Magdalena Forsberg

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Magdalena Forsberg

Medal record
Competitor for  Sweden
Women's biathlon
Winter Olympics
Bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 15 km individual
Bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 7.5 km sprint
World Championships
Gold 2001 Pokljuka 15 km individual
Gold 2001 Pokljuka 12.5 km mass start
Gold 2000 Holmenkollen 10 km pursuit
Gold 1998 Pokljuka 10 km pursuit
Gold 1997 Brezno-Osrblie 15 km individual
Gold 1997 Brezno-Osrblie 10 km pursuit
Silver 1999 Kontiolahti 7.5 km sprint
Bronze 2001 Pokljuka 10 km pursuit
Bronze 2000 Holmenkollen 15 km individual
Bronze 1999 Holmenkollen 12.5 km mass start
Bronze 1997 Brezno-Osrblie 7.5 km sprint
Bronze 1996 Ruhpolding 7.5 km sprint
Women's cross country skiing
World Championships
Bronze 1987 Oberstdorf 4 x 5 km

Magdalena "Magda" Forsberg (born July 25, 1967 in Ullånger, Västernorrland County as Magdalena Wallin) is a former Swedish cross country skier and biathlete. She was the dominating female biathlete from 1997 to 2002, when she retired, winning the Biathlon World Cup for six years straight. She is also a six-times world champion, a two-times Olympic bronze medalist, and holds the record for the most World Cup victories in women's biathlon.

She has been married to Henrik Forsberg since 1996, also a biathlete and cross country skier.

Cross country skiing

Forsberg competed as a cross country skier from 1988 to 1996. Her best results at the Winter Olympics were in Albertville in 1992 where she finished seventh in the 4×5 km relay and 26th in the 15 km event.

Forsberg's best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was tenth in the 30 km event at Lahti in 1989. In 1987 she was in the Swedish team that finished third in the 4x5 km relay. Her best World cup finish was second in a 10 km event in Finland in 1988.

Biathlon

Competing from 1993 to 2002, Forsberg won six straight overall wins in the Biathlon World Cup from 1997 to 2002. She also won six gold medals in the World Championships, became runner-up once, and placed third five times. At the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Forsberg won two bronze medails. In her career she managed a total of 42 individual Biathlon World Cup wins, which is more than any other female biathlete to date.

Magdalena Forsberg retired from active sports after the 2001–02 season. After being retired for four years she made a temporary comeback in April 2006 due to losing a bet. The bet said Forsberg would enter the Swedish Championship in Women's Relay would fellow biathlon skier Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek win an Olympic gold in Turin.[1] The duo went on to win the competition, Forsberg finishing first in the first-leg and Olofsson extending their lead in the second.[2][3]

During large parts of her career, Forsberg was trained by Wolfgang Pichler, who later took over as coach of the national Swedish biathlon team.

Other honors

Forsberg competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics both as a biathlete and as a cross country skier. She is the only Swedish athlete to have won Jerringpriset four times.

References

  1. ↑ "Magda tävlar igen - i SM" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2011-02-04. 
  2. ↑ "Magda och ACO fixade väntat guld" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2011-02-04. 
  3. ↑ "STAFETT Resultat" (pdf) (in Swedish). Retrieved 2011-02-04. 

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Awards
Preceded by
 Emmanuelle Claret (FRA)		 Women's Biathlon World Cup
1997–2002 		Succeeded by
 Martina Glagow (GER)
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