Susan Dunklee

Susan Dunklee is a retired American biathlete, born on 13 February 1986 in Newport, Vermont. She was raised in Barton, Vermont, started skiing at two and entered cross-country competitions at seven, attended St. Johnsbury Academy and took up biathlon as a senior at Dartmouth College, where she studied ecology and was a member of the 2007 National Championship ski team. Her best World Cup finish was second in a sprint in Presque Isle, Maine, in 2016. At the 2012 Biathlon World Championships in Ruhpolding she set a new World Championship best with a fifth place in the individual, and she was named to the American team for the 2014 Winter Olympics on 22 November 2013. On 19 February 2017 she finished second in the mass start at the World Championships in Hochfilzen, her first World Championship medal and the first individual medal for an American woman at an Olympics or World Championships in biathlon. Her father Stan Dunklee competed in cross-country skiing at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics.