Martina Chrapánová

Martina Chrapánová (born 14 December 1989) is a Slovak biathlete.

Martina Chrapánová participated in competitions of the European Cup for Juniors since 2006. First major event was the Junior World Championships in 2007 in Martell, where the Slovakian 20th of the Single Page, 13, the sprint and 25th of persecution. 2008 was followed by a further participation in the World Junior Championships in Ruhpolding, where she was 16th of the Single Page, Sprint came on the 46th Place and in the pursuit race based on it improved by 35 ranks at number eleven. She was also 12th in the relay. In Nove Mesto na Moravě participation followed at the junior competitions at the Biathlon World Championships in 2008, where Chrapánová 32 of the Single Page, 27, of sprints and 28 of harassment, relay was sixth. The races in Canmore was the third Junior World Championships for the Slovakian. You could not build on the results of the two previous years and showed places 33 in singles, 32 in the sprint, 42 in the pursuit and eleven in the relay. Again she started shortly afterwards in the junior race of the Biathlon World Championships 2009 in Ufa in the sprint as in the persecution they reached the 26th place, respectively, was 21 and Single Page the fifth in the relay race. The fourth World Cup was the Junior World Championships 2010 in Torsby. Chrapánová was 37 of sprints, 30, of persecution, the goal is not reached in singles and finished the season ranked ninth. The European Junior Championships in 2010, she finished in the squares in 26 Sprint, 16 in pursuit, 14 in singles and ten with the mixed relay. In the further course of the year Chrapánová took in Duszniki Zdroj part in the junior race of the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 2010, where it was 23 of the sprint, pursuit and fifth in the 17 relay race.

For women in the power range Chrapánová 2007 debuted with a single in Obertilliach, which she finished as the 51st. The debut in the Biathlon World Cup took place in 2008 in Hochfilzen. In the sprint, it was 108, in the relay race with Martina Halinárová, Ľubomíra Kalinová and Natália Prekopova 16 In the European Cup they won in 2009 in Nove Mesto than 33 points a sprint for the first time. Shortly after, she reached a 26th place in the sprint in Osrblie. In the season 2010/11 she started in the World Cup, and reached to kick off in Östersund with 85th place in the individual their best result to date in an individual World Cup races. A week later she was with Anastasiya Kuzmina, Janka Gereková and Prekopova in Hochfilzen relay race in tenth. Highlight of the season was the Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk, in which the Czech was 75th and seventh in the sprint relay race. In the Biathlon European Championships 2011 in Ridnaun they came on the 26th place in singles, was 30, the sprint and 25th of persecution. In the 2012/13 season Chrapánová improved their best performance in the World Cup up to rank 39, with a single in Östersund. So she won for the first time World Cup points.

World Cup rankings

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