Magdalena Forsberg

Magdalena Forsberg
nation	Sweden
birthday	July 25, 1967
place of birth	Ullånger , Sweden
job	Tax advisor
Career
discipline	Biathlon cross-country skiing
society	Sundsvall biathlon
Trainer	Wolfgang Pichler
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × Biathlon World Cup 6 × 1 × 5 × Nordic World Ski Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Salt Lake City 2002 singles bronze Salt Lake City 2002 sprint  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze Oberstdorf 1987 Season  Biathlon world championships bronze Ruhpolding 1996 sprint bronze Osrblie 1997 sprint gold Osrblie 1997 persecution gold Osrblie 1997 singles gold Pokljuka 1998 persecution silver Kontiolahti 1999 sprint bronze Kontiolahti 1999 Mass start gold Oslo 2000 persecution bronze Oslo 2000 singles bronze Pokljuka 2001 persecution gold Pokljuka 2001 singles gold Pokljuka 2001 Mass start
Placements in the biathlon world cup Debut in the World Cup December 8, 1994 End of career March 24, 2002 World Cup victories 42 Overall World Cup 1.  ( 1996/97 , 1997/98 , 1998/99 ,  1999/00 , 2000/01 , 2001/02 ) Individual World Cup 1.  ( 1997/98 , 1999/00 , 2000/01 , 2001/02 ) Sprint World Cup 1.  ( 1997/98 , 1998/99 , 1999/00 , 2000/01 , 2001/02 ) Pursuit World Cup 1.  ( 1996/97 , 1997/98 , 1998/99 , 1999/00 , 2000/01 , 2001/02 ) Mass start world cup 1.  ( 2000/01 , 2001/02 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  sprint 13 5 9  persecution 19th 8th 6th  Mass start 3 3 1  singles 7th 3 8th
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup Debut in the World Cup January 15, 1988 End of career March 19, 1993 Overall World Cup 17. ( 1988/89 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 0 1 0  Relay race 0 0 2

Magdalena Forsberg (last name [ fɔʂbærj ], born July 25, 1967 in Ullånger , Kramfors municipality , as Magdalena Wallin ) is a former Swedish biathlete and cross-country skier . With 42 World Cup victories and six overall World Cup victories, she is the most successful biathlete in World Cup history. From 1997 to 2002 she was the dominant athlete of the Biathlon World Cup .

Private life

Magdalena Forsberg has been married to the Swedish biathlete Henrik Forsberg since 1996 and has two children with him. You live in Bergeforsen .

Biathlon career

Magdalena Forsberg was initially a member of the Swedish national cross-country skiing team and achieved her best result with a second place in a 10 km race in Rovaniemi in 1988 , but afterwards she only made it into the top ten four times. That's why she decided to switch to biathlete in 1993. Soon she was one of the world's best in biathlon, as she was not only a good cross-country skier, but also a precise shooter.

After Forsberg won her first medal with a bronze medal in the sprint at the 1996 World Championships , she became two-time world champion a year later in 1997 . In Osrblie she won the individual competition and became the first world champion in this discipline by winning the pursuit competition, and in the sprint competition she was also able to secure a bronze medal. By 2001 she was able to win four more titles.

She was even more successful in the World Cup: she won the overall World Cup in biathlon six times in a row, and she won 42 World Cup races in total. For this she was awarded the title of biathlete of the 20th century .

The 2000/2001 season is one of the Swede's most impressive season, in which her dominance was particularly strong. Forsberg won with sprint and pursuit in Antholz; Sprint, pursuit and mass start in Oberhof; Sprint and pursuit in Ruhpolding as well as the sprint in Antholz eight season races in a row, which is still unmatched in biathlon today. She won a total of 14 races this season and holds the record of victories in biathlon to this day. This season she reached 19 of 25 possible podiums, 22 times she was in the top ten. With 1021 points in the overall World Cup in the 2000/01 season, the Swede held the record in biathlon until the 2011/12 season in which Magdalena Neuner exceeded Forsberg's record with 1216 points - but according to the new point system, in which the winner was able to achieve 60 points . In addition to the overall World Cup, the Swede also won all discipline World Cups.

