Venla Lehtonen

Venla Lehtonen
Association	Finland
birthday	10th March 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Finland
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2nd March 2017
Debut in the World Cup	December 8, 2017
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: January 16, 2017

Venla Lehtonen (born March 10, 1995 ) is a Finnish biathlete .

Career

Lehtonen at the World Cup in Oberhof in January 2018

After Venla Lehtonen had only practiced cross-country skiing and biathlon at national level, she made her international debut on March 2, 2017 at the IBU Cup of the 2016/17 season in Kontiolahti , she finished individual, sprint and pursuit races outside of the points.

Lehtonen at the World Cup in Oberhof in January 2018

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season , she competed in the first races of the IBU Cup in Sjusjøen, Norway, and was then assigned to the World Cup team. Your first race of the World Cup was the sprint in Hochfilzen in Austria in mid-December 2017 . With five penalties she missed as 95th both the qualification for the pursuit race and the points. She had her first top 10 result in the World Cup at the beginning of January 2018 in Oberhof when she finished the relay race in 7th place overall as the starting runner together with Kaisa Mäkäräinen , Mari Laukkanen and Laura Toivanen . This was also the best result of a Finnish women's relay since 6th place at the 2003 Biathlon World Championships . She was nominated by the Finnish Biathlon Association to take part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , in the sprint race she finished 79th with three shooting errors and - like her teammates Laukkanen and Toivanen - failed to qualify for the pursuit race.

Competition balance

Biathlon world cup

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
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10					1	1
Scoring					3	3
Starts	1	2	2		3	8th
As of January 16, 2018

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	79.	-	-	-	15th	-

World championships

Results at biathlon world championships

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2019	Ostersund	74.	45.	49.	-	LAP (22.)	10.	-

Web links

Commons : Venla Lehtonen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Venla Lehtonen in the IBU database (English)