Martin Otčenáš

Martin Otčenáš
Association	Slovakia
birthday	25th August 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Poprad ,  Czechoslovakia
Career
society	ŠKP Štrbské Pleso
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
Debut in the World Cup	2009
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
European biathlon championships silver 2016 Tyumen Mixed relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	64th ( 2015/16 )
Individual World Cup	51st ( 2016/17 )
Sprint World Cup	54th ( 2017/18 )
Pursuit World Cup	60th ( 2016/17 )
last change: February 17, 2019

Martin Otčenáš (born August 25, 1987 in Poprad , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak biathlete and cross-country skier .

Career

Martin Otčenáš starts for the ŠKP Štrbské Pleso . He competed in his first international races in 2007 as part of the junior races of the Biathlon European Cup . In Ruhpolding , he took part in a Junior World Championship for the first time in 2008 and finished 57th in the individual, 34th in the sprint, 30th in the pursuit and with Norbert Gröne , Michal Baka and Michal Lepies in the relay race 12. In his native Nové Město na Moravě little followed later participation in the Junior European Championships, where Otčenáš 35th of the individual, 15th of the sprint, 19th of the pursuit and with Lepies, Gröne and Tomáš Hasilla tenth with the relay.

At the start of the 2008/09 season , Otčenáš started for the first time in the men's IBU Cup in the performance area and finished 86th in his first sprint in Idre . He won first points as 34th of a sprint in 2009 in Altenberg . In the same year he was able to run in a sprint in Bansko as fourth place for the first time under the top ten and finished third in the following pursuit race, his first podium finish in the racing series. Otčenáš finished the overall ranking in 22nd place. In Antholz , the Czech made his debut in the biathlon world cup during the 2008/09 season and was 102nd in a sprint. This was followed by the first major event for men, the 2009 European Biathlon Championships in Ufa . Otčenáš was 31st of the individual, 51st of the sprint, 41st of the pursuit and eighth in the relay race with Dušan Šimočko , Baka and Matej Kazár . This was followed by participation in the 2009 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof , where the Czech was 50th in the sprint. In the 2009/10 season , the appearances in the World Cup were more frequent, with 66th place in a sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk he was able to achieve a new best performance in the World Cup at the end of the season. Before that, the second participation in the 2010 European Biathlon Championships was in Otepää , where Otčenáš came in 36th in the individual, 14th in the sprint and 12th in the pursuit and thus showed good performance. In 2014 he started in Sochi at the Olympic Winter Games and missed the pursuit race as 68th of the sprint. Also in 2014 , after more than 35 unsuccessful attempts in Pokljuka , he won points in the World Cup for the first time as 21st of the sprint.

In addition to biathlon, Otčenáš was also involved in cross-country skiing quite intensively until 2008 and has been taking part in international competitions here since 2003, especially in FIS races and the Slavic Cup . In 2006 he won a freestyle sprint in Zakopane as part of the Slavic Cup. In 2004 he took part in the Nordic Junior World Championships for the first time in Stryn and reached the 73rd place in the 10-kilometer freestyle, 77 in the sprint and with the relay he finished 14th. In 2005 Otčenáš started at the Junior Olympic Festival in Monthey , where he was tenth in the 10-kilometer freestyle, nine in the 7.5-kilometer classic and 21st in the sprint. A little later he also started at the Nordic Junior World Championships in Rovaniemi , where he came in 28th in the team sprint and in both the team sprint and the 10-kilometer freestyle. In Kranj Otčenáš took part in the Nordic Junior World Championships for the third time, was 18th in the sprint, 34th in the team sprint and 49th in the 10-kilometer freestyle. After the Junior World Championships, the biggest sporting highlight so far followed with his participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , where he was 49th in the sprint qualification and thus missed the final. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo in 2007 , he again missed the final as 36th of the qualification. In the team sprint, Otčenáš and Michal Malák finished 15th over 15-kilometer freestyle 51. The last major event in cross-country skiing was the 2007 Junior World Championships in Tarvisio with a 29th place in the classic sprint, 19th place over 10-kilometer freestyle and 29th place in the pursuit.

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					8th	8th
Scoring	1	8th	7th		40	56
Starts	19th	62	20th		40	141
As of February 17, 2019

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2014 | Sochi	67.	-	-	-	-	-
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	52.	27.	84.	-	18th	20th

Web links

Commons : Martin Otčenáš  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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