Tanja Karišik

Tanja Karišik ( born July 23, 1991, Sarajevo ) is a Bosnian - Herzegovinian biathlete and cross-country skier.

Career

Tanja Karišik is a student and lives in Pale. She is coached by Tomislav Lopatic and starts for Romanija Pale. Biathlon operates since 2002, since 2005 it belongs to the national squad to their country. Her debut in the Junior European Cup of biathletes, who later became the IBU Cup, she gave in 2005 in Obertilliach. Your first race, an individual, they are not finished. In the following years, she rarely finished this longest race in biathlon. Karišik took comparatively often participate in European Cup races, while many others the same age biathletes participated only sporadically or at least less regularly. Best results in this series was in 2008 a 20th place in a sprint in Cesana San Sicario. In Langsdorf she took part in a first time in 2006 European Junior Championships in biathlon. In the sprint, it ranked 62 in singles, she completed a course better. In 2007 she ran her first World Youth Championship and was 52 of the sprint. To track it did not occur and the item she finished ranked 69th Durchwachsen was the Junior European Championship in the same year in Bansko. In the sprint she ran to 35th place, in the pursuit of it did not occur to again and the item did not end the Bosniakin. 2008 Karišik took part in three major events at junior level. At the World Cup in Ruhpolding the young athlete reached No. 69 in singles and 77 in the sprint. The European Championships in Nove Mesto na Moravě she finished as the 51st of the function SINGLE and 56 of the sprint. In the Summer Biathlon World Championships in Haute Maurienne they did not come in the Cross Country competitions in 18th place in the sprint and 16 in pursuit, the roller ski sprint ended Karišik. Your third Junior World Championships she ran in 2010 in Torsby where they einkam on ranks 45 in the sprint and 54 in singles.

Since 2008 Karišik also starts in the power range. There she played for Season 2008/ 09 their first race in the IBU Cup. Best Result in the race series is at the moment 14 place in a single, which she reached in Osrblie. My first race in the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof, she contested in 2010 and was 90th in a sprint race. In Antholz she improved her best result at a 88th place in the Sprint, they also reached in Vancouver in the sprint of the Olympic Winter Games 2010. Her second race, the individual, they are not finished. She was the only biathlete Bosnia at the games.

Since the European Youth Olympic Festival 2009 in Szczyrk Karišik also takes over again participate in cross-country competitions. The first highlight was the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, where she was 86 could not qualify for the final race in the freestyle sprint. Also at the 2010 Olympic Games she participated in cross country and was there about 10-kilometer freestyle 72 Shortly before the Games she won the Igman 5 -kilometer freestyle her first - though sparse - FIS races.

Karišik is in a relationship with Nemanja Košarac.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

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