Selina Gasparin

Selina Gasparin
Association	Switzerland
birthday	3rd April 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Samedan , Switzerland
Career
job	Border guard
society	SC Gardes Frontières
Trainer	Vegard Bitnes
Admission to the national team	2006
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2004
Debut in the World Cup	2005
World Cup victories	2
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × SM medals 9 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2014 Sochi singles  Swiss championships gold 2005 underwater sprint silver 2005 underwater Mass start gold 2006 Lantsch / Lenz sprint gold 2006 Lantsch / Lenz Mass start gold 2009 Realp sprint gold 2009 Realp persecution gold 2012 Ulrichen Mass start gold 2013 La Lécherette sprint gold 2013 La Lécherette Mass start gold 2014 Ulrichen sprint silver 2014 Ulrichen Mass start
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	11. ( 2013/14 )
Individual World Cup	8. ( 2012/13 )
Sprint World Cup	6. ( 2013/14 )
Pursuit World Cup	13. ( 2013/14 )
Mass start world cup	10. ( 2013/14 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 1 0 sprint 2 0 0 persecution 0 1 0 Season 0 1 0
last change: December 8, 2019

Selina Gasparin (born April 3, 1984 in Samedan ) is a Swiss biathlete .

Selina Gasparin switched from cross-country skiing to biathlon in 2004 . After joining the Swiss Ski Association , she made her debut in the World Cup in 2005 and was promoted to the national team in 2010 . In addition to her male teammates, she was the only biathlete from Switzerland and multiple national champion to compete in the World Cup for several years. She celebrated her greatest successes to date with victories in the sprints in Hochfilzen and Le Grand-Bornand in December 2013 and the individual silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics . Since 2010 , her younger sister Elisa has had a permanent place in the highest competition series, while the youngest sister Aita was promoted to the B-squad at the end of the 2014 season. The Gasparin sisters mostly occupy three positions in the Swiss women's relay.

Career

Career as a cross-country skier

Selina Gasparin began her career as a cross-country skier. At the Junior World Championships in 2002 in Schonach in the Black Forest , she was 32nd over five kilometers and 40th in the sprint. A year later she reached the 24th place over five kilometers at the Junior World Championships in 2003 in Sollefteå, Sweden , and 25th in the mass start race over 15 kilometers. At the Winter Universiade 2005 in Innsbruck and Seefeld in Tyrol she was 30th in the sprint.

But even during her biathlon career, Selina Gasparin competed sporadically in cross-country skiing. In 2013 she took part for the first time in a World Cup race and in the Nordic World Ski Championships in Fiemme Valley , Italy , when she was 31st over ten kilometers. Your best World Cup placement was an 18th place at the Sprint World Cup in Lenzerheide on December 30, 2017.

Beginnings as a biathlete (2004 to 2009)

Gasparin made his debut in the 2004 European Cup and was 16th in the individual, tenth in the sprint and 13th in the pursuit. In early February 2005, she won the Swiss sprint championship and the runner-up in the mass start. Further national titles were added in the following years. Due to the good results she was used at the Junior World Championships in 2005 in Kontiolahti , but did not reach any top placements. On 26 November 2005, she took the sprint in Ostersund for the first time at a World Cup race in part and was ranked 86th then launched it first again in the European Cup and the European Championships in Langdorf , where good places in the sprint (12) and in the Persecution (14th) proved. The home European cup in Gurnigel was also successful, where she came second in the sprint and mass start and third in the pursuit. She finished her next World Cup races in the sprint races of Pokljuka and Oberhof with 69th place.

Beginning of February 2007 launched Gasparin in Antholz as the first athlete from Switzerland at Biathlon World Championships . With 44th place in the individual she achieved a respectable success in her still young career with overall mixed results. In January 2009 she won World Cup points for the first time in Oberhof as 29th in a sprint race.

Establishment in the World Cup (2009 to 2012)

Selina Gasparin at the Swiss Ski Handover Day in Dübendorf, October 2011

In the following season Gasparin qualified in the same place by a 23rd place in the sprint as the first Swiss biathlete for the Olympic Winter Games . In January 2010 she achieved an outstanding result in an individual with fifth place in Antholz, which she repeated in the sprint the following year. Two months later, another top ten result followed with ninth place in the sprint at Holmenkollen in Oslo . At the 2010 Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk , a mixed Swiss relay was used for the first time. As the first runner, Gasparin reached 13th place out of a total of 18 nations together with her sister Elisa as well as Benjamin Weger and Thomas Frei .

