Tora Berger

Personal background

Berger married in 2010, having met her husband at high school.[2] They have two dogs Tussi (Eeyore in English) and Tarzan – Tarzan often joins her on training runs.[3] Whilst away from home during the biathlon season she enjoys knitting[4] and reading (especially books about crime[2]). Outside biathlon she enjoys hunting and fishing.[4]

Career

She has been a member of the Norwegian women's biathlon team since 1999. She has 28 individual victories in the World Cup. [1]

Tora Berger

At the 2008 World Championship, she received three 4th places, before earning the silver medal in the mass start.

On February 18, 2010, she became the first Norwegian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in biathlon by winning the women's 15 km individual at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. By doing this, she won Norway's 100th Olympic gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games, as well as winning the 10th Norwegian biathlon gold medal. This historic medal makes Norway the first ever nation to win 100 gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games.

At the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nove Mesto, she won gold in the mixed relay, silver in the sprint and gold in the pursuit before becoming the first woman to defend her 15k individual title. She followed this up with a stunning final-leg performance in the relay, making up a deficit of nearly 40 seconds on the leaders to take another gold medal, before taking silver in the mass start. As the holder of 18 world championship medals she is second in the table of total medals, one medal behind Uschi Disl. At the same championships, she also became the first biathlete (male or female) to win 6 medals at a single biathlon world championships, with four golds and two silvers.

Berger competed in Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi where she won 3 medals. Gold in the Mixed relay together with Tiril Eckhoff, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen, a silver in the Women's Pursuit, and a bronze in the Women's relay,

IBU World Cup

Although Tora Berger had been part of the Norwegian women's biathlon team since 1999, up until the end of the 2011/12 season she had never been the world cup winner either overall or in any of the individual disciplines. Her highest finish was third in the overall standings in the 2008/09 and 2011/12 seasons, second in the Pursuit discipline in the 2008/09 season, and second in the Mass Start discipline in the 2011/12 season.

Success came in the 2012/13 world cup season, with Tora taking 11 wins and missing the podium only seven times. Her 19 podium finishes equalled Magdalena Forsberg's record for the highest number of podium finishes in a single season. She won all three races at Oslo Holmenkollen to secure the crystal globes for both the Overall women's world cup and the Pursuit discipline. By the end of the season she had also won the crystal globe for the Individual, Sprint and Mass Start disciplines, completing a clean sweep of the five women's crystal globes (a feat last achieved by Magdalena Forsberg in the 2001/2 season). With Berger's contribution, Norway also won the 2012/13 season's Women's Nation Cup, Women's Relay Cup and Mixed Relay Cup.

Season Overall Sprint Pursuit Individual Mass Start
Races Points Position Races Points Position Races Points Position Races Points Position Races Points Position
2002–0311/23168th5/9165th4/72/30/4
2003–04---
2004–0526/2738917th10/1016013th8/910221st4/46414th4/44721st
2005–0620/2625322nd9/1010422nd6/87526th2/32033rd3/55423rd
2006–0725/2745014th9/1017512th8/812416th3/4925th5/55324th
2007–0824/266646th9/102716th8/82384th2/34015th5/510212th
2008–0923/268943rd9/103523rd7/72462nd3/41223rd4/51466th
2009–1020/2556412th9/1021515th4/610124th2/48713th5/51399th
2010–1124/269634th9/103563rd6/72684th4/41334th5/52063rd
2011–1226/2610543rd10/103734th8/83613rd3/31085th5/52412nd
2012–1326/2612341st10/104281st8/84171st3/31681st5/52621st
2013–1422/228562nd9/93612nd8/83192nd2/2589th3/31214th
*Key:Races—number of entered races/all races; Points—World Cup points; Position—World Cup season ranking.

*Statistics as at 17 March 2013.

