Fanny Horn Birkeland (''née'' Fanny Welle-Strand Horn; born 8 March 1988) is a Norwegian former

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...

. She competed at the

Biathlon World Championships 2011 The 44th Biathlon World Championships was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from March 3–13, 2011. There was a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the even ...

, where she placed sixth in the relay with the Norwegian team. In January 2015, she won her first race in the 7.5 km sprint in

Ruhpolding Ruhpolding is the municipality with the biggest area of the Traunstein district in southeastern Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the south of the Chiemgau region in the Alps and next to the Austrian border. Ruhpolding has a biathlon track. ...

, Germany.

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* * * * * 1988 births Living people Skiers from Oslo Norwegian female biathletes Biathlon World Championships medalists Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in biathlon Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics 21st-century Norwegian women 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-biathlon-bio-stub