Tiril Eckhoff

Tiril Kampenhaug Eckhoff (born 21 May 1990) is a Norwegian former biathlete.

Eckhoff is a two-time Olympic champion, winning the mixed relay at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics, and also won a bronze in the mass start, a feat she repeated at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Eckhoff is also a ten-time gold medalist at the Biathlon World Championships, winning gold in the 7.5 km sprint at the Biathlon World Championships 2016, and both the 7.5 km sprint and 10 km pursuit at the Biathlon World Championships 2021. She is the sister of fellow biathlete Stian Eckhoff.

Career Eckhoff has been part of the Norwegian biathlon team since 2008. and in the women's relay and gold in the mixed relay together with Tora Berger, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen. She is the sister of former biathlete Stian Eckhoff and studied engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.

In 2016, she became World Champion on 7.5 km sprint in her home arena, Holmenkollen, in Norway. She was also part of the Norwegian team who took the bronze medal in the mixed relay and played an instrumental part in the Norwegian women's relay gold medal, shooting 10/10 as the third skier.

In the 19–20 season, she won seven World Cup races, but she finished second in the Overall, behind Dorothea Wierer. She won her first-ever discipline title in pursuit.

In the 20–21 season, she won 4 gold and took 6 medals in 7 races during the Biathlon World Championships 2021. Later in the season, she won the 2020–21 World Cup overall title, winning the most races in a season since Magdalena Forsberg. She also won the discipline title in sprint and pursuit, becoming the first male or female biathlete to win seven consecutive races in a discipline (sprint competition).

She was awarded the Holmenkollen Medal in 2022.

Eckhoff did not participate in the 2022–23 Biathlon World Cup due to persistent health issues resulting from a Covid infection she contracted at the 2021/2022 end-of-season party. On March 15, 2023, she announced through her social media that she would not return to competition. Eckhoff later confirmed in a 2025 German television documentary on life after biathlon that long Covid and the powerful medications needed to treat her persistent sleep problems forced her retirement. This left her with "no formal education." "It was really a tough time."

Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.

Olympic Games 8 medals (2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze) Year Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass start Relay Mixed relay 2014 Sochi 18th 18th 24th Bronze Silver Gold 2018 Pyeongchang 23rd 24th 9th Bronze 4th Silver 2022 Beijing 22nd 11th Bronze Silver 4th Gold The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.

World Championships 15 medals (10 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)

During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program. The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.

World Cup

World cup Individual Victories 29 victories – (14 Sp, 11 Pu, 3 MS, 1 In)