Linn Persson

This article is about a biathlete. For the environmental chemist see Linn M. Persson !

Linn Persson
Association	Sweden
birthday	27th June 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Torsby
size	165 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
society	SK Bore
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2012
Debut in the World Cup	2015
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang Season  Biathlon world championships silver 2019 Östersund Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2012 Kontiolahti Youth relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	19. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	17. ( 2017/18 )
Sprint World Cup	29. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	11. (2019/20)
Mass start world cup	18th (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Mass start 0 0 1 Season 0 3 4th
last change: April 21, 2020

Linn Persson (born June 27, 1994 in Torsby ) is a Swedish biathlete . She made her debut in the 2015 World Cup and was on the podium in a single race for the first time in 2019. With the relay she won the silver medal at both the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2019 World Championships .

Athletic career

Persson grew up in the municipality of Torsby in Värmland , western Sweden , started skiing as a child and switched to biathlon in 2003. Your home club is the SK Bore . In her youth she took part in the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2011 and the Winter Youth Olympic Games 2012 in Innsbruck . At the Youth World Championships in 2012 in Kontiolahti , she won the silver medal together with Hanna Öberg and Lotten Sjödén in the relay race. Between 2012 and 2015 she received individual appearances in the IBU Cup , the second highest racing series in the adult category . As the best individual result, she achieved an 18th place in December 2014 in the individual in Obertilliach . After she had achieved the most successful results from all Swedes at the Junior World Championships 2015 with several top ten results, she was appointed to the World Cup team for the first time for the season finale in Khanty-Mansiysk .

From the 2015/16 season , Persson started regularly in the World Cup. Right at the beginning of winter she ran the single mixed relay with Tobias Arwidson in front of a home crowd in Östersund , only needed one spare for 20 hits and took fourth place. In the further course of the season she reached the points of the top 40 athletes in several individual races and took the position of start or finish runner in the Swedish relays. In her first World Cup participation , she was tenth in the relay with Anna Magnusson , Mona Brorsson and Ingela Andersson and finished 34th in the sprint as the best individual result. In 2016/17 Persson missed the first 50 places in all individual World Cup starts and ended the season prematurely in January with persistent back pain. In the following season she reached the top ten in an individual World Cup race for the first time as a sprint eighth in Oberhof, a few days later she was on the podium for the first time as the starting runner with the third-placed women's relay. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Persson's relay team won the silver medal, followed by Brorsson, Magnusson and Hanna Öberg. As the best individual result, she reached eleventh place in the 15-kilometer race - won by her teammate Öberg - and qualified for a mass start for the first time in her career , which she finished in 22nd place.

In the winters that followed the Olympic Games, Persson increased her results in particular by improving mileage. In 2018, their times were about the average of the field, in the 2019/20 season they were about two percent faster. She kept her hit rate at around 85 percent, making her one of the 20 best biathletes in the World Cup. With the relay she won another silver medal at the home World Championships in Östersund in 2019 , as a starting runner she made no mistakes. Persson achieved her best individual results in competitions with four shooting bouts: at the mass start in Annecy-Le Grand-Bornand on December 22, 2019, she was third and in the sprint to second place was beaten by Dorothea Wierer by only two tenths of a second . In the Ruhpolding pursuit in January 2020, she improved from 27th to 5th place with one of the best times of the day. As the second best Swede of the winter (behind Hanna Öberg), she finished the 2019/20 season in 19th place in the overall World Cup.

Personal

Persson initially pursued several sports in parallel - in addition to biathlon, also skiing and football. She attended biathlon high school in Torsby for four years and then moved to Östersund in autumn 2014.

statistics

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
2nd place					3	3
3rd place				1	4th	5
Top 10		3	2	3	25th	33
Scoring	7th	16	15th	6th	29	73
Starts	10	35	21st	6th	29	101
Status: end of season 2019/20

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
World Championships 2016  Oslo	34.	40.	36.	-	10.	12.
World Championships 2019  Ostersund	42.	21st	15th	9.	2.	5.
World Championships 2020  Antholz	44.	32.	47.	-	5.	11.

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	37.	21st	11.	22nd	2.	-

Web links

Commons : Linn Persson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Linn Persson in the database of the IBU (English)
• Linn Persson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Linn Persson's personal website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Linn Persson. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Patrik Jemteborn: Taggade skidskyttar inför start i ungdoms-OS i Liberec on skidskytte.se. Released February 14, 2011. Accessed April 21, 2020.
3. ↑ Linn Persson: Beslut on linnpersson.se. Released January 30, 2017. Accessed April 21, 2020.
4. ↑ Per Hansson: Linn Persson, 21, körde rakt in i svenska folkets hjärtan: "Mitt mål är att ta OS-guld 2022" on st.nu. Released November 30, 2015. Accessed April 21, 2020.