Lisa Vittozzi

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Lisa Vittozzi biathlon
Vittozzi at the World Cup in Oberhof 2020
Association ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 4th February 1995 (age 25)
place of birth Pieve di Cadore , Italy
size 176 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
job policewoman
society CS Carabinieri
Trainer Andreas Zingerle
Andrea Zattoni
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup 2014
Debut in the World Cup 2014
World Cup victories 6 (2 individual wins)
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
JWM medals 2 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
JEM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
SJWM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Mixed relay
IBU Biathlon world championships
bronze 2015 Kontiolahti Season
bronze 2019 Östersund Mixed relay
silver 2019 Östersund singles
silver 2020 Antholz Mixed relay
IBU Biathlon Junior World Championships
silver 2013 Obertilliach Youth sprint
gold 2014 Presque Isle Youth sprint
gold 2014 Presque Isle Youth persecution
silver 2014 Presque Isle Youth singles
IBU Biathlon Junior European Championships
bronze 2014 Nové Město na Moravě singles
IBU Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships
bronze 2013 Forni Avoltri Mixed relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 02. ( 2018/19 )
Individual World Cup 01. (2018/19)
Sprint World Cup 04. (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup 04. (2018/19)
Mass start world cup 10. ( 2019/20 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
singles 0 1 1
sprint 1 1 1
persecution 1 0 4th
Mass start 0 2 0
Season 4th 3 7th
last change: June 11, 2020

Lisa Vittozzi (born February 4, 1995 in Pieve di Cadore , Veneto ) is an Italian biathlete . The two-time youth world champion from 2014 made her debut in the biathlon world cup in the same year . There she won her first two competitions in winter 2018/19 and finished second in the overall standings behind her teammate Dorothea Wierer . In addition, Vittozzi won several medals at world championships and in 2018 Olympic bronze with the mixed relay.

Athletic career

Successes in the youth field and World Cup debut (until 2015)

Vittozzi comes from Sappada in northern Italy near the border with Austria in the Carnic Alps . She started cross-country skiing in her youth and switched to biathlon shortly afterwards. Your hometown club is the ASD Camosci. At the age of 18 she joined the sports group of the state forest corps , after which she joined the Carabinieri .

With good placements in the lower-class Austria Cup , Vittozzi qualified for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck , where her best results were two fifths in the pursuit and in the mixed relay race. From 2012 to 2015 she took part in the youth and junior world championships, where she won her first medal in 2013 as a sprint runner-up behind Uljana Kaischewa . In the following year Vittozzi became youth world champion in the sprint and pursuit in Presque Isle (both ahead of Anna Weidel ) and took the bronze medal behind Julia Schwaiger in the 10-kilometer individual race . Six years after Dorothea Wierer 's first title in the junior division, Vittozzi was the second Italian to become world champion in her age group. She won further medals as a junior - each time third - at the 2013 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Forni Avoltri with the Italian mixed relay and at the 2014 European Championships in individual races.

After a few appearances in the IBU Cup , Vittozzi made his debut at the beginning of the 2014/15 season in the Biathlon World Cup , the highest competition series in the adult sector. In her first race in Östersund she reached the top 40 points with 37th place in the sprint and 26th place in the subsequent pursuit. Her best individual result of the winter was 18th place in the sprint of Nové Město. Vittozzi also received regular appearances in the Italian women's relay: at the side of Karin Oberhofer , Nicole Gontier and Dorothea Wierer, she stood on the podium for the first time at the 2015 World Championships . The 20-year-old Vittozzi at the time - who did not miss a miss as a starting runner and had changed roughly at the same time as the leaders - was one of the youngest medal winners at the World Championships in Kontiolahti , along with Justine Braisaz from France .

Rise to the top of the world (2015 to 2019)

Vittozzi at the World Cup in Oberhof 2018

From their first year in the World Cup to the winter 2018/19 improved continuously Vittozzi their results in the overall standings of the series: Your rookie season, she joined in this ranking from rank 64 in the next few years she was 39th and 27th 2017/18 was she finished sixth in the top ten for the first time and in March 2019 she finished the winter behind her team-mate Dorothea Wierer in second place in the overall World Cup.

