Lars Helge Birkeland

Lars Birkeland
Full name	Lars Helge Birkeland
Association	Norway
birthday	11th February 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Tonsberg , Norway
Career
society	Birkenes IL
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2009
Debut in the World Cup	2011
World Cup victories	10 relay victories
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 × NM medals 3 × 5 × 3 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang Season  Biathlon world championships gold 2019 Östersund Season  European biathlon championships gold 2014 Nové Město sprint silver 2015 Otepää sprint bronze 2015 Otepää Season  Norwegian championships bronze 2009 Lillehammer Season silver 2010 Simostranda Season silver 2013 Dombås singles gold 2016 Sirdal persecution bronze 2016 Sirdal Mass start bronze 2016 Sirdal Season gold 2017 Mo i Rana Mass start gold 2018 Lillehammer Season silver 2018 Lillehammer sprint silver 2018 Lillehammer persecution silver 2019 Ål persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	14. ( 2017/18 )
Individual World Cup	05. ( 2016/17 )
Sprint World Cup	14. (2017/18)
Pursuit World Cup	06. (2017/18)
Mass start world cup	26. (2017/18)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Season 10 4th 4th
last change: March 16, 2019

Lars Helge Birkeland (born February 11, 1988 in Tønsberg ) is a Norwegian biathlete and starts for the club Birkenes IL .

Career

Lars Helge Birkeland played his first international race during the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2009 in Canada Canmore . In the individual, he finished 12th, was 24th in the sprint, 19th in the pursuit and sixth in the relay race. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season he made his debut in the IBU Cup in Idre and was 44 in his first sprint. In the following sprint, he won first points in the same place as 32nd. In Nové Město na Moravě he achieved his best result in the IBU Cup with a 13th place. At the Biathlon European Championships 2010 in Otepää , Birkeland was 38th in the individual, 48th in the sprint and 29th in the pursuit race. At the start of the 2011/12 World Cup in Östersund, Lars Birkeland was 29th in the sprint and 31st in the pursuit and won his first World Cup points at his first appearance in the World Cup.

Nationally, Birkeland won the bronze medal at the Norwegian Championships 2009 in Lillehammer with Sondre Flaa Eieland, Jon Kristian Svaland and Sverre T. Røiseland as the final runners of the Agder region . 2010 came in Simostranda with Eieland, Øyvind Svaland and Jon Kristian Svaland the silver medal in the relay race. At the championships in 2013 in Dombås , he was able to win the silver medal in individual.

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Private

Lars Helge Birkeland is the son of Trygve and Turid Birkeland. His younger sister Karoline was also a biathlete and won several national gold medals in the junior division. Today she works as a physiotherapist , u. a. for the youth team of Norwegian biathletes.

In 2015, Lars Helge Birkeland married his teammate Fanny Welle-Strand Horn .

statistics

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 9, 2012	Hochfilzen	Season 1
2.	November 29, 2015	Ostersund	Single mixed season 2
3.	February 13, 2016	Presque Isle	Season 3
4th	December 10, 2017	Hochfilzen	Season 4
5.	January 12, 2018	Ruhpolding	Season 5
6th	18th March 2018	Oslo	Season 6
7th	2nd December 2018	Pokljuka	Single mixed season 7
8th.	18th January 2019	Ruhpolding	Season 8
9.	February 8, 2019	Canmore	Season 9
10.	16th March 2019	Östersund ( World Cup )	Season 8

¹With Ole Einar Bjørndalen , Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen and Henrik L'Abée-Lund .

²With Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen .

³With Erlend Bjøntegaard , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Tarjei Bø .

^4th With Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Henrik L'Abée-Lund and Erlend Bjøntegaard.

⁵ With Tarjei Bø, Emil Hegle Svendsen and Johannes Thingnes Bø.

^6th With Henrik L'Abée-Lund, Tarjei Bø and Johannes Thingnes Bø.

^7thWith Thekla Brun-Lie .

^8th With Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen, Tarjei Bø and Johannes Thingnes Bø.

⁹ With Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen, Erlend Bjøntegaard and Johannes Thingnes Bø.

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					10	10
2nd place					4th	4th
3rd place					4th	4th
Top 10	5	6th	5	2	24	42
Scoring	12	26th	25th	10	26th	99
Starts	15th	41	26th	10	26th	118
As of March 16, 2019

World championships

Results at biathlon world championships

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2012	Ruhpolding	39.	-	-	-	-	-
2013	Nové Město	44.	-	-	-	-	-
2017	Hochfilzen	9.	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Ostersund	18th	-	-	-	1.	-	-

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2018	Pyeongchang	60.	-	-	-	2.	-

Web links

Commons : Lars Helge Birkeland  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lars Helge Birkeland in the IBU database (English)