Nathalie Santer-Bjørndalen (born 28 March 1972 in Innichen

Innichen

Innichen is a market town and comune in South Tyrol in the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.It is located in the Puster Valley on the Drava river, about 120 km northeast of Trento and about 80 km northeast of Bolzano , on Italy's border with Austria.As November 2010, it had a...

) is an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 biathlete

Biathlon

Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting...

. Performed for Belgium

Belgium

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 in 2006/2007 season. She had her best period as a biathlete in the early 1990s. In 1993 she became second in the overall World Cup

Biathlon World Cup

The Biathlon World Cup has been held since the winter seasons of 1977/78 and 1982/83, for men and women, respectively ....

. She has had a total of three victories during her career.

In 2006 she married fellow biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen

Ole Einar Bjørndalen

Ole Einar Bjørndalen is a Norwegian professional biathlete. He is often regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. In 1992, he won his first career medal at the junior world championships. A year later In 1993, after winning a record three junior world championship titles, Bjørndalen...

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Nathalie's sisters Saskia (biathlon) and Stephanie (cross-country skiing), are both excellent athletes. If Stephanie had not been injured, the 2006 Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...

 in Turin

Turin

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would have been the first time the three sisters had participated in the same Olympics.