During these years, Vittozzi celebrated her first two World Cup victories in individual races: In January 2019, she won both the sprint and the pursuit in Oberhof , where she hit with all ten shots in the sprint and a clear lead in the pursuit from the second lap on the opponents, which she held to the finish despite two penalties. She also achieved several podium results in the World Cup - starting with a third place in the Kontiolahti pursuit in March 2017. At the 2019 World Championships in Östersund, she won the silver medal in the 15-kilometer competition and, like the winner Hanna Öberg, made no mistakes. Over the entire 2018/19 season, Vittozzi had a hit rate of 88% and was therefore one of the best shooters in the World Cup field, with her particular strength being in the standing position with a rate of 91%. Their run times were around three percent faster than the field average. That meant she was behind the best runners around Denise Herrmann and Kaisa Mäkäräinen , but was roughly on par with Dorothea Wierer and Laura Dahlmeier . Until the World Cup final in Oslo, Wierer and Vittozzi were in competition for the overall World Cup, which Wierer ultimately won with a 23-point lead. Vittozzi won the individual discipline world cup.

Vittozzi achieved additional successes as a relay member: In December 2015 she was the starting runner of the quartet around Karin Oberhofer , Federica Sanfilippo and Dorothea Wierer, which won the first Italian women's relay in World Cup history in Hochfilzen . Three years later the season (now with Alexia Runggaldier instead of Oberhofer) repeated this success, again in Hochfilzen. At her first Olympic participation at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang , Vittozzi won the bronze medal with the mixed relay around Wierer, Lukas Hofer and Dominik Windisch , as well as at the 2019 World Cup. From summer 2018, these four athletes were trained in a mixed- gender elite training group separately from the other Italian squad athletes by Andreas Zingerle and Andrea Zattoni .

Further podium results (since 2019)

In the 2019/20 season, Vittozzi placed tenth in the overall World Cup, again won by Dorothea Wierer. In the first half of the season in particular, their performance remained significantly behind those of the pre-winter season; over the season, their hit rate in shooting fell by eight percentage points to 80%. She achieved her first individual podium result of the winter in January 2020 as second in the mass start on the Pokljuka . At the season finale, a third place followed in the pursuit of Kontiolahti. Vittozzi celebrated success again with the mixed relay, which won the World Cup opener in Östersund with the same line-up as in previous winters and won the silver medal behind Norway at the 2020 home world championships in Antholz . In the women's relay, Vittozzi and Wierer ran out a one-minute lead in the first positions, but the team fell back to tenth due to several penalties by Federica Sanfilippo and Michela Carrara .

Public image

The successes of Lisa Vittozzi and especially Dorothea Wierers contributed to the popularization of the biathlon sport in Italy in the late 2010s. The relationship between the two teammates also played a role, especially from the 2018/19 season, in which they finished first and second in the overall World Cup. In an interview during the winter, they both said they got along well, but were completely different characters: Wierer described Vittozzi as “much calmer and more concentrated” than she was and, unlike herself, attested that she had “[the] will, for hours hard to work". Vittozzi, in turn, stated that she had orientated her entire career to five years older than Wierer and “trained every day with the aim of catching up with her”. Vittozzi was also characterized in the media as "modest" or "[un] nondescript", in contrast to Wierer, who is considered an extrovert.

In the run-up to the 2020 home world championships in Antholz, Vittozzi's interview with the local newspaper Messaggero Veneto was widely received by the media. In it, she criticized the fact that Wierer had skipped the relay at the 2019 World Championships in contrast to her, which gave her competitor a longer recovery time for the final mass start. Wierer was “disappointed” by Vittozzi’s statements and rejected the accusation, but both emphasized that the conflict had been exaggerated in the media and resolved after a discussion. In the first World Championship race, Vittozzi and Wierer ran together with Lukas Hofer and Dominik Windisch to the silver medal in the mixed relay.

