Sirli Hanni
Sirli Hanni (born 27 October 1985 in Vastseliina ) is an Estonian biathlete.
The student Sirli Hanni operates since 1999 Biathlon. It occurs for the Vastseliina sports club and is coached by Üllar Tähe. Since 2002, the Estonian national team belongs to and starts for their country in international competitions. Her international debut was in a single race as part of the Junior European Cup in Kontiolahti, in which it was 27th. To kick off the 2002/03 season they started in Ostersund for the first time in the Biathlon World Cup in the sprint race and was 86th in the Estonian Kościelisko competed in her first Junior World Championships. There, she missed a medal as a relay Fourth, was eighth in individual and sprint and sixth persecution. After the good World Cup, it was increasingly used in the following World Cup season to gain experience. At the Junior World Championships in Haute Maurienne in 2004 she won silver in the individual pursuit and was fifth after she was in the Eleventh Sprint. The highlight of the season was the first participation at Biathlon World Championships. In Oberhof she could ranks 71 in the sprint and 75 show in singles. In its third Junior World Championships 2005 in Kontiolahti, Hanni won her second medal with bronze season. Your rankings in individual races, 21 in the singles and 22 in the sprint and pursuit, were less than in previous years. In the summer she went to at the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2005 in Muonio, reaching best result in fifth with the Estonian season. In the sprint, it reached number 18 in the mass start on the 19th to the beginning of the next winter season Hanni reached the third place in the sprint Obertilliach their best finish in the Junior European Cup. In their last Junior World Championships in Presque Isle, they could not build on the previous successes.
From the season 2006/ 07 Hanni launched only at senior level. In their first full season in the adult area could reach in Pokljuka as 54th in the Sprint her best result to date in a single World Cup races. It was so far the only time that she was able to qualify for a pursuit race, which, however, as the winner of Kati Wilhelm Lapped could not finish. She also appeared again at the Biathlon World Championships in 2007 and finished in Antholz there Rank 67 in singles and 77 in the sprint. In the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Otepaeae she could tenth in the sprint and eleventh in the pursuit of the roller ski competitions are not quite as good the placements were in the Cross Country competitions. For the third time in World Championships Hanni occurred in 2008 in Östersund. Your rankings as 74th in singles and 79th in the sprint did not deviate from the usual values. In the season 2008/09 season they reached their best season results at the World Championships in Pyeongchang with number 59 in the sprint and 56th in the pursuit. In individual competition, she was 61 and with the Estonian season they finished in 14th place. Her best career result she succeeded in the 2009/10 season in Hochfilzen, where she was able to improve on the space 54 in the sprint competition in the subsequent pursuit competition on the 52nd place. Sirli Hanni took part in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and in part achieved its best result 84th in the sprint. 2010/11, she participated in only a few World Cup competitions and was also placed in any competition among the 80 best athletes. After the season, they announced that they would not participate in World Cup competitions in the 2011/12 season and will focus on their professional training. A significant reason for this was the contract extension of the Estonian biathlon association with the Latvian Maris Cakars coach, who oversees the Estonian national biathlon team since May 2010. Already in the course of his first year in office again there were disagreements and communication difficulties between Cakars and female athletes Eveli Saue, Kadri Lehtla and Sirli Hanni. Hanni is particularly critical that the minimum communication for elite sport was not acceptable. As Eveli Saue trained Hanni continue with a reduced extent. Both started once in the World Cup. In Oslo Hanni finished 63rd in the Sprint competition. In the Estonian Biathlon Championship in late March 2012, she sat down in difficult weather conditions surprisingly in the mass start competition against Lehtla and Saue through.
Biathlon World Cup rankings
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