Cornel Puchianu

Cornel Puchianu
Full name	Cornel Dumitru Puchianu
Association	Romania
birthday	27th October 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Brașov , Romania
Career
job	athlete
society	CSS Predeal / CSAM Bucegi
Admission to the national team	2012
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2012
Debut in the World Cup	2013
status	active
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	53rd ( 2016/17 )
Individual World Cup	37th ( 2016/17 )
Sprint World Cup	50th ( 2016/17 )
Pursuit World Cup	69th ( 2014/15 )
last change: January 3, 2019

Cornel Dumitru Puchianu (born October 27, 1989 in Brașov ) is a Romanian biathlete and former cross-country skier .

Career

Cornel Puchianu starts for CSS Predeal / CSAM Bucegi . At first he was active as a cross-country skier. He made his international debut at the European Youth Olympic Festival 2007 in Jaca , where he was 49th over 10km freestyle and 55th over 7.5km classic. From 2007 onwards there were further assignments, first in FIS races , later also in the Balkan Cup , Alpencup and Slavic Cup . He achieved top ten results several times. At the races of the Nordic Junior World Championships 2009 in Le Praz-de-Lys-Sommand , Puchianu was 49th in the 10-kilometer freestyle, 51st in the pursuit race and 62nd in the classic sprint qualification. He contested his last races in cross-country skiing in 2010. He then switched to biathlon. At the 2010 Military World Ski Championships in Brusson and Cogne , he started cross-country skiing and biathlon and was 39th in the 15-kilometer freestyle and ninth with Vasile Sneaga , Ștefan Gavrilă and Cristian Marian Mosoiu in the military patrol race.

He has been used regularly in biathlon since the beginning of the 2012/13 season . In Idre he reached positions 77 and 88 in his first races, two sprints. In Beitostølen he achieved his best result in the series with 66th place in a sprint. A little later he also competed in his first race in the Biathlon World Cup in Hochfilzen and was 25th with the Romanian relay alongside Remus Faur , Ștefan Gavrilă and Roland Gerbacea . His first individual race in the World Cup contested Puchianu as part of the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě , where he was 76th of the individual and 75th of the sprint. In the mixed relay race he was with Réka Ferencz , Luminița Pişcoran and Ștefan Gavrilă also 21st, in the men's relay race with Faur, Gavrilă and Gerbacea 19. Both times he was the final runner and the relays were lapped.

At his career highlight so far, the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi , Puchianu was able to achieve his best placement in the world class: 30th place in the sprint. At the start of the 2014/15 season , the Romanian won World Cup points for the first time in an individual in Östersund as 28th.

In 2018 Puchianu took part in his second Olympic Games . In Pyeongchang he finished 60th in sprint, 58th in pursuit and 55th in individual.

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
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring		3	2		38	43
Starts	6th	48	15th		39	108
As of January 3, 2019

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2014 | Sochi	30th	47.	59.	-	-	-
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	60.	58.	55.	-	14th	-

Web links

• Cornel Puchianu in the IBU database (English)
• Cornel Puchianu in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Cornel Puchianu at the COSR (Romanian)