Emilija Jordanova

Emilija Jordanova
Association	Bulgaria
birthday	5th May 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Trojan , Bulgaria
Career
society	Ajaks Troian
Trainer	Ivan Zochev
Admission to the national team	2004
Debut in the World Cup	2007
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: February 4, 2012

Emilija Jordanowa ( Bulgarian Емилия Йорданова , English Emiliya Yordanova ; born May 5, 1989 in Trojan ) is a Bulgarian biathlete .

Career

Emilija Jordanowa starts for Ajaks Trojan and is trained by Ivan Zotschew. She has been running biathlon since 2002 and has been part of the Bulgarian national team since 2004. Between 2005 and 2008 she competed at three Junior World Championships. The best results in 2007 were 17th in the sprint and 18th in the pursuit of Martell , and in 2008 19th place in the Ruhpolding sprint . Since 2005 Jordanowa has also competed in the Junior European Cup. Her first job was a sprint in Obertilliach , which she finished 26th. In 2007 she came in Forni Avoltri as tenth for the first time in the top ten, with the season she was fourth. In 2007 she achieved her first podium finishes as third in the sprint and second in pursuit in Bansko . At the Open Balkan Biathlon Championships in 2008 , she won the sprint and pursuit of the juniors, at the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 2008 in Haute-Maurienne , Jordanova took 26th place in the sprint, 22nd in the pursuit and fifth place with the mixed relay. At the European Junior Biathlon Championships in 2009 in Ufa , she came in sixth place in sprint, pursuit and relay as well as in 14th place in the individual. Later that year she took part in the junior competitions of the 2009 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof on roller skis . In the sprint, Jordanova was 19th, Elte of the pursuit and ninth in the mixed relay. In Torsby Jordanova took part again in the Junior World Championships after a year break. In the individual as well as in the sprint she was able to run into the top ten in ninth place, in the pursuit she was 12th, with the relay sixth. She was also used again in the junior competitions of the 2010 European Biathlon Championships in Otepää , where she was ninth in the individual and sprint, 12th in the pursuit and sixth in the mixed relay.

Jordanova at the 2017 European Championships

Jordanova made his adult debut at the end of the 2006/07 season in Ridanna . She came eleventh in the sprint and 14th in the pursuit. At the beginning of the following season , the young Bulgarian made her debut in Kontiolahti in the biathlon world cup . She finished 102nd in the pursuit and 103rd in the sprint. With the relay she came in 18th place in Hochfilzen . Things went better at Jordanowa's first biathlon world championships in 2008 in Östersund . In the individual, the Bulgarian reached 72nd place, in the sprint she was 76. At the subsequent Biathlon European Championships in 2008 in Nové Město na Moravě , 31st place in the individual was her best result. In the following years Jordanowa was able to slowly but steadily improve her performance in the World Cup. At the Biathlon World Championships in Pyeongchang in 2009 she was 95th in the individual, 87th in the sprint and with Nina Klenowska , Pawlina Filipowa and Silwija Georgiewa as the last runner of the season 19. So she was below her possibilities at that time. In the further course of the year she came to the Summer Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof in the mixed relay, where she was ninth as a starting runner with Klenowska, Vladimir Iliev and Krassimir Anew . In 2010 , Jordanowa missed the first win of World Cup points by just one place as the 41st of a sprint race in Ruhpolding. The season ended with the 2010 Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championship , where she was 16th with Klenowska, Anew and Michail Kletscherow . The 2010/11 season brought a performance stagnation, at the season highlight, the World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk , Jordanova was lapped 51st in the individual, 46th in the sprint, in the pursuit race and 12th in the relay. In the 2011/12 season the results got better again. At the Holmenkollen in Oslo she achieved her second-best individual result at the time with 43rd place in the sprint and won World Cup points for the first time with her best placement of 38th in the pursuit race. At the World Championships in Ruhpolding she was 52nd in the individual, 42nd in the sprint, 46th in the pursuit and 17th in the relay, in 2013 in Nové Město 60th in the individual, 80th in the sprint and 18 in relay. At the first World Cup after the World Cup in Oslo, Jordanowa achieved new bests in the World Cup with ranks 34 in the sprint and 19 in the pursuit in a season that had been mixed up until then. With only three shooting errors in the pursuit, she was one of the best shooters in the pursuit in difficult conditions, where only four shooters were better with only two misses each.

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	2	2	2		28	34
Starts	15th	41	8th		28	92
Status: January 24, 2016

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	60.	55.	82.	-	16.	17th

Web links

Commons : Emilia Yordanova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Emilija Jordanowa in the IBU database (English)