Megan Bankes
Megan Bankes 
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| birthday | 22nd August 1997 (age 23) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Calgary , Canada | ||||||||||||
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| society | Foothills Nordic | ||||||||||||
| Trainer | Matthias Ahrens | ||||||||||||
| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | February 13, 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | March 10, 2017 | ||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||
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| World Cup balance | |||||||||||||
| Overall World Cup | 80th ( 2018/19 ) | ||||||||||||
| Individual World Cup | 48th (2018/19) | ||||||||||||
| Sprint World Cup | 75th (2018/19) | ||||||||||||
| Pursuit World Cup | 86th (2018/19) | ||||||||||||
| last change: February 23, 2020 | |||||||||||||
Megan Bankes (born August 22, 1997 in Calgary , Canada ) is a Canadian biathlete .
Megan Bankes is from Calgary , but now lives and trains in Canmore, not far away . She started cross-country skiing at the age of three, but looked for new challenges at the age of eleven and decided to take up biathlon and joined the Race Bears youth development program of her home club, Foothills Nordic . Since then she has participated in regional, national and international competitions. In her free time she helps train the youngsters.
She made her international debut on February 28, 2014 at the Biathlon Youth World Championships in Presque Isle (Maine) , USA , and her best placement was a 42nd place in an individual competition. She contested her first race in the IBU Cup at the end of the 2015/16 season , in this individual race she also finished 42nd. She was much more successful the next winter when she took part in the 2017 Biathlon Junior European Championships in Nové Město na Moravě in the Czech Republic . After a disappointing 69th place in the individual competition, she finished 7th in the sprint and was able to work her way up to 2nd place in the pursuit race behind Czech Markéta Davidová. At the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2017 in Brezno - Osrblie , unlike at the European Championships - she remained flawless in the individual competition and won the race with a clear lead over the Austrian Julia Schwaiger and the German Anna Weidel .
After her success at the European and World Championships, she was nominated for her first World Cup race , which she contested in Kontiolahti , Finland , in the winter of 2016/17 . She finished the sprint on rank 78, so she clearly missed the points and qualification for the pursuit race.
statistics
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 |
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| Top 10 | 4th | 4th | ||||
| Scoring | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4th | 14th | 22nd |
| Starts | 6th | 19th | 4th | 4th | 14th | 47 |
| Status: February 23, 2020 | ||||||
World championships
Results at the World Championships:
| World championships | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | Mixed relay | Single mixed relay | |
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| 2019 |
 Ostersund
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75. | 58. | LAP | - | 14th | - | - |
| 2020 |
 Antholz
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87. | 61. | - | - | 9. | - | - |
Web links
- Megan Bankes in the database of the IBU (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Athlete recognition support program on foothillsnordic.ca, accessed on March 8, 2017
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bankes, Megan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1997 |