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Hanna Öberg

Hanna Öberg

Swedish biathlete

Hanna Öberg (born 2 November 1995) is a Swedish biathlete who is double Olympic champion and three-time world champion. She is the elder sister of fellow biathlete Elvira Öberg.

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Hanna Öberg with the gold medal at 15 km individual in Östersund 2019

Career

In 2017 she won the IBU Female Rookie of the Year Award for her World Cup debut season, with the male counterpart being awarded to her fellow Swede Sebastian Samuelsson.[1] At the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics she won a surprising gold in the Individual, after four clean shootings. It was both the first victory and podium of her career, with her previous best being a fifth place in the world cup.[2] She also claimed silver in the Relay, finished seventh in sprint, and fifth in both the mass start and the pursuit.[3][4][5] Öberg repeated her Olympic success at the 2019 Biathlon World Championships on home snow in Östersund, where she again won the individual with a perfect shoot, having previously finished fourth in the sprint and fifth in the pursuit. She became the first female biathlete to win the individual World Championship title the year after taking the Olympic individual gold.[6]

She was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in early-December 2018.[7] and the Jerring Award in January 2019.[8] In June 2019, it was announced she had been awarded the Victoria Award.[9]

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.

Olympic Games

3 medals (2 gold, 1 silver)

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World Championships

11 medals (3 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze)

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*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.
**The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.

World Cup

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Individual podiums

  • 8 victories
  • 27 podiums
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Team podiums

  • 5 victories
  • 19 podiums
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Personal life

Hanna's younger sister Elvira Öberg is also a biathlete. Elvira won two silver medals at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Hanna Öberg was in a relationship with biathlete Jesper Nelin until 2020, and has been in a relationship with the sprint world champion, Martin Ponsiluoma since 2021. [10]

References

  1. [1]
    "Swedish Sweep: Rookie Awards to Hanna Öberg and Sebastian Samuelsson". biathlonworld.com. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Athlete profile – Hanna Oeberg". pyeongchang2018.com. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Biathlon: Women's relay results" (PDF). pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  4. [4]
    "Datacenter".
  5. [5]
    "Double for Dahlmeier, and golds for Öberg and Kuzmina in the women's biathlon".
  6. [6]
    Sharland, Pete (12 March 2019). "Öberg wins historic gold in front of home fans". Eurosport. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  7. [7]
    Dave Russell (4 December 2018). "Radio Sweden" (in Swedish). Skier Hanna Öberg wins top sports prize. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  8. [8]
    "Hanna Öberg fick Jerringpriset 2018" (in Swedish). Sportbladet. 21 January 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  9. [9]
    Ibraheem Alsalman (3 June 2019). "Hanna Öberg får Victoriapriset" (in Swedish). Sportbladet. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  10. [10]
    "Förbundet svarar nu efter kärleksdramat i landslaget". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 February 2022.

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