Nathalie Santer
Nathalie Santer (born March 28, 1972 in Innichen , South Tyrol ) is a former Italian biathlete . She has Belgian and Italian citizenship.
life and career
Santer's best time in biathlon was in the early 1990s. In the 1992/93 season she got two second places in the individual races of Östersund and Lillehammer, at the end of the season she finished fourth in the overall World Cup. The following season was even more successful for Santer. This season she achieved her first two World Cup victories in the individual and sprint in Bad Gastein, in the individual she had a lead of over two minutes over the runner-up. Behind the Belarusian Swetlana Paramygina , Santer finished second overall in the Biathlon World Cup at the end of the 1993/94 season , which meant the best overall World Cup placement of her career.
In the following years, however, Santer was unable to build on these successes. In the 1995/96 season, she achieved sixth place in the overall World Cup, the third top 10 position of her career, but at the same time also her last. Santer celebrated her third and last World Cup victory in the 1999/2000 season at the sprint in Ruhpolding, where she only came out on top of the German Katrin Apel .
From the 2006/07 season she took part in the World Cup for the Belgian Biathlon Association, preparing for her last major competitions, the World Championships in February 2007 in Antholz . This step was necessary because she could no longer qualify for the Italian biathlon world cup team, but she wanted to take part again in the world championships in her South Tyrolean home.
Nathalie Santer married her long-time partner, the Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen , on May 27, 2006 . Since then she has been called Nathalie Santer-Bjørndalen. The marriage was annulled in October 2012 by mutual agreement. The marriage was divorced in October 2015. Santer's sisters Saskia (biathlon) and Stephanie (cross-country skiing) are also successful in sport. Only Stephanie's injury prevented three sisters from participating in the same Olympics for the first time in 2006 .
Santer-Bjørndalen ended her career in sprint races at the World Cup finals in Oslo on March 13, 2008.
Biathlon World Cup placements
| placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | team | Season | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 2nd place | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 3rd place | 4th | 5 | 9 | ||||
| Top 10 | 22nd | 30th | 4th | 1 | 1 | 15th | 72 |
| Points | 37 | 57 | 22nd | 13 | 1 | 24 | 153 |
| Starts | 69 | 134 | 63 | 14th | 1 | 25th | 305 |
Incomplete data
Web links
- Nathalie Santer in the database of the IBU (English)
- Nathalie Santer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Result individual in Bad Gastein (1993/94 season) ( Memento from July 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result sprint in Ruhpolding (1999/00 season) ( Memento from July 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ stol.it ( Memento from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Santer, Nathalie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-Belgian biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Innichen , South Tyrol , Italy |