Tarjei be. Tarjei Boe Tarjei Boe now

A country: Norway
Date of Birth: 29.07.1988
Place of Birth: Stryn
Location: Lillehammer
Height: 185 cm.
Weight: 76 kg.
Languages: Norwegian, English, German
Hobby: cycling, Playstation

Club: Markane IL
First trainer: Kjell Setter (Markane Sports Academy)
First year in biathlon: 2000th
Member of the first national team since 2009
Skis: Fischer
Rifle: Anschutz

Achievements:

Olympic champion in relay (2010, Vancouver).
Eight-time world champion (three golds in Khanty-Mansiysk in 2001; one gold in 2012 in Ruhpolding; three golds in Nove Mesto in 2013; gold in Holmenkollen in 2016).
Winner of seven bronze medals at the World Championships (2011, Khanty-Mansiysk and 2015, Kontiolahti; 2016, Holmenkollen) and one silver (2015, Kontiolahti).
Winner of the overall World Cup standings in the 2010-2011 season.
Winner of the Small Crystal Globe in the sprint, pursuit and Nations Cup standings as part of the Norwegian team.

Tarjei Boe is a multiple winner and medalist of the Junior World and European Championships.

Presque Isle World Championship 2006 (U19): individual race - 1st place; grazing – 2nd place.
Val Martello World Cup 2007 (U19): pursuit - 2nd place; relay race - 2nd place.

In August 2007, Tarjei became seriously ill, which is why he missed the 2007-2008 season. Only after surgery to remove his tonsils was he able to recover and return to biathlon in December 2008.

At the 2009 World Junior Championships in Canmore (U21), Tarjei Boe took third place twice - in the sprint and pursuit. In the same year, in the junior part of the European Championship (Ufa), he became the absolute winner in personal disciplines. Tarjei ran the relay in the main competitions (U26), and this performance brought him his fourth gold.

After such a successful performance in Ufa, the same year he was invited to join the national team and made his debut at the World Cup stage in Khanty-Mansiysk. The day before, I had been sick with the flu for a week and a half, but nevertheless I went to the starting line in the sprint, although I only took 61st place there.

In the 2009-2010 season, Tarjei Boe did not immediately make it to the World Cup stages; his first performance took place at the third stage in Pokljuka. Here, in the individual race, he gets into the points zone for the first time - 37th place. And in the sprint he gets on the extended podium for the first time - 4th place. Due to this success, Tarjei Boe got to the winter stages of the World Cup, and also became a permanent member of the Norwegian relay four. At the Olympic Games in Vancouver, Tarjei Boe and her teammates become Olympic champions in the relay race!

In the World Cup of the 2009-2010 season, Tarjei Boe took part in 11 races, scored 176 points and took 43rd place at the end of the season.

The 2010/2011 season was a triumph for Tarjei Boe. He won 5 personal victories (including in the individual race at the World Championships), 3 victories in relay races (including in the mixed and men's races at the World Championships), and in total Bo was on the podium 15 times - 11 times in individual competitions and 4 times - in team competitions.

The first victory was won by Tarjei Boe in the sprint at the second stage of the World Cup in Hochfilzen. This stage was completely “golden” for the Norwegian: he also won the pursuit race and, as part of the Norwegian team, the relay race.

Already at the third stage of the World Cup, in Pokljuka, Tarjei Boe put on the yellow jersey of the overall leader for the first time in his career. In Oberhof, the Norwegian strengthened his position by winning the sprint and mass start. High-quality and stable performances in Ruhpolding and at two American stages in Presque Isle and Fort Kent, where Tarjei never fell below 6th place, allowed him to maintain his leadership in the total.

The World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, brought Tarjei Boe “gold” in the very first race - the mixed relay (4th stage as part of a team). At his last stage, Boe won back the gap of the Norwegian team and won the tactical battle against Michael Greis at the decisive shooting range. This was Tarjei's first world title.
In the next two individual World Cup races, in the sprint and pursuit, the young Norwegian won two bronze medals. Tarjei Boe won his first personal victory at the World Championships in the individual race, finishing with one penalty. As part of the men's relay team, Bo achieved another success, winning gold again. And even a penalty loop at the last stage did not prevent him from finishing with the flag in his hands.

