Roland Lessing (born 14 April 1978 in

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast o ...

) is a former

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

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 time ...

. His first World Cup podium was in Pokljuka Pursuit 20 December 2009.Pokljuka Pursuit
/ref> He represented

Estonia at the 2018 Winter Olympics Estonia competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea from 9 to 25 February 2018. Estonian 15-year old freestyle-skier Kelly Sildaru, the gold medal favorite for the women’s ski slopestyle, missed the games due to an injur ...

, his fifth consecutive Olympic Games.

References

External links

Profile on biathlonworld.com

Statistics
1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Tartu Estonian male biathletes Biathletes at the 2002 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes of Estonia {{Estonia-biathlon-bio-stub