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

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debut season, with the male counterpart being awarded to her fellow Swede Sebastian Samuelsson. 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 sprint, 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 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. 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 Victoria Award.

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the

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Olympic Games

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

World Championships

''13 medals (3 gold, 4 silver, 6 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

* 11 victories * 34 podiums

Team podiums

*5 victories *19 podiums

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 Jesper Nelin (born 3 October 1992) is a Swedish biathlete and Olympic gold medalist in men's relay. He made his World Cup debut in December 2015 and competed in his first World Championships in Oslo 2016. He represented Sweden at the 2018 and ...

until 2020, and has been in a relationship with the sprint world champion, Martin Ponsiluoma since 2021.

References

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External links

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Hanna Öberg Workouts
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