Diana Mihalache

Diana Mihalache
Association	Romania
birthday	April 6, 1990
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	-
Debut in the World Cup	-
World Cup victories	-
status	resigned
World Cup balance
last change: September 4, 2010

Diana Mihalache , married Diana Mînzală , (born April 6, 1990 ) is a former Romanian biathlete .

Diana Mihalache made her international debut at the 2007 European Biathlon Championships , where she competed in junior competitions and finished 31st in the individual, 28th in the sprint and 29th in the pursuit in Bansko , and just missed a medal in fourth place with the Romanian relay team. In the following season she also made her debut in the Biathlon European Cup for Juniors, in which she achieved several good results and also achieved several podium placements. The first and at the same time only Junior World Championship ran the Romanian in 2008 in Ruhpolding , where she finished 39th in the individual, 40 in the sprint, 32 in the pursuit and six with the relay. In the competitions of the juniors at the subsequent Biathlon European Championships in 2008 in Nové Město na Moravě Mihalache was 37th For the relay race, she was appointed to the women's team. The 2009 European Biathlon Championships in Ufa were also successful . The Romanian finished 31st in the sprint and 23rd in the pursuit and the individual. With Luminița Pișcoran and Réka Ferencz she won the bronze medal in the relay race. On average, she achieved even better results at the 2010 European Biathlon Championships in Otepää . She finished 28th in the individual, seventh in the sprint and 13th in the pursuit. In addition, she won on the side of Réka Ferencz, Ștefan Gavrilă and Roland Gerbacea again the bronze medal in the relay race, which this time was held as a mixed.

Her debut in the women in the performance area was Mihalache at the side of Emőke Szőcs , Alexandra Rusu and Doralina Runceanu in the relay race of the European Championships in 2008, in which the Romanian relay was tenth. For the 2008/09 season she ran her first race in the IBU Cup . She finished her first race in Obertilliach , an individual, in 61st place. Only a little later she won in Martell , and in 37th place in the sprint and pursuit, she won first points. They are also her best results in this racing series so far. At the Summer Biathlon European Championships 2009 Mihalache was used in the mixed relay race and was tenth with Doralina Runceanu, Adrian Cojenelu and Roland Gerbacea. In the summer of 2011, she ended her active career and began studying sports at Craiova University .

Web links

• Diana Mihalache in the database of the IBU (English)