Ekaterina Viktorovna Jurlowa-Percht , b. Jurlowa ( Russian Екатери́на Ви́кторовна Ю́рлова-Перхт ; born February 23, 1985 in Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian biathlete . In 2008 she made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup , but remained without a podium result for several years. At the 2015 World Championships , she won the gold medal in the individual race and subsequently established herself among the top 20 biathletes in the World Cup field.
Jekaterina Jurlowa began her career as a cross-country skier and switched to biathlon when she was around 20 years old. At the Junior European Championships in Langdorf in 2006 , she was sixth in the sprint and 17th in the pursuit race. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season , the Russian made her debut in the European Cup (from 2008: IBU Cup). By the beginning of 2010, she achieved several top ten results in the second highest biathlon competition series, and she achieved her best result in December 2009 as second in the sprint race in Obertilliach . From March 2008 Jurlowa received a few appearances in the World Cup , in January 2010 - as the 28th of the Oberhof sprint - she won World Cup points for the first time. Two months later she hit all ten targets in the Kontiolahti sprint and placed 15th. During these years Jurlowa also won two medals at European championships, each with the Russian relay: in 2009 the quartet secured silver behind the Ukrainian representation, and bronze the following year . Jurlowa also took one of the top ten places in several European Championship individual races.
2010/11 Jurlowa was part of the Russian World Cup team for the first time over the entire season. As 16th of the overall World Cup she was the second best athlete in her country behind Olga Saizewa . In several competitions she reached the top ten, including at the 2011 World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk , where she finished the sprint with an error-free shooting in sixth place. Jurlowa did not defend her position in the Russian team in the following years: Although she occasionally achieved top ten results, in the overall ranking of the World Cup she fell back to places above the top 30. From the end of 2011 to 2014 Jurlowa was not considered in relay races and was also not nominated for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . During this time she took part for the first time in the World Team Challenge , which is not part of the World Cup , which she won in 2012 together with Anton Schipulin . Jurlowa represented Russia more often in this competition in the following years and won it a second time in 2017 - now together with Alexei Volkov .
World champion and establishment in the extended world elite
At the end of 2013 Jurlowa was temporarily relegated to the Russian IBU Cup team. There she reached the podium several times in the following year and a half and also won two bronze medals in the individual and in the pursuit at the 2015 European Championships in Otepää . Shortly before the World Championships in Kontiolahti , she rose again to the first team and was nominated as a substitute runner for the World Cup. On March 11, 2015 Jurlowa got her first outing in Kontiolahti and won the 15-kilometer individual race with start number 93 (with 105 starters) and 23.2 seconds ahead of the long-time leading Czech Gabriela Soukalová . As the only athlete in the competition, she hit with all 20 shots. Their victory - the first world championship title for the Russian biathletes since 2009 - was rated as "completely surprising". In January 2016 Jurlowa-Percht (who has had the double name since her wedding in October 2015) decided a second World Cup race for herself in Antholz : Third in the sprint, she only made one mistake in the pursuit and crossed the finish line 12 seconds ahead of second-placed Selina Gasparin . She skipped the 2016/17 season because of the birth of her first child.
From 2018 to 2020 Jurlowa-Percht was the strongest Russian biathlete in the respective overall rankings of the World Cup for three consecutive winters, in which she took 13th, 14th and 17th place. She achieved the best individual results in the 2018/19 season : As the final runner in the women's relay with Evgenija Pawlowa , Margarita Wassiljewa and Larissa Kuklina , who were five to eight years younger , 33-year-old Jurlowa-Percht in Oberhof was the first to cross the finish line in January 2019. A month later, she won the silver medal in the sprint and the title in the pursuit at the European Championships . In March, she finished second in the mass start at the 2019 World Cup in Östersund, five seconds behind the winner Dorothea Wierer , thus winning her second World Championship medal. During these years Jurlowa-Percht presented herself as a particularly strong prone shooter. In this attack, she hit with up to 94% of her shots over the season - in standing shooting her average hit rate was around 75%. In addition, she was a slightly above-average runner in the World Cup field, whose times were one to two percent faster than those of her competitors.
Personal
Jurlowa-Percht is a trained sports psychologist. In 2011 she published an anthology of her poems in Russia. On October 17, 2015, she married Josef Percht, then physiotherapist for the Austrian national team, and has been under the double name Jurlowa-Percht ever since. The couple has a daughter (* 2016).
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