Aleksander Grajf

Sašo Grajf
Full name	Aleksander Grajf
Association	Yugoslavia Slovenia
birthday	June 25, 1965
place of birth	Maribor,  Yugoslavia
Career
society	SK Pohorje
status	resigned
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Aleksander Sašo Grajf (born June 25, 1965 in Maribor ) is a former Slovenian biathlete .

Aleksander Grajf works as a trainer in the Slovenian military. Grajf competed for SK Pohorje . He began his career as a cross-country skier. In this discipline he took part in the Winter Olympics in 1984 and 1988. Grajf switched to biathlon in 1988. The first major event was the Biathlon World Championships in 1988 in Feistritz an der Drau , where he was 18th in the individual. He played his second World Cup in Borovets five years later . There he only took part in the relay race and finished in 13th place. An injury to his right elbow that year prevented him from continuing his career for four years. In 1998 in Pokljuka he started in the pursuit race based on the Olympic sprint race and finished 29th. 1999 Grajf started in Kontiolahti initially only with the relay and finished seventh. In the alternative race because of the bad weather in Kontiolahti on Holmenkollen in Oslo , he was still used in the individual, but did not finish the race. He was only able to compete in all races at his last World Championships in 2001 in Pokljuka. In the individual he was 36th, in the sprint he was 14th, in the pursuit 29th and in the mass start 21st. With the relay he also reached seventh place. In 1992 , Grajf started as a biathlete at the Winter Olympics for the first time . In Albertville he was 24th in the individual, 33rd in the sprint and 20th with the Slovenian relay. Due to the injury he could not compete in Lillehammer , so the 1998 Games in Nagano were his fourth Olympic competitions. Here the Slovenian was 25th in the individual, 40th in the sprint and 12th in the relay. Grajfs last games were the competitions in 2002 from Salt Lake City , where he was in the sprint, pursuit and relay 46 in the Tenth 59th.

Grajf made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup in 1989 in Borovets. In the individual he reached the 61st place. He collected his first World Cup points when he was eighth in 1994 in a sprint in Oberhof , which was also his best career result in a single race. Only one more time, in 1999 at a sprint in Ruhpolding , he was able to achieve a single-digit result in ninth place. With the relay around Marko Dolenc , Janez Ožbolt and Tomas Globočnik , the Slovene was able to finish third in Antholz in 2003 and thus achieve the podium for the only time in an international race. In 2003 Grajf ended his career. After his career he worked in an official capacity for the Slovenian Biathlon Federation.

Web links

• Aleksander Grajf in the IBU database (English)
• Aleksander Grajf in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place					1	1
Top 10		2			13	15th
Scoring	4th	7th	6th	1	20th	38
Starts	24	48	14th	1	20th	107
Stand: Results may not be complete