Linas Banys

Linas Banys
Association	Lithuania
birthday	6th April 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Anykščiai , Lithuania
Career
job	college student
society	Representation
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	5th January 2017
Debut in the World Cup	2018
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: January 20, 2019

Linas Banys (born April 6, 1998 in Anykščiai ) is a Lithuanian biathlete .

Career

Banys started biathlon in 2007. He starts for the association Vetrunge . Banys contested his first international races as part of the IBU Junior Cup 2015/16 in Obertilliach . The two sprints there ended on position 69 and 94. This was followed by participation in the 2016 Biathlon Youth World Championships . He started there in individual, sprint and relay. At the subsequent Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer in 2016 , Banys managed to place in the top 15 with 13th place. In the following pursuer he could not improve after 7 shooting errors and was 31st. After participating in the European Junior Championships in 2016 , he took a year later participated in the 2017 European Biathlon Championships for adults and finished 18th in the mixed relay. At the 2017 World Youth Championships , his best individual position was a 36th place in the pursuit competition.  Banys made his debut in the biathlon world cup in 2018  at the beginning of the year in Oberhof. In the relay race, however, he shot the Lithuanian relay team with Tomas Kaukėnas , Vytautas Strolia and Karol Dombrovski out of the race after a penalty lap, and one in standing position. He was then lapped and taken out of the race at position 21. Linas Banys ran his first individual race in the World Cup in Antholz . In the sprint he shot four penalties and finished 103rd. At the subsequent European Junior Championships in 2016 , Banys even finished 6th after shooting without mistakes. As in the previous year, he started at the beginning of the new calendar year 2019 at the World Cups in Oberhof and Ruhpolding in sprint and relay .

statistics

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					4th	4th
Starts		3			4th	7th
As of January 20, 2019

Junior World Championships

Results at the Junior World Championships:

Junior World Championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2018	Otepää	23.	39.	56.	-

Web links

• Linas Banys in the database of the IBU (English)