Andrejs Rastorgujevs

Andrejs Rastorgujevs
Association	Latvia
birthday	27th May 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Alūksne ,  Latvian SSR , Soviet Union
size	182 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
Trainer	Intars Berkulis
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
Debut in the World Cup	2009
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 2 × 1 × 2 × SWM medals 0 × 0 × 2 × JSWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2014 Nové Město na Moravě singles bronze 2014 Nové Město na Moravě sprint bronze 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój persecution gold 2018 Ridnaun sprint silver 2020 Minsk-Raubitschy sprint  Summer biathlon world championships bronze 2010 Duszniki-Zdrój sprint bronze 2010 Duszniki-Zdrój persecution  Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships gold 2006 Ufa persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	13. ( 2017/18 )
Individual World Cup	06. (2017/18)
Sprint World Cup	05. (2017/18)
Pursuit World Cup	11. ( 2013/14 )
Mass start world cup	06. (2013/14)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 0 1 0 Mass start 0 1 0
last change: July 31, 2020

Andrejs Rastorgujevs (born May 27, 1988 in Alūksne , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Latvian biathlete . He made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup in 2009 and stood on the podium for the first time in 2017. In 2014 he became European sprint champion, and in 2018 he won the European title in pursuit.

Career

From 2005 to 2009 Rastorgujevs took part in several international championships in the youth field. At the junior competitions of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2006 in Ufa , he won the title in the pursuit race on roller skis . In winter he won no international medals, but placed several times in the top 20 at youth and junior world championships. In the 2008/09 season Rastorgujevs received two first appearances in the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in the adult division, and each reached the points of the top 40. The following year he made his debut in Östersund in the Biathlon World Cup , where he was in his first sprint because of the Using a wrong track was disqualified and took 17th place with the relay. As one of five biathletes he was part of the Latvian Olympic team and came at the 2010 Winter Games from Vancouver , both in two individual races (as the 50th of the sprint and 58th of persecution) and in the season for use with which he 19 and finished last. At the 2010 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Duszniki-Zdrój , Rastorgujevs won bronze medals in sprint and pursuit. In the winter of 2010/11 he won first World Cup points in the sprint and pursuit races in Oberhof, Ruhpolding and Antholz; his initially best individual result was a 20th place in the Antholz sprint. At the European Championships (which are regularly omitted by many World Cup starters) in 2011, when he was fourth in the 20-kilometer individual competition, he missed a medal by just one place.

Rastorgujevs at the World Cup in Oberhof (January 2020)

Rastorgujevs established himself as one of the strongest runners in the World Cup field from the 2012/13 season : While he was in the midfield of the athletes competing there with his hit rates of around 80%, he was one of the six fastest athletes on the track this winter. In the following years, too, his runtimes were consistently two to three percent better than the average and thus remained only about one percentage point behind those of leading athletes such as overall World Cup winner Martin Fourcade . As tenth in the pursuit race on Pokljuka in December 2012, Rastorgujevs placed in the top ten of a World Cup competition for the first time. Three months later he finished fourth in the 20-kilometer individual competition in Sochi and ultimately finished the 2012/13 World Cup in 36th place overall. The Latvian maintained this level in the following winters: by 2020 he was among the top ten in more than 30 races and consistently occupied positions between 13th (in the 2017/18 season ) and 29th place in the World Cup rankings during this period He was twice on the podium of a World Cup race in second place: first in March 2017 in the mass start in Oslo behind Martin Fourcade, then in March 2018 in the Kontiolahti sprint, where he was 5.8 seconds behind Anton Schipulin . Together with his teammate Baiba Bendika , Rastorgujevs also represented Latvia in several single mixed relays. The duo reached the top ten several times and took seventh place at the Pokljuka in January 2020.

At the European Championships in 2014 , Rastorgujevs won the 20-kilometer individual race with three shooting errors and won his first international title. He was 0.3 seconds ahead of Benedikt Doll , who had also missed three targets. In the sprint that followed, Rastorgujevs secured another bronze medal, also in the pursuit at the 2017 European Championships . He became European champion for the second time in 2018 when he beat Alexander Loginow in the sprint by 5.5 seconds. Rastorgujevs won the sprint silver medal behind Matwei Jelissejew at the EM 2020 .

Andrejs Rastorgujevs is a member of the Latvian military and is trained by Intars Berkulis. He is married and has one daughter.

statistics

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		1		1		2
3rd place
Top 10	3	13	11	6th	5	38
Scoring	12	58	49	24	45	188
Starts	24	87	54	24	45	234
Status: end of season 2019/20

Biathlon world championships

Results at world championships:

World Championship		Individual competitions				Relay competitions
year	place	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	66.	-	43.	-	14th	-
2012	Ruhpolding	83.	-	68.	-	19th	-
2013	Nové Město	64.	-	49.	-	21st	-
2015	Kontiolahti	42.	25th	48.	-	-	-
2016	Oslo	20th	27.	59.	26th	-	-
2017	Hochfilzen	57.	37.	56.	-	22nd	25th
2019	Ostersund	14th	6th	13.	25th	24.	-	10.
2020	Antholz	70.	-	22nd	-	22nd	-	17th

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
2010 Winter Olympics | Vancouver	50.	58.	-	-	19th
Olympic Winter Games 2014 | Sochi	17th	9.	32.	14th	-	-
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	24.	12.	59.	28.	-	-

Web links

Commons : Andrejs Rastorgujevs  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Andrejs Rastorgujevs in the IBU database (English)
• Andrejs Rastorgujevs in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrejs Rastorgujevs. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Bricis 34., Rastorgujevam laba debija, ja nediskvalifcētu (labots). December 5, 2009, archived from the original on February 27, 2012 ; accessed on February 7, 2016 (Latvian). 
3. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2013/14, p. 428.
4. ↑ Andrejs Rastorgujevs in the IBU database (English)
5. ↑ Profile on personal website. Accessed July 31, 2020.