Starting out of competition, Gasparin won the individual race at the German Championships in September 2010 . Her best result in the 2010/11 World Cup season was the sprint in Antholz on January 21, 2011 with fifth place. With this result, she secured her first participation in a mass start race, which she finished eighth two days later. On March 9, 2011, she finished 13th in the singles of the 2011 World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk. With seventh place in the pursuit at the season finale in Oslo, she completed her World Cup record of top ten placements in all four individual disciplines.

In March 2011 Gasparin won the 58th International Customs Ski Competitions in Ulrichen, Switzerland, in a single run over five kilometers ahead of the German Nicole Fessel . At the end of December 2011, she took part in the World Team Challenge in Gelsenkirchen for the first time and finished ninth together with her teammate Benjamin Weger . In the 2011/12 season she reached 14th place in the sprint in Oslo in early February 2012. After the Swiss Mixed Relay placed in the top ten for the first time at the start of the World Championships in Ruhpolding , Gasparin posted the best individual result in title fights in the sprint on March 3, 2012 with faultless shooting and twelfth place. The next day she confirmed the performance with 13th place in the pursuit race. At the side of her sister Elisa and the two juniors Irene Cadurisch and Patricia Jost , she crossed the finish line in the first Swiss women's relay at a major event as the 21st of 26 nations that started.

Development of the women's team (2012/2013)

Selina Gasparin at the Swiss Championships in La Lécherette, March 2013

At the end of April 2012, Gasparin took part in the Patrouille des Glaciers and, together with ski mountaineers Caroline Kilchenmann and Victoria Kreuzer, finished sixth out of 26 women's teams that started. In the cross-country skiing competition as part of the German Championships on September 22, 2012, she was fourth. Right at the start of the 2012/13 World Cup season in Östersund , she achieved the best result of the season with two shooting errors and fourth place in the individual. On December 9, 2012, for the first time in the history of international biathlon sport, three sisters, Selina, Elisa and Aita Gasparin, were represented in a season in Hochfilzen , which was completed by C-team junior Ladina Meier-Ruge . At the World Cup debut, the women's relay reached 16th place out of 22 nations started. With ninth place in the sprint in Pokljuka and seventh place in the mass start in Ruhpolding, two more top ten results followed. In mid-February 2013, Gasparin delivered at the World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě in individual with 20th place, her best performance of the World Cup. In addition, the women's relay, as 13th of 24 classified nations, made it a premiere at world championships. Switzerland secured 16th place in the nation ranking of the last two title fights and the four quota places at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, which the association was aiming for .

Gasparin then completed a world cup race in cross-country skiing for the first time in her career . On February 17, 2013 she came in 21st place at the World Cup in Davos over 10 km freestyle and was then selected by the association for the Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme . There she missed the top 30 in the same discipline by a position almost two minutes behind the winner Therese Johaug . At the last World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, she finished seventh with just one shooting error in the final mass start and overall the fourth top ten placement this season. In the Women's Nations Cup, Switzerland was among the top 20 for the first time and thus had three starting positions in the following season. At the end of the season Gasparin was again national double champion and, after finishing second in the mass start over five kilometers, she won the 60th International Customs Ski Competitions in Galtür in the subsequent night sprint.

First World Cup victories and Olympic silver (2013/2014)

Selina Gasparin in the Laura biathlon and cross-country skiing center after reaching the finish line in the individual over 15 km, February 14, 2014

Selina Gasparin (left) at the award ceremony in Sochi Olympic Park, February 15, 2014

In the spring of 2013, Gasparin started working with a mental trainer to better cope with the psychological challenges in the shooting range with the help of hypnotherapy . During the preparation for the season in September 2013 she finished third in the international ranking behind Franziska Preuss and Karin Oberhofer in the mass start of the German Championships in Ruhpolding. At the beginning of the 2013/14 World Cup season on December 6, 2013, she celebrated her first World Cup victory in the sprint in Hochfilzen and at the same time the first triumph of a Swiss and the first podium place for women in this sport. A week later she also won the sprint race of the third World Cup in Le Grand-Bornand and in the meantime took over the red jersey of the discipline leader. In the subsequent pursuit, she achieved the best career result in this discipline, finishing sixth. At the beginning of January 2014, the women's relay with the three Gasparin sisters and Irene Cadurisch as the final runner in Ruhpolding fulfilled the standard required by the association for participation in the Winter Olympics with tenth place. After two top 20 placements in the sprint and in the pursuit, Gasparin won the silver medal in the individual race on February 14, 2014. After an error-free shooting, she crossed the finish line more than a minute behind Olympic champion Darja Domratschawa and thus ensured another premiere in Swiss biathlon. In addition, three athletes from the same family competed in an Olympic competition for the first time, who later came ninth in the final relay with Irene Cadurisch. After returning from Sochi, Gasparin won the 15th women's run at the Engadin Ski Marathon in early March 2014 . After two more top ten results in Pokljuka and Kontiolahti, she achieved a personal record and best results in four discipline World Cups at the end of the season with eleventh place in the overall World Cup. Thanks to the good team performance, Switzerland was placed 13th in the Nations Cup and received another starting place for the next season. During the national championships , Gasparin was only the favorite in the sprint. In the meantime, she won the title over five kilometers at the 61st International Customs Ski Competitions in Val di Fiemme and came second in the team sprint with Irene Cadurisch. In early April 2014 she took part in the Champions Race in Moscow . For the 2014/15 season, she was the only Swiss athlete to remain on the national team.

