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2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1
300px, World cup in Östersund 2012-12-02 The 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 1 is the opening event of the season and is held in Östersund, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ..., from 25 November until 2 December 2012. Schedule of events Medal winners Men Women Mixed Achievements ; Best performance for all time * , 3rd place in Individual * , 8th place in Individual * , 10th place in Individual * , 12th place in Individual * , 21st place in Individual * , 80th place in Individual * , 102nd place in Individual and 96th in Sprint * , 103rd place in Individual and Sprint * , 1st place in Sprint * , 4th place in Sprint * , 5th place in Sprint * , 26th place in Sprint * , 33rd place in Sprint * , 38th place in Sprint * , 39th p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biathlon World Cup Östersund
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 timed per se, but depending on the competition, missed shots result in extra distance or time being added to the contestant's total. History According to ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', the biathlon "is rooted in the skiing traditions of Scandinavia, where early inhabitants revered the Norse god Ullr as both the ski god and the hunting god." In modern times, the activity that developed into this sport was an exercise for Norwegians as alternative training for the military. Norwegian skiing regiments organized military skiing contests in the 18th century, divided into four classes: shooting at mark while skiing at top speed, downhill race among trees, downhill race on big hills without falling, and a long race on flat ground while carrying a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Vilukhina
Olga Gennadyevna Vilukhina (russian: Ольга Геннадьевна Вилухина; born 22 March 1988) is a former Russian biathlete, who was competing on the World Cup circuit since the 2008–09 season. Career She has had four Top 10 finishes in World Cup races in individual races. Vilukhina was born in Mezhgorye, Bashkir ASSR, Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, .... She has won gold at 2006 Junior World Championships in Sprint. In the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, she finished second in the sprint and was the first leg of the relay team which won silver. Before the start of the 2014–2015 season the coach announced that Olga Vilukhina will miss him. After lackluster results in 2015–2016, she announced the end of her career before the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarkko Kauppinen
Jarkko Kauppinen (born 6 April 1982) is a Finnish biathlete. He was born in Vieremä. He competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2011, 2012 and 2013. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in sprint and individual An individual is that which exists as a distinct entity. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly (in the case of humans) of being a person unique from other people and possessing one's own Maslow .... References External links * 1982 births Living people People from Vieremä Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics Finnish male biathletes Olympic biathletes of Finland Sportspeople from North Savo {{Finland-biathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krasimir Anev
Krasimir Anev ( bg, Красимир Анев); born 16 June 1987 in Samokov) is a Bulgarian former biathlete. His best result for the World Cup is a 4th place in the mass start in Oberhof, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ..., in the fourth race of the 2014/15 season. He competed at nine Biathlon World Championships between 2008 and 2017 and the Olympic Games in Vancouver in 2010, in Sochi in 2014 and in Pyeongchang in 2018. He ended his career after the 2019/20 season. Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union. Olympic Games ''0 medals'' :''*The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.'' World Championships ''0 medals'' :''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ondřej Moravec
Ondřej Moravec (; born 9 June 1984) is a former Czech biathlete. Life and career Moravec represented the Czech Republic at the 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won silver medals in both the pursuit and the mixed relay (together with Jaroslav Soukup, Veronika Vítková and Gabriela Soukalová) and a bronze medal in the mass start. His best World Cup overall finish yet was 6th in the 2014–15 season. Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union. Olympic Games ''3 medals – (2 silver, 1 bronze)'' :a. The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014. World Championships ''6 medals – (1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)'' :a. During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program. :b. The mixed relay was added as an event in 2005. Junior/Youth World Championships * 8 medals – (3 silver, 5 bronze) Individual podiums * 1 victory – (1 MS) * 14 podiums – (4 Sp, 3 Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Šlesingr
Michal Šlesingr (; born 3 February 1983) is a Czech former biathlete. Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union. Olympic Games :''*The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.'' World Championships ''3 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)'' :''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.'' :''**The mixed relay was added as an event in 2005, with the single mixed relay being added in 2019.'' Individual victories ''1 victory (1 MS)'' :''*Results are from UIPMB and IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were he ....'' References External links * * * 1983 births Livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Soukalová
