Peppe Femling

Peppe Femling
Association	Sweden
birthday	24th March 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Gävle , Sweden
Career
society	Piteå SK
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2011
Debut in the World Cup	2014
World Cup victories	1 relay win
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	46th ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	33. ( 2018/19 )
Sprint World Cup	53rd (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	38th (2019/20)
Mass start world cup	42nd (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Season 1 0 1
last change: April 25, 2020

Peppe Femling (born March 24, 1992 in Gävle ) is a Swedish biathlete . Femling has been competing in the World Cup since 2014 . With the relay, he became Olympic champion in 2018.

Athletic career

Femling grew up in the municipality of Gävle and initially competed in biathlon and cross-country skiing races in the Högbo GIF in the junior division . He increasingly focused on the sport of biathlon and made his international debut at the Youth World Cup in Torsby - where he attended the sports high school. There he stayed as well as at the Junior World Championships in 2012 and 2013 without a top 30 result in an individual race.

From 2011 onwards, Femling received sporadic and later regular appearances in the IBU Cup . He established himself in the second highest competition series in the adult area with placements in midfield. At the age of 21 he was named the best Swede in his age group in the national team of coach Johan Hagström . In January and March 2014, Femling took part in World Cup races for the first time and finished 89th and 86th respectively in the sprints in Oberhof and Oslo. After Björn Ferry and Carl Johan Bergman resigned after the 2014 Winter Olympics, he got a permanent place in the first Swedish team. In the following winters he reached the top 40 places in individual races and thus collected World Cup points. A 21st place in the 20-kilometer competition at Oslo's Holmenkollen in March 2015 was his best result in an individual World Cup race for years. He also took part in major events and was considered several times in relays, although he did not have a regular seat, but took turns with teammates such as Ted Armgren and Tobias Arwidson , later Martin Ponsiluoma . At the 2018 Olympic Winter Games , Femling finished 32nd in the sprint and 42nd in the pursuit. In the final men's relay , he took the position of the starting runner and handed over to Jesper Nelin in fifth place . The relay, whose final positions were occupied by Sebastian Samuelsson and Fredrik Lindströn , won the gold medal - with his first podium result in an international race, Femling became Olympic champion.

In preparation for the 2018/19 season, Femling injured himself in August 2018 when he avoided a car while training for a roller ski competition and stabbed his stick through his leg. He was able to take part in all competitions of the World Cup winter, won the relay race in Hochfilzen together with Martin Ponsiluoma, Torstein Stenersen and Sebastian Samuelsson and improved his best individual result to ninth place, which he achieved in the short singles of Canmore in January 2019. Femling was one of only three athletes classified among 94 who hit with all 20 shots. Overall, he increased his results, reached the top 20 in three races at the 2019 World Championships and thus qualified for a mass start for the first time in his career. He finished the 2019/20 season as 46th of the overall World Cup.

Personal

In his youth, femling was an artist in the youth circus near his home town of Gävle and performed as a unicyclist and diabolo juggler. He has two older brothers and is in a relationship with his teammate Anna Magnusson .

statistics

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	16 Dec 2018	Hochfilzen	Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 1

¹with Martin Ponsiluoma , Torstein Stenersen and Sebastian Samuelsson

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					1	1
2nd place
3rd place					1	1
Top 10	1				14th	15th
Scoring	5	3	3	1	19th	31
Starts	14th	38	7th	1	21st	81
Status: end of season 2019/20

Biathlon world championships

Results at world championships:

World Championship		Individual competitions				Relay competitions
year	place	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
2015	Kontiolahti	62.	78.	-	-	18th	16.
2016	Oslo	37.	-	-	-	7th	-
2019	Ostersund	67.	86.	-	-	-	-
2020	Antholz	17th	20th	16.	22nd	10.	-

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	32.	42.	-	-	1.	-

Web links

Commons : Peppe Femling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Peppe Femling in the database of the IBU (English)
• Peppe Femling in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Jonsson: Från circus artist till skidskytt on svt.se. Released July 11, 2013. Accessed April 25, 2020.
2. ↑ Första landslagen för säsongen nominerade on skidskytte.se. Released April 29, 2013.
3. ↑ Biathlon Olympic champion Peppe Femling suffers horror injury on olympicchannel.com. Released August 4, 2018. Accessed April 25, 2020.
4. ↑ Johan Flinck: Från cirkusartist till OS guld on aftonbladet.se. Released February 23, 2018. Accessed April 25, 2020.
5. ↑ squad presentation on skidskyttefunktionar.se. Retrieved April 25, 2020.