Tiril Eckhoff

Tiril Eckhoff
Full name	Tiril Kampenhaug Eckhoff
Association	Norway
birthday	21st May 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Bærum , Norway
size	163 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
society	Fossum IF
Trainer	Sverre Waaler Kaas, Patrick Oberegger
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
Debut in the World Cup	2011
World Cup victories	27 (13 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 3 × World Cup medals 6 × 1 × 2 × JEM medals 1 × 0 × 2 × MWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × NM medals 4 × 5 × 3 × JSNM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi Mixed relay bronze 2014 Sochi Mass start bronze 2014 Sochi Season silver 2018 Pyeongchang Mixed relay bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Mass start  Biathlon world championships bronze 2015 Kontiolahti Mixed relay gold 2016 Oslo sprint gold 2016 Oslo Season bronze 2016 Oslo Mixed relay gold 2019 Östersund Season gold 2019 Östersund Mixed relay silver 2019 Östersund persecution gold 2020 Antholz Season gold 2020 Antholz Mixed relay  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2010 Otepää sprint bronze 2010 Otepää persecution bronze 2010 Otepää singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	9. ( 2013/14 )
Sprint World Cup	3rd (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	1. (2019/20)
Mass start world cup	2. (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 1 0 0 sprint 6th 1 4th persecution 3 1 1 Mass start 3 2 2 Season 14th 6th 7th
last change: March 14, 2020

Tiril Kampenhaug Eckhoff (born May 21, 1990 in Bærum ) is a Norwegian biathlete .

Life

Tiril Eckhoff with her brother Stian

Tiril Eckhoff comes from a sports-loving family. She is the daughter of Knut Eckhoff and Elin Kampenhaug and spent her childhood in Bærum , a suburb of the Norwegian capital Oslo . Her brother is the Olympian and biathlon world champion Stian Eckhoff , her older sister Kaja was also a biathlete until 2007.

She attended the private sports high school NTG Lillehammer and then studied the engineering course "Product Development and Production" at the NTNU Trondheim , from which Eckhoff later took a leave of absence and then gave up the course completely in favor of her biathlon career.

In the summer of 2016, Tiril Eckhoff and her partner Ånund Lid Byggland , a former Norwegian cross-country skier, moved from Trondheim to Oslo .

Career

Beginnings (2008 to 2011)

Tiril Eckhoff starts for Fossum IF and competed in her first international championship at the Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding in 2008 , where she finished 7th in the individual, 31st in the sprint and 32nd in the pursuit. At the start of the 2008 season , the Norwegian made her debut among women in the IBU Cup . In Idre she won first points in her first sprint as 31st. In Canmore followed the renewed participation in a Junior World Championship, in which Eckhoff was eighth in the individual, 20th in the sprint, 14th in the pursuit and fifth in the relay. For the third time she took part in a Junior World Championship in Torsby , where she was 30th in the individual, 16th in the sprint and 14th in the pursuit. The junior competitions at the 2010 European Biathlon Championships in Otepää went much better . Eckhoff won the sprint title, took the bronze medals in the individual behind Synnøve Solemdal and Anastassija Kalina in the pursuit as well as Monika Hojnisz and Kaia Woeinen Nicolaisen . For the relay race she was appointed to the women's relay of Norway at the side of Nicolaisen, Fanny Horn and Solemdal, with whom she narrowly missed another medal in fourth place. At the end of the season Eckhoff won in Brusson at the 2010 Military World Ski Championships with Kari Henneseid Eie , Anne Ingstadbjørg and Jori Mørkve the title in the military patrol race.

At the Junior World Championships 2011 in Nové Město na Moravě Eckhoff reached fifth place after rank 16 in the sprint in the pursuit. With the season she just barely missed a medal as fourth. At the season finale of winter 2010/11 in Oslo , she started in the biathlon World Cup for the first time and narrowly missed the points in both the sprint and the pursuit race.

