Solveig Rogstad

Solveig Rogstad
Full name	Solveig Rogstad
Association	Norway
birthday	July 31, 1982
Career
Admission to the national team	2001
Debut in the World Cup	2004
World Cup victories	3 (1 individual victory)
status	resigned
End of career	2011
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	14th ( 2007/08 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. persecution 1 0 0 Mass start 0 1 0 Season 2 1 1
last change: December 10, 2011

Solveig Rogstad (born July 31, 1982 ) is a former Norwegian biathlete .

Athletic career

Solveig Rogstad took part in the Junior World Championships in biathlon every year between 2001 and 2003. She achieved her best results when she first participated in 2001 in Khanty-Mansiysk . Here she was fourth in the sprint, tenth in the pursuit and fifth with the Norwegian relay. Since 2003 she has also competed in the European Cup, where she slowly but steadily improved. In 2004 Rogstad was able to compete in the biathlon world cup for the first time in Östersund and was 72nd in the sprint. In Kontiolahti she was able to achieve World Cup points for the first time in a sprint race as 20th at the beginning of the 2007/08 season . In the pursuit race that followed, she was seventh among the top ten for the first time. Her greatest success so far was a victory in the pursuit in Ruhpolding in 2008. She achieved six of her nine top ten results this season and was 14th overall. In addition, Rogstad took part in the biathlon world championships for the first time in 2008 . In Östersund, the Norwegian was tenth in the individual, 15th in the sprint, 24th in the pursuit, 16th in the mass start and sixth in the relay. For the second time she competed in Pyeongchang the following year and reached 43rd place in the individual, was 24th, 23rd in the pursuit and eleventh in the relay race. Solveig Rogstad took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was 61st place in the individual. With the relay she finished fourth.

In November 2011, Rogstad announced his retirement from competitive sports in order to start studying medicine.

Biathlon 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		2	3
2nd place				1	1	2
3rd place					1	1
Top 10	2	3	3	1	11	20th
Scoring	3	14th	13	6th	12	48
Starts	7th	23	13	6th	12	61
Status: after the 2010/2011 season

Web links

• Official website (Norwegian)
• Solveig Rogstad in the database of the IBU (English)