Tiril Eckhoff


Tiril Kampenhaug Eckhoff is a Norwegian biathlete who represents Fossum IF. She is an Olympic champion, winning the Mixed Relay at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, and also won a bronze in the Mass start, a feat she repeated at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Eckhoff is also a two-time gold medallist from the 2016 Biathlon World Championships in Oslo where she won both the relay and an individual gold in the 7.5 sprint. She is the sister of fellow biathlete Stian Eckhoff.

Career

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. She studies engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
In 2016, she became world champion on 7.5 km sprint on 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. In the last race she was first after the third shooting, but on the last she missed three targets missing the opportunity to win the title.

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.

Olympic Games

5 medals
EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay
2014 Sochi18th18th24thBronzeBronzeGold
2018 Pyeongchang23rd24th9thBronze4thSilver

World Championships

9 medals
EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay
2015 Kontiolahti52nd19th18th16th5thBronzerowspan="3"
2016 Oslo43rdGold17th24thGoldBronze-
2017 Hochfilzen39th13th30th12th11th8th-
2019 Östersund37th9thSilver5thGoldGold
2020 Antholz-Anterselva15th59th20th7thGoldGold

World Cup

World cup Individual Victories

No. Season DateLocationDisciplineLevel
12014/156 December 2014 Östersund, Sweden 7.5 km Sprint World Cup
22015/165 March 2016 Oslo Holmenkollen, Norway7.5 km SprintWorld Championships
32016/1710 March 2017 Kontiolahti, Finland7.5 km SprintWorld Cup
42016/1719 March 2017 Oslo Holmenkollen, Norway12.5 km Mass StartWorld Cup
52017/1818 January 2018 Antholz, Italy7.5 km SprintWorld Cup
62018/197 February 2019 Canmore, Canada12.5 km Short IndividualWorld Cup
72019/2015 December 2019 Hochfilzen, Austria10 km PursuitWorld Cup
82019/2020 December 2019 Le Grand-Bornand, France7.5 km SprintWorld Cup
92019/2021 December 2019 Le Grand-Bornand, France10 km PursuitWorld Cup
102019/2022 December 2019 Le Grand-Bornand, France12.5 km Mass StartWorld Cup
112019/2015 January 2020 Ruhpolding, Germany7.5 km SprintWorld Cup
122019/2019 January 2020 Ruhpolding, Germany10 km PursuitWorld Cup
132019/208 March 2020 Nové Město, Czech Republic12.5 km Mass StartWorld Cup