Magdalena Forsberg

Medal record
Magdalena Forsberg
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]

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

• "IBU Profile of Magdalena Forsberg". International Biathlon Union. http://data.biathlonworld.com/data/archives.aspx?IbuId=BTSWE22507196701. Retrieved 2008-02-10. 
• "Jerringpriset: Pristagare sedan 1979". http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/Radiosporten/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?nyheter=1&programid=3295&Artikel=2436048. 

1. ^ "Magda tävlar igen - i SM" (in Swedish). http://www.expressen.se/sport/vintersport/1.327956/magda-tavlar-igen-i-sm. Retrieved 2011-02-04. 
2. ^ "Magda och ACO fixade väntat guld" (in Swedish). http://www.svd.se/sportspel/nyheter/magda-och-aco-fixade-vantat-guld_306950.svd. Retrieved 2011-02-04. 
3. ^ "STAFETT Resultat" (in Swedish) (pdf). http://www.lillhardal.nu/sm/STAFETTResultat.pdf. Retrieved 2011-02-04. 

External links

• Magdalena Forsberg Wallin at the International Ski Federation
• Women's 4 x 5 km cross-country relay Olympic results: 1976-2002 (Italian)

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

Persondata
Name	Forsberg, Magdalena
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1967-07-25
Place of birth
Date of death
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