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 1 1 4th 6th
2nd place 1 1 2 3 7th
3rd place 1 1 4th 7th 13
Top 10 5 16 14th 5 33 73
Scoring 7th 37 30th 17th 42 133
Starts 12 48 35 17th 42 154
Status: end of season 2019/20

World Cup victories

Single race Relay race
No. date place discipline
1. Jan. 10, 2019 GermanyGermany Oberhof sprint
2. Jan. 12, 2019 GermanyGermany Oberhof persecution
No. date place discipline
1. Dec 13, 2015 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen Season 1
2. March 11, 2018 FinlandFinland Kontiolahti Mixed season 2
3. 16 Dec 2018 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen Season 3
4th Nov 30, 2019 SwedenSweden Ostersund Mixed season 2
3with Alexia Runggaldier , Dorothea Wierer and Federica Sanfilippo

winter Olympics

Individual competitions Relay competitions
sprint persecution singles Mass start Women's relay Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018

Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang

6th 11. 32. 4th 9. bronze 3.

World championships

Individual competitions Relay competitions
sprint persecution singles Mass start Women's relay Mixed relay
2015 World Championships Kontiolahti
FinlandFinland  		59. 40. - - bronze 3. -
World Championships 2016 Oslo
NorwayNorway  		20 .. 13. - 17th 7th -
World Championships 2017 Hochfilzen
AustriaAustria  		4th 14th 36. 11. 5. 4th
World Championships 2019 Östersund
SwedenSweden  		21st 10. silver 2. 8th. 10. bronze 3.
World Championships 2020 Antholz
ItalyItaly  		6th 27. 71. 30th 10. bronze 2.

Web links

Commons : Lisa Vittozzi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lisa Vittozzi. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Lisa Vittozzi: "Ho iniziato a 13 anni prima col fondo e poi col biathlon" on neveitalia.it. 17th September 2014.
  3. ↑ Marina D'Incerti: Chi è Lisa Vittozzi, campionessa di biathlon on donnamoderna.com. January 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ 12/12 BIATHLON: Lisa Vittozzi alle Olimpiadi Giovanili di Innsbruck on fisifvg.org. December 12, 2011.
  5. ↑ Massimo Brignolo: Biathlon: Lisa Vittozzi medaglia d'Oro nella Sprint ai Mondiali Giovani on olympialab.com. February 28, 2014. The article only mentions Wierer's 2009 victory in the pursuit, but the South Tyrolean won the individual race in 2008.
  6. ↑ Biathlon - Storica doppietta di Lisa Vittozzi a Oberhof! on fondoitalia.it. January 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2019/20, p. 398. Available online as PDF .
  8. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2019/20, p. 400. Available online as PDF .
  9. ^ Stefano Arcobelli: Biathlon. Vittozzi e Wierer, la volata per la Coppa a Oslo. In: La Gazzetta dello Sport. March 20, 2019. Anastasiya Kuzmina and Marte Olsbu Røiseland also had a chance of winning the overall World Cup before the season finale at Holmenkollen, but were already well behind the three races before the end of the tied Italian women .
  10. ^ Francesco Paone: Vittozzi, Oberhofer, Sanfilippo, Wierer scrivono la storia. L'Italia vince la staffetta femminile di Hochfilzen! on neveitalia.it. December 13, 2015.
  11. ^ Giulio Gasparin: The Italian Experiment. In: Biathlonworld. No. 52/2019. Available online as a PDF .
  12. ↑ Lisa Vittozzi in the IBU database (English)
  13. ↑ Claus Dieterle: "Doro" Wierer and the great cult. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. February 20, 2020.
  14. ^ Giulio Gasparin: The unequal biathlon twins from Italy. Doro e Lisa. In: Biathlonworld. No. 49/2019, pp. 68-78. Available online as a PDF .
  15. ↑ a b Volker circ: Great cinema. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 15, 2020, p. 40. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
  16. ↑ Jürgen Kemmer: bitch Zoff in Italian. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. February 13, 2020.
  17. ↑ Antonio Simeoli: Buon compleanno Lisa: il racconto dei suoi primi 25 anni. In: Messaggero Veneto. 4th February 2020.
  18. ↑ Dorothea Wierer: "I was shocked by your statements" on rainews.it. February 11, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Vittozzi, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Pieve di Cadore , Veneto