Martina Halinárová

Martina Halinárová during the Biathlon World Cup 2008 in Östersund.

Martina Halinárová , also known as Martina Schwarzbacherová and Martina Jašicová (born April 22, 1973 in Dolný Kubín ) is a former Slovak biathlete .

Martina Halinárová is a physical education teacher and lives in Banská Bystrica . She has been practicing biathlon since 1992. Since then she has also competed in the biathlon world cup . She made her debut in an individual in Pokljuka , where she immediately finished ninth. More top placings followed this season, the best result was a fifth place in the Lillehammer sprint . With an eighth place in the overall World Cup, she immediately achieved her best career result in this ranking in her first season. In 1994, he took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, followed by a first career highlight. In the individual she was sixth, in the sprint 15. In the 1994/95 season she celebrated her only victory in a World Cup race with a victory in the individual in Lahti . Until 2003 she should still often run in the top 10 and mostly in the points in the World Cup, but except for 1998/99 as 15 and 1994/95 as 20th, no longer better than 30th in the overall World Cup.

Halinárová took part in the Olympic Games four more times. In 1998 in Nagano she just missed a medal as fourth with the season, which also included Anna Murínová , Tatiana Kutlíková and Soňa Mihoková . She finished seventh in the sprint. 2002 in Salt Lake City she missed with Mihokova, Murinova and Marcela Pavkovčeková as fifth place with the relay again just barely a medal. In the individual, Halinárová was ninth, in the sprint 13th and in the pursuit tenth. The 2006 Games in Turin went less well . With the season she was only tenth. In the sprint she was still quite a good 16th, but in the pursuit she was taken out of the race after being lapped by the later winner Kati Wilhelm . She shared this fate with 13 other starters. In 2010 Martina Halinárová started at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver . Her best result was 44th place in the individual. With the relay she finished 13th.

The first world championship in which Halinárová took part were the 1995 world title fights in Borovets . Here a 37th place in the sprint was her best result. Things went better two years later in Antholz , where she again just missed a medal in fourth place with the relay. She was tenth in the individual and eleventh in the sprint. The 1996 Biathlon World Championships in Ruhpolding were extremely disappointing, as did the 1997 championship title in Brezno , where, however, a seventh relay position was achieved. Her most successful world championships followed in 1999 in Kontiolahti and Oslo . Halinárová won the silver medal in the pursuit behind Olena Subrylowa after finishing seventh in the sprint. In the mass start she was fifth, with the relay eighth. In 2000 in Oslo a fifth place in the individual and again an eighth relay place was added. The 2001 World Cup in Pokljuka was again without any noteworthy results. Things went better again in 2003 in Khanty-Mansiysk . Here she was sixth in the sprint and seventh in the mass start race. In 2005 in Hochfilzen her best individual result was only a 20th place in the pursuit, but the season was able to boast again as sixth place. At her last World Championships in Antholz she was able to achieve some of her best results of the season again, but at an advanced age her form was no longer sufficient for top positions. The best result was a 17th place in the individual.

Between 2000 and 2007 Halinárová took part in several European championships. In 2000 she won Zakopane relay gold. In 2003 in Forni Avoltri , she became European sprint champion. A silver medal was added in the individual from Langdorf in 2006 , which Pavlina Filipova won. Halinárová became world champion at the World Championships in Summer Biathlon 1998 in Brezno, where she won the pursuit after a fifth place in the sprint.

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 relay

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	1						1
2nd place			1				1
3rd place		1	1			1	3
Top 10	11	8th	5	3	1	33	61
Scoring	29	35	29	8th	1	54	156
Starts	63	103	53	8th	1	55	283
Status : after the 2009/2010 season

Web links

• Martina Halinárová in the IBU database (English)
• Martina Halinárová in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )