Helena Ekholm

Helena Ekholm (née Helena Jonsson) (born September 6, 1984 in Helgum) is a former Swedish biathlete. She was born in Helgum, Sollefteå Municipality. She is the 2009 world champion in pursuit and the 2011 world champion in individual. She also won the Women's Overall World Cup in the 2008–09 season. In 2009, Ekholm won the Jerring Award.^[3]

Helena Ekholm

Helena Jonsson in Trondheim, March 2009
Personal information
Nickname	Lill-Hinken (early career)[1]
Nationality	Swedish
Born	(1984-09-06) September 6, 1984 (age 40) Helgum, Sweden
Years active	2000–2012
Height	172 cm (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Professional information
Club	I21 IF (Helgum, Sweden)
Skis	Fischer
Rifle	Anschutz
IBU Cup debut	30 November 2002
World Cup debut	29 November 2005
Retired	19 March 2012
Olympic Games
Teams	1 (2010)
World Championships
Teams	7
Medals	8 (3 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	7
Individual races	160
All races	198
Individual victories	13
All victories	17
Individual podiums	33
All podiums	43
Overall titles	1 (08/09)
Discipline titles	4 (SP 08/09, MS 08/09, IN 10/11, IN 11/12)
Medal record Women's biathlon Representing  Sweden World Championships 2007 Antholz-Anterselva Mixed relay 2009 Pyeongchang 10 km pursuit 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk 15 km individual 2009 Pyeongchang Mixed relay 2009 Pyeongchang 12.5 km mass start 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk 10 km pursuit 2012 Ruhpolding 15 km individual
Updated on 10 January 2018

Career

Jonsson debuted in 2005 in Östersund in the relay, coming in 15th. In the following World Cup in Hochfilzen she participated in her first individual, coming in 41st. In early 2006 she participated in the Biathlon World Championships Mixed Relay event in 2006 in Pokljuka, coming in sixth. The 2006-07 Biathlon World Cup began very successfully for her. In the World Cup 3 in Hochfilzen, she came in fourth in the Individual, eighth in the Sprint, and was on the relay team which came in fifth. In the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz she continued her upward trend and placed fourth in the Sprint. As a high point she led the Swedish team to a gold medal in the mixed-relay. She celebrated her first World Cup victory in the 2006-07 Biathlon World Cup, the mass start in the final round at Khanty-Mansiysk. In the 2008–2009 season she won four more races, including the opening in Östersund where she won the individual race. In the 2009 World Championships in Pyeongchang Jonsson came from 5th place after the opening sprint to win the Pursuit.

After her marriage to Swedish former biathlete David Ekholm, she changed her surname to Ekholm in the summer of 2010.

Biathlon World Cup placings

Place	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Total
1st	4	2	3	4	2	2	17
2nd	1	4	2	2	2	1	12
3rd	3	4	2	2	2	1	14
Podium	8	10	7	8	6	4	43
4th–10th	5	21	11	13	20	5	75
Top 10	13	31	18	21	26	9	118

(Retired 19 March 2012)

References

1. ""Jag är född till skidskytt"" [I was born a biathlete]. Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 29 March 2009. Archived from the original on 11 January 2018.
2. "Helena Jonsson Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". April 17, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
3. Jonsson, Tobias (2018-09-28). "Vintersport: Hon är ny expert i skidskytte". SVT Sport (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-04-01.

External links

Media related to Helena Ekholm at Wikimedia Commons

• Official site
• Statistics from the International Biathlon Union
• Portrait and information about Helena Jonsson

Awards
Preceded by Jonas Jacobsson	Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 2009	Succeeded by Sweden's men's Olympic 4 × 10 km cross-country skiing relay team: Daniel Rickardsson, Johan Olsson, Anders Södergren & Marcus Hellner