Tord Wiksten

Tord Wiksten (born June 30, 1971 in Byske ) is a former Swedish biathlete and today's team official of Sweden.

Life

Tord Wiksten lives in Torsby and trained in Östersund . He has been biathlon since 1981. His home club is SK Bore . Wiksten made his first major appearance at an international event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . In the sprint he was 48th with the Swedish relay, which included Ulf Johansson , Leif Andersson and Mikael Löfgren , he won the Olympic bronze. In 1993 in Oberhof he won his first World Cup points as 20th in the sprint during his first World Cup appearance. Later he was at his first appearance at the Biathlon World Championships in Borovets relay six. Shortly afterwards he had to sit out for almost two years due to a back injury. He made his comeback in 1995 in Östersund. Wiksten's best World Cup result in 2001 was a second place behind Raphaël Poirée in the Oberhof sprint.

Wiksten took part in world championships five times in a row between 1996 and 2000 without achieving outstanding results. After 1992 he took part in the Olympic Games in 1998 and 2002 , again without any notable success. In 2003 he ended his career.

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place		1					1
3rd place						1	1
Top 10		1				18th	19th
Scoring	3	6th	2	1	2	26th	40
Starts	25th	53	26th	1	2	27	134

Web links

• Statistics at Biathlonworld
• Tord Wiksten in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )