Eva-Karin Westin

Eva-Karin Westin
Full name	Eva-Karin Maria Westin
Association	Sweden
birthday	June 24, 1972
place of birth	Umeå
Career
society	I21 IF Sollefteå
Debut in the World Cup	1993
status	resigned
End of career	1998
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	28. ( 1992/93 )
last change: end of career

Eva-Karin Maria Westin , married Eva-Karin Sjömäling , (born June 24, 1972 in Umeå ) is a former Swedish biathlete .

Eva-Karin Westin lived and trained in Sollefteå , where she started for I21 IF Sollefteå . In 1988 she started biathlon and started for the first time in 1993 in Antholz in the World Cup , where she was 55th of an individual. The highlight of the first season was the Biathlon World Championships in 1993 in Borowetz , at which Westin was 48th in the individual, 16th in the sprint, ninth with Catarina Eklund , Heléne Dahlberg and Christina Eklund in the team race and seventh with Maria Schylander and the Eklunds in the relay race. After the World Cup she reached the points and her first top ten placement for the first time at the pre-Olympic competitions in Lillehammer with seventh place in a sprint. At the following sprint in Östersund she achieved her best career result with a fifth place. In the overall ranking of the World Cup, she was 28th that season. The next highlight was the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Westin finished 60th in the sprint and achieved ninth place in the relay race with Catarina Eklund, Maria Schylander and Helene Dahlberg. A year later she finished 48th in the individual, 35th in the sprint at the World Championships in Antholz and was 14th in the relay with Susanne Hjert , Schylander and Magdalena Forsberg . In the seasons 1995/96 and 1996/97 she was not used in the World Cup, only in 1997/98 the Swede was used again. So she came in Nagano for her second use at the Olympic Games and was on the routes of Nozawa Onsen 52nd of the individual, 51st of the sprint and with Schylander, Forsberg and Kristina Brounéus tenth in the relay competition.

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10	3	2			1	3	9
Scoring	5	4th			1	4th	14th
Starts	13	16			1	4th	34
Status : End of career, including World Cup and Olympics, data may not be complete

Web links

• Eva-Karin Westin in the IBU database (English)
• Eva-Karin Westin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at the-sports.org