Competition break (2014/2015)

In September 2014 Gasparin took part again as a guest starter in the German Championships and won the cross-country relay alongside her sisters (without shooting units). Two days later, she announced that she would not play any official competitions in the 2014/15 season because of her pregnancy . After the maternity leave, Gasparin resumed team training for the 2015/16 season at the end of July 2015 .

In the last race of the season 2019/20 in the Finnish Kontiolahti Selina Gasparin finished in March 2020, a race in which, because of the spread of the coronavirus no spectators were allowed in pursuit behind the Frenchwoman Julia Simon to second place.

Personal

Selina Gasparin grew up in Pontresina and lives in S-chanf . After graduating from Academia Engiadina , she moved to Norway for three years and studied sports and movement sciences in Meråker and Lillehammer . She returned to Switzerland in 2007 and completed her training as a border guard a year later. In addition to German and English, she speaks Italian, Norwegian and, like her two sisters, Romansh .

At the beginning of November 2010, she entered into a long-term partnership with a Swiss bakery manufacturer who has since been present as an individual sponsor with advertising on head and gun . At the end of February 2011 she was accepted into the Golden Talents sports promotion program. She also works as a consultant for ARS Sportmanagement in her home town of S-chanf, which supports young athletes in their search for sponsors, and as an ambassador for the Passion Snow Sports Foundation.

Gasparin has been in a relationship with the Russian cross-country skier Ilya Chernousov since October 2011 , and the civil wedding ceremony took place in Chernousov's hometown Novosibirsk in early June 2014 . Gasparin kept her family name. Their daughter was born on February 27, 2015.

Awards

• In the election for Sportswoman of the Year on December 14, 2014 in Zurich, Gasparin came second behind Dominique Gisin with 19.6 percent of the vote.

public perception

Since joining the World Cup in 2005, Selina Gasparin has been a pioneer of biathlon in Switzerland for a longer period of time. Through targeted promotion of young talent and professionalization of the training conditions based on the example of other nations, young female athletes have gradually been given cadre status with the Swiss Association since 2010. Successes of male teammates like Benjamin Weger helped the sport at about the same time, alongside the prestigious alpine disciplines, to gain an increased status in their home country. The participation of three sisters in a World Cup relay in December 2012 made headlines beyond national borders. Articles in daily newspapers and appearances on the radio were evidence of its growing popularity. Among other things, Gasparin and her sisters participated in the question game “Ich oder Du” in the tabloid magazine glanz & gloria and in the shows Auf! On! and Rosige Zeiten from the talk show Aeschbacher as guest. After her first World Cup success, she gave a lengthy interview in December 2013 as a studio guest on the sports program Sportpanorama .
The media spoke of a "historic victory" and devoted extensive portraits to the sportswoman. In addition, since the end of 2013, Switzerland has for the first time had a venue that can be used for major international events, the Biathlon Arena Lenzerheide .

statistics

World Cup placements

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place		2				2
2nd place			1			1
3rd place
Top 10	2	6th	4th	3	3	18th
Scoring	12	33	26th	12	17th	100
Starts	19th	61	38	12	17th	147
Status: after the 2013/2014 season

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	0Dec 6, 2013	Hochfilzen	sprint
2.	Dec 14, 2013	Le Grand-Bornand	sprint

winter Olympics

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2010	Vancouver	40.	56.	48.	-	-	-
2014	Sochi		13.	15th	9.	9.	12.

Performance development

Shooting performance of Gasparin (World Cup including relay races without mixed), status: after the 2013/2014 season, source: IBU

literature

• Philipp Gurt: Selina Gasparin . 1st edition. Literaricum Buchverlag Philipp Gurt, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9523961-9-3 (232 pages).

