Axel Ciuffo

Axel Ciuffo
Association	Argentina
birthday	March 9, 1988
place of birth	San Carlos de Bariloche
Career
job	soldier
society	Club de Montaña Cazadores de los Andes
Trainer	Carlos Gaston Fanti
Admission to the national team	2005
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
Debut in the World Cup	-
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: April 6, 2011

Axel Ciuffo (born March 9, 1988 in San Carlos de Bariloche ) is an Argentine biathlete .

Axel Ciuffo lives in Melipal and trains in San Carlos de Bariloche. The soldier starts for Club de Montaña Cazadores de los Andes and is trained by Carlos Gaston Fanti. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Argentine national team. The Argentine contested his first international races in Haute-Maurienne in 2004 at the Junior World Championships, where he was 74th in the individual and 75th in the sprint. In 2007 Martell added an 82nd place in the individual and an 81st place in the sprint. Between 2006 and 2008 he also took part in races in the junior European Biathlon Cup . In 2008 he contested his first IBU Cup race among men and finished 172nd in the sprint in Obertilliach . In the further course of the season he made it in Nové Město na Moravě as 97th for the first time a double-digit placement. There he made it in the following season in an individual on the 85th place, which he achieved his best result in the racing series. Ciuffo started in August 2010 at the Biathlon South American Championships in Portillo and his hometown Bariloche. In the championship, which was held as a racing series, Ciuffo was seventh in the individual, fifth in the sprint race and fifth in the mass start race in Portillo. In the sprint race in Bariloche he was third behind Leandro Ribela and Sergio Ariel González . In the overall standings, in which only three of the four races went, he finished fifth.

Web links

• Axel Ciuffo in the IBU database (English)