Marte Olsbu Røiseland

Marte Olsbu Røiseland
Association	Norway
birthday	7th December 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Arendal , Norway
size	167 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
society	Froland
Trainer	Patrick Oberegger, Sverre Waaler Kaas
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2010
Debut in the World Cup	2012
World Cup victories	17 (5 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 9 × 0 × 3 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang sprint silver 2018 Pyeongchang Mixed relay  Biathlon world championships gold 2016 Oslo Season bronze 2016 Oslo Mixed relay gold 2019 Östersund Season gold 2019 Östersund Mixed relay gold 2019 Östersund Single mixed relay gold 2020 Antholz sprint gold 2020 Antholz Mixed relay gold 2020 Antholz Single mixed relay gold 2020 Antholz Season gold 2020 Antholz Mass start bronze 2020 Antholz persecution bronze 2020 Antholz singles  European biathlon championships gold 2014 Nové Město sprint bronze 2014 Nové Město Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	4. ( 2018/19 )
Individual World Cup	6. ( 2019/20 )
Sprint World Cup	3. (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup	2. (2018/19)
Mass start world cup	4. (2018/19)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 0 1 sprint 4th 1 3 persecution 1 0 2 Mass start 0 0 1 Season 12 4th 6th
last change: February 22nd, 2020

Marte Olsbu Røiseland , b. Marte Olsbu (born December 7, 1990 in Arendal ) is a Norwegian biathlete .

Career

Marte Olsbu Røiseland lives in Froland and starts for the local association. She has been a member of the Norwegian national team since 2011. She made her international debut at the start of the 2010/11 season in Beitostølen in the IBU Cup and immediately won points as the 31st of a sprint. The first international championships were the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2011 in Nové Město na Moravě . Olsbu finished ninth in the individual, 37th in the sprint and 27th in the pursuit. In the 2011/12 season she regularly took part in the IBU Cup. In Canmore she achieved her best result of the season in tenth place. At the start of the 2012/13 season she missed notable results in Idre as 40th and 29th in sprint races, but was used for the first time in the World Cup a week later in Östersund . There she immediately achieved a placement in the points in an individual with rank 28. In the 2013/14 season she reached a sprint in Pokljuka , her first appearance of the season in the top series of biathlon competitions, as tenth and for the first time a place in the top ten.

Nationally Røiseland won the championship runner-up behind Tora Berger at the 2011 championships in Målselv and the bronze medal in the mass start race in Trondheim in 2012 behind Tora Berger and Synnøve Solemdal .

For the 2014/15 season Røiseland was appointed to the senior national team of Norway. This season she started for the first time at the Biathlon World Championships . She finished 30th in the sprint and fourth in the relay. The following season she took part in the World Championships in Oslo . After she won the bronze medal with the mixed relay, she narrowly missed the top ten in the sprint with an eleventh place. Together with Synnøve Solemdal , Fanny Horn Birkeland and Tiril Eckhoff , she won the relay race five seconds ahead of France.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season , Røiseland won another relay race, this time the mixed relay with Birkeland, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Johannes Thingnes Bø . This season was her best so far, which she finished twelfth in the overall standings

In 2018, Marte Olsbu Røiseland qualified as the best Norwegian in the World Cup for her first Olympic Games . In the first race, the sprint, she won the silver medal, also in the mixed relay, here together with Tiril Eckhoff, Johannes Thingnes Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen . She finished the season 14th overall

In the first third of the 2018/19 season , Røiseland celebrated her first Sprint World Cup victory in Nové Město , Czech Republic, ahead of Laura Dahlmeier and Paulína Fialková . She won the persecution that followed. In January she was able to build on these successes with several results among the top ten, including a third place in Antholz . At the North America World Cup in Soldier Hollow , she achieved her third race success in the sprint. At the World Championships in Östersund she won no medal in any individual race, but gold in all three relay competitions. Overall, she was fourth in the overall World Cup.

At the World Championships in Antholz, Olsbu Røiseland set a record set by Laura Dahlmeier by winning a medal in all disciplines. Since the single-mixed relay has only been played at world championships since 2019, it won seven medals, one more than Dahlmeier. There were five gold medals and two bronze medals in total. Not a single athlete in biathlon succeeded in this before.

Private

Marte Olsbu married the biathlon trainer Sverre Røiseland (* 1990) on August 11, 2018, with whom she has been friends since the Sirdal Ski School more than 10 years ago. Both now have the family name Olsbu Røiseland .

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. Dec 21, 2018  Nové Město sprint 2. Dec 22, 2018  Nové Město persecution 3. Feb. 14, 2019  Soldier Hollow sprint 4th 0Jan. 9, 2020  Oberhof sprint 5. Feb 14, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) sprint 6th 23 Feb 2020  Antholz ( WM ) Mass start

No. date place discipline 1. 11th Mar 2016  Oslo ( World Cup ) Season 1 2. Nov 27, 2016  Ostersund Mixed season 2 3. 07th Mar 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Mixed season 3 4th 14 Mar 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Single mixed season 4 5. 16. Mar. 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Season 5 6th 0Dec 8, 2019  Ostersund Season 6 7th Dec 14, 2019  Hochfilzen Season 6 8th. Jan. 11, 2020  Oberhof Season 5 9. Jan. 17, 2020  Ruhpolding Season 6 10. Feb 13, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) Mixed season 7 11. Feb 20, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) Single mixed season 4 12. Feb 22, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) Season 5 1with Synnøve Solemdal , Fanny Horn Birkeland and Tiril Eckhoff 2with Fanny Horn Birkeland, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Johannes Thingnes Bø 3with Tiril Eckhoff, Johannes Thingnes Bø and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen 4th with Johannes Thingnes Bø 5with Synnøve Solemdal, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Tiril Eckhoff 6thwith Karoline Offigstad Knotten , Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Tiril Eckhoff 7thwith Tiril Eckhoff, Johannes Thingnes Bø and Tarjei Bø

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		4th	1	1	12	18th
2nd place		1			4th	5
3rd place	1	3	2	1	6th	13
Top 10	2	17th	17th	11	36	83
Scoring	12	37	37	19th	38	143
Starts	17th	53	40	19th	38	167
Status: February 23, 2020

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2018	Pyeongchang	71.	2.	4th	8th.	4th	2.

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2015	Kontiolahti	-	30th	41.	-	4th	-
2016	Oslo	42.	11.	16.	7th	1.	3.
2017	Hochfilzen	58.	54.	16.	29	11.	8th.
2019	Ostersund	23.	25th	4th	7th	1.	1.	1.
2020	Antholz	3.	1.	3.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Junior World Championships

Results at the Junior World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2011	Nové Město	9.	37.	27.	-

Web links

Commons : Marte Olsbu Røiseland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marte Olsbu Røiseland in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marte Olsbu Roiseland. Weltski.de, accessed on February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Slik feires Olsbu-bryllupet over tre dager [This is how the Olsbu wedding is celebrated for 3 days]. (No longer available online.) Agderposten, August 7, 2018, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 15, 2019 (Norwegian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ Nye etternavn etter Olsbu-bryllupet [New surname after Olsbu Wedding]. Agderposten, August 21, 2018, accessed March 15, 2019 (Norwegian).