Linda Savļaka

Linda Savļaka
Association	Latvia
birthday	January 1, 1984
place of birth	Gulbene,  Soviet Union
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	-
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	-
Debut in the World Cup	2001
World Cup victories	-
status	resigned
End of career	2006
World Cup balance
last change: September 7, 2010

Linda Savļaka (born January 1, 1984 in Gulbene ) is a former Latvian biathlete .

Linda Savļaka lives in Gulbene and trains in Riga . The sports soldier studied and competed for the ASK Rīga , where she was trained by Māris Čakars. In 1991 she began biathlon and has been a member of the Latvian national team since 2002. She contested her first international races in Khanty-Mansiysk as part of the junior competitions of the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 2000 and finished fifth in the sprint and seven in the pursuit race. With Madara Līduma and Inese Balode, she just missed a medal when she finished fourth in the relay race. The next big event was the junior races at the 2001 European Biathlon Championships in Haute-Maurienne . Savļaka finished 25th in the individual, 35th in the sprint and 31st in the pursuit. In Ridnaun, she participated in the Junior World Championships for the first time in 2002, in which the Latvian came eleventh in the individual, 18 in the sprint and 32 in the pursuit. Shortly thereafter, she also took part in the junior races at the European Biathlon Championships in 2002 in Kontiolahti , where she was 23rd in the individual and 33rd in the sprint. At the start of the 2002/03 season, she won a junior European Cup race with a single in Ål , beating the entire Scandinavian elite of that time, including the later overall World Cup winner Helena Jonsson . In Kościelisko , Savļaka entered again in 2003 at the Junior World Championships and achieved the results of the 52nd place in the individual, nine in the sprint and 18 in the pursuit. The 2003 European Junior Biathlon Championships in Forni Avoltri brought good results again with seventh place in the individual and 26th in the sprint. In the same place she also took part in the junior competitions of the 2003 Summer Biathlon World Championships . In the sprint she reached 18th place, the Latvian did not finish the pursuit race. In 2004 she took part again in the Junior World Championships in Haute Maurienne, where she finished 50th in the individual, 40th in the sprint and 22nd in the pursuit. The last international junior championship for Savļaka was the 2004 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Osrblie . She finished 15th in the sprint, improved to ninth place in the pursuit race and 22nd in the final mass start race.

In Ruhpolding , Savļaka made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup in 2001 and was 97 in her first sprint. In 2004 , she achieved 57th place in an individual in Antholz, her best result in the highest racing series in international biathlon. A little later she was used in Oberhof at the Biathlon World Championships 2004 for the first time in an international championship in the performance area and was 61 in the individual. This was followed by participation in the military World Ski Championships in 2004 in Östersund , where Savļaka was 35th in the sprint and with Balode , Gerda Krūmiņa and Līduma came tenth in the military patrol race. In Hochfilzen she took in 2005 in part for the second time in a World Championship and came in individual and sprint used, where she reached the ranks 67 and 75 miles. The Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championship 2006 in Khanty-Mansiysk she finished on the side of Līduma, Jānis Bērziņš and Raivis Zīmelis in 21st place. Culminating in Savļakas career was participating in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games of Turin . At the competitions in Cesana San Sicario the Latvian was 63rd of the individual, 72nd of the sprint and with Līduma, Andžela Brice and Krūmiņa 18th and last in the relay race. Shortly after the games, she started at the 2006 European Biathlon Championships in Langdorf and reached 57th place in the individual and 14th place in the relay race with her teammates in the Olympic relay. After the season she ended her international career.

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					5	5
Starts	11	29	1		6th	47
Status: end of career

Web links

• Linda Savļaka in the IBU database (English)
• Linda Savļaka in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )