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Malte Stefansson (born 4 April 2000) is a Swedish
biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...
. He has competed in the
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since 2020.


Career

Malte Stefansson has been involved in biathlon since the age of 11, but initially competed as a junior in national cross-country skiing events. His best result in this discipline came in late 2017 in
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, where he secured a third-place finish. By 2018, he had also participated in two FIS races. Stefansson's first international biathlon championship was the 2018 Youth World Championships, where the Swedish athlete struggled to make an impression. At the start of the 2019/20 season, Stefansson debuted in the
IBU Cup The IBU Cup in biathlon has been held since the winter seasons of 1982–83 and 1988–89, for women and men, respectively. Until the 2007–08 season this competition was called Biathlon European Cup. It is the second-rank competition in biathlo ...
and competed at that level throughout the winter. He earned his first ranking points with a 33rd-place finish in the Mass Start 60 in
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, which he improved upon with a 22nd-place finish in the same event in Martell. Despite persistent shooting misses, Stefansson made his
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debut the following winter at the age of 20. After finishing outside the top 70 in races at
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and
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, he was dropped from the Swedish World Cup team. However, he excelled in the IBU Cup at
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, achieving his career-first clean shooting performance in a sprint race, where he finished ninth. This was followed by a 10th-place finish in the short individual event and fifth place in the mixed relay alongside Oskar Brandt,
Ingela Andersson Ingela Andersson (born 16 July 1991) is a Swedish biathlete. She resides in Östersund. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě, and at the Biathlon World Championships 2016 in Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is ...
, and
Anna Magnusson Anna Magnusson (born 31 March 1995) is a Swedish female biathlete. She represented Sweden at the 2014 and 2015 junior world championships and at the 2015 World Championships in Kontiolahti. Together with Linn Persson, Elvira Öberg, and Ha ...
. Stefansson capped the season with another fifth-place finish in the single mixed relay at
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. In the 2021/22 season, Stefansson became a full-time member of the World Cup team and significantly improved his performances. In
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, he reached his first pursuit race and earned his first ranking point with a 40th-place finish. He also stepped in for
Jesper Nelin Jesper Nelin (born 3 October 1992) is a Swedish biathlete and Olympic gold medalist in men's relay. He made his World Cup debut in December 2015 and competed in his first World Championships in Oslo 2016. He represented Sweden at the 2018 and ...
, who was ill, to compete in his first World Cup relay, helping Sweden to a fifth-place finish after taking over the race in the lead from
Martin Ponsiluoma Martin Ponsiluoma (born 8 September 1995) is a Swedish biathlete who competes internationally. He participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics. In the later he won a silver medal in mass start. He ended up on a World Cup p ...
. Thanks to his strong performances, Stefansson was named as Sweden's sixth athlete for the Beijing Olympic Games, though he did not compete. He closed the season with personal bests, finishing 34th and 38th in
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. After competing in the IBU Cup during the first trimester of the 2022/23 winter season, Stefansson returned to the
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team for the
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events. There, he improved his career-best finish with a 33rd-place result in the pursuit. He won his first international medal at the
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, earning bronze in the mixed relay alongside Tilda Johansson, Stina Nilsson, and Anton Ivarsson. At his home World Cup in
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, Stefansson delivered a strong performance, finishing 24th in the individual event. He narrowly missed the podium in the men's relay, finishing fourth with Jesper Nelin, Martin Ponsiluoma, and
Peppe Femling Hans Wilhelm ''Peppe'' Femling (born 24 March 1992) is a Swedish former biathlete. He competed in the Biathlon World Cup and represented Sweden at the Biathlon World Championships 2016. He won an Olympic gold medal as part of the Swedish men's rel ...
. He concluded the season ranked 64th in the overall World Cup standings. The 2023/24 World Cup season started disastrously for Stefansson, leading to his removal from the national team after the New Year. For the remainder of the season, he competed in the IBU Cup, where shooting errors continued to hinder his results. Nonetheless, he achieved his season's best result at the
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in Osrblie, finishing eighth in the individual event.


Personal life

Stefansson is originally from
Oxberg Oxberg is a urban areas in Sweden, minor locality in Mora Municipality, Sweden, Mora Municipality, Sweden. It had 97 inhabitants in 2010. Vasaloppet goes through Oxberg. It is also the start site for Tjejvasan, Kortvasan and Halvvasan. The Oxberg B ...
in the Mora municipality, represents the local ski club, and is based at the biathlon training center in
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. He is in a relationship with his fellow biathlete Anna Hedström.


Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the
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.


World Cup


Youth and Junior World Championships


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stefansson, Malte 2000 births Living people Swedish male biathletes 21st-century Swedish sportsmen Sportspeople from Mora, Sweden