Inlays Spalviš

Inlays Spalviš
nation	Latvia
birthday	20th December 1980
place of birth	Jelgava,  Soviet Union
Career
discipline	Biathlon cross-country skiing
society	Cēsis
Trainer	Ilgonis Pogulis
status	resigned
last change: November 11, 2010

Intars Spalviņš (born December 20, 1980 in Jelgava ) is a former Latvian cross-country skier and biathlete .

Intars Spalviņš is a student and lives in Priekule . He starts for the ski club in Cēsis and was trained by Ilgonis Pogulis. He began biathlon in 1990. Spalviņš began to compete internationally in both cross-country skiing and biathlon in 2000.

In biathlon, Spalviņš made his debut at the start of the 2000/01 season at the competitions of the biathlon world cup in Hochfilzen and Antholz . He finished 104th in the individual and was 107th in the sprint. The Latvian finished his third race in an individual in Osrblie as 98th and thus for the first time in a double-digit position. The highlight of the first season was participation in the 2001 European Biathlon Championships in Haute-Maurienne . In the individual Spalviņš ran to 53rd place and was 59th of the sprint race. The 2002/03 season he ran largely in the European Cup , only at the last station in Östersund he was used in the World Cup. With 62nd place in the sprint and 58th in the pursuit, he achieved his best placings in the highest competition series of the sport. In Forni Avoltri the EM 2003 was the highlight of the season. In the individual, Spalviņš finished 37th, was 54th of the sprint and tenth with Oļegs Maļuhins , Jēkabs Nākums and Gints Rozenbergs as the final runner of the season. Later that year, the Latvian competed in Forni Avoltri at the 2003 Summer Biathlon World Championships , where he was 33rd in the sprint and 35th in the pursuit. The following year he was used again in Osrblie at the Summer World Championships . In Slovakia, the Latvian finished 19th in the sprint, 23rd in the pursuit race, nine in the mass start and eighth in the relay race with Kristaps Lībietis , Ojārs Mednis and Rozenbergs. He was also used at the 2004 European Summer Biathlon Championships, which were held for the first time in Clausthal-Zellerfeld . In the sprint he missed a medal in fourth place by less than five seconds, in the pursuit he fell back to eighth place.

In cross-country skiing, the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Štrbské Pleso Spalviņš were the first international competition. In the sprint he was 64th of the sprint qualification, which he missed the actual race. Until 2005, the Latvian only ran one more FIS race. After retiring from biathlon in 2004, he specialized in cross-country skiing. He had his first use at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2005 in Oberstdorf , where Spalviņš reached 74th place in the 15-kilometer freestyle. At the beginning of the 2005/06 season , the Latvian made his debut in Kuusamo in the Cross-Country World Cup . In the 15-kilometer freestyle, he finished 87th. In Otepää , he achieved his best result in the World Cup with 53rd place in the classic sprint. The high point of his career was participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . At the competitions in Pragelato Plan he ran to 75th place in the 15-kilometer classic, was 72nd in the sprint qualification and did not finish over 50 kilometers in the free style. Until the next major event, the 2007 World Cup in Sapporo , the Latvian was used in FIS races and in the Alpine Cup . At the World Championships Spalviņš reached 55th place in the 15-kilometer freestyle and did not finish in the pursuit race. Towards the end of the year he entered an FIS race in Muonio again and then ended his active career.

Biathlon 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	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					1	1
Starts	3	5	1		1	10

Web links

• Intars Spalviņš in the IBU database (English)
• Intars Spalviņš in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Intars Spalviņš in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )