Hanna OEBERG

BIG TIME FIRSTS
Gold in the 15km Individual at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games was her first senior victory and podium finish, with a fifth place in the World Cup her best achievement to date. Entering the race ranked 58th in the World Cup standings, she hit all 20 targets and finished 24.7 seconds ahead of silver medallist Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK) who missed two shots. At age 22, became the youngest female biathlete to win an Olympic gold medal, and the youngest biathlete to win a gold and silver medal at the same Games, after winning silver in the women’s relay.

"I’m amazed at myself and very surprised. I would never have believed this was possible. Winning this race is just incredible. I can’t believe my performance. I’m so happy I shot clear too. I have shot four times clean only one time before, but I was really focused on the range today. The skiing was great also. I do not know, I just managed it somehow today." (olympic.org, 26 Mar 2018; olympic.org, 15 Feb 2018)

SISTERLY LOVE
Younger sister, Elvira, joined the senior national team in 2019. The pair first shared the podium in an individual event at the World Cup in Kontiolahti, in December 2020, with Hanna winning the 7.5km Sprint and Elvira finishing third. As teammates, they won their first relay title at the same event, after two podium finishes during the 2019/20 season.

"It’s so much fun to have her on the team now, and it’s also inspiring for me. I’m teaching her everything that I know but she knows how biathlon works since she’s new at the World Cup. How you walk to the start, where you have the weapon control and the practical things with the media." (olympic.org, 5 Mar 2020; time24.news, 3 Dec 2020)

FORMER BOYFRIEND
Lived together with Swedish biathlete Jesper Nelin, but broke up in 2020.

CHILDHOOD
Born in Kiruna in Norrbotten, she moved with her family to Pitea as a child. Subsequently, she attended ski school in Solleftea before moving to Oestersund.

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Won gold in the relay at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, becoming the first Swedish biathlete to win multiple Olympic gold medals. At PyeongChang 2018, she became the youngest Swedish female biathlete to win an Olympic medal and the youngest Swedish biathlete to win an individual event, after winning gold in the individual (22 years, 105 days).

In 2019, became the first female biathlete to win the individual World Championship title a year after winning Olympic gold in the same event. Became the first Swedish biathlete to win a world title since Helena Ekholm in 2011 (individual). Failed to finish inside the top-10 only three times in the past 21 championship races.

Two World Cup small Crystal Globe titles, in individual (2019/20) and mass start (2018/19), recording her first World Cup win in March 2019, defeating Tiril Eckhoff (NOR) by 1.3 seconds in the Oslo mass start. Has 28 total podium finishes in the past three seasons, including four wins in 2020/21.

Dual medallist at the 2019 European Championships in Minsk, with one gold (individual) and one bronze (sprint).

Dual gold medallist at the 2016 Junior World Championships in Cheile Gradistei, with victories in the pursuit and sprint, where she finished 0.6 seconds ahead of Lena Haecki (SUI). Also won relay silver in 2016 to go with her youth relay silver in 2012.