The Italian Dorothea Wierer was the first biathlete in her nation to win a world championship and an overall world cup in her discipline.
Dorothea Wierer
entered biathlon at the age of ten and was included in the
Italian national team
in 2006.
She is the first Italian woman to win a world championship and win an overall world cup.
In 2015 the
biathlete
married
her partner
Stefano Corradini
, trainer of the Trento cross-country team.
The Italian
biathlete
Dorothea Wierer was
born on April 3, 1990 in Bruneck,
South Tyrol
.
She is the first
female world champion in
her nation in this discipline.
Her journey there began when she entered the world of biathlon at the age of ten.
She herself reported that in her younger years, unlike other competitive athletes, she did not only have sport in mind.
Her circle of friends was interested in other things and so Wierer occasionally skipped a training session.
Nonetheless, she always performed at her best in the races.
Dorothea Wierer
grew up in the Antholz Valley together with four siblings.
She now lives
in Castello-Molina
with her partner
Stefano Corradini
.
In May 2015, the biathlete said yes to the cross-country skier.
They met six years earlier and became a couple in 2012.
Corradini works as a trainer for the Trento cross-country team and asked for his partner's hand after the Olympic Games in Sochi.
Dorothea Wierer at the Youth World Championships and the European Championships
Wierers first participation in a youth world championship took place in 2007. In the individual and in the
relay
the
biathlete reached
the tenth place, in the
pursuit
rank 14 and in the sprint rank 16.
At the next
World Junior Championships
2008, the athlete could top these rankings and took the
victory
in singles.
But
Dorothea Wierer's
final breakthrough came in 2011. At the Junior World Championships taking place in the Czech Republic at that time, she won three
gold medals
in the
pursuit
, in the sprint and in the individual.
She also stood on the podium in the relay and received the silver medal.
The following
European Championship
ended Wierer with one
gold
and two
silver
.
She received her first medal in the senior category and thanks to these results was nominated for the 2011 Biathlon World Cup.
In the pursuit race she achieved her first top ten placement.
The biathlete fought her way to the top of the world
The
biathlete
paved her way to the top of the world in the 2014/2015
season. A total of three podium finishes brought her seventh place in the overall World Cup ranking.
Her first victory in a
World Cup
followed in 2015 in Östersund in the individual.
Dorothea Wierer was also
victorious
in Ruhpolding
.
This and her eighth place at the Biathlon World Cup in 2016 earned her
victory in the Individual World Cup
.
Another milestone in the
customs official's
sporting career
should follow in
2019
: her first
World Cup victory
.
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Thanks to her good performance in shooting, Wierer won gold at the mass start and took her first major individual title.
At the same time, this World Cup victory was the first of an Italian biathlete.
In the same year, she won the overall World Cup, also as the first Italian.
The series of victories for the
world champion
did not break off in the
2019/2020
season either.
The
biathlete
achieved the following results, among others:
1st place in the mass start world cup
1st place in the overall World Cup
Gold at the Biathlon World Championships in individual and pursuit
Silver at the Biathlon World Championships in the mixed relay and in the mass start
At the start of the 2020/2021 World Cup season, Wierer also won the individual race.
By Sophie Neumärker