Barbara Jezeršek

Barbara Jezeršek
Barbara Jezeršek (2012)
nation	Australia
birthday	31st October 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Kranj ,  Yugoslavia
Career
society	SK Triglav Kranj
status	active
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup January 21, 2006  Overall World Cup 68th ( 2011/12 )  Sprint World Cup 80th ( 2011/12 )  Distance World Cup 48th ( 2011/12 )
last change: June 7, 2014

Barbara Jezeršek (born October 31, 1986 in Kranj ) is an Australian and formerly Slovenian cross-country skier .

Career

Jezeršek has been participating in competitions organized by the Fédération Internationale de Ski since 2002 . Since 2006 she has been competing in the cross-country skiing world cup and the alpine cup , which she finished in 2012 with fifth place overall. She ran her first World Cup race in January 2006 in Oberstdorf , which she did not finish. The Tour de Ski 2007/08 she graduated with a 42nd place in the overall standings. Her best placement at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 was 43rd in the 30 km mass start race. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she reached 40th place over 10 km freestyle, 17th place in the 15 km pursuit race and 14th place with the relay. She got her first World Cup points at the Tour de Ski 2010/11 . Her best results at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo were 20th place in the 15 km pursuit race and seventh place in the team sprint. At the Tour de Ski 2011/12 she finished 35th in the overall ranking. Her best results at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme were 40th place in the 15 km skiathlon and 14th place with the relay. She finished the Tour de Ski 2013/14 in 29th place. Her best results at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were 19th place in the 15 km skiathlon and 11th place in the relay. In the summer of 2015, she won four races at the 2015 Australia / New Zealand Cup and thus also achieved first place in the overall cup standings.

Jezeršek has been flying the Australian flag since November 2016. Her best placings at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti were 24th place in the skiathlon and 15th place with the relay. In the summer of 2017, like two years before, she won the overall standings of the Australia / New Zealand Cup with four wins . In August 2017 she won the 42 km freestyle at the Kangaroo Hoppet . The following year she won again at the Kangaroo Hoppet. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she finished 39th in the skiathlon, 33rd place over 10 km freestyle and 12th place together with Jessica Yeaton in the team sprint.

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2010 Vancouver : 14th place relay, 17th place 15 km pursuit, 40th place 10 km freestyle
• 2014 Sochi : 11th place relay, 19th place 15 km skiathlon, 31st place 30 km freestyle mass start, 41st place 10 km classic
• 2018 Pyeongchang : 12th place team sprint freestyle, 33rd place 10 km freestyle, 39th place 30 km skiathlon

Nordic World Ski Championships

• 2009 Liberec : 43rd place 30 km freestyle mass start, 48th place 15 km pursuit, 65th place sprint freestyle
• 2011 Oslo : 7th place relay, 20th place 15 km pursuit, 22nd place 30 km freestyle mass start
• 2013 Val di Fiemme : 14th place relay, 40th place 15 km skiathlon, 44th place 10 km freestyle
• 2017 Lahti : 15th place relay, 24th place 15 km skiathlon, 35th place 30 km freestyle mass start, 46th place sprint freestyle, 51st place 10 km classic

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	team
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10										1	3
Scoring	2	5	1			8th	2	1	19th	4th	8th
Starts	12	27	7th	1		25th	28	7th	107	4th	8th
Status: end of season 2017/18

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2010/11	30th	74.	26th	53.	4th	81.
2011/12	42	68.	41	48.	1	80.
2012/13	33	77.	33	54.	-	-
2013/14	40	75.	32	53.	-	-

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	December 11, 2010	Alta Badia	10 km classic	Alpine Cup
2.	December 12, 2010	Alta Badia	10 km freestyle Mst.	Alpine Cup
3.	March 11, 2012	Rogla	15 km classic Mst.	Alpine Cup
4th	March 30, 2013	Pale	5 km freestyle	Balkan Cup
5.	March 31, 2013	Pale	5 km freestyle	Balkan Cup
6th	3rd August 2014	Perisher Valley	5 km freestyle	Australia / New Zealand Cup
7th	July 25, 2015	Perisher Valley	Sprint freestyle	Australia / New Zealand Cup
8th.	July 26, 2015	Perisher Valley	5 km classic	Australia / New Zealand Cup
9.	August 16, 2015	Falls Creek	10 km freestyle	Australia / New Zealand Cup
10.	August 30, 2015	Snow farm	5 km freestyle	Australia / New Zealand Cup
11.	July 22, 2017	Perisher Valley	Sprint freestyle	Australia / New Zealand Cup
12.	19th August 2017	Falls Creek	Classic sprint	Australia / New Zealand Cup
13.	20th August 2017	Falls Creek	10 km freestyle	Australia / New Zealand Cup
14th	26th August 2017	Falls Creek	42 km freestyle 1	Australia / New Zealand Cup
15th	July 22, 2018	Perisher Valley	10 km freestyle	Australia / New Zealand Cup
16.	August 25, 2018	Falls Creek	42 km freestyle 1	Australia / New Zealand Cup

¹ Kangaroo Hoppet

Web links

• Barbara Jezeršek in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

• Barbara Jezeršek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )