Dorothea Wierer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Italian biathlete
Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1990
Place of Birth: Bruneck, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
Profession: military athlete, biathlete
Nationality: Italy
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
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About Dorothea Wierer
- Dorothea Wierer Corradini (Italian: [doro't??a 'vi?rer korra'di?ni], German: [do?o'te?a 'vi???]; born 3 April 1990) is an Italian biathlete competing in the Biathlon World Cup.
- Together with Karin Oberhofer, Dominik Windisch and Lukas Hofer she won a bronze medal in the Mixed relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia.
- At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea she won again the bronze medal in the Mixed relay with Lisa Vittozzi, Lukas Hofer and Dominik Windisch. Wierer has won her first Biathlon World Championships medal placing third in the Women's relay together with Nicole Gontier, Michela Ponza and Karin Oberhofer at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Mesto na Morave, which was the first ever medal for Italian women at the Biathlon World Championships.
- At the 2019 Championships in Ă–stersund she won the Gold medal in the 12.5 km Mass Start, also a first for Italian women in Biathlon.
- She has currently won 6 medals in total, including 1 Gold, 2 Silvers and 3 Bronzes. At the start of the 2015–16 season, Wierer recorded the first win in her career in the Biathlon World Cup in Östersund and as of December 1st 2019, Wierer has finished on the podium twenty-nine times with eight wins.
- She has also finished on the podium in twenty relays, including five victories.
- She has won the 2018–19 Overall World Cup (first Italian to do so, including men) and she has also won 2 disciplines cup, the 2015-16 Individual World Cup and the 2018-19 Pursuit World Cup. In February 2019, Wierer was the third biathlete (after French Martin Fourcade and Marie Dorin Habert) to achieve a victory in every biathlon discipline.
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