The final stage of the World Cup in Holmenkollen, Norway, was dramatic for Boe. Having made 5 mistakes in the sprint, Tarjei took 44th place, while his lead over Emil Hegle Svensen, who was second in the overall World Cup standings, was reduced from 75 points to 37. In the pursuit race, Tarjei Boe, having made a record breakthrough, was able to rise from 44th place to second . In the final race of the 2010/2011 season (mass start), Tarjei Boe finished eighth, and eventually beat Emil Hegle Svensen by 5 points in the total, becoming the youngest BHG winner in the last 25 years.

The 2011-2012 season was not nearly as successful for Tarjei Boe as the previous one. Having suffered from a cold shortly before the start of the World Cup, the athlete was unable to gain optimal physical shape in December. However, thanks to confident shooting at the December starts (90%), he showed consistently high results and, with the exception of the individual race in Östersund, never found himself outside the top six. As a result, the young Norwegian led the overall World Cup standings before the New Year.

During the Christmas holidays, Tarjei Boe fell ill again and missed the first post-New Year World Cup stage in Oberhof. As a result, not fully recovered and not fully recovered, Tarjei Boe never reached his last year’s level of functional fitness. The situation was aggravated by the fact that the disease affected the psychological state of the athlete, which led to serious problems in shooting. The most unsuccessful races for Tarjei were the sprints in Anterselva (40th place, 0-4) and Kontiolahti (59th place, 1+3).

Tarjei's most successful race after his illness was the men's relay at the World Championships, in which the Norwegians won gold. Boe finished 5th for his third stage. Having shown the best time (1st place in speed, 2 additional rounds), Tarjei passed the baton to 2nd. In individual races, the athlete did not rise to the podium again until the end of the season. The best result was 5th place in the pursuit race at the final stage of the KM in Khanty-Mansiysk.

Before the 2012–2013 season, Tarjei Boe was seriously ill, was unable to train fully and ended up missing the first part of the season. He was able to compete at the World Cup only in January - from the stage in Oberhof. Tarjei showed good results and went to the World Championships in Nove Mesto, where everything worked out very well for him. With the teams, he won two gold medals - in the relay and mixed relay, and in the final race of the Championship - the mass start - he took personal gold (and did not make a single mistake on the shooting range). In addition, Tarjei managed to take first place in the sprint at the Holmenkollen stage (he came second in the pursuit).

The 2013-2014 season was unsuccessful for Tarjei Boe. He has only a few prizes behind him - 3rd place in the pursuit race at the stage in Hochfilzin, here - 1st place in the relay and 3rd place in the mass start at the stage in Oberhof. At the Olympic Games in Sochi, Tarjei could not even qualify for the mass start; his best result was 26th place in the individual race (due to problems with adaptation to altitude). At the last two stages of the World Cup, Tarjei did not compete due to illness; he finished only 29th in the overall standings.

The 2014-2015 season started well for Tarjei compared to the results of the previous season, although he did not take prizes in individual races. However, as usual, he fell ill during the Christmas holidays and after the New Year, before the World Championships, he performed only at the stages in Antholz and Nove Mesto. However, Tarjei managed to prepare quite well for the World Championships in Kontiolahti, from which he left with five medals: he won bronze in the mixed relay, sprint, pursuit and mass start, and silver in the relay. In addition, in the last race of the season (mass start in Khanty-Mansiysk) he came third. As a result, Tarjei finished 19th in the overall standings.

Tarjei Boe was born in the small Norwegian town of Stryn into a large family. The town of Stryne has only 7 thousand inhabitants. Tarjei has an older brother and an older sister, as well as two younger brothers. He played a lot of sports from early childhood. He started skiing when he was only three years old. He always loved skiing and beat his peers in competitions. But later he became seriously interested in football and devoted 6 whole years of his life to it.

After some time, without giving up football, I started doing biathlon. Soon a choice had to be made, and the lot fell on biathlon. It must be said that the young man gave preference to skiing for a reason; Ole Einar Bjoerndalen himself recognized the talent of a biathlete in him. Tarja is now called his successor. By that time the young man was already 17 years old.

Success in sports and career growth

The future biathlon star did not give up football altogether, occasionally taking part in amateur matches. But he understands perfectly well that he cannot compete in this sport. As a hobby, the athlete also devotes himself to cycling and mountaineering.

At the age of 18, the talented biathlete had already won his first gold in the individual race at the Junior World Championships held in the USA. At the same championship, in addition to gold, he also won silver in the pursuit race. The following year also brought him second place.

