Linda Grubben

Linda Grubben
Association	Norway
birthday	September 13, 1979
place of birth	Stavanger ,  NOR
Career
Debut in the World Cup	2000
World Cup victories	14 (8 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 2002 Salt Lake City Season  Biathlon world championships gold 2004 Oberhof Season bronze 2005 Hochfilzen singles silver 2006 Pokljuka Mixed relay gold 2007 Antholz singles silver 2007 Antholz persecution bronze 2007 Antholz Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	6. ( 2006/2007 )
Individual World Cup	1. ( 2002/2003 )
Sprint World Cup	6. ( 2005/2006 )
Pursuit World Cup	5. ( 2006/2007 )
Mass start world cup	3. ( 2005/2006 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 1 1 2 sprint 3 0 2 persecution 2 4th 3 Mass start 2 0 2 Season 6th 5 7th

Linda Grubben at the World Cup in Antholz 2006

Linda Grubben at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin

Linda Grubben (born September 13, 1979 in Stavanger ; born Linda Tjørhom ) is a former Norwegian biathlete .

Grubbenvorst won at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City silver in the relay competition. At the 2004 World Championships in Oberhof , she was able to get the gold medal with the relay. She won her first individual medal at the 2005 World Championships in Hochfilzen with bronze over 15 km. 2006 followed at the Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championships in Pokljuka silver in the relay.

She won the last race of the 2005/2006 season in Oslo and thus secured third place in the discipline World Cup mass start. In the World Cup she was able to win a total of eight races, three of them in the 2006/07 season. At the 2007 World Championships in Antholz , she first won silver in the pursuit. The highlight and greatest success of her career was the individual world title, which she secured with a faultless shooting. On February 11, 2007, just a few hours after winning the bronze medal with the Norwegian relay, she surprisingly announced her immediate retirement from biathlon; She named training and travel stress as reasons. Although she did not run the last nine races of the season, Grubben still finished 6th in the overall World Cup at the end of the season and was the best Norwegian of the 2006/07 season.

She has been married to the former Norwegian national biathlon coach Roger Grubben since summer 2006 . They have a daughter (born December 2007). Because of her fear of flying, Grubben was unable to take part in several competitions (e.g. at the 2003 Biathlon World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia).

successes

• Winter Olympics:
  • 2002: 1 × silver (relay)

• World Championships:
  • 2004: 1 × gold (relay)
  • 2005: 1 × bronze (individual)
  • 2006: 1 × silver (mixed relay)
  • 2007: 1 × gold (individual), 1 × silver (pursuit), 1 × bronze (relay)

• World Cup victories:
  • 8 wins

• World Cup balance:

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place	1	3	2	2	6th	14th
2nd place	1		4th		5	10
3rd place	2	2	3	2	7th	16
Top 10	6th	18th	17th	7th	31	79
Scoring	9	39	33	15th	31	127
Starts	16	52	39	15th	31	153

Web links

Commons : Linda Grubben  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Linda Grubbenvorst in the database of the IBU (English)