Hanna Öberg
Swedish biathlete (born 1995)
Hanna Öberg
Öberg in 2023
Nationality Swedish Born (1995-11-02 ) 2 November 1995 (age 28) Kiruna , SwedenHeight 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Weight 65 kg (143 lb) Sport Biathlon Club Piteå Skidskytteklubb World Cup debut 27 November 2016 Teams 2 (2018 , 2022 )Medals 3 (2 gold)Teams 6 (2017 –2024 )Medals 13 (3 gold)Seasons 5 (2016/17–)Individual victories 6 All victories 10 Individual podiums 24 All podiums 40 Discipline titles 2: 1 Mass Start (2018–19);1 Individual (2019–20);
Updated on 19 February 2023
Hanna Öberg with the gold medal at 15 km individual in Östersund 2019
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 .
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)
Event
Individual
Sprint
Pursuit
Mass start
Relay
Mixed relay
2018 Pyeongchang
Gold
7th
5th
5th
Silver
11th
2022 Beijing
16th
19th
18th
25th
Gold
4th
World Championships
11 medals (3 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze)
*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
Season
Age
Overall
Individual
Sprint
Pursuit
Mass start
Points
Position
Points
Position
Points
Position
Points
Position
Points
Position
2016–17
21
131
46th
43
25th
37
55th
51
44th
–
–
2017–18
22
167
38th
16
42nd
74
38th
37
49th
40
31st
2018–19
23
741
5th
94
4th
214
8th
213
7th
220
1st
2019–20
24
741
4th
128
1st
245
5th
168
4th
200
3rd
2020–21
25
826
4th
90
3rd
296
3rd
235
4th
165
7th
2021–22
26
661
4th
–
–
306
3rd
262
3rd
93
14th
2022–23
27
710
7th
153
3rd
198
12th
164
12th
195
3rd
Individual podiums
Team podiums
No.
Season
Date
Location
Level
Race
Place
Teammate(s)
1
2017–18
13 January 2018
Ruhpolding
World Cup
Relay
3rd
Linn Persson , Mona Brorsson , Anna Magnusson
2
22 February 2018
Pyeongchang
Winter Olympic Games
Relay
2nd
Linn Persson , Mona Brorsson , Anna Magnusson
3
2018–19
16 December 2018
Hochfilzen
World Cup
Relay
2nd
Linn Persson , Mona Brorsson , Emma Nilsson
4
14 March 2019
Östersund
World Championships
Single Mixed Relay
3rd
Sebastian Samuelsson
5
16 March 2019
Östersund
World Championships
Relay
2nd
Linn Persson , Mona Brorsson , Anna Magnusson
6
2019–20
30 November 2019
Östersund
World Cup
Single Mixed Relay
1st
Sebastian Samuelsson
7
8 December 2019
Östersund
World Cup
Relay
3rd
Linn Persson , Elvira Öberg , Mona Brorsson
8
11 January 2020
Oberhof
World Cup
Relay
2nd
Elvira Öberg , Linn Persson , Mona Brorsson
9
2020–21
5 December 2020
Kontiolahti
World Cup
Relay
1st
Johanna Skottheim , Mona Brorsson , Elvira Öberg
10
12 December 2020
Hochfilzen
World Cup
Relay
3rd
Johanna Skottheim , Linn Persson , Elvira Öberg
11
10 January 2021
Oberhof
World Cup
Single Mixed Relay
2nd
Sebastian Samuelsson
12
16 January 2021
Oberhof
World Cup
Relay
3rd
Mona Brorsson , Linn Persson , Elvira Öberg
13
10 February 2021
Pokljuka
World Championships
Mixed Relay
3rd
Sebastian Samuelsson , Martin Ponsiluoma , Linn Persson
14
18 February 2021
Pokljuka
World Championships
Single Mixed Relay
3rd
Sebastian Samuelsson
15
4 March 2021
Nové Město na Moravě
World Cup
Relay
1st
Mona Brorsson , Linn Persson , Elvira Öberg
16
2021–22
5 December 2021
Östersund
World Cup
Relay
3rd
Linn Persson , Mona Brorsson , Elvira Öberg
17
11 December 2021
Hochfilzen
World Cup
Relay
1st
Linn Persson , Anna Magnusson , Elvira Öberg
18
16 February 2022
Beijing
Winter Olympic Games
Relay
1st
Linn Persson , Mona Brorsson , Elvira Öberg
19
13 March 2022
Otepää
World Cup
Single Mixed Relay
2nd
Sebastian Samuelsson
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
Sources
External links
3 × 7.5 km 4 × 7.5 km 4 × 6 km
2006 : Anna Bogaliy , Svetlana Ishmouratova , Olga Zaitseva , Albina Akhatova (RUS )
2010 : Svetlana Sleptsova , Anna Bogaliy , Olga Medvedtseva , Olga Zaitseva (RUS )
2014 : Vita Semerenko , Yuliia Dzhima , Valentyna Semerenko , Olena Pidhrushna (UKR )
2018 : Nadezhda Skardino , Iryna Kryuko , Dzinara Alimbekava , Darya Domracheva (BLR )
2022 : Linn Persson , Mona Brorsson , Hanna Öberg , Elvira Öberg (SWE )