Biathlon results

Olympic Games

Event Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass start Relay Mixed relay
2006 Turin 13th 23rd 18th 25th 5th
2010 Vancouver Gold 33rd 5th 18th 4th
2014 Sochi 16th 10th Silver 14th Bronze Gold

World Championships

  • 18 medals – (8 gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze)
Event Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass start Relay Mixed relay
2005 Hochfilzen 21st 11th 19th 13th 5th
2005 Khanty-Mansiysk 10th
2006 Pokljuka Silver
2007 Antholz-Anterselva 4th 10th 19th 25th Bronze Bronze
2008 Östersund 4th 4th 4th Silver 6th
2009 Pyeongchang Bronze 19th 9th 15th 11th 4th
2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Silver
2011 Khanty-Mansiysk 10th 7th 5th Bronze 5th Gold
2012 Ruhpolding Gold 6th 4th Gold Bronze Gold
2013 Nové Město Gold Silver Gold Silver Gold Gold

Junior/Youth World Championships

Event Individual Sprint Pursuit Relay
2000 Hochfilzen 13th Bronze 9th 5th
2001 Khanty-Mansiysk 21st 24th 38th 5th

Individual victories

28 victories (7 Sp, 9 Pu, 5 In, 7 MS)

Season Date Location Discipline Level
2007/08
2 victories
(1 Sp, 1 Pu)
December 2, 2007 Kontiolahti10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup
January 5, 2008 Oberhof7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup
2008/09
2 victories
(1 Sp, 1 MS)
January 22, 2009 Antholz7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup
March 22, 2009 Trondheim12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup
2009/10
2 victories
(1 Sp, 1 In)
December 5, 2009 Östersund7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup
February 18, 2010 Vancouver15 km IndividualWinter Olympic Games
2010/11
6 victories
(2 Sp, 2 Pu, 1 In, 1 MS)
December 16, 2010 Pokljuka15 km IndividualBiathlon World Cup
January 15, 2011 Ruhpolding7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup
January 16, 2011 Ruhpolding10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup
January 21, 2011 Antholz7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup
January 22, 2011 Antholz12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup
February 6, 2011 Presque Isle, Maine10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup
2011/12
4 victories
(2 Pu, 1 In, 1 MS)
December 4, 2011 Östersund10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup
January 15, 2012 Nové Město10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup
March 7, 2012 Ruhpolding15 km IndividualBiathlon World Championships
March 11, 2012 Ruhpolding12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Championships
2012/13
11 victories
(2 Sp, 4 Pu, 2 In, 3 MS)
November 29, 2012 Östersund15 km IndividualBiathlon World Cup
December 1, 2012 Östersund7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup
December 2, 2012 Östersund10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup
December 16, 2012 Pokljuka12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup
January 13, 2013 Ruhpolding12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup
January 19, 2013 Antholz10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup
February 10, 2013 Nové Město10 km PursuitBiathlon World Championships
February 13, 2013 Nové Město15 km IndividualBiathlon World Championships
March 1, 2013 Oslo7.5 km SprintBiathlon World Cup
March 2, 2013 Oslo10 km PursuitBiathlon World Cup
March 3, 2013 Oslo12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup
2013/14
1 victory
(1 MS)
January 5, 2014 Oberhof12.5 km Mass StartBiathlon World Cup
*Results are from IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games.

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[5]

Season standings

 Season   Age  Discipline standings Ski Tour standings
Overall Distance Sprint Nordic
Opening
Tour de
Ski
World Cup
Final
2011–12316146

Team podiums

  • 1 podium – (1 RL)
No. Season Date Location Race Level Place Teammates
12011–1220 November 2011 Sjusjøen, Norway4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndJacobsen / Østberg / Kristoffersen

Awards and nominations

  • 2013: Awarded the Holmenkollen medal
  • 2013: Winner of Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year 2012
  • 2013: Winner of the "Female athlete of the year" for 2012 at the Sports Gala 2013
  • 2013: Nominated for the "Name of the year" for 2012 at the Sports Gala 2013
  • 2012: Nominated for the "Female athlete of the year" for 2011 at the Sports Gala 2012
  • 2011: Nominated for "Name of the year" for 2010 at the Sports Gala 2011
  • 2011: Nominated for "Female athlete of the year" for 2010 at the Sports Gala 2011
  • 2010: Nominated for "Female athlete of the year" for 2009 at the Sports Gala 2010

References

  1. "Tora Berger's sport data profile". biathlonworld.com. IBU. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. Tarzan og Tussi er barna våre Her og Nå
  3. Tren bikkja som en toppidrettsutøver Dagens Næringsliv
  4. A Different View of…Tora Berger Video IBU Info JK
  5. "BERGER Tora". FIS-Ski. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
Awards
Preceded by
Alexander Dale Oen
Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year
2012
Succeeded by
Magnus Carlsen
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