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| Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 March 2001 Schiers, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Biathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Lea Meier (born 2 March 2001) is a Swiss biathlete. She made her debut at the Biathlon World Cup in 2022. [1]
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| Born | 2 March 2001 Schiers, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Biathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Lea Meier (born 2 March 2001) is a Swiss biathlete. She made her debut at the Biathlon World Cup in 2022. [1]
Lea Meier began her biathlon career in 2014 after practicing cross-country skiing for two years. She made her international debut in December 2018, competing in her first events in the IBU Junior Cup. In February of the following year, she won two silver medals at the Youth Olympic Festival in Sarajevo. During the 2019/20 season, the Swiss athlete achieved significant success, including a podium finish and two victories with the mixed relay team in the Junior Cup. Her greatest triumph came with a gold medal in the individual event at the Youth World Championships held in Lenzerheide, her home country. [2]
At the start of the 2020/21 winter season, Meier transitioned to the IBU Cup and participated in the European Championships in Duszniki-Zdrój, Poland. Over the season, she consistently placed in the points rankings, highlighted by a 14th-place finish in the sprint in Obertilliach. At the 2021 Junior World Championships, she finished fifth in the sprint. The following winter, she narrowly missed the podium in Obertilliach, competing with Elisa Gasparin, Jeremy Finello, and Joscha Burkhalter in a mixed relay, and achieved her best individual IBU Cup result to date with a 7th place. This led to her World Cup debut in the sprint race in Oberhof, where, despite a shooting miss, she placed 67th. At the season-ending Junior World Championships in Soldier Hollow, Meier secured another fifth-place finish in the pursuit. [3]
At the start of the 2022/23 season, Meier became a regular member of the World Cup team. In the season opener in Kontiolahti, she finished 58th in the individual race and qualified for her first pursuit race at the highest level. In the following World Cup in Hochfilzen, she participated in her first relay event alongside Elisa and Aita Gasparin and Lena Häcki-Groß, finishing sixth. [4] At Pokljuka in early 2023, Meier earned her first World Cup points with a 32nd place in the sprint and a 24th place in the subsequent pursuit. [5] She participated in another relay in Antholz, where her team finished seventh.
All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.
| Season | Overall | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | ||||||
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| Races | Points | Position | Points | Position | Points | Position | Points | Position | Points | Position | |
| 2021–22 | 1/22 | Did not earn World Cup points | |||||||||
| 2022–23 | 9/20 | 26 | 69th | — | — | 9 | 67th | 17 | 54th | — | — |
| 2023–24 | 12/21 | 13 | 81st | — | — | 11 | 70th | 2 | 77th | — | — |
| Year | Age | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Relay |
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 2020 Lenzerheide | 18 | Gold | 10th | 14th | 9th |
 2021 Obertilliach | 19 | 17th | 5th | 16th | 7th |
 2022 Soldier Hollow | 20 | 23rd | 8th | 5th | 7th |
 2023 Shchuchinsk | 21 | 11th | 28th | 29th | 11th |
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