Aleksander Grajf

Aleksander Sašo Grajf ( born June 25, 1965 in Maribor) is a former Slovenian biathlete.

Aleksander Grajf works as an instructor at the Slovenian military. Grajf went to the SK Pohorje. He began his career as a cross country skier. In this discipline, he took in 1984 and 1988 at the Olympic Winter Games in part. Grajf moved in 1988 to biathlon. First major event was the Biathlon World Championships 1988 in Feistritz an der Drau, where he was 18th in singles. His second World Cup, he played only five years later in Borovets. There he took part only in the relay race, finishing in 13th place. A -arrived in the year injury to his right elbow prevented four years a continuation of the career. 1998 Pokljuka he started in on the Olympic sprint race -based persecution race and finished 29th in 1999 launched Grajf in Kontiolahti initially only with the relay and finished seventh. When Dodge race because of bad weather in Kontiolahti at Holmenkollen in Oslo, he was still used in individual, the race but did not finish. Only in his last world championships in 2001 in Pokljuka he could compete in all the races. In the individual he was ranked 36 in the sprint he was 14, in the pursuit and the mass start 29 21 With the season he also reached number seven. In 1992 Grajf first time as a biathlete at the Olympic Winter Games. In Albertville, he was 24th in singles, 33 in the sprint and 20th with the Slovenian season. Due to the injury, he could not compete in Lillehammer, thus the games in Nagano in 1998 were his overall fourth Olympic competitions. Here, the Slovenian was 25th in singles, 40th in the sprint and 12th in the relay. Grajfs last games were the competitions in 2002 from Salt Lake City, where he was 59th in the sprint, 46 in the pursuit and relay - tenth.

His debut in the Biathlon World Cup in 1989 gave Grajf Borovets. When he reached the 61 single space. First World Cup points he gained as eighth in 1994 at a sprint in Oberhof, which as his best career result in a single race was. Just one more time in 1999 at a sprint in Ruhpolding, he was able to achieve a single-digit result in ninth. With the Season to Marko Dolenc, Janez Ožbolt and Tomas Globočnik from Slovenia in 2003 was third in Antholz and thus reach the only time in an international race the podium. 2003 ended Grajf his career. After his career, he worked in an official capacity for the Slovenian biathlon federation.