Mona Brorsson

Mona Brorsson
Mona Brorsson 2020 at the World Cup in Oberhof
Association	Sweden
birthday	28th March 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Järnskog
size	167 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
society	Finnskoga IF
Trainer	Wolfgang Pichler
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2011
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	3
Debut in the World Cup	2013
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang Season  Biathlon world championships silver 2019 Östersund Season  European biathlon championships gold 2014 Nové Město persecution gold 2019 Minsk-Raubitschy Mixed relay gold 2019 Minsk-Raubitschy sprint
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	19. ( 2018/19 )
Individual World Cup	13. ( 2017/18 )
Sprint World Cup	21. (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup	13. ( 2019/20 )
Mass start world cup	8. (2018/19)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Season 0 3 4th
last change: April 20, 2020

Mona Brorsson (born March 28, 1990 in Järnskog ) is a Swedish biathlete . She has been competing in the World Cup since 2013 . With the relay she won the silver medal at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in 2018 and at the World Championships in Östersund in 2019 .

Athletic career

Beginnings and advancement in the Swedish World Cup team (until 2018)

Brorsson grew up in Koppom in the west of Sweden in the province of Värmland and started skiing as a child, before taking up biathlon at the age of ten. She competed in her first international race at the beginning of the 2007/08 season in the European Junior Cup . In 2010 she started at the Junior World Championships taking place in Torsby , where she achieved a 24th place in the sprint as the best individual result. From winter 2011/12 Brorsson received regular appearances in the IBU Cup, the second highest international competition series in biathlon. There she placed in the top ten several times in the following season and was the best Swede in the overall standings as 14th. In March 2013 she started for the first time in the World Cup at the season finale in Oslo, where she finished 71st in the sprint. She also took part in the European Championships in Bansko , with a twelfth place in the individual as the first result. A year later, she won the pursuit title at the 2014 European Championships in the absence of the world's best, three seconds ahead of the Spaniard Victoria Padial . She won her first medal at national championships in 2012 and subsequently won several titles.

After the resignations of the world champions Anna Carin Zidek in 2011 and Helena Ekholm in 2012, the Swedish biathlon women's team was severely weakened: In the nation ranking, it deteriorated from third place in winter 2010/11 to sixteenth place in 2013/14 season. In response, the Swedish Biathlon Federation put together a perspective team for the 2018 Winter Olympics , in which Brorsson, then 24, was the oldest athlete. In retrospect, she stated that she viewed the team, which later also included Hanna Öberg , who was five years younger than her, “like a mother”. From the winter of 2014/15 on, Brorsson was part of the senior squad - supervised by Wolfgang Pichler from 2015 onwards , was included in the Swedish World Cup relays and was around 40th in the overall World Cup ranking with several results (2015/16: 37 .; 2016/17: 42 .; 2017/18: 41.) the most consistent athlete in her team. With the relay she reached the top ten in the World Cup several times. In an individual race, she achieved this for the first time as sixth in the World Cup sprint in Oslo 2016. She remained flawless and was generally one of the five best shooters in the World Cup with a hit rate of 90% in winter 2015/16.

In January 2018, the Swedish women's relay in Oberhof achieved a podium result in the World Cup again after seven years. Together with Linn Persson , Anna Magnusson and Elisabeth Högberg , Brorsson, who was the last runner here, took third place. A week later the team (now with Hanna Öberg instead of Högberg) confirmed the placement in Ruhpolding. At the Olympic competitions in Pyeongchang in February, the Swedes won the silver medal. Brorsson was placed in second position, the final runner was Öberg, who had recently become Olympic champion in the 15-kilometer individual competition. Brorsson also achieved several top 15 results at the Olympics, best of all coming tenth in the pursuit. In the mixed relay, she shot the only two penalty loops of her team as the starting runner and handed over to Öberg in 18th, third from last place. The season finally finished eleventh.

Extended world class (since 2018)

Brorsson (right) and Hanna Öberg at the 2019 World Cup pursuit race in Östersund

In the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons , Brorsson ranked 19th and 20th in the overall World Cup rankings . She improved her average running performance up to 2018 compared to other World Cup athletes and ran around two percent faster times than the average of the field in both winters.

In February and March 2019, Brorsson achieved top results at major events: First, she won the gold medal in the sprint at the European Championships in Minsk-Raubitschy ahead of Jekaterina Jurlowa-Percht and Hanna Öberg , and the title in sprint alongside Emma Nilsson , Martin Ponsiluoma and Sebastian Samuelsson the mixed relay. She then finished fifth (in the sprint), seven (in the pursuit) and sixth (in the individual) at the home world championships in 2019 at her home in Östersund and won the silver medal in the relay. In the pursuit, Brorsson had made no mistakes in the first three stages and had led by half a minute at the beginning of the final shooting. Then she missed four of the last five targets and fell back several places in Denise Herrmann's victory . She later stated that she had not been prepared for the situation - especially the enthusiasm of the Swedish audience - and had been “thrown off course”. In December 2019, the 15-kilometer individual race, again in Östersund, came to a similar situation: Brorsson hit all the targets in the first three shoots and had the opportunity to win, but then shot three penalty minutes and finished with 2: 17.4 Minutes behind Justine Braisaz in 15th place. She ended the winter with her best result of the season, a sixth place in the Kontiolahti pursuit.

Personal

Brorsson's mother was a cross-country skier and her first trainer at the local ski club. After middle school, Brorsson moved to the biathlon high school in Torsby at the age of 15, and later moved to Östersund. She describes herself as close to nature and often goes hiking and camping.

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
2nd place					3	3
3rd place					4th	4th
Top 10	2	3	2	4th	25th	36
Scoring	12	26th	26th	9	37	110
Starts	16	56	36	9	37	154
Status: end of season 2019/20

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
World Championships 2015  Kontiolahti	28.	38.	23.	-	8th.	16.
World Championships 2016  Oslo	6th	39.	29	28.	10.	12.
World Championships 2017  Hochfilzen	56.	46.	44.	-	6th	-
World Championships 2019  Ostersund	5.	7th	6th	14th	2.	-
World Championships 2020  Antholz	33.	29	18th	-	5.	-

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	27.	10.	14th	13.	2.	11.

Web links

Commons : Mona Brorsson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Mona Brorsson in the database of the IBU (English)
• Mona Brorsson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Mona Brorsson's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mona Brorsson. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Meriter - list of successes (up to 2016) on personal website. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Giulio Gasparin: The Swedish Pole Star. In: Biathlonworld , number 53/2020, pp. 74–77. Available online as a PDF .
4. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2016/2017, p. 446
5. ↑ Sverige trea på stafetten i Oberhof on langd.se. Released January 7, 2018. Accessed April 20, 2020.
6. ↑ Cornelia Wikström: Barbro Hansson om yolk Mona: "Hon hade viljan redan som liten" on skidskytte.se. Released February 15, 2019. Accessed April 20, 2020.