Dafinka Koewa

Dafinka Koewa
Association	Bulgaria
birthday	January 19, 1990
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
Debut in the World Cup	2009
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: February 4, 2012

Dafinka Koewa ( Bulgarian Дафинка Коева , English transcription Dafinka Koeva ; born January 19, 1990 ) is a Bulgarian biathlete .

Dafinka Koewa started in 2007 in junior IBU Cup races at international events. In the 2008/09 season she started in this competition for the first time in the women and was 63 in her first individual in Obertilliach. A little later she missed a first point win in Martell as 31st of a sprint by just one place, but was due to the good Appointed to the World Cup for the first time . Koewa made her debut here in Oberhof in 2009 and finished 82nd in a sprint. It was not until the 2011/12 season that she was able to improve this position with 74th place in a sprint on Oslo's Holmenkollen . In the IBU Cup in 2009 in Bansko , she just missed the podium as fourth in a pursuit race. The first international championships were the female junior races of the 2009 European Biathlon Championships in Ufa . The Bulgarian came in individual on 35th place, was eleventh in the sprint, 24th in the pursuit and with Silwija Georgiewa and Emilija Jordanowa sixth in the relay race. The next major event was the 2010 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Torsby , where Koewa was 54th of the individual, 36th of the sprint and 26th of the pursuit, and with Jordanova and Nija Dimitrova again sixth in the relay competition. Shortly afterwards she entered the junior races of the European Championships again in Otepää and was 39th of the individual, 36th of the sprint and 33rd of the pursuit. In 2011 she started again in Nové Město na Moravě at the Junior World Championships and in Ridanna at the junior races of the European Championships . In the Czech Republic Koewa was 49th in the individual, 26th in the sprint, 30th in the pursuit and 15th in the relay. At the European Championships in Italy she only started in the individual, but did not finish. Subsequently, the Bulgarian should start at the Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk , but did not compete in the individual despite the announcement. The Bulgarian had her first appearance at an international championship in the performance area at the Biathlon European Championships 2012 in Osrblie , where she was 41st in the sprint, but did not compete in the pursuit or in the individual.

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					2	2
Starts	1	7th			2	10
Status: February 3, 2012

Web links

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• Dafinka Koewa in the IBU database (English)