The following season was similarly dominant, in which Forsberg won the overall World Cup for the sixth time in a row and all discipline World Cups for the second time since 2000/2001. In the pursuit race of Hochfilzen in December 2001, she managed to run out a lead of 3:13 minutes over the runner-up Alena Subrylawa . She was the only athlete without a shooting error. However, the fact that even experienced athletes like Magdalena Forsberg are not immune to mishaps was demonstrated by the sprint race in Osrblie at the end of December: Lying in a promising position, she shot the wrong targets while standing. However, she did not notice her mistake, so she finished the race normally and with the best run time would actually have ended up in second place. However, since she officially had five shooting errors and should have run five penalty loops, she was punished with a time penalty of two minutes for each penalty loop not run, so that with a total penalty time of ten minutes, she finished penultimate in the race on position 95. That season, she won the first five World Cup races in a row and seven of the first nine World Cup races.

However, she was denied the very big success at the Olympic Games. At the end of her career, she won two bronze medals in Salt Lake City in 2002 . Magdalena Forsberg also owes her success to her trainer , the German Wolfgang Pichler . She worked part-time as a tax advisor , as there is no sports funding for biathletes in Sweden.

Magdalena Forsberg worked as a biathlon expert at ARD until the 2006/2007 season , after which she can be seen as a winter sports expert at the Swedish television station Sveriges Television . In 2019 she appeared in the German game show Did you know? as an expert on the subject of "Swedish royalty".

Balance sheet

With six overall World Cup victories in a row between 1997 and 2002, Magdalena Forsberg is the sole leader in overall World Cup victories in the women's biathlon. In the years 1997 to 2002 she won the Pursuit World Cup six times and in the years 1998 to 2002 the Sprint World Cup five times in a row. In total, she has won 17 discipline World Cup rankings, together with the overall World Cup victories, 23 World Cup rankings. No other female athlete has succeeded in doing this so far. In addition, she was the first biathlete to win the overall, sprint, pursuit, individual and mass start World Cup, i.e. all World Cup ratings in one season (2000/01). In the following season she was even able to repeat this. No biathlete has won more world cup balls than the Swede.

Magdalena Forsberg achieved a total of 42 World Cup victories, making her the most successful biathlete. Only the biathletes Ole Einar Bjørndalen , Martin Fourcade , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Raphaël Poirée are more successful . She reached 124 top ten placements, 85 of which were podiums.

Magdalena Forsberg won a total of six World Cup gold medals in individual competitions .

successes

World cup

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	Jan. 28, 1995	Ruhpolding	sprint
2.	Dec 14, 1995	Oslo	singles
3.	0Jan. 4, 1997	Oberhof	sprint
4th	0Jan. 5, 1997	Oberhof	persecution
5.	0Feb. 2, 1997	Osrblie (WM)	persecution
6th	0Feb 7, 1997	Osrblie (WM)	singles
7th	Dec 13, 1997	Ostersund	sprint
8th.	Dec 20, 1997	Kontiolahti	persecution
9.	0Jan. 8, 1998	Ruhpolding	sprint
10.	03rd Mar 1998	Pokljuka	singles
11.	07th Mar 1998	Pokljuka	sprint
12.	0March 8 1998	Pokljuka (World Cup)	persecution
13.	Dec 11, 1998	Hochfilzen	sprint
14th	Dec 12, 1998	Hochfilzen	persecution
15th	Feb 25, 1999	Lake Placid	sprint
16.	06th Mar 1999	Valcartier	persecution
17th	0Dec 9, 1999	Pokljuka	sprint
18th	Feb 20, 2000	Oslo (World Cup)	persecution
19th	18 Mar 2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	persecution
20th	0Dec 8, 2000	Antholz	persecution
21st	Dec 16, 2000	Antholz	sprint
22nd	Dec 17, 2000	Antholz	persecution
23.	0Jan. 5, 2001	Oberhof	sprint
24.	0Jan. 6, 2001	Oberhof	persecution
25th	0Jan. 7, 2001	Oberhof	Mass start
26th	Jan. 13, 2001	Ruhpolding	sprint
27.	Jan. 14, 2001	Ruhpolding	persecution
28.	Jan. 18, 2001	Antholz	Sprint ( 1 )
29	0Feb 6, 2001	Pokljuka (World Cup)	singles
30th	0Feb 9, 2001	Pokljuka (World Cup)	Mass start
31.	Feb 28, 2001	Salt Lake City	singles
32.	03rd Mar 2001	Salt Lake City	persecution
33.	17th Mar 2001	Oslo	Pursuit ( 2 )
34.	0Dec 6, 2001	Hochfilzen	sprint
35.	0Dec 9, 2001	Hochfilzen	persecution
36.	Dec 12, 2001	Pokljuka	singles
37.	Dec 16, 2001	Pokljuka	persecution
38.	Dec 20, 2001	Osrblie	singles
39.	Dec 22, 2001	Osrblie	Mass start
40.	Jan. 11, 2002	Oberhof	persecution
41.	10 Mar 2002	Ostersund	persecution
42.	23 Mar 2002	Oslo	persecution

