Helena Ekholm

Helena Jonsson in Trondheim, March 2009

Full name

Helena Ekholm

Born

September 6, 1984
Helgum, Sweden

World Cup career

Seasons

2005-2012

Individual wins

Indiv. podiums

Medal record

Women's biathlon
Competitor for Sweden
World Championships
	2011 Khanty-Mansiysk	15 km individual
	2009 Pyeongchang	10 km pursuit
	2007 Antholz-Anterselva	Mixed relay
	2009 Pyeongchang	Mixed relay
	2012 Ruhpolding	15 km individual
	2011 Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km pursuit
	2010 Khanty-Mansiysk	Mixed relay
	2009 Pyeongchang	12.5 km mass start

Updated on January 4, 2011.

Helena Ekholm (née Helena Jonsson) (born September 6, 1984 in Helgum) is a former Swedish biathlete. She was born in Helgum, Sollefteå Municipality. She is the 2009 world champion in pursuit. She also won the Women's Biathlon World Cup in the 2008-09 season.

Career

Jonsson debuted in 2005 in Östersund in the relay, coming in 15th. In the following World Cup in Hochfilzen she participated in her first individual, coming in 41st. In early 2006 she participated in the Biathlon World Championships Mixed Relay event in 2006 in Pokljuka, coming in sixth. The 2006-07 Biathlon World Cup began very successfully for her. In the World Cup 3 in Hochfilzen, she came in fourth in the Individual, eighth in the Sprint, and was on the relay team which came in fifth. In the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz she continued her upward trend and placed fourth in the Sprint. As a high point she led the Swedish team to a gold medal in the mixed-relay. She celebrated her first World Cup victory in the 2006-07 Biathlon World Cup, the mass start in the final round at Khanty-Mansiysk. In the 2008-2009 season she won four more races, including the opening in Östersund where she won the individual race. In the 2009 World Championships in Pyeongchang Jonsson came from 5th place after the opening sprint to win the Pursuit.

Due to her marriage to fellow former biathlete David Ekholm, she changed her surname to Ekholm in the summer of 2010.

Biathlon World Cup placings

Place	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay
1st place	3	1	2	4	2
2nd place		4		2	1
3rd place	1	2	1	2	2
Top 10	7	19	10	11	21

(As of 9 January 2011)

References

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Awards
Preceded by Jonas Jacobsson	Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 2009	Succeeded by Sweden's men's Olympic 4 × 10 km cross-country skiing relay team: Daniel Rickardsson, Johan Olsson, Anders Södergren & Marcus Hellner

World champions in women's biathlon – 15 km individual

10 km	1984: Venera Chernyshova (URS) 1985: Kaija Parve (URS) 1986: Eva Korpela (SWE) 1987: Sanna Grønlid (NOR) 1988: Anne Elvebakk (NOR)

15 km	1989: Petra Schaaf (FRG) 1990: Svetlana Davidova (URS) 1991: Petra Schaaf (GER) 1993: Petra Schaaf (GER) 1995: Corinne Niogret (FRA) 1996: Emmanuelle Claret (FRA) 1997: Magdalena Forsberg (SWE) 1999: Olena Zubrilova (UKR) 2000: Corinne Niogret (FRA) 2001: Magdalena Forsberg (SWE) 2003: Kateřina Holubcová (CZE) 2004: Olga Pyleva (RUS) 2005: Andrea Henkel (GER) 2007: Linda Grubben (NOR) 2008: Ekaterina Iourieva (RUS) 2009: Kati Wilhelm (GER) 2011: Helena Ekholm (SWE) 2012: Tora Berger (NOR) 2013: Tora Berger (NOR) 2015: Ekaterina Yurlova (RUS)

World champions in women's biathlon – 10 km pursuit

1997: Magdalena Forsberg (SWE)
1998: Magdalena Forsberg (SWE)
1999: Olena Zubrilova (UKR)
2000: Magdalena Forsberg (SWE)
2001: Liv Grete Poirée (NOR)
2003: Sandrine Bailly (FRA), Martina Glagow (GER)
2004: Liv Grete Poirée (NOR)
2005: Uschi Disl (GER)
2007: Magdalena Neuner (GER)
2008: Andrea Henkel (GER)
2009: Helena Jonsson (SWE)
2011: Kaisa Mäkäräinen (FIN)
2012: Darya Domracheva (BLR)
2013: Tora Berger (NOR)
2015: Marie Dorin Habert (FRA)

World champions in biathlon – 2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km mixed relay

4 × 7.5 km	2005: Russia (Olga Pyleva, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Ivan Tcherezov, Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.) 2006: Russia (Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Sergei Tchepikov, Irina Malgina, Nikolay Kruglov, Jr.)

2 × 6 km + 2 × 7.5 km	2007: Sweden (Helena Jonsson, Anna Carin Olofsson, Björn Ferry, Carl Johan Bergman) 2008: Germany (Sabrina Buchholz, Magdalena Neuner, Andreas Birnbacher, Michael Greis) 2009: France (Marie-Laure Brunet, Sylvie Becaert, Vincent Defrasne, Simon Fourcade) 2010: Germany (Simone Hauswald, Magdalena Neuner, Simon Schempp, Arnd Peiffer) 2011: Norway (Tora Berger, Ann Kristin Aafedt Flatland, Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Tarjei Bø) 2012: Norway (Tora Berger, Synnøve Solemdal, Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Emil Hegle Svendsen) 2013: Norway (Tora Berger, Synnøve Solemdal, Tarjei Bø, Emil Hegle Svendsen) 2015: Czech Republic (Veronika Vítková, Gabriela Soukalová, Michal Šlesingr, Ondřej Moravec)

Biathlon World Cup champions – Women Overall

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