Magdalena Forsberg
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birthday | July 25, 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Ullånger , Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Tax advisor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biathlon cross-country skiing |
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society | Sundsvall biathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Wolfgang Pichler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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1. | Jan. 28, 1995 |
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sprint |
2. | Dec 14, 1995 |
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singles |
3. | Jan. 4, 1997 |
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sprint |
4th | Jan. 5, 1997 |
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persecution |
5. | Feb. 2, 1997 |
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persecution |
6th | Feb 7, 1997 |
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singles |
7th | Dec 13, 1997 |
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sprint |
8th. | Dec 20, 1997 |
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persecution |
9. | Jan. 8, 1998 |
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sprint |
10. | 3rd Mar 1998 |
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singles |
11. | 7th Mar 1998 |
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sprint |
12. | March 8 1998 |
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persecution |
13. | Dec 11, 1998 |
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sprint |
14th | Dec 12, 1998 |
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persecution |
15th | Feb 25, 1999 |
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sprint |
16. | 6th Mar 1999 |
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persecution |
17th | Dec 9, 1999 |
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sprint |
18th | Feb 20, 2000 |
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persecution |
19th | 18 Mar 2000 |
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persecution |
20th | Dec 8, 2000 |
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persecution |
21st | Dec 16, 2000 |
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sprint |
22nd | Dec 17, 2000 |
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persecution |
23. | Jan. 5, 2001 |
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sprint |
24. | Jan. 6, 2001 |
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persecution |
25th | Jan. 7, 2001 |
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Mass start |
26th | Jan. 13, 2001 |
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sprint |
27. | Jan. 14, 2001 |
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persecution |
28. | Jan. 18, 2001 |
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Sprint ( 1 ) |
29 | Feb 6, 2001 |
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singles |
30th | Feb 9, 2001 |
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Mass start |
31. | Feb 28, 2001 |
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singles |
32. | 3rd Mar 2001 |
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persecution |
33. | 17th Mar 2001 |
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Pursuit ( 2 ) |
34. | Dec 6, 2001 |
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sprint |
35. | Dec 9, 2001 |
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persecution |
36. | Dec 12, 2001 |
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singles |
37. | Dec 16, 2001 |
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persecution |
38. | Dec 20, 2001 |
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singles |
39. | Dec 22, 2001 |
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Mass start |
40. | Jan. 11, 2002 |
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persecution |
41. | 10 Mar 2002 |
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persecution |
42. | 23 Mar 2002 |
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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 | |||||
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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 |
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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 | |
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1998 Winter Olympics | 17th | 14th | 10. | |
2002 Winter Olympics |
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6th | - |
World championships
Individual competitions | Relay competitions | |||||
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sprint | persecution | singles | Mass start | Season | team | |
World Championships 1995 | 19th | 7th | 14th | 8th. | ||
World Championships 1996 |
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15th | 10. | 9. | ||
World Championships 1997 |
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16. | 11. | |
World Championships 1998 |
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7th | ||||
World Championships 1999 |
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5. | 6th |
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World Championships 2000 | 4th |
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4th | 13. | |
World Championships 2001 | 6th |
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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
- 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
- ^ Result from December 16, 2000 in Antholz (Sprint) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result of December 17, 2000 in Antholz (persecution) ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result from January 5, 2001 in Oberhof (Sprint) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result of January 6, 2001 in Oberhof (persecution) ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result from January 7, 2001 in Oberhof (mass start) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result from January 13, 2001 in Ruhpolding (Sprint) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result from January 14, 2001 in Ruhpolding (persecution) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result from January 18, 2001 in Antholz (Sprint) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result of December 9, 2001 in Hochfilzen (pursuit)
- ↑ Forsberg hit the wrong target
- ^ Result from Osrblie
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SURNAME | Forsberg, Magdalena |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish biathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ullånger, Kramfors (municipality) , Sweden |