Elisa Gasparin
Elisa Gasparin (born 2 December 1991 in Samedan ) is a Swiss biathlete.
She is the younger sister of Selina Gasparin, which competes for the Swiss Association of Swiss-Ski in the Biathlon World Cup since 2005, and the older sister of B-team biathlete Aita Gasparin. In 2010 she played for the first time a World Cup race since then and has a firm launch site in the Swiss women's team. After success as a junior, among others, at the European Championships in 2012 she established herself in the upcoming seasons with multiple scoring points in the World Cup.
- 3.1 World Cup rankings
- 3.2 Olympic Winter Games
- 3.3 Performance Development
Career
Beginnings (2006 to 2010)
Gasparin denied on March 18, 2006, the first official race the mass start in the European Cup in the junior women Gurnigel. Among a total of eleven athletes reported they took sixth place behind the winner Marion Blondeau of France. For the season 2007/2008 she was accepted into the C- squad Switzerland. In early 2008 she reached in her first appearance at the Biathlon Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding, Germany 13th in the relay and as the best individual result rank 20 in pursuit. In Realp it was end of March 2008 Swiss champion in the sprint of the juniors.
My first race in the senior part of the IBU Cup 2008/2009 ended on 13 December, 2008 Obertilliach with 44th place in singles. The behind the winner Romy Beer was shooting at seven errors over ten minutes. Early April 2009 she succeeded at the Swiss Championships Junior Women a double victory in the sprint and pursuit. In the same disciplines they saw the end of January 2010, two top- ten finishes at the Junior World Championships in Torsby Sweden. In February, she finished second in Martell after a flawless shooting performance in 19th place in the sprint of the IBU Cups. After three failures, they fell back to 26th place in the subsequent pursuit race. In early March 2010 it secured despite eight penalties in the mass start another national junior title.
World Cup debut and rise in the squad (2010 to 2012)
Your World Cup debut Gasparin on 18 March 2010 in the sprint race in Oslo. For the first time in the history of Swiss Biathlon two women walked in the World Cup at the start. With a shooting errors and nearly three minutes behind the winner Simone Hauswald she ran to 64th place finish. The same result she repeated a week later in the Russian Khanty-Mansiysk. At the same place came in the season finale at the Mixed Relay World Championship for the first time a mixed Swiss squadron used. The second runner Gasparin reached together with her sister Selina and Benjamin Weger and Thomas Frei Rank 13 out of 18 nations.
In the season 2010/2011 gas Parin was temporarily employed again in the World Cup, and reached similar positions as in the previous year. At the Junior World Championships in Nove Mesto na Moravě her early February 2011, succeeded by finishing seventh in the individual the best ever individual score at international championships, followed by a sixth place in the relay. After initial qualification for the subsequent World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, she started in the mixed relay, in the single as well as in the sprint and placed in midfield. After the season, it was end of May 2011 awarded by the Association of Grisons sport as newcomer of the year.
During the sprint race in Hochfilzen in the 2011/12 season Gasparin missed than 41, the first World Cup points of her career only one rank. Ten positions lying in front of her sister Selina, she qualified for the first time for a pursuit competition. Between January and March 2012, she took part in succession three major international events with the European Junior Championships in Osrblie, the Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti as well as the World Championships in Ruhpolding. On January 27, 2012, she won the bronze medal in the sprint at the continental junior championships. Two days later, she improved in pursuit of a place and won silver. The end of February they reached seventh place in singles and ninth in the sprint two other top ten finishes at the Junior World Championships. To kick off the World Championships in Ruhpolding, the Swiss Mixed Relay placed with Gasparin as first leg for the first time in the top ten. At her sister Selina and the two junior Irene Cadurisch and Patricia Jost page they came up with the first Swiss woman relay at a major event as 21 started from 26 nations to the finish. At the end of their first season with the seniors it was Swiss champion in the sprint as well as runner-up in the mass start and rose to the B-team.
Establishment in the World Cup (since 2012)
During the second World Cup of the 2012/13 season in Hochfilzen went on December 9, 2012 for the first time in the history of the International Biathlon with Selina, Elisa and Aita Gasparin three sisters in a relay at the start. In the premiere race for the C- squad - junior Ladina Meier - Ruge completed women's relay was ranked 16 from 22 nations started. The best World Cup result succeeded gas Parin on January 17, 2013, ranked 16th in the sprint in Antholz and the first World Cup points in a single discipline. In the history of the Swiss Biathlon first time binned two women in a race in the points. Two days later she recorded as 31 in the pursuit race more World Cup points. With improved acceleration and stable shooting performance, they confirmed subsequently increase their mold. After twelfth place with the Swiss Mixed Relay to kick off the World Cup in Nove Mesto na Moravě she ran in early February 2013, sprint and pursuit with ranks 36 and 35 respectively before her older sister to the finish. In the single, it reached a top 40 placing 34th in the third World Cup individual competition. As a first leg she was involved in space 13 of the Swiss women's relay. At the seventh World Cup in Oslo she rose from position 48 in the sprint to rank 20 in the pursuit. She finished the season as the third party in the mass start of the Swiss championships and was included in the A-team.
In the first three World Cups of the season 2013/14 to Gasparin placed in midfield. In early January 2014, it reached in Oberhof in the sprint and pursuit with positions 19 and 23, given by the lattice norm for participation in the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 and qualified for the first time for a mass start race. At the subsequent World Cup in Ruhpolding they again met the national selection criteria together with her two sisters and Irene Cadurisch the anchor leg in the women's relay with tenth place. At her first Olympic competition, she managed on February 9, 2014 with the eighth place in the sprint and just ten seconds off a medal rank the best ever career result and an Olympic diploma.
Personal
Elisa Gasparin grew up in Pontresina and lives in S -chanf. After attending business school at the Academia Engiadina they began in 2012 trained as a fitness instructor at the Migros Club School in Chur.