	12	9	21st	68
2nd place	2	4th	7th	3	7th	23
3rd place	1	1	3	2	6th	13
Top 10	15th	44	34	22nd	43	158
Scoring	19th	56	47	30th	43	195
Starts	20th	58	47	30th	43	198
Status: end of season 2019/20

Final results of the World Cup seasons (discipline and overall World Cup) according to the IBU point system

Season 1	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2012/2013	-	-	038	61.	037	49.	-	-	0075	59.
2013/2014	048	13.	277	03.	224	05.	082	10.	0631	03.
2014/2015	108	05.	330	05.	146	15th	144	09.	0728	05.
2015/2016	090	05.	298	03.	278	03.	154	04th	0820	02.
2016/2017	115	03.	269	05.	278	04th	150	06th	0812	03.
2017/2018	108	01.	382	02.	364	02.	222	02.	1027	02.
2018/2019	128	01.	514	01.	386	01.	262	01.	1262	01.
2019/2020	145	02.	323	03.	217	04th	228	01.	913	01.

¹The races of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 and in Pyeongchang in 2018 - unlike in previous years and otherwise, for example, the World Championships in non-Olympic years - did not count towards the World Cup. Therefore, they are not included here.

Breakdown of the results of the individual World Cup seasons (as of March 9, 2019)

Season 1	run	Shooting performance		Placements			Overall World Cup
		Hits / shots	Hit rate	1st - 2nd - 3rd	Top ten	Points	Points	space
2012/2013	08 (34)	097/118	82.2%	00 - 0 - 0	02	07th	075	59.
2013/2014	20 (28)	257/317	81.1%	05 - 0 - 0	12	20th	631	03.
2014/2015	32 (35)	403/475	84.8%	06 - 2 - 2	23	31	728	05.
2015/2016	29 (35)	376/440	85.4%	07-3-3	22nd	28	820	02.
2016/2017	26 (36)	362/408	88.7%	03 - 6 - 1	21st	26th	812	03.
2017/2018	26 (30)	366/421	86.9%	11 - 4 - 5	22nd	26th	1027	02.
2018/2019	24 (28)	310/356	87.0%	16 - 2 - 1	24	24

¹The races of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 and in Pyeongchang in 2018 - unlike in previous years and otherwise, for example, the World Championships in non-Olympic years - did not count towards the World Cup. Therefore, they are not included here.

winter Olympics

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
2014 Winter Olympics  Sochi	54.	32.	11.	8th.	4th	-
Olympic Winter Games 2018  Pyeongchang	31.	21st	1.	16.	2.	2.

World championships

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay	S.-M.-Relay
World Championships 2015  Kontiolahti	1.	31.	7th	6th	2.	3.	not carried out
World Championships 2016  Oslo	4th	4th	4th	1.	1.	3.
World Championships 2017  Hochfilzen	2.	2.	8th.	2.	8th.	8th.
World Championships 2019  Ostersund	1.	2.	9.	13.	1.	1.	1.
World Championships 2020  Antholz	4th	2.	2.	1.	2.	1.	1.

IBU Cup

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place		1				1
3rd place
Top 10		1				1
Scoring	1	3				4th
Starts	1	3				4th
Status: January 12, 2019

Web links

Commons : Johannes Thingnes Bø  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johannes Thingnes Bø in the IBU database (English)
• Johannes Thingnes Bø in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Eugen Epp: The competitor from the nursery . spox.com February 22, 2012; accessed on January 31, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Thingnes Bø. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ World Cup Dominator Bö returns as a young father sport.orf.at, accessed on January 21, 2020
3. ↑ Viktoria Franke: "Tarjei Boe:" This season start is almost too good! " , On December 10, 2010 on biathlon-online.de . Retrieved February 23, 2012.
4. ↑ "Four German medals: Great German team result in the EYOF sprint" ( Memento from February 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), on February 16, 2011 on biathlon.xc-ski.de . Retrieved December 11, 2011.
5. ↑ Christian Döring: “Mini-Bø and young girls” (PDF; 1.7 MB), on live-wintersport.com (Biathlon Norge yearbook 2012/2013). Retrieved January 5, 2013.
6. ↑ Christian Döring: "Norwegian team starts the season" ( Memento of the original from November 22nd, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on November 16, 2012 on biathlon-norge.de . Retrieved January 5, 2013. 
7. ↑ "Magnus Jonsson Takes IBU Cup Sprint" ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), on January 6, 2013 on biathlonworld.com ( International Biathlon Union ). Retrieved January 6, 2013.
8. ^ "Norway defends gold in the relay" ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), on February 1, 2013 on biathlonworld.com (International Biathlon Union). Retrieved February 3, 2013.
9. ↑ "Sjuk Johannes Thingnes Bø må stå over EM" ( Memento from April 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), on February 16, 2013 on idrett.speaker.no/organisation.asp (Markane IL). Retrieved February 3, 2013.
10. ↑ "Thingnes Bø brakk kragebeinet" , on May 2, 2013 on dagbladet.no ( Dagbladet ). Retrieved November 27, 2013.
11. ↑ Sindre Murtnes, Kaj Pedersen: "Bø knekte kragebeinet i stygg sykkelvelt" , May 1, 2013 on nrk.no ( Norsk rikskringkasting ). Retrieved November 27, 2013.
12. ^ Rune Fossum: "Ville proper ikkje bli skiskyttar - men foreldra fekk overtalt OL-håpet i siste liten" , on November 16, 2013 on nrk.no ( Norsk rikskringkasting ). Retrieved December 15, 2013.
13. ↑ fairplayeur.com