Dorothea Wierer

Dorothea Wierer is an Italian former biathlete, born on 3 April 1990. She won mixed relay bronze at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and again at Pyeongchang in 2018, her first individual Olympic medal came in the sprint at Beijing in 2022, and she added a mixed relay silver at the 2026 Winter Olympics. She was Mass Start world champion in 2019 and Pursuit and Individual world champion in 2020, and she has won twelve World Championship medals, four of them gold. She was the first Italian, man or woman, to win the overall World Cup, in 2018-19, and she defended the title in 2019-20, the first woman to do so since Magdalena Forsberg in 2001-02. In February 2019 she became the third biathlete, after Martin Fourcade and Marie Dorin Habert, to win a race in every biathlon discipline.