Lisa Vittozzi, open about her goal of winning an individual gold in Antholz, delivered in the Pursuit, clearing all 20 targets and turning her career into a diamond one: she is now an Olympic champion, World Champion and World Cup Total Score winner.

After winning the Total Score title in 2023/2024—coming back from a profound confidence crisis in the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 seasons—Lisa Vittozzi kept adding trophies to her collection of outstanding achievements. Her win in the Olympic Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva catapulted her into the very exclusive group of women champions who have won at least one individual gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games, IBU World Championships, and the IBU World Cup Total Score. Just a few days before Vittozzi, Julia Simon reached the same milestone with a gold medal in the Individual.

Since 1993, when the IBU began carving a unique path for biathlon, this exclusive feat has been achieved by: the Norwegians Tora Berger (Total Score winner 2012/2013 and 2013/2014, Olympic Individual champion in 2010, and winner of four individual World Championship medals) and Marte Olsbu Roeiseland (Total Score winner 2021/2022, Olympic Sprint and Pursuit champion in 2022, and winner of two individual World Championship medals); Germany’s Kati Wilhelm (Total Score winner 2005/2006, Olympic Sprint champion in 2002 and Pursuit champion in 2006, and winner of three individual World Championship medals), Magdalena Neuner (Total Score winner 2009/2010 and 2011/2012, Olympic Pursuit and Mass Start champion in 2010, and winner of six individual World Championship medals), and Laura Dahlmeier (Total Score winner 2016/2017, Olympic Sprint and Pursuit champion in 2018, and winner of four individual World Championship medals); and Darya Domracheva of Belarus (Total Score winner 2014/2015, Olympic Individual, Pursuit, and Mass Start champion in 2014, and winner of two individual World Championship medals).