Dana Plotogea

Dana Elena Cojocea (formerly Dana Plotogea; born September 30, 1981 in Braşov, Braşov county ) is a Romanian biathlete.

Dana Cojocea lives in Bran and starts for S. C. Dinamo Brasov. The teacher operates since 1994 Biathlon and is coached by Gheorghe Garnita. Since 1998 she is part of the Romanian national team. Made her international début Cojocea without major success at the 1999 World Junior Championships in Pokljuka. At the beginning of the season 1999/2000 she made her debut in Hochfilzen in the Biathlon World Cup. Here she was 81 in singles. It was up to the European Junior Championships in 2001 in Haute Maurienne, until she drew attention to himself for the first time with fourth places in individual and team competition, and a sixth place in the sprint. Shortly thereafter, she won at the Junior World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk behind Tatjana Moiseyeva the silver medal. My sporting highlight the following season 2001/ 02 was to participate in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. However, best placement was only a 55th place in the sprint, pursuit, they had to end early because she was rounded up.

The following season brought the first time a good World Cup result. With the Romanian Mixed Relay Cojocea was fifth in Ruhpolding. In 2005 she succeeded her in Turin until then the best individual result in a single race in which she was 24. The year before the Romanian launched for the first time at a World Cup. Best result in Oberhof was a 39th place in the pursuit. 2007 in Antholz, she managed a 25th place their best result. Less good was the World Cup 2008 in Östersund, where number 62 in the sprint best result was. Especially good on the other hand ran the Biathlon World Championships 2009 Pyeongchang. In South Korea Cojocea ran in a single on the 50th place and was eighth in the relay. In the sprint as she reached 16 her best international result, the persecution they finished as 35th Cojocea Dana took part in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Her best result was the 49th place in the sprint. In April 2010, she won the pursuit at the Biathlon Romanian national championships in Piatra Arsa before Tofalvi.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

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