Tiril Eckhoff at the 2013 World Cup on Holmenkollen

First appearances in the World Cup (2011 to 2013)

From the 2011/12 season , Tiril Eckhoff was used more often in the World Cup. After a few starts in the second-class IBU Cup , she started in the World Cup races in Antholz , Oslo and Kontiolahti at the beginning of 2012 , but also missed the points there. At the IBU Cup races in Altenberg , she was fourth and twice second in three races and was allowed to start at the season finale of the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk . There she reached the points with a 24th place in the sprint and a 20th place in the pursuit and also qualified for the mass start, where she also achieved a top 10 placement in the World Cup for the first time as seventh. Eckhoff finished the season in 54th place overall.

From the 2012/13 season Eckhoff was an integral part of the Norwegian World Cup team. Initially, however, she only achieved the points in a few races, at the sprint in Oberhof she even missed a place among the top 60 athletes to qualify for the pursuit race. As a result, she was also not for the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě , which were very successful for the Norwegian women's team with relay and mixed relay gold and two gold and silver medals in individual races by Tora Berger . Instead, Eckhoff had to start in the IBU Cup in Martell in South Tyrol. With a seventh place in the sprint and a sixth place in the pursuit race, she achieved good placings there, although she had to complete more than one kilometer of additional running distance in the penalty loop in the pursuit race after seven shooting errors. The rest of the winter she started again in the World Cup, finished every single race in the points and achieved three more top 10 placements. At the World Cup in Sochi, which was held in preparation for the Winter Olympics the following year , she competed for the first time with the Norwegian team in a relay race in the World Cup. Together with Hilde Fenne , Ann Kristin Flatland and Tora Berger, she reached third place and thus secured her first podium finish in the World Cup. The season she finished 29th in the overall standings.

Olympic gold (2013 to 2015)

The start of the new 2013/14 season was very successful for Tiril Eckhoff with a fourth place in the opening race - the individual competition over 15 km in Östersund, Sweden . Especially since this competition is not one of the parade disciplines for a shooter like Eckhoff who is below average. After a third place in the relay race in Annecy / Le Grand-Bornand , she also achieved third place in the pursuit race and thus her first podium finish in an individual race in the World Cup. Several top 10 placements followed, but Eckhoff celebrated the greatest successes at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi . After two 18th and one 24th place in the sprint, individual and pursuit competition, Eckhoff won the bronze medal behind Darja Domratschawa and Gabriela Soukalová . She was then used in the mixed relay race and won Olympic gold together with Tora Berger , Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen . After Synnøve Solemdal had to end their participation in the Olympic Games for health reasons after only two races, Eckhoff took part in the relay race with Fanny Welle-Strand Horn , Ann Kristin Flatland and Tora Berger and won another bronze medal. At the following World Cup on the Pokljuka plateau, Eckhoff achieved good top 10 placings in all three races, at the season finale in Oslo she failed to qualify for the subsequent pursuit race in 61st place in the sprint. In the overall ranking of the World Cup, she was seventh for the first time and was among the top ten athletes, and she was also able to place in the top 10 in all discipline ratings of the winter.

At the first races of the 2014/2015 season in Östersund , Eckhoff celebrated her first World Cup victory in the sprint. Several podium finishes and top 10 placings followed during the season. In March 2015 she took part in the world championships in biathlon for the first time. At the competitions in Kontiolahti , she won her first World Championship medal with bronze in the mixed relay race together with Fanny Welle-Strand Horn and the brothers Johannes Thingnes and Tarjei Bø . In the individual races, she missed top 10 placements and thus clearly missed the medal ranks. The Norwegian women's relay with Marte Olsbu , Synnøve Solemdal , Fanny Welle-Strand Horn and Eckhoff only reached fourth place, about 20 seconds behind the third-placed relay from Italy.

