Megan Imrie
Megan Imrie 
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 Canada
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| birthday | February 14, 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Kenora, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| society | Falcon Sports Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Matthias Ahrens Geret Coyne |
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Admission to the national team |
2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall World Cup | 51st ( 2011/12 ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last change: end of career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Megan Imrie (born February 14, 1986 in Kenora , Ontario ) is a former Canadian biathlete .
Megan Imrie lives in Falcon Lake , starts for Falcon Sports Club and trains in Canmore , Alberta with Geret Coyne and Matthias Ahrens . She has been part of the Canadian national team since 2002, and has been taking part in international junior competitions since 2004. In Méribel she made her debut in the Junior European Cup, in Haute-Maurienne she competed in her first of four Junior World Championships. The best result was 21st place in the sprint. The Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti in 2005 and in Presque Isle in 2006 did not bring any significant results. It was not until her last junior world title competition in Martell that she achieved better results with tenth place in the individual, 16 in the sprint, 20 in the pursuit and seven in the relay. At the North American Junior Championships, Imrie was the 2006 Pursuit Champion, second in the sprint and fourth in the individual. At the junior North America Cup she won the overall standings.
Nationally, Imrie won the Canadian relay championship in 2005 and was runner-up in sprint and mass start. The following year she won the Pursuit title after finishing runner-up in the sprint. There was also bronze in singles. In 2007 she won the individual, sprint and pursuit titles in Charlo . In the same year she made her debut in Nové Město na Moravě in the Biathlon European Cup . She finished 18th in the sprint and eighth in the pursuit. At the start of the 2007/08 season , Imrie also made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup . In Kontiolahti, the Canadian finished 76th in the individual. At the third World Cup station in Pokljuka , she was 49th in the sprint and achieved her best result in the World Cup so far. The highlight of the first season in the senior sector was participation in the 2008 Biathlon World Championships in Östersund , where Imrie was used in four competitions. In the mixed relay, she was on the side of Megan Tandy , Robin Clegg and Jean-Philippe Leguellec 15th, in the relay competition for women with Tandy, Zina Kocher and Sandra Keith 19th.In singles, she was 51st, in the sprint 75th. At the end of the season she won the Canadian championship in singles. In the summer of 2008 she won gold in sprint and pursuit and silver behind Kocher at the Rollskie North America Championships. In Hochfilzen in 2009 Imrie missed her first point in the World Cup by one place as 41st. Imrie participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was the 62nd place in the individual. With the relay she finished 15th. After the games, she won World Cup points for the first time in Kontiolahti as 32nd in a sprint. She confirmed this performance in the post-Olympic season with a sprint in Pokljuka. In the 2011/12 season , she first improved her best performance in a sprint in Hochfilzen to 25th place, later she achieved her first place in the top 20 as 20th of an individual in Nové Město, a little later she improved again to 17th place during a sprint on Holmenkollen in Oslo .
After the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 , where Imrie consistently placed between 27 and 31 and also took part in a pursuit race for the only time, she ended her career.
To raise money for her sport, Imrie took part in the Bold Beautiful Biathlon calendar project.
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 | 9 | 9 | ||||
| Scoring | 3 | 10 | 4th | 1 | 26th | 44 |
| Starts | 21st | 45 | 15th | 1 | 26th | 108 |
| Status: end of career | ||||||
Web links
- Megan Imrie in the database of the IBU (English)
- official homepage
- Portrait on the Canadian Biathlon Federation website
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Imrie, Megan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kenora (Ontario) , Ontario , Canada |