Tiril Eckhoff | The Story Behind Her Record Breaking Biathlon Season
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This victory in Oestersund marked Tiril Eckhoffs record breaking 13th victory in a single season.
Breaking Magdelena Forsberg’s record of 12 victories in the 2000-2001 season.
While biathlon fans today are familiar with the bubbly and exciting personality that Tiril is known for, this impressive accomplishment didn’t come easy.
In today’s video, we will dive deep into the career of Tiril Eckhoff and see how the record that captivated fans during the 2021 season was an accomplishment of hard work and breaking through personal barriers.
Hopes were high for the young Norwegian athlete. At only 21 years old, Eckhoff had earned some impressive results at the IBU Junior World Championships only weeks prior to her W.C. debut: All of Norway could see the young athlete had a lot of promise and hopes for the future were high.
Eckhoff continued to improve on the skis and established herself as one of the fastest skiers on the circuit by the 2013-2014 season and consistently earned in the top 20 results. Eckhoff earned a place on the Norwegian Olympic team and helped the women’s team capture a gold medal in the Sochi relay.
Tiril started off the 2014/15 season with a bang: earning her first world cup win by shooting 90% in the Oestersund Sprint.
Despite Eckhoff consistently placing in the top 10 in ski speed and skiing 4.2% faster than the average biathlete, Tiril had a hole in her performance that would hold her back and actually make her finish lower in the standings than the previous season: a 79.4% shooting percentage. And specifically, a 74.1% standing percentage.
Six times Tiril would clean her prone stage only to spoil the race with standing misses. In fact, Tiril only cleaned her standing twice during this season, and both times she did that she earned podium finishes.
So what was Tirils plan to combat this weakness in her game: Ski faster!
This plateau continued for several seasons: It was the same old story of fast skiing, good prone shooting and meltdowns in the standing stages.
In front of the King of Norway, Eckhoff performed at her best winning the Sprint competition with clean shooting and helping the Norwegian Women’s relay team claim victory by bringing the team from 9th to 1st without missing a shot on the third leg.
In 2017 rumors began circulating that Tiril was having some issues with her vision and was focusing on rehabilitating her eyes. She told IBU TV she had “double vision” and spent a lot of time in the summer focusing on what she sees when she looks through the sights.
The results of her hard work began paying off in the 2019/2020 season where she bumped her shooting percentage up to 83% and skied 5.3% faster than the average athlete. This jump in the shooting percentages helped Tiril break through the ceiling and get back into the top 10 overall. Winning 7 races during the season and battled Italy’s Dorothea Wierer for the overall globe through the entire season which was cut due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
As mentioned in the beginning of the video, Tiril would go on to win 13 races this season and set a Women’s World Cup record. But the interesting thing about this accomplishment is when you look at her stats on the season, she actually under performed in the key areas that propped her up in previous seasons.
The area that gave Tiril her edge was the one piece that plagued her in the past: her standing shooting. Up a full 10% from the season before, Tiril had honed in the standing targets and was able to close the door on great victories.
We see this all too often in biathlon where an athlete ruins a good race with poor standing shooting. And we also see examples of athletes coming back from poor starts to finish strong with good shooting in the later stages. When you look at the numbers, this concept makes sense.
In a typical 12.5k Women’s mass start each lap it takes the fastest skiers approximately 6:20 to ski the 2.5k course, this means at the completion of the last shooting an athlete only has 17.5% of the race remaining to make a comeback if needed. Whereas after the prone shooting 60% of the race remains.
Tiril Eckhoff’s dedication to focusing on her performance weaknesses and ability to break through her results plateau is a lesson for athletes around the world. Sticking with the training, and continuing to work hard can help you achieve new heights.
It will be interesting to see if Tiril can continue her success this upcoming season. And it would be exciting to see what she could do if she could combine her new found standing ability with her highest prone percentages of years past.
Let me know who you want to see a story on next!
