Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak
Weronika Nowakowska - Ziemniak, born Nowakowska, (* July 7, 1986 in Kłodzko ) is a Polish biathlete.
Weronika Nowakowska - Ziemniak is a student and lives in Duszniki Zdrój. It starts first for KS Duszniki Zdrój, now for AZS Awf Katowice and is trained by Malvina Wojtas. Since 2004, she has appeared internationally on youth level. Your first jobs they had in the Junior European Cup in Obertilliach. In 2005 she took up at the Junior European Championships in Novosibirsk, where she was tenth in the sprint and the relay, which in addition to their well Paulina Bobak and Agnieszka Grzybek belonged, won silver behind the Russian squadron. Not quite as good ran the shortly thereafter taking place Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti where space were 32 in singles and nine best in the relay results. Again successful ran for the young Polish woman the Junior World Championships in the summer biathlon in Muonio. In the sprint, pursuit and mass start they came up the ranks 13 to 16, with the season, and also belonged to the back Grzybek Tiffany Tyralla, she won behind the squadron from Ukraine again a silver medal. The Junior World Championships in 2006 in Presque Isle and the Junior European Championships the same year in Langsdorf brought for Nowakowska no further significant results, but at the Junior World Championships in 2007 in Martell, she took again several places among the top 20 Even better were the rankings in the last European Junior Championships of Polish in Bansko. In every race she came in the top 15, the completion of the junior time formed the World Championships in the summer biathlon 2007 Otepaeae where Nowakowska sixth in singles and was ninth in the sprint.
During the 2007/ 08 season Nowakowska debuted in the Biathlon European Cup. Their first single, she ran in Langsdorf and was 35th in the sprint following this she won 30 for the first time and a point in the pursuit, it improved to rank 17th in the season started Nowakowska the first time in the Biathlon World Cup. Her first race was a sprint in Hochfilzen, where she graduated as the 51st. Good results they also reached their first European Championships for adults in Nove Mesto na Moravě. In the individual it ranked 14, as in the sprint and pursuit she reached the 18th place. In Östersund the Pole ran her first Biathlon World Championships 2008. After she was 58th in the sprint, she qualified for the pursuit race, where she reached the 55th place. To kick off the 2008/09 season as a sixth- place finisher in the managed Nowakowska Idre Sprint a first top- ten finish in the European Cup. But they should be active in the first place in the World Cup from now on. Even up to the season in Ostersund, she won as of 20 Single Page first World Cup points. In Hochfilzen Nowakowska could surprisingly be third in the relay. The 2009 World Championships in Pyeongchang reiterated improvements. 35 was the Pole in the sprint, 16th pursuit, 36th in singles, eighth in the mixed - and sixth in the women's relay. At the first race after the World Cup, a single in Vancouver managed Nowakowska than eight placed in the top ten for the first time to run. At the Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver Nowakowska reached after a 36th place in the 7.5 km sprint and a 28th place in the pursuit competition in 5th place in the 15 -km individual race their best ever placing at a major international event. Through their top places in individual races, Nowakowska had also qualified for the mass start competition, she finished on the 21th Place.
Biathlon World Cup rankings
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