Womens 10km Pursuit | 13 Feb 22 | |||||
Womens 7.5km Sprint | 11 Feb 22 | |||||
Womens 15km Individual | 07 Feb 22 | |||||
Mixed Relay 4x6km | 05 Feb 22 | |||||
Tiril Kampenhaug Eckhoff (born 21 May 1990) is a Norwegian biathlete who represents Fossum IF.
She is an two-time Olympic champion, winning the mixed relay at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics, and also won a bronze in the mass start, a feat she repeated at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Eckhoff is also a ten-time gold medalist at the Biathlon World Championships, winning gold in the 7.5 km sprint at the Biathlon World Championships 2016, and both the 7.5 km sprint and 10 km pursuit at the Biathlon World Championships 2021. She is the sister of fellow biathlete Stian Eckhoff.
Eckhoff has been part of the Norwegian biathlon team since 2008.
Eckhoff competed in Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi where she won 2 bronze medals and 1 gold. Bronze in the mass start and in the women's relay and a gold in the mixed relay together with Tora Berger, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen. She is the sister of former biathlete Stian Eckhoff and studied engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
In 2016, she became World Champion on 7.5 km sprint in her home arena, Holmenkollen, in Norway. She was also part of the Norwegian team who took the bronze medal in the mixed relay and played an instrumental part in the Norwegian women's relay gold medal, shooting 10/10 as the third skier.
In 19–20 season, she won seven World Cup races but she finished second in the Overall, behind Dorothea Wierer. She won her first-ever discipline title in pursuit.
In the 20–21 season, she won 4 gold and took 6 medals in 7 races during the Biathlon World Championships 2021. Later in the season, she won the 2020–21 World Cup overall title, winning the most races in a season since Magdalena Forsberg. She also won the discipline title in sprint and pursuit, becoming the first biathlete, male or female, to win 7 consecutive races in a discipline (sprint competition).
Olympics Gold 2022 Norway Biathlon | Olympics Bronze 2022 Norway Biathlon |
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