Deedra Irwin
Deedra Irwin 
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| Full name | Deedra Blu Irwin |
| Association |
 United States
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| birthday | 27th May 1992 (age 28) |
| place of birth |
United States
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| Career | |
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| job | Sports soldier |
| society | Wisconsin Biathlon |
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Admission to the national team |
2016 |
| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2018 |
| Debut in the World Cup | 2018 |
| status | active |
| World Cup balance | |
Deedra Blu Irwin (born May 27, 1992 ) is an American biathlete and former cross-country skier .
Life
Deedra Irwin comes from Pulaski in the US state of Wisconsin . After high school, she attended Michigan Technological University , where she earned a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology , a coaching license and a minor in Spanish.
Career
Cross-country skiing
Deedra Irwin was an active cross-country skier during her time at high school and joined the Ashwaubenon Nordic Ski Team. After college , she moved to Ketchum , Idaho , and competed in cross-country skiing for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation's XC Gold Team.
Her greatest successes were the overall victory at the Kangaroo Hoppet ski marathon in Australia and the overall victory in classic style at the American Birkebeiner in 2016.
biathlon
In 2017 Deedra Irwin switched to biathlon after taking part in the Talent ID Camp in Lake Placid . Since then she has been training there with the US national team. In the following winter, she already competed in her first races as part of the IBU Cup 2017/18 . In her first race, the individual competition of the 2018 European Biathlon Championships in Ridnaun , Italy , she only achieved one of the last places with ten shooting errors. Shortly afterwards she reached the points in the sprint race at the IBU Cup in Martell in 37th place for the first time, in the pursuit race she was able to improve to 20th place.
After the winter of 2017/18 she secured a place in the "USBA X-Team", the junior and development team of US Biathlon in Lake Placid. At the first IBU Cup of winter 2018/19 in Ridnaun, she was called up in sprint 14th and then at short notice to the World Cup team, and one day after the sprint race in Ridnaun, she contested her first race in the World Cup. At the relay race in Hochfilzen , Austria , she started as the final runner together with Joanne Reid , Susan Dunklee and Clare Egan . After a penalty loop by Deedra Irwin, the US team finished 13th. She strengthened the team again in the relay race in January 2019 in Ruhpolding , since the US women's team only had three starting places in the World Cup, Irwin started the rest of the winter exclusively in the second-rate IBU Cup. She also took part in the 2019 European Biathlon Championships in Minsk , a 47th place in the pursuit race was her best place there. In the summer she completed basic training with the Vermont National Guard , which is why she was only able to prepare for the winter competition to a limited extent. She could not qualify for either the World Cup or the IBU Cup team and therefore started in the North American Biathlon NorAm Cup. In January she ran two races in the IBU Cup in Brezno / Osrblie , after finishing sixth in the shortened individual competition, she contested her first individual race in the World Cup in Ruhpolding. After a 79th place in the sprint, she reached tenth place with the US women's relay and thus her first top 10 placement in the World Cup.
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 |
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| 1st place | ||||||
| 2nd place | ||||||
| 3rd place | ||||||
| Top 10 | ||||||
| Scoring | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Starts | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Status: end of season 2018/19 | ||||||
Web links
- Deedra Irwin on wordpress.com
- Deedra Irwin in the database of the IBU (English)
- Deedra Irwin on the US Association's website
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Irwin, Deedra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Irwin, Deedra Blu (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1992 |