Nice, thank you, if possible do a tribute to JT BOE and JH KLAEBO !
JT Boe is Definitely on my list. Klaebo... maybe 😂
Hauser?
Doro
Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen!
I enjoy seeing Tiril come into the range, watch her focus on the targets from the moment they are visible to her all the way through her shooting. I think that extra time she spends focusing while skiing adds to her shooting
I feel privileged in the fact I started getting into the sport around the same time as she started to conquer the sport. I adored watching her race and will never forget her humour. A true great in my eyes and she will be sadly missed.
Loved the addition of the boa!
The most beautiful and cool and sympathic and athletic Biathlon woman!
Great video and analysis! Would love to see a video on Marte Olsbu Roiseland and how she managed to get 5 gold and 2 bronze medals in Antholz 2020.
Good feedback. I'll add it to my list
Great video! Love Tiril!
Thanks a lot! Very interesting analysis: it's all about timing. I suppose her trainers coached her to get a lower heart rate entrying the standing range. Would be very interesting to see how she prepares the Olympic challenge (freaky weather circumstances)
I truly believe if Tiril can bump up her prone percentage and keep her standing and skiing strong she will break her own record this season and destroy everyone at the Olympics
Great video, Bri. I don't dig snakes though, but if that what Tiril used to make Her focus, then well done to Her.
Great video! One thing, though, the women's team won a bronze in the Sochi relay, with Ukraine winning the gold. Her Olympic gold was in the mixed relay.
That was a test, only true biathlon fans would pass. :D
Amazing content!
Appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you. Great video about my most favorite girl on the tour. I am so looking forward to the new season.
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She didn't break the record of wins per season though, if I'm not mistaken. I believe Magdalena Forsberg won 14 races one season, although I can't remember which one. Anyway, great video!!!
I would also love a video on Marte's story as it seems a lot more interesting than Tiril's to me. Especially since Marte was not a very good junior at all. Others I'd love to see videos on are Marie Dorin Habert, Gabriela Koukalová or Lisa Theresa Hauser. Keep the good work coming!
You are correct, she did break the record for most wins by a Norwegian (beating Tora Berger) but Forsberg does still hold the all time record.
I will look into Marte for sure. I already have LTH and Gabi lined up. 😉
@@BrianHalligan-USA And Kaisa Makarainen shooting analysis, please. I would really like to know what was so special about her prone shooting in seasons 2013/14 and 2016/17 compared to others ....
@@BrianHalligan-USA Because I find out that Kaisa in season 2011/12 was just 79.0% in prone position. Maybe you find that information too. I would like to know. Because in season 2013/14 in prone position was Kaisa 92,3%.
Impressive and inspiring story. Thank you. I liked the boa at the end! 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
I recommend watching the whole video of that 😂 I didn't understand a word because I don't speak norwegian but it was still very entertaining 😂
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Thank you for this video, please do the same video about Johannes Tignes Boe
And now Marte Olsbu Roeiseland is challenging this record. I think she won all but the Antholz races this season
I would love a video on what you think of JT Boe’s rifle changes. Seems like the commentators are always talking about it.
That one would take some research but I'll see what I can dig up...
@@BrianHalligan-USA that would be very interesting espiacially the expert commentary on NRK is Ola Lunde, a former Biathlon athlete if I am not mistaken
Nice
Hey, @Brian Halligan. Can you make also the shooting analysis of former Finnish biathlete Kaisa Makarainen the same way as you did for Tiril?
will do.
@@BrianHalligan-USA Great. I hope you'll do it great. :P
Экхофф!!!
I'm a Roiseland guy personally.
Can we get a video on the story of arnd pieffer?
Peiffer video coming out in -2 months.
Very sad her illness lead to retirement this year.
She just comfirmed her retirement..
Great video Brian! Are you thinking of doing more like these where you focus on one athlete? RJ (biathlonanalytics.com)