Patricia Jost

Patricia Jost
Association	Switzerland
birthday	December 23, 1993
place of birth	Brig , Switzerland
Career
job	Student
society	SC Obergoms
Admission to the national team	2011
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2011
Debut in the World Cup	2012
status	resigned
End of career	2015
Medal table
JEM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × SM medals (cross-country skiing) 1 × 0 × 0 × SM medals (biathlon) 0 × 2 × 0 ×
Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2013 Bansko persecution  Swiss championships gold 2012 Realp Relay (3 × 5 km)  Swiss championships silver 2013 La Lécherette sprint silver 2013 La Lécherette Mass start
World Cup balance
last change: July 15, 2015

Patricia Jost (born December 23, 1993 in Brig ) is a former Swiss biathlete .

She started for the Obergoms ski club and switched to biathlon in 2009 after starting out in cross-country skiing . In 2012 she was involved in the victory of the women's relay at the national championships in cross-country skiing. She celebrated her greatest international success as a junior by winning the title in the pursuit of the 2013 European Biathlon Championships .

Career

Patricia Jost (right) with Flurina Volken at the Swiss Championships in La Lécherette , March 2013

Patricia Jost began her sporting career in cross-country skiing and was national runner-up for the under 16s (U16) in the 2008/2009 season. In the same age group she reached fourth place overall in the Helvetia Nordic Trophy competition series for young athletes. The following season she switched to biathlon and, after three victories in the RWS Swiss Cup, she was accepted into the C-team youth of the Swiss-Ski association . After further successes in the RWS Swiss Cup in the 2010/2011 season, she took part in the European Youth Olympic Festival in Liberec at the end of February 2011 and achieved 11th place in the individual as the best result. In the same discipline, she made her debut in the IBU Cup in Annecy - Le Grand-Bornand on March 10, 2011, finishing 42nd in the sprint and pursuit races, finishing in 33th and 28th place. At the end of March 2011 she also became Swiss youth champion in sprint and mass start and won the overall ranking in the RWS Swiss Cup. After the end of the season, she was promoted to the junior women's C squad.

After Jost won the second sprint at the Alpine Cup in Pokljuka in mid-December 2011 , she achieved three top 20 placements in individual, sprint and pursuit after the turn of the year at the European Junior Championships in Osrblie . At the side of Elisa Gasparin , Gaspard Cuenot and Kevin Russi, she also came fifth with the Swiss mixed relay. At the end of February 2012, at the start of the Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti , she had to take a break due to illness, both in the individual competition and in the relay race. In sprint and pursuit she later achieved places 33 and 26. After the good performance in the previous championships, Jost qualified for the World Championships in Ruhpolding , although she had never competed in a World Cup before. The association nominated the 18-year-old together with the two juniors Elisa Gasparin and Irene Cadurisch in addition to the established teammate Selina Gasparin for strategic reasons in order to improve the starting position for the intended increase in the number of starting places at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi . In the first World Championship race of her career on March 3, 2012, Jost finished 103rd in the sprint with five shooting errors. Four days later she finished the individual with two mistakes in the standing position in 74th place. As the last runner in the first Swiss women's relay at a major event, she was taken out of the race as 21st of 26 nations that started because she had lapped. At the end of the season, she defended her youth title in sprint and mass start at the Swiss championships and on April 1, 2012 won the national cross-country championships in Realp together with Michèle Garbely and Flurina Volken in the 3 × 5 km relay. Two days earlier, she had already won the U20 women's sprint title.

In November 2012, Jost received the Oberwalliser Sport Award as young athlete of the year . She was also awarded in the team category for the Swiss championship title in the cross-country skiing relay of the SC Obergoms.

At the IBU Cup in Beitostølen , Norway , she achieved 25th place in the sprint race on December 1, 2012, the best result in the continental series of competitions so far. After recovering from illness, she entered the World Cup at the beginning of January 2013 and came in 15th and 17th with the Swiss women's relay in Oberhof and Ruhpolding. In the Oberhof sprint, she took 71st place as a substitute for the sick Elisa Gasparin. At the beginning of the Junior World Championships in Obertilliach , she finished 19th in the sprint and in the pursuit at the end of January 2013. Despite four shooting errors, she climbed to 11th place in the individual race and, as the last runner of the relay, next to Ladina Meier-Ruge and Aita Gasparin, she finished fifth, about 22 seconds behind the medal ranks. Then she was called up for the World Championships, as in the previous year . There she reached ranks 86, 65 and 13 in the sprint, singles and women's relay. A week later, after finishing sixth in the junior women’s sprint at the European Championships in Bansko , she won the first international title of a Swiss biathlete in the pursuit. On March 10, 2013, she ran in the 45th  Engadin Skimarathon in the U20 age group in third place and in the overall ranking in 23rd place out of 1900 women classified. At the end of the season she was double runner- up at the Swiss championships and was the first junior to join the B-team.

After two years of inflammation of the pubic bone , Jost ended her athletic career in July 2015.

Personal

Patricia Jost (left) with Aita Gasparin and Tanja von Riedmatten in Bern, August 2011

Patricia Jost lives in the village of Reckingen in the canton of Valais. She obtained a commercial diploma from the Kollegium Brig sports school and passed her Matura in 2014. After the end of her career, she began studying economics in Bern. Her younger cousin Sebastian Jost (* 1994) is also a biathlete.

World Cup statistics

The table shows all placements (including the Olympic Games and World Championships, depending on the year of the event).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements among 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	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					5	5
Starts	2	3			5	10
Status: end of career

Web links

Commons : Patricia Jost  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Patricia Jost in the IBU database (English)
• Patricia Jost in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Selina Gasparin and Elisa Gasparin intervene in the World Cup . In: Die Südostschweiz , March 2, 2012, accessed on March 4, 2012.
2. ↑ World Cup gold for the German women's relay . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 10, 2012, accessed on March 10, 2012.
3. ↑ Walliser Bote: Relay victory for SC Obergoms ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ Rhone newspaper Oberwallis: Honor for Kummer and Weger at the Sport Awards ( Memento from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Aita Gasparin and Patricia Jost to the World Cup. Swiss-Ski, February 4, 2013, archived from the original on January 9, 2014 ; accessed on August 30, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Patricia Jost is European Champion. Swiss-Ski, February 24, 2013, archived from the original on February 13, 2014 ; accessed on August 30, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Junior European Champion ends her career. Swiss-Ski, July 15, 2015, archived from the original on July 15, 2015 ; accessed on August 30, 2019 .