Andreja Mali

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Andreja Mali
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Medal record
Biathlon
Representing Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2012 Ruhpolding Mixed relay


Andreja Mali (born 17 November 1977, in Kamnik, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Slovenian biathlete and former cross-country skier.

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Career

Mali competes for the club TSK Jub Dob Pri Ljubljani and has been part of the Slovenian national biathlon team since 2000. The instructor in the army of Kamnik made her Biathlon World Cup debut in 2001. She was selected for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where she placed 27th in sprint and 32nd in the pursuit race. [1] She reached the top 10 in the 2002–03 season, placing 8th in sprints in Pokljuka and in Oslo at Holmenkollen. Her best result was a 4th place in the mass start race in Antholz, which remains her best international placing.

Mali's top result in the Biathlon World Championships was 14th place in the sprint at the Biathlon World Championships 2004 in Oberhof, where she placed 14th in singles and 18th in the mass start was. Also ran very well the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz. Here it was 16th in the pursuit and 4th in the women's relay.

Mali competed in two more Olympic Games, in 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin with a 21st place in the individual, and a 6th place in relay, [1] and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver where she finished 19th in the sprint. [1]

Mali originally competed in cross-country skiing, and for a time competed in both sports simultaneously. In that sport, she made her World Cup race debut in 1995, and was particularly successful in the sprint events, with her first World Cup top-10 placing in Milan in 1997. In December 1998 she managed three podium places in the sprint events, in Milan and Kitzbühel she came in second. Even after moving to the biathletes continue sporadically in Mali will start cross-country skiing World Cup. So they started, for example at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in the sprint and placed 7th. [1] On World Championships took her 1997 in Trondheim 1999 in Ramsau, 2001 in Lahti and 2003 in Val di Fiemme - only in the last sprint - without much success in part. At the 2012 World Championships, Mali won the silver medal at the mixed relay, together with Teja Gregorin, Klemen Bauer and Jakov Fak.

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). [2]

Olympic Games

 Year  Age  10 km 
 individual 
 15 km 
 mass start 
 Pursuit  30 km  Sprint  4 × 5 km 
 relay 
2002 24 7 9

World Championships

 Year  Age  5 km 
 individual 
 10 km 
 individual 
 15 km  Pursuit  30 km  Sprint  4 × 5 km 
 relay 
1997 1959N/a4346N/a
1999 2147N/a43N/a
2001 23N/a59CNX [a] 2211
2003 25N/a20
a. 1 Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.

World Cup

Season standings

 Season  Age 
OverallDistanceLong DistanceMiddle DistanceSprint
1996 18NCN/aN/aN/aN/a
1997 19NCN/aNCN/a
1998 2035N/aNCN/a32
1999 2129N/aNCN/a9
2000 2230N/a4212
2001 2352N/aN/aN/a21
2002 2453N/aN/aN/a34
2003 2565N/aN/aN/a46
2004 2681N/aN/a50
2005 2785N/aN/a63
2006 28NCN/aN/aNC

Individual podiums

  • 3 podiums – (3 WC)
No.SeasonDateLocationRaceLevelPlace
1  1998–99  10 December 1998 Flag of Italy.svg Milan, Italy0.6 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
227 December 1998 Flag of Germany.svg Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany1.5 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
329 December 1998 Flag of Austria.svg Kitzbühel, Austria1.5 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andreja Mali". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  2. "MALI Andreja". FIS-Ski. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 24 December 2019.