¹ record in biathlon: In the Antholz sprint, Forsberg achieved the 8th consecutive World Cup victory

² record in biathlon: In the pursuit of Oslo Forsberg achieved the 14th win of the season

World Cup ratings

season	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1994/95	7th	86	9.	92					5.	178
1995/96	4th	94	6th	84					5.	178
1996/97	2.	97	3.	141	3.	84			1.	319
1997/98	1.	99	1.	202	1.	86			1.	387
1998/99	2.	60	1.	203	1.	180	3.	45	1.	478
1999/00	1.	74	1.	147	1.	210	3.	68	1.	510
2000/01	1.	143	1.	368	1.	300	1.	146	1.	1021
2001/02	1.	143	1.	302	1.	376	1.	123	1.	944

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	7th	13	19th	3			42
2nd place	3	5	8th	2			18th
3rd place	8th	9	7th	3			27
Top 10	27	47	34	15th	2	4th	129
Scoring	34	64	38	16	4th	10	166
Starts	35	66	38	16	4th	10	169

winter Olympics

	sprint	persecution	singles	Season
1998 Winter Olympics Nagano	17th		14th	10.
2002 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City	3.	3.	6th	-

World championships

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Season	team
World Championships 1995 Antholz	19th		7th		14th	8th.
World Championships 1996 Ruhpolding	3.		15th		10.	9.
World Championships 1997 Osrblie	3.	1.	1.		16.	11.
World Championships 1998 Pokljuka / Hochfilzen		1.				7th
World Championships 1999 Kontiolahti / Oslo	2.	5.	6th	3.	-
World Championships 2000 Oslo / Lahti	4th	1.	3.	4th	13.
World Championships 2001 Pokljuka	6th	3.	1.	1.	-

Awards

• 1997 Radio Sports Jerringpris
• 1998 Radio Sports Jerringpris
• 1998 Victoria Award (Sports Award in Sweden)
• 2000 radio sports Jerringpris
• 2001 Radio Sports Jerringpris

Web links

Commons : Magdalena Forsberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Magdalena Forsberg in the IBU database (English)
• Magdalena Forsberg in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Magdalena Forsberg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result from December 16, 2000 in Antholz (Sprint) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Result of December 17, 2000 in Antholz (persecution) ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Result from January 5, 2001 in Oberhof (Sprint) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Result of January 6, 2001 in Oberhof (persecution) ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Result from January 7, 2001 in Oberhof (mass start) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Result from January 13, 2001 in Ruhpolding (Sprint) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Result from January 14, 2001 in Ruhpolding (persecution) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ Result from January 18, 2001 in Antholz (Sprint) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ Result of December 9, 2001 in Hochfilzen (pursuit)
10. ↑ Forsberg hit the wrong target
11. ^ Result from Osrblie