Ivan Masařík started for the ŠKP Jablonec nad Nisou during his playing days . The sports teacher and trained auto mechanic, who lives in Jablonec nad Nisou, began biathlon in 1985. He took part in his first race in the Biathlon World Cup in the late 1980s . The first major event was the Biathlon World Championships in Minsk in 1990 . With Tomáš Kos , Jiří Holubec and Jan Matouš he won the silver medal with the team from Czechoslovakia behind the team from the GDR, in 1991 he was fifth in the same competition in Lahti . At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , the athlete who last started for Czechoslovakia was 66th in the individual, 12th in the sprint and seventh together with Martin Rypl , Kos and Tomáš Holubec as the final runner of the relay. At the beginning of the 1992/93 season Masařík was able to achieve his first World Cup points in a normal World Cup race as seventh of an individual in Pokljuka . Overall, he was in the top ten ten times in his career. Once, in 1998 in Hochfilzen , he reached the podium in third place. With the relay he was able to win a race in Hochfilzen in 2000 . In the overall standings was a 23rd place in the 1993/94 season Masařík's best result. After the collapse of Czechoslovakia, he started at the 1993 World Championships in Borovets for the Czech Republic and was 12th in the relay. The next major event was the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer with 34th place in the individual and 12th in the relay race. At the 1995 World Championships in Antholz , Masařík won the silver medal in the team competition alongside Garabik, Dostál and Jiří Holubec, his second world championship medal of his career. In addition, the world championships with place 28 in the individual and 19 in the sprint as well as the world title fights in 1996 in Ruhpolding with the ranks 24 in the individual and 28 in the sprint brought him good, if not outstanding, results. This continued in 1997 with a 27th place in the singles from Osrblie , although the further results were rather disappointing.
Masařík achieved his best performance in major events at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . With fourth place in the individual, he missed a medal by just one place behind the Belarusian Oleksij Ajdarow , he was also 15th in the sprint competition and with Petr Garabík , Zdeněk Vítek and again Holubec, again as the final runner with the relay, he got the unsatisfactory 14th . Space. In the pursuit race based on the Olympic sprint at the 1998 World Cup in Pokljuka, Masařík ran in 24th place. At the 1999 World Championships , which were spread over Kontiolahti and Oslo because of the freak weather , 13th place was his best result. The last time Masařík was in the top 20 at a World Cup in Oslo in 2000 , he finished 17th in the pursuit after a 26th place in the sprint. The 2000 European Biathlon Championships in Zakopane were successful , where the Czech won the silver medal behind Andreas Stitzl in the sprint. With the relay he missed another medal in fourth place and was also eleventh in the pursuit and 13th in the individual. The best result at Masařík's last World Cup in Pokljuka was 47th in the pursuit. Last major event and conclusion of international career were the 2002 Olympic Winter Games of Salt Lake City , where the Czech 42nd was the function SINGLE and Garabik, Roman Dostal again achieved a very good result and Vítek than in fifth place in the relay race. After his active career, Masařík took on an official role at the Czech Biathlon Federation.
Results in the biathlon world cup
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
Czech Republic
