Jēkabs Nākums

Jēkabs Nākums
Association	Latvia
birthday	4th February 1972
place of birth	Priekule ,  Soviet Union
Career
job	Firefighter
society	Cēsis Police Sports Club
Debut in the World Cup	1993 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	2004 (?)
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × SWM medals 0 × 3 × 0 ×
European biathlon championships gold 1998 Minsk sprint bronze 2002 Kontiolahti Season  Summer biathlon world championships silver 1999 Minsk Season silver 2000 Minsk Season silver 2001 Minsk Season
World Cup balance
last change: October 18, 2009

Jēkabs Nākums (born February 4, 1972 in Priekule , Liepāja district ) is a former Latvian biathlete . He took part in 13 biathlon world championships and Olympic winter games.

Jēkabs Nākums lives in Cēsis and is a firefighter by profession. He started for the police sports club Cesis . He began biathlon in 1986. The Latvian has been active at the highest international level since the first half of the 1990s. In Borovets he first took part in the Biathlon World Championships in 1993 and was 18th with the Latvian relay. Since the 1993/94 season Nākums started regularly in the Biathlon World Cup . He won his first points as the 16th of a sprint in 1993 in Kontiolahti . There followed years in which the Latvian showed very fluctuating performances between the back field of the competitions and the extended world elite. In Ruhpolding in 1995 Nākums ran in tenth place for the first time in the top ten. The next major events were the 1995 World Championships in Antholz , where he was 12th in the relay, and the 1996 World Championships in Ruhpolding, eleventh in relay. Nākums competed in 1997 in Osrblie for the first time at a World Cup . In the sprint he finished in a very good fifth place, in the pursuit he fell back to 31st place. Both in the relay and in the team race he reached rank 12 with the Latvian teams. In Antholz, shortly before the Olympic Games in 1998 , he finished fourth in an individual and thus achieved his best World Cup result, which he only achieved again in 2000 in Oberhof reached in a sprint. At the Olympic Games in Nagano Nākums was 37th in the individual, very good fifth in the sprint and sixth in the relay race with Oļegs Maļuhins , Ilmārs Bricis and Gundars Upenieks . The relay was able to place itself one rank better at the 1999 Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti, and Nākums was tenth in the sprint and 34th in the pursuit. In the individual in Oslo due to the weather, he reached 47th place.

Already in 1998 Nākums was able to win the sprint at the Biathlon European Championships in Minsk in front of Alexander Popow and Ilmārs Bricis. In 2000 he was fifth in Kościelisko in the sprint as well as with the relay. At the World Championships at Holmenkollen in Oslo there was a 28th place in the individual, a 38th place in the sprint, 41st place in the pursuit and 16th place in the mass start. With the season he was also sixth in Lahti . In Pokljuka 2001 Nākums reached places 72 in the sprint and nine with the relay. In 2002 , the Latvian started for the second and last time at the Olympic Games and reached 35th place in the individual, 52nd in the sprint, 54th in the pursuit and was 17th in the season. Shortly after the games, he ran 15th in the 2002 European Championships in Kontiolahti Sprint and won the bronze medal behind the relays from Germany and the Ukraine with his long-time relay partners Maluhins, Upenieks and Bricis. He finished the 2003 World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk with 34th place in the sprint, 79th in the pursuit and 12th with the relay. The best results at the European Championships in Forni Avoltri were 14th place in the individual and tenth place in the relay. The last major event was the 2004 Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof , where Nākums was 65th in the individual.

Nākums was also a successful Cross Country - Sommerbiathlet . In 1999 in Minsk, 2000 in Khanty-Mansiysk and 2001 in Jambrozowa , he won the silver medals in the relay competition at the summer biathlon world championships with Maļuhins, Upenieks and Bricis, first twice behind Russia, and most recently behind Belarus .

Results in the biathlon world cup

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	2	5	1			14th	22nd
Scoring	5	13	4th	4th	2	29	57
Starts	38	66	21st	5	2	29	161
Status : data may be incomplete

Web links

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