First world title (2015 to 2017)

After a perfect start to the winter of 2015/16 with a victory in the mixed relay race in Östersund with Fanny Horn Birkeland and the brothers Johannes Thingnes Bø and Tarjei Bø , she mostly placed in the top 10, at the mass start in Ruhpolding she crossed the finish line in third place . She did not travel overseas to the competitions in Canmore and Presque Isle, but used a weekend in the second-rate IBU Cup together with Birkeland in preparation for the home World Cup in Oslo . After both of them only achieved top 10 results in individual races over 15 km after four shooting errors, they dominated the sprint competition. Eckhoff won the race two ahead of Birkeland with one mistake, followed in third place by a clear margin of faultless Nadine Horchler . At the World Championships, a bronze medal in the mixed relay race together with Marte Olsbu , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Tarjei Bø surprisingly won the sprint over 7.5 km. This was their first world title and also the only individual medal for the Norwegian women's team at the home World Cup. The Norwegian women's relay also won gold with Synnøve Solemdal , Birkeland, Eckhoff and Marte Olsbu. Eckhoff no longer took part in the season finale of the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk .

While the World Cup races of 2016/17 with a second place in the sprint in Pyeongchang as well as a victory in the sprint in Kontiolahti and in the mass start in Oslo as well as many placements outside the top 10 were in the range of Eckhoff's usual performances, they disappointed us the Norwegian women's team at the 2017 Biathlon World Championships in Hochfilzen . In the individual races, no Norwegian biathlete was able to place within the top 10, and the Norwegian women's relay only reached eleventh place.

Second Olympic participation (since 2017)

After Eckhoff had finished last winter with a win, she was also successful in her first race of the 2017/18 season ; she won the mixed relay in Östersund together with Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen . In the individual races in Östersund, Hochfilzen , Annecy / Le Grand-Bornand , Oberhof and Ruhpolding , she never achieved a top 10 position. At the last World Cup before the 2018 Winter Olympics in Anterselva , she won the sprint race and in the pursuit race, despite four shooting errors, still achieved fourth place. At the Winter Games in Pyeongchang , Eckhoff won the bronze medal in the mass start - just like four years earlier in Sochi . With the mixed relay she was successful again, together with Marte Olsbu , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen she won the silver medal. In the relay race, the Norwegian team consisting of Solemdal , Eckhoff, Tandrevold and Olsbu missed the bronze medal by just a few seconds despite three penalties. In the remaining World Cup races of the winter, Eckhoff achieved three top 10 placements, including a third place in the sprint in Tyumen . In the mixed relay race in Kontiolahti , she also came third together with Synnøve Solemdal, Henrik L'Abée-Lund and Tarjei Bø .

At the beginning of the 2018/19 World Cup season, she did not take part in the first World Cup races on the Pokljuka plateau in Slovenia , at the next five World Cup stations she did not achieve a top 10 position in any individual race. With the Norwegian women's relay she finished sixth and fourth at the World Cup in Ruhpolding, together with Synnøve Solemdal, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Marte Olsbu, who started as Marte Olsbu Røiseland from this winter , came second behind the victorious one Team from France. At the races in Canmore she won the shortened individual race over 12.5 km. It was the first edition of this variant of the individual competition in the World Cup and also Eckhoff's first World Cup victory in this discipline. Because of the low temperatures in Canada, the race management decided to run the individual race as a shortened version. In the relay race, the Norwegian women were second again, Emilie Ågheim Kalkenberg replaced Synnøve Solemdal as the starting runner. In Soldier Hollow , Eckhoff reached 40th place in the sprint and 41st place in the pursuit race, once just inside and once just outside the points. At the 2019 Biathlon World Championships in Östersund , she won gold in the mixed relay race together with Marte Olsbu Røiseland, Johannes Thingnes Bø and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen . In the pursuit race she improved from ninth to second place and thus won her second individual medal in championships. As at the home World Cup in Oslo, the Norwegian women's team won the relay race. In the last competitions of the winter at Holmenkollen in Oslo, a seventh and sixth place followed with a second place and a podium finish in the last race of the winter.

Norwegian championships

Tiril Eckhoff is multiple Norwegian biathlon champion. In these competitions, which always take place at the end of March or the beginning of April after the World Cup at different venues, she almost always won at least one medal.

