Tiril Eckhoff is a Norwegian biathlete who is a two-time Olympic champion, winning the mixed relay at the 2014 Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. She also won a bronze in the mass start, a feat she repeated at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Tiril 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.
Tiril Kampenhaug Eckhoff was born on May 21, 1990, in Baerum, Norway. She went keen on winter sports thorugh his brother, who is the fellow biathlete Stian Eckhoff. Tiril Eckhoff started training with him and showed her great skills.
Tiril Eckhoff has been part of the Norwegian biathlon team since 2008.
She started at the World Cup in 2011 in Holmenkollen. A year later, after two IBU Cup podium finishes, she scored her first World Cup points, namely seventh place in the mass start of the Khanty-Mansiysk stage. In 2013, Tiril Eckhoff took the first podium in a relay in Sochi, and in the 2013/2014 season he was third in the Grand Bornand pursuit, climbing to her first individual podium.
She competed in Biathlon at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, where she won 3 medals – bronze in the mass start and in the women’s relay, as well as gold in the mixed relay together with Tora Berger, Ole Einar Bjorndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen.
In 2016, Tiril Eckhoff became World Champion on 7.5km sprint in Holmenkollen, 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 the 2019/2020 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.
The 2020/2021 season is the best of Tiril Eckhoff’s career. She won thirteen victories, including five sprint / pursuit double records (achieved consecutively). She won 4 gold and took 6 medals in 7 races during the Biathlon World Championships 2021. Later in the season, she won the 2020/2021 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 male or female biathlete to win seven consecutive races in a discipline (sprint competition).
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