Hanna Öberg (born 2 November 1995) is a Swedish

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Career

In 2017 she won the IBU Female Rookie of the Year Award for her

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debut season, with the male counterpart being awarded to her fellow Swede

Sebastian Samuelsson Sebastian Samuelsson (born 28 March 1997) is a Swedish biathlete who competes internationally. He participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics. There he won a silver medal in the 12.5 km pursuit event as well as the gold medal in the relay. He bec ...

. At the Pyeongchang

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she won a surprising gold in the

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, 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. She also claimed silver in the

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, finished seventh in

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, and fifth in both the

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and the pursuit. Öberg repeated her Olympic success at the 2019 Biathlon World Championships on home snow in

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, where she again won the

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with a perfect shoot, having previously finished fourth in the

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. She was awarded the

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in early-December 2018. and the Jerring Award in January 2019. In June 2019, it was announced she had been awarded the

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Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the

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Olympic Games

''3 medals (2 gold, 1 silver)''

World Championships

''7 medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 4 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

Individual podiums

* 8 victories * 27 podiums

Team podiums

*5 victories *19 podiums

Personal life

Hanna's younger sister

Elvira Öberg Elvira Karin Öberg (born 26 February 1999) is a Swedish Biathlon, biathlete. She is the younger sister of Olympic champion Hanna Öberg. Elvira won three gold medals in the youth category at the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2018, 2018 Bia ...

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 Jesper Nelin (born 3 October 1992) is a Swedish biathlete. He competed in the World Cup, and represented Sweden during the 2016 World Championships in Oslo, Norway. His Olympic results include winning a gold medal in the biathlon relay in 2018 ...

until 2020, and has been in a relationship with the sprint

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Martin Ponsiluoma Martin Ponsiluoma (born 8 September 1995) is a Swedish biathlete who competes internationally. He participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics. He ended up on a World Cup podium position for first time when he came third during competitions in No ...

since 2021.

References

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External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oberg, Hanna 1995 births Swedish female biathletes Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes of Sweden Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in biathlon Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Living people Biathlon World Championships medalists People from Kiruna Municipality