Darya Domracheva

Belarussian Biathlete

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Name: Darya Domracheva
Nationality: Belarus
Date of Birth: 03 August 1986
Place of Birth: Minsk, Belarus
Sport: Biathlon
Height: 1m68cm  (5'6)

Darya is a top Belarussian Biathlete. She won three Golds at Sochi in the 2014 Winter Olympics. This was added to the Bronze she won three years previously.  She also has two World Championship victories and was the World Cup Winner in 2015. She missed the 2015-16 season as she suffered with Glandular Fever, but has returned this season to competition. She is married to Norwegian Biathlete Ole Einar Bjorndalen, forming a royal couple of Biathlon.

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Top 25 of 2016: #5 Gabriela Soukalova

Fifth spot this year goes to Biathlon athlete Gabriela Soukalova, or as she is now known followed this years marraige Gabriela Koukalova. Gabriela had a great year on the Biathlon World Cup, Winning the Overall event, with Pursuit, Sprint and Mass Start wins leading her to that. She finished third in Individual. The 27 year old Czech faired less well at the World Championships with two Fourth places as her best performances. She first featured on the site on November 2015 and has had huge popularity ever since, with the most page views in 2016.

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Top 25 of 2016: #14 Dorothea Wierer

The 26 year old Italian only featured on the pages of HWiS in June of 2016, and despite being a Winter Athlete, still managed to get enough clicks and attention to finish high up the list. She finished second at the World Championships in Oslo in the Pursuit event, which despite being fairly moderate success compared to the host of Olympic champions, coupled with her huge popularity has her in the top 15.

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