Gabriela Soukalová, formerly Koukalová () (born 1 November 1989 in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia) is a former Czech biathlete and television presenter for TV Prima. She won three Olympic medals at the 2014 Sochi Games and she is a two-time World Championship winner, gold medalist at the 2015 Kontiolahti in mixed relay and gold medalist at 2017 Hochfilzen in 7.5 km sprint. In the 2015/2016 World Cup season she was overall champion, and she has also taken six discipline Crystal Globes: the 2013/2014 individual title, the 2015/2016 sprint, pursuit and mass-start titles, and the 2016/17 sprint and mass start titles. Career Soukalová began her biathlon career in 2005. In 2007 Soukalová became a member of the national team, and in 2008 she took part in the Biathlon Junior World Championship. Her first experience at the international level was not very good: Soukalová's shooting accuracy and ski speed were at that time not as strong as many of her peers, and her best resu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Vítková
Veronika Vítková (; born on 9 December 1988) is a Czech former biathlete. She comes from a family of skiers and switched from cross-country to biathlon at age 10. She competed for the Czech Republic at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, together with Ondřej Moravec, Jaroslav Soukup and Gabriela Soukalová, she won a silver medal in the Mixed relay. At the 2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ... she won the bronze medal in the 7.5 km sprint event. 23/4/2020 she announced retirement and her pregnancy. Record Olympic Games 3 medals (1 silver, 2 bronze)'' World Championships 2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze) World Cup Podiums World Cup Relay Podiums World Cup Position References External links *Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Emil Hegle Svendsen (born 12 July 1985) is a retired Norwegian biathlete. He has won eight medals at Winter Olympics (four gold) and five individual gold medals and seven relay gold medals at World Championships. He skis with Trondhjems Skiskyttere, based in Trondheim. Career The 2005–06 season was Svendsen's first season on the World Cup tour, before then he competed as a junior in the European Cup, now known as the IBU cup. During his first season in the World Cup Svendsen finished fifth in three races, two of them in sprints (Brezno-Osrblie and Ruhpolding), and the other in a mass start (Holmenkollen). He also finished races in seventh, ninth, and four more within the top twenty (14th, 15th, 17th, 19th). He finished the overall season in 22nd place. He was 32nd in the pursuit, 21st in the sprint, and 7th in the mass start, only seven points behind Sven Fischer in fourth place. Svendsen was selected for the Olympics, to compete in the mass start, in which he came sixth, aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erlend Bjøntegaard
Erlend Øvereng Bjøntegaard (born 30 July 1990) is a Norwegian biathlete. He has competed in the Biathlon World Cup, and represented Norway at the Biathlon World Championships 2016. Bjøntegaard represents the club IL Bevern in a remote part of Kongsberg Kongsberg () is a historical mining town and municipality in Buskerud, Viken county, Norway. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. Kongsberg has been a centre of silver mining, arms production .... Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union. Olympic Games ''0 medals'' :''*The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.'' World Championships ''0 medals'' :''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.'' :''**The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.'' References External links * * * * * 1990 births Living people People from Kongsberg Norwegian male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synnøve Solemdal
Synnøve Solemdal (born 15 May 1989) is a Norwegian former biathlete. Career Solemdal won two bronze medals at the 2010 Junior World Championships. As of the 2010/2011 season she is part of the Norwegian team. On 11 December 2010, she along with her teammates placed third in 4 × 6 km relay in Hochfilzen. She took her first world cup victory in the 2012–13 season, moving up from 4th after the Sprint race to take the Pursuit in Hochfilzen. She repeated the feat the following year to claim her second victory, also in the pursuit in Hochfilzen during the 2013–14 season. At the 2012 World Championships in Ruhpolding she won a gold medal in mix relay and a bronze medal in relay. She won a gold medal in the mixed relay at the 2013 Biathlon World Championships in the Czech Republic. Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union The International Biathlon Union (IBU; german: Internationale Biathlon-Union) is the international governing bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeny Ustyugov
Evgeny Romanovich Ustyugov (russian: Евгений Романович Устюгов; born 4 June 1985) is a Russian former biathlete. Born to cross-country skiers, Ustyugov was introduced to biathlon at the age of three. He started his career in junior tournaments in 2005, before going professional three years later in the European Championships. He is an Olympic champion in the men's 15 km mass start event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Prior to the 2010 Olympic Games, his best World Championship finish in an individual event was 20th place. Together with Anton Shipulin, Alexey Volkov and Dmitry Malyshko he won the gold medal in the men's relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia. After the end of the 2013–14 World Cup, Ustyugov announced his retirement. In February 2020, it was announced that because of a doping violation he had been disqualified from all results in the 2013–14 season, including the 2014 Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
