Pavlina Filipova
Pawlina Filipowa ( Bulgarian Павлина Филипова; born December 20, 1975 in Berkovitsa ) is a Bulgarian biathlete. She was probably the most successful Bulgarian biathlete 2000s and took part in three Winter Olympic Games and ten Biathlon World Championships.
Pawlina Filipowa is a police officer and lives in Berkovitsa. It operates since 1996 Biathlon and heard just as long for the national team of Bulgaria. Your club is Levski, Vasil Yordanov Tonchew her coach. Since the season 1996/ 97, the Bulgarian in the Biathlon World Cup takes. Your first race she contested in 1997 at a sprint in Oberhof, they finished as 44th. A short time later they reached in ninth place finisher in a team competition with the Bulgarian team a result among the top ten. The highlight of the first season were Filipowa for the Biathlon World Championships 1997 in Osrblie where they did not play in the individual race, but was with the squadron Eleventh and Eighth in the team competition. The following season brought first good individual results for the Bulgarian. In Östersund she could win first World Cup points in 15th. In the last pre-Olympic race she came in sixth of a sprint for the first time in the Top Ten. The single of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano took fourth place one of the best career results for Filipowa. In the sprint she reached the 41st place and was 16th in the relay. After the Games, it launched yet in the pursuit race in Pokljuka, which was based on the Olympic Sprint and is considered the world championship. There she was 33 After the season, the Bulgarian finished in 31st place overall in the World Cup.
Less successful for Filipowa was the season 1998 /99. The 1999 World Cup in Kontiolahti and Oslo did not yield any results among the best 40 Far better was the 1999/2000 season, the best Filipowa was. So she reached with a third place in a single Pokljuka her best result in a World Cup race. The same placement she managed also in a relay race at the same place. The World Cup 2000 in Holmenkollen in Oslo brought the results of 29 in singles, 26 in the sprint and Elf in the pursuit and the mass start 20 and six in the relay. In the overall standings of the season Filipowa came in 25th place. 2001 again brought a very good result at the World Cup in Pokljuka. There, the Bulgarian ran in a single on the 24th place in the individual, 20th place in Sprint, 25th place in the pursuit race, sixth place in the relay and was fourth in the mass start and missed a medal against Liv Grete Poirée. In 2002 missed Filipowa than fourth in the relay race of the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City a medal behind Russia by nearly six seconds.
The next four years could Filipowa hold their services in about. At the World Championships she ran several times on good places. In 2003, she reached in Khanty-Mansiysk as the best results, the eleven places in the sprint, 15 in the pursuit and 17 in the mass start, 2004 in Oberhof the 13th place in singles. Slightly less good were the results in 2005 in Hochfilzen. Your third Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 ran Filipowa. There they ran in a single on the 43rd place in the sprint on the 46th Place and in the persecution she was 32 with the season they came on the eighth. Since the games, the average performance of the Bulgarian from season to season were worse. At the 2007 and 2008 in Antholz in Östersund Filipowa reached yet results in the midfield, but without achieving results in the top 40.
Since the mid- 2000s Filipowa launched more common in Biathlon European Championships and was quite successful in part. She won in 2004 in Minsk bronze in singles and missed the season in fourth place when another medal. The best results achieved from Bulgaria 2006 Langsdorf, where she won the singles title and together with Irina Nikultschina, Nina Klenowska and Ekaterina Dafowska the silver medal in the relay race behind Belarus and won before the German gymnasts. At the European Championships held in 2007 Bansko Filipowa missed in fourth place when in season and tracking a medal. The medal in the pursuit of it a year later won a third place in Nove Mesto na Moravě.
Biathlon World Cup rankings
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