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. 0Dec 6, 2014  Ostersund sprint 2. 05th Mar 2016  Oslo (World Cup) sprint 3. 10 Mar 2017  Kontiolahti sprint 4th 19 Mar 2017  Oslo Mass start 5. Jan. 18, 2018  Antholz sprint 6th 0Feb. 8, 2019  Canmore Shortened single 7th Dec 15, 2019  Hochfilzen persecution 8th. Dec 20, 2019  Le Grand-Bornand sprint 9. Dec 21, 2019  Le Grand-Bornand persecution 10. Dec 22, 2019  Le Grand-Bornand Mass start 11. Jan 15, 2020  Ruhpolding sprint 12. Jan. 19, 2020  Ruhpolding persecution 13. 0March 8 2020  Nové Město na Moravě Mass start

No. date place discipline 1. 19th Feb. 2014  Sochi (OS) Mixed relay 1 2. 0Feb 6, 2015  Nové Město na Moravě Mixed relay 2 3. Nov 29, 2015  Ostersund Mixed relay 2 4th 11th Mar 2016  Oslo (World Cup) Season 3 5. Nov 27, 2017  Ostersund Mixed relay 4 6th 07th Mar 2019  Östersund (World Cup) Mixed relay 5 7th 16. Mar. 2019  Östersund (World Cup) Season 6 8th. 0Dec 8, 2019  Ostersund Season 7 9. Dec 14, 2019  Hochfilzen Season 7 10. Jan. 11, 2020  Oberhof Season 6 11. Jan. 17, 2020  Ruhpolding Season 7 12. Feb 13, 2020  Antholz (WM) Mixed relay 8 13. Feb 22, 2020  Antholz (WM) Season 6 14th 07th Mar 2020  Nové Město na Moravě Season 9 1with Tora Berger , Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen 2with Fanny Horn Birkeland , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Tarjei Bø 3with Synnøve Solemdal , Fanny Horn Birkeland and Marte Olsbu 4thwith Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen 5with Marte Olsbu Røiseland, Johannes Thingnes Bø and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen 6th with Synnøve Solemdal, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Marte Olsbu Røiseland 7thwith Karoline Offigstad Knotten , Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Marte Olsbu Røiseland 8th with Marte Olsbu Røiseland, Tarjei Bø and Johannes Thingnes Bø 9with Karoline Offigstad Knotten, Ida Lien and Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold

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	6th	3	2	12	24
2nd place		1	1	2	6th	10
3rd place		3	1	2	7th	13
Top 10	4th	20th	18th	13	41	96
Scoring	13	53	44	25th	43	178
Starts	18th	68	52	25th	43	206
Status: February 22, 2020

winter Olympics

Award ceremony after the mixed relay race at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2014	Sochi	18th	18th	24.	3.	3.	1.
2018	Pyeongchang	23.	24.	9.	3.	4th	2.

World championships

Results at Biathlon World Championships:

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2015	Kontiolahti	52.	19th	18th	15th	4th	3.
2016	Oslo	43.	1.	17th	24.	1.	3.
2017	Hochfilzen	39.	13.	30th	12.	11.	8th.
2019	Ostersund	37.	9.	2.	5.	1.	1.	-
2020	Antholz	15th	59.	20th	7th	1.	1.	-

Norwegian championships

Tiril Eckhoff at the Norwegian Championships with Fanny Horn Birkeland and Synnøve Solemdal

Results at Norwegian Championships in Biathlon

year	place	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
2008	Stryn	-	16.	12.		1.
2009	Lillehammer	15th	9.	14th		4th
2010	Simostranda	14th	16.		8th.	3.
2011	Bardufoss	4th	6th	8th.		3.
2012	Trondheim	6th	9.		DNS	2.
2013	Dombås	DNS	1.	2.		1.
2014	Voss	DNS	2.		2.	2.
2019	Ål	13.		3.		1.

More Achievements

• Military World Ski Championships 2010 in Brusson - Military patrol
• Norwegian Championships in Summer Biathlon 2010 in Sirdal - Sprint

Web links

Commons : Tiril Eckhoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tiril Eckhoff in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tiril Eckhoff. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ These fem students from NTNU er med i OL - OL-helter combiner study and toppidrett NTNU Universitetsavisa. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
3. ↑ Eckhoff flyttar from Trondheim to Oslo: - Har vore heals only NRK . Retrieved February 27, 2020.