Carl Carrier lives in Nottingham and Rosenheim . He works as a cross-country skiing and biathlon trainer. He serves as a soldier in the Royal Air Force . He started biathlon in 1997 and has been a member of the British national team since 2002. His trainer is Jason Sklenar . Internationally, he made his debut in Windischgarsten in 2002 in the European Cup and was 58th in a sprint race. In 2005 he came in 22nd place in a sprint in Gurnigel and thus achieved his best result in the second highest racing series in biathlon. The first major event was the 2004 European Biathlon Championships in Minsk . Carrier finished 43rd in the Individual, 47th in the Sprint, and 45th in the Pursuit. The following year he was in Novosibirsk both in the sprint and in the pursuit race 26th. Again a year later the Briton reached 70th place in Langdorf in the individual and was 77th in the sprint race. For the fourth and final time, Carrier took part in an EM in 2007 in Bansko . For the only time he started in all four races and was 57th of the individual, qualified as 60th of the sprint as the last for the pursuit race in which he came 42nd place. In the relay race he came in 13th place with Simon Burke , Paul Whibley and Simon Allanson . In the Biathlon World Cup Carrier came sporadically between 2006 and 2008 are used. He competed in his first race in 2006 with the relay in Oberhof and was 18th. At the start of the 2006/07 season , he came in Östersund for his first use in an individual, in which he was 106th. In the further course of the season he was used again in a sprint race in Pokljuka in an individual race and improved his personal best placement to 93rd place. The last time it was used was in 2008 in Ruhpolding in a World Cup relay.
Nationally, Carrier won the silver medal with the Royal Air Force military patrol in 2005, and the title a year later. The 2007 British Championships were particularly successful when he won the runner-up in the sprint and mass start and was third in the team standings.
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