Martin Møller

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Martin Møller biathlon Cross-country skiing
Full name Martin Troels Møller
nation GreenlandGreenland Greenland
birthday May 18, 1980
place of birth Næstved, Denmark
size 186 cm
Weight 78 kg
Career
discipline Biathlon
cross-country skiing
society Nuuk biathlon
status resigned
End of career 2018
Biathlon World Cup dates

World Cup debut March 21, 2002
Best placement 78 (sprint)
Data on the cross-country skiing world cup

World Cup debut March 8, 2000
Best placement 23 (team sprint)
 

Martin Troels Møller (born May 18, 1980 in Næstved , Denmark ) is a Greenlandic former biathlete and cross-country skier .

Life

Martin Møller was born in Næstved on Zealand , but lives in the Greenland city of Nuuk . He studies in Trondheim in Norway , where he often trains with the Norwegian biathletes. He has been part of the Greenlandic biathlon association since 2005 and is trained by association trainer Øystein Slettemark as part of a cooperation with Norwegian biathletes. Møller has been skiing internationally since 1997 and has been a member of the Danish national team since then. Møller is married to his teammate, cross-country skier and biathlete Johanne Nive Mikkelsen .

Cross-country skiing

Møller began his international cross-country skiing career at the age of seventeen in January 1998 at the Junior World Championships in Pontresina with 47th place in the 10-kilometer race and 85th place over 30 kilometers. Just one year later he formed the Danish team at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 together with Jes Knudsen , Rasmus Jensen and Michael Binzer, who were ten years older on average . With 67th place he achieved his best result on the longer distance. He also took part in the Junior World Championship in 1999, as well as a year later. In 2000 he achieved one of his best results there over 10 kilometers with 19th place. In his second World Championship participation in 2003 he only ran in the sprint and had his best individual result at a world championship with 47th place.In the team sprint together with Sebastian Sørensen , he achieved his best place at a world championship two years later with 20th place, in the sprint he confirmed as 49. his result of 2003.

Møller made his debut in the cross-country world cup back in March 2000 at the world cup final at Oslo's Holmenkollen in the 10-kilometer race with 62nd place. This was followed by three races in the 2000/2001 season with 55th place as the best result. He then paused until the 2003/2004 season , in which he competed ten times and achieved the best result of his career in the World Cup with 23rd place together with Jonas Thor Olsen in the team sprint in Düsseldorf. The other results were between 45th and 71st place. In the following season 2004/2005 , his last season so far in the World Cup, his placements were also in this area with three slips down, but once also in the sprint with 26th place in the points area, again in Düsseldorf . He left the reigning overall World Cup winners Axel Teichmann and René Sommerfeldt behind, among others . FIS races have also started in 1998 , mostly over the shorter 10 or 15 kilometer distances. Ten results among the top 30, five of them in the top 20 and sixth place in Geilo, are in this category. As a cross-country skier at FIS events , he starts for Denmark, otherwise for Greenland.

In addition to his starts in the World Cup, Møller successfully competes in long distance races on skis. In 2001 and 2003 he won the Arctic Circle Race in Greenland, in 2005 he was third and in 2006 second behind his compatriot Øystein Slettemark. In 2011, he finished second again and then won the race six times in a row from 2012 to 2017.

He was part of the Danish team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . In the cross-country sprint he landed on rank 54, in the individual over 18 km in classic style on 58th place.

biathlon

Møller also takes part in biathlon competitions and takes part in European and World Cup races. He also ran his first World Cup race in the biathlon, a sprint, at Holmenkollen in Oslo at the end of the 2002 season , but could not finish the race. It was not until the beginning of the 2005/2006 season that he entered the World Cup again and competed in the sprint at all stations, and he also competed in the individual in Hochfilzen . There he had his best World Cup result in the sprint in the following season as 78th. In 2007 he also started at the World Championships in Antholz . With 90th place in the sprint and 88th in the individual, he stayed within the range of his World Cup results. In the same season he was active in the European Cup and just missed the points in Forni Avoltri as 32nd.

He has been part of the team's supervisory staff since the end of his active career.

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement singles sprint persecution Mass start Season total
1st place  
2nd place  
3rd place  
Top 10  
Scoring  
Starts 4th 15th       19th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finn L. Nielsen: Team Grønland har nu sat eliten for 2007/2008 ( Danish, Greenlandic ) June 30, 2007. Accessed March 2, 2009.
  2. ↑ PRESSEMEDDELSE Grønland har deltaget med et hold til World Cup i Biathlon ( Memento from April 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Møller, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Møller, Martin Troels (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic biathlete and cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Næstved , Denmark