In 2007, Tarjei had health problems. The athlete's tonsils became so inflamed that he had to stop training for a long time, and only after the operation was he able to begin increasing the load and soon return to action.

In 2009, he joined the Norwegian national team. Everyone predicted a great future for him; he went to the World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk as a powerful biathlete and a potential star of the championship, but disappointed his coaches and the public, taking only 61st place. The long illness had an effect, because he started at the start only six months after a complete recovery.

The following year he showed better results, but they were still far from winning. Participating in the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, where he went despite numerous doubts from sports specialists, Tarjei was able to bring gold to his team in the relay race, but became only 21st in the individual race. At that time, the athlete was the youngest Norwegian to win Olympic gold.

But the next year he completely rehabilitated himself for the “swing” in the previous two, showing excellent results. At the World Championships, he brought three gold and two bronze medals to his team. In total, during the 2010/2011 season, he won eight gold and another eight silver and bronze medals and became the owner of one Large Crystal Globe and two Small Crystal Globes. Few people have won these awards at such a young age.

The next season he started no less successfully, but then due to illness he was forced to miss several starts. At the World Championships, he again topped the podium.

Subsequent seasons were not successful for the athlete due to numerous illnesses. He went to the Olympics in Sochi with another hope, but the team did not perform brilliantly and even came only fourth in the relay race.

Tarjei is not a person who loses heart. He continued to train hard and in the 2014/2015 season he already showed significant results, taking silver and gold medals at the next World Championships. True, he never won the “gold” then. He also performed well in the 2015/2016 season, finishing in first place several times and becoming fifth overall in the World Cup.

Now the athlete permanently lives and trains in Lillehammer. He is a very cheerful and sociable guy; his natural sense of humor allows him to overcome many obstacles in life. True, there are some oddities. Sometimes he wants to have fun so much that he does things that the media then happily replicate.

For example, at one world championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, he and a teammate jokingly stole the car of the famous Russian biathlete Svetlana Sleptsova. Of course, this was not done out of malice, but simply for fun.

Personal life of an athlete

He is reluctant to share details of his personal life. The guy doesn’t have a wife yet, but he doesn’t have time for his family either. He trains a lot. The charmer has more than enough fans, from different countries, including Russia. They guard him at the hotels and literally do not allow him passage.

When asked about marriage, he invariably answers that he is ready to walk down the aisle at any moment, as he receives millions of letters with declarations of love. But for now his family consists of his parents, brothers and sister, whom he values very much. By the way, his younger brother Johannes, who is 5 years younger, is also a successful biathlete.

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Norwegians Tarjei Boe and Johannes Boe are the most talented brotherly duo in the history of biathlon, known for their skiing exploits and scandalous stories.

BROTHER VS BROTHER

The father of five children, Aslaug Boe, is not deprived of excessive modesty and is ready to talk for hours about the unique talent of his offspring, who in the future season will become the main characters in the Norwegian biathlon team. Judge for yourself. At the age of 21, both brothers not only broke into the elite of world biathlon, but became Olympic champions. Tarjei won at 22 world Cup, and Johannes in his first full-fledged season won five personal victories, losing in the overall standings only to Martin Fourcade. Only a few in the history of biathlon can boast of such a stormy start to a career. Moreover, unlike the Great and Terrible Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, the brothers are far from fans of sports discipline and allow themselves funny jokes and light brawls.

“In today’s tolerant and law-abiding Scandinavia, such heroes remain only in sports, where wild competition will not soon give way to socialist equalization.”

This coming winter, Boe is ready to challenge the biathlon hegemon of recent years, Martin Fourcade. Even the most incorrigible critics of the crazy brothers admit that their appearance makes the sport much more interesting, just as impressive villains sometimes become more popular characters than the otherwise positive protagonist of a blockbuster. It seems that in today’s tolerant and law-abiding Scandinavia, such heroes remain only in sports, where wild competition will not soon give way to socialist equalization.

But throwing Fourcade off the top of a mountain and becoming the best in the world is one thing, but fighting for the status of the best in the family is completely different. The confrontation between the brothers began in distant childhood in computer and board games, where the elder Tarjei asserted himself at the expense of his red-haired younger brother. Johannes grew by leaps and bounds and by the age of 18 he was not physically inferior to his elder and did not hide his ambitions to outdo him. With his successes in the past season, he managed to charge Tarjei with incredible motivation, while the older brother refuses to admit defeat, emphasizing that Johannes won all of his five victories in his absence.

