Matej Kazár

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Matej Kazár biathlon
Matej Kazár at the Biathlon World Cup in Hochfilzen 2012 (training)
Association SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia
birthday 10th May 1983 (age 37)
place of birth KošiceCzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia 
Career
job soldier
society VSC Dukla Banska Bystrica
Trainer Pavel Kobela
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup 2005
Debut in the World Cup 2002
status active
Medal table
EM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
SWM medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
SEM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
JEM medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
SJWM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IBU European biathlon championships
silver 2016 Tyumen Mixed relay
IBU Summer biathlon world championships
gold 2010 Duszniki-Zdrój persecution
silver 2010 Duszniki-Zdrój sprint
bronze 2010 Duszniki-Zdrój Mixed
IBU Summer biathlon European championships
gold 2010 Osrblie sprint
gold 2010 Osrblie persecution
bronze 2010 Osrblie Mixed
Junior European ChampionshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 2000 Zakopane Season
gold 2004 Minsk singles
Junior Summer Biathlon
World ChampionshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 2003 Forni Avoltri Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 41st ( 2015/16 )
Individual World Cup 33. ( 2017/18 )
Sprint World Cup 34th ( 2015/16 )
Pursuit World Cup 43rd ( 2011/12 )
Mass start world cup 36th ( 2015/16 )
last change: February 18, 2019

Matej Kazár (born May 10, 1983 in Košice , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak biathlete .

Career

Matej Kazár lives in Predajna and trains in Brezno . The student is a sports soldier . His club is VSC Dukla Banska Bystrica , where he was trained by Pavel Kobela. Since 2000 Kazár competed in international junior races. Between 2000 and 2004 he competed in five Junior World Championships. The best results were a fifth place in the individual of Khanty-Mansiysk (2001), in the pursuit of Ridanna (2002) and in the pursuit of Kościelisko (2003). He also often competed at the European Junior Championships. He took top ten positions several times. In 2000 he won relay silver in Zakopane and gold in singles in Minsk in 2004 . At the Junior World Championships in summer biathlon , he won the relay silver in Forni Avoltri in 2003 .

In 2002 Kazár made his debut in Lahti in a relay race (16th) in the Biathlon World Cup . After that he only started in the Junior European Cup until 2004. Since 2005 he has competed in the World and European Cups, alternating between them . In the European Cup, Kazár achieved several good placements in the 2007/08 season , including two third places. The Slovakian won his first points in the World Cup in 2008 as 23rd in the pursuit of Ruhpolding . Kazár first started at the biathlon world championships in 2005 in Hochfilzen . Here he was 76th in the sprint and 14th in the relay. In 2006 in Pokljuka , he finished 13th in the mixed relay. In the 2006 Olympic Games of Turin he reached the sprint 57th and in the pursuit of rank 52. At the World Championships in summer biathlon in Ufa he missed in fourth place in the relay only about a medal. He won his first title at the 2010 Summer Biathlon European Championships in Osrblie , where he won the sprint and pursuit titles as well as bronze in the mixed relay with Jana Gereková , Natália Prekopová and Miroslav Matiaško . He was able to confirm these successes at the 2010 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Duszniki-Zdrój . In the sprint, he won the silver medal behind Dušan Šimočko , won the subsequent pursuit race and was with Gereková, Ľubomíra Kalinová and Šimočko the bronze medal in the mixed competition. The 2010/11 season brought the improvement of the personal best in a sprint in Hochfilzen to 21st place. At the Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk , Kazár was 92nd of the individual and 78th of the sprint. In the further course of the season he took part in the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Nové Město na Moravě , without building on his earlier successes as 24th in the sprint and 14th in the pursuit. In the 2011/12 season the Czech was able to finish 17th in a sprint in Kontiolahti for the first time among the top 20 in the World Cup.

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 1 1
Top 10 1 20th 21st
Scoring 8th 27 17th 1 66 119
Starts 32 95 47 1 66 241
As of February 18, 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 2006 winter Olympics | TurinItalyItaly  57. 52. - - -
Olympic Winter Games 2014 winter Olympics | SochiRussiaRussia  37. 23. 19th 15th 12. 5.
Olympic Winter Games 2018 winter Olympics | PyeongchangKorea SouthSouth Korea  22nd 31. 34. - 18th 20th

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