Ion Bucsa

Ion Bucsa
Association	Moldova
birthday	February 28, 1968
place of birth	Hînceşti,  Soviet Union
Career
job	Teacher
society	CSKA
Debut in the World Cup	1993
status	resigned
End of career	2005
World Cup balance

Ion Bucsa , also Ivan Bucsa , (born February 28, 1968 in Hînceşti ) is a former Moldovan biathlete and cross-country skier .

Ion Bucsa is a teacher and lives in Chișinău . He started biathlon in 1989 and started for the Central Army Sports Club . As a Moldovan biathlete, Bucsa initially had no chance against the overpowering Russian athletes. It was only with the dissolution of the Soviet Union that biathletes from other former Soviet republics could increasingly compete internationally. So he made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup at the start of the 1993/94 season in Bad Gastein and was 135th of an individual. The first major event was the 1996 biathlon world championships in Ruhpolding , where the Moldovan achieved his best international result in 74th place. Two years later he took part in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and achieved his best international results with the ranks 70 in the individual and 71 in the sprint. In the further course of the year he ran at the Summer Biathlon World Championships 1998 in Osrblie , where he was 40th in the sprint and 33rd in the individual. At the beginning of the 1998/99 season , Bucsa reached the top 100 for the first time as 100th of an individual in Hochfilzen . A little later, he came 83rd of a sprint in Oberhof to the first double-digit place, at the same time it was the best World Cup result. In 2002 he competed in cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and was 67 over 30 kilometers. He regularly took part in the World Cup until 2002 , then only once for several races in 2005 .

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
Starts	14th	29				43
Status: End of career, data may not be complete

Web links

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