A NIGHTMARE FOR COACHES

One can argue for a long time what the brothers could have achieved if not for their scandalous antics. Perhaps, if they had thought exclusively about biathlon day and night, the fate of the Klitschko brothers would have already awaited them. On the other hand, the ability to relax can also shorten the path to success. Tarjei did not look like a modest newcomer from the first season. At first he was spectacular at competitions, and then he rocked nightclubs at after-parties. He was especially successful at parties at Russia, where, in company with Svendsen, he rocked nightclubs in Khanty-Mansiysk and Moscow. The hookah story that has become public is just the tip of the iceberg.

“The trouble is that none of the coaches can yet rein in the rampant Norwegian youth.”

It’s not a problem for Tarjei to jokingly steal Svetlana Sleptsova’s car and drive it around the hotel. And the final World Cup- Is 2013 not fresh in your memory? Young Bo then organically joined the Norwegian ensemble jumping with his pants down, and everything would have passed without consequences if Svendsen, who had been playing around the day before, had not been “burned” on camera. Then there were long proceedings, fines and apologies. The Norwegians also celebrated the Olympic gold with all their hearts. Three gold medals were washed in Pokljuka, and then they went to let their Swedish neighbors and lifelong teetotaler Bjoerndalen get their tires off.

The trouble is that none of the coaches can yet rein in the rampant Norwegian youth. The lack of discipline in the team and the resulting decline in sports results cost Swede Mikael Löfgren, who was both a prominent athlete and received various awards as coach of the year, a place on the coaching market. The young genius Espen Andersen, who was positioned as a coach of the new formation, also failed to cope with the role of a nanny. After the incident in Pokljuka, he announced his resignation, despite a successful season as a whole. Now Egil Yelland will try to curb the brothers, having managed to put together the strongest women's team in the world over the previous four years. national team.

HOLD ON, FOURCADE!

It is still difficult to evaluate the work of the new mentor, but it seems that he has already managed to revive his older brother. Tarjei rushes and rushes in control training, overtakes Nurtug on roller skates and in the summer captured the leader's challenge banner national team. According to the athlete himself, he simply copied his training three years ago. The Boe brothers launched the most fashionable biathlon flash mob of last summer, and we are not talking about the Ice Bucket Challenge at all. Beau challenged Fourcade in the rate of fire, covering all targets in ten seconds. First the Frenchman, and then Bjoerndalen, gave even faster answers, and machine gunner Eder ended the argument by stopping the stopwatch at a fantastic 8.15. Usain Bolt would have no chance of escaping from such a sniper.

Against the backdrop of some decline in Svendsen and his sad conversations about the failed relay race and the end of his career, it is the brothers who will have to return the Big Crystal Globe to Norway from strong French hands. Many respected people are confident that they have every chance of achieving this. In particular, Bjoerndalen named the brothers among the main favorites of the season, and he was spouting revelations left and right as a “demobilization”

One of the most successful biathletes of the last decade, who deliberately divided his life into 3 parts: gold, silver and bronze.

Tarjei Boe was born in the summer of 1988 in the small Norwegian town of Stryn, with less than 10 thousand inhabitants. The Bö family is large: in addition to Tarjei, Aslaug and Clement raised sons Rasmus, and Goethe and daughter Martina.

Almost everyone skis in Norway, and Tarjei is no exception. The boy became acquainted with the track at the age of three. The younger Johannes and Goethe are also involved in biathlon, and the former has already surpassed his brother in some ways.

Tarjei Boe and Johannes Boe as children

Over time, Bo became interested in football. The opinion of Bjoerndalen himself, who assessed the talent of the future biathlete, helped him choose between the two sports. It's no secret that Bjoerndalen is a living icon of modern world biathlon, and his word is worth a lot. As a result, Tarjei entered a sports college near Oslo.

Biathlon

The sports biography of Tarjei Boe is like a roller coaster: victorious triumph gives way to disappointment, followed by recovery again.

The world heard about the new biathlon star at the Junior World Championships in Presque Isle, USA, where Tarjei won gold in the individual race and silver in the pursuit. The following year, in Italy, the Norwegian won two silver medals - in the pursuit and in the relay. Bo lost some ground at the 2009 championship in Canmore, Canada: from there the biathlete brought back two bronze medals and passed the individual competition in 23rd place.