Web links

Commons : Selina Gasparin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Selina Gasparin in the database of the IBU (English)
• Selina Gasparin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Selina Gasparin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Selina Gasparin at Swiss-Ski (PDF; 54 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gasparin first Swiss World Cup participant. In: news.ch. VADIAN.NET, January 23, 2007, accessed February 15, 2011 . 
2. ^ Premiere of a Swiss biathlete. In: NZZ Online. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 8, 2010, accessed on January 8, 2010 . 
3. ↑ World Cup debut of the biathlete Elisa Gasparin. Südostschweiz Medien, March 16, 2010, accessed on March 4, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Damper for Weger - Title for Fourcade and Neuner. Südostschweiz Medien, March 3, 2012, accessed on March 4, 2012 . 
5. ↑ World Cup gold for the German women's relay. In: NZZ Online. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 10, 2012, accessed on March 10, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Selina Gasparin with brilliant results. In: NZZ Online. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 29, 2012, accessed on November 29, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Swiss season with three Gasparins. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, December 4, 2012, archived from the original on December 12, 2013 ; Retrieved December 10, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Swiss women exceed expectations. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, February 15, 2013, archived from the original on February 19, 2013 ; Retrieved March 5, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ No exploits, but three starting places secured. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, March 14, 2013, archived from the original on December 12, 2013 ; Retrieved March 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Simon Steiner: Biathlete Selina Gasparin hits the mark - thanks to hypnosis. Limmattaler Zeitung (Die Nordwestschweiz) Online, January 10, 2014, accessed on January 19, 2014 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Selina Gasparin with historic victory. In: St.Galler Tagblatt Online. December 6, 2013, accessed December 10, 2013 . 
12. ↑ Olympic ticket: Swiss women create a sensation. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, January 8, 2014, archived from the original on January 9, 2014 ; accessed on January 9, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Silver for Selina Gasparin: Zero defects! In: NZZ Online. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 14, 2014, accessed on February 14, 2014 . 
14. ↑ Baby break for silver medal winner. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, September 15, 2014, archived from the original on January 7, 2015 ; accessed on September 15, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Selina Gasparin back in training. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, July 24, 2015, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on August 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Biathlete Selina Gasparin in second place in the pursuit (March 14, 2020)
17. ^ Roland - Selina Gasparin. Roland Murten, accessed December 30, 2015 . 
18. ↑ Selina Gasparin. Passion Snow Sports Foundation, accessed on September 16, 2015 . 
19. ↑ A world class love . In: Schweizer Illustrierte , No. 26, June 24, 2013, pp. 26–29, accessed on January 20, 2014.
20. ↑ Selina Gasparin just married. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, June 10, 2014, archived from the original on June 15, 2014 ; Retrieved June 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ Joy of motherhood with Selina Gasparin. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, February 28, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
22. ↑ Federer and Gisin are the athletes of the year. In: NZZ Online. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 14, 2014, accessed on December 21, 2014 . 
23. ↑ In conversation with Selina Gasparin from Switzerland. Biathlon-online, October 6, 2007, accessed May 10, 2013 . 
24. ↑ Marc Ribolla: Hot biathletes: These three sisters shoot sharply . In: Blick Online , December 7, 2012, accessed May 10, 2013.
25. ↑ Mother and Daughters Gasparin: A Biathlon Family. (No longer available online.) SRF Swiss Radio and Television, January 22, 2013, archived from the original on December 15, 2013 ; Retrieved May 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
26. ↑ Elisa and Selina Gasparin. SRF Swiss Radio and Television, November 18, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2013 . 
27. ↑ Up! On! - Aeschbacher. SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, May 9, 2013, accessed on May 10, 2013 . 
28. ↑ Rosy Times - Aeschbacher. SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, May 29, 2014, accessed on May 30, 2014 . 
29. ↑ Selina Gasparin as a guest in «sportpanorama». (No longer available online.) SRF Swiss Radio and Television, December 8, 2013, archived from the original on December 15, 2013 ; Retrieved December 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
30. ↑ With a long run-up to hero status. (No longer available online.) SPORT1.ch, December 10, 2013, archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; Retrieved December 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
31. ↑ Jan Höfling: Selina Gasparin in portrait: The price of uniqueness. In: spox.com. Perform Media Germany, January 22, 2014, accessed on January 23, 2014 . 
32. ^ The biathletes Gasparin: Three sisters for Sochi. In: NZZ Online. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 7, 2014, accessed on February 7, 2014 .