Tarja rehabilitated himself at the continental championship held in Russia, where he won gold medals in three categories - individual race, sprint and pursuit. Based on the results of the 2009/2010 season, the coaches of the Norwegian national team concluded that Boe was guaranteed to go to the Olympic Games in Vancouver. From Canada, the biathlete brought a gold medal won in the relay race and turned out to be the youngest Norwegian to win Olympic gold.

The 2010/2011 season turned out to be truly golden in the life of Tarjei Boe. The track of the World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk was lucky, which brought the athlete gold in the mixed relay, men's relay and individual race, as well as bronze in the sprint and pursuit. At the end of the season, the biathlete won the World Cup.

In total, during the 2010/2011 season, he won eight gold and another eight silver and bronze medals and won two Small Crystal Globes in the sprint and pursuit.

In 2013, Tarjei, having recovered from illness, won “only” three gold medals at the world championship. At the World Cup, Boe Sr. had to compete with his younger brother Johannes. Then health problems began again, which affected his performance at the Olympics in Sochi. Then Tarjei only got fourth place in the relay.

2015 was without the highest step of the podium, but Boe won three individual bronzes, a silver in the relay and bronze in the mixed relay.

The entire next season, Tarjei bounced around the standings from an inappropriate 54th place in the sprint to victories in the men's relay and bronze in the mixed. In the overall World Cup standings, the athlete finished in fifth position.

The athlete called the 2016/2017 season the worst of his life. Tarjei had to recover from illness for a long time and fight for his previous form. Although in the spring he was included in the Norwegian national team to participate in the World Cup and World Championships in Hochfilzen, Austria, in the fall the management announced that the biathlete would miss the start of the season. In the overall World Cup standings, Boe dropped to 36th place.

Personal life

Now the athlete permanently lives and trains in Lillehammer.

Tarjei is not yet married and avoids questions about his personal life, but the tall (Bø height is 185 cm, weight is 76 kg) blue-eyed blond does not suffer from lack of attention. For almost five years, Christine Chantel Grimstad was considered the athlete’s girlfriend. In the fall of 2017, news about Boe’s new passion, producer and radio host Gita Simonsen, leaked to the Internet. But the journalists did not receive any details from the athlete. Gita posted in "Instagram" photo with Tarjei and said that she introduced the young man to his family.

When asked about children, Tarjei joked that he was waiting for the daughter of his idol Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and three-time Olympic champion to finish her career in biathlon. The girl was born in 2016, and she is already predicted to have a stellar future with such and such parents.

The sense of humor of the Boe brothers, as well as the Norwegian team as a whole, is legendary; their actions are quickly replicated by news feeds. So, at one of the world championships, Tarja, together with a teammate, jokingly stole the car of a Russian athlete, which she left open for a while. After Tarjei I even learned the phrase in Russian

“We stole Svetlana’s car.”

Later, the biathlete started a rumor that he was coming to Moscow, but not to compete, but to marry Svetlana. By Tarjei’s own admission, it is the Russians who respond best to the Norwegians’ jokes.

The party celebrating the gold victory at the Olympics also gave the coaching staff a headache. Then Tarjei and his comrades, being in a great mood, deflated the tires of the cars belonging to the Swedes and the great Bjoerndalen.

The most famous joke in journalistic and other circles is considered to be a striptease at the 2012/2013 World Cup. However, the World Cup winner did not appreciate the joke.

Bo devotes his free time to cycling, football and mountaineering, and plays PlayStation or Counter-Strike. But despite such a sporting life, Tarjei’s weak point is immunity; diseases rarely bypass him.

Tarjei Boe now

Tarjei Boe is not one of those who give up and give in to difficulties. Sports for him are both work and hobby. So in the 2017/2018 season, the biathlete gathered his will and won the sprint of the first stage of the World Cup in Ostersund, Sweden.

But, apparently, the intense race took a lot of energy from Boe, because at the Norwegian stage the athlete was only fifth in the pursuit race, and in the remaining stages he did not make it into the top ten at all.

Awards

2011 – winner and 2-time silver medalist of the European Youth Olympic Festival
2012 – 2-time champion and 2-time silver medalist at the Norwegian Junior Championships
2013 – Norwegian champion among juniors in the 15 km race
2015 – world champion in sprint, silver medalist in relay, bronze medalist in mixed relay
2016 – world champion in the 15 km mass start and relay race, bronze medalist in the mixed relay
2017 - silver medalist at the World Championships in the 10 km sprint, pursuit and 15 km mass start race
2016/2017 – third place in the overall World Cup standings