Megan Tandy
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Full name | Megan Elizabeth Tandy | |||||||||||||||||||||
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birthday | 10th September 1988 (age 31) | |||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Victoria , Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||
Career | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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society | BC High Performance Biathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Ilmar Heinicke Fiona Coy |
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Admission to the national team |
2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Debut in the World Cup | 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Overall World Cup | 36th ( 2014/15 ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Individual World Cup | 10. (2014/15) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sprint World Cup | 51st (2014/15) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Pursuit World Cup | 40th (2014/15) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Mass start world cup | 32nd (2014/15) | |||||||||||||||||||||
last change: end of career |
Megan Elizabeth Tandy (temporarily Megan Heinicke , born September 10, 1988 in Victoria , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian biathlete .
Career
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Megan Tandy comes from Prince George , British Columbia and initially started for the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club , later for BC High Performance Biathlon . The professional athlete started biathlon in 2001 and competed in international youth races from 2006. First she was trained by Geret Coyne , then by Fiona Coy and later by Ilmar Heinicke . In Presque Isle , she started in her first of three Junior World Championships. In the individual she was eighth there. The following year she finished 13th in the individual and sixth with the relay in Martell . In 2008 she was also 13th in the individual, 14th in the sprint and eighth in the pursuit in Ruhpolding . Since 2006 she has also competed in the Junior European Cup and achieved good results especially towards the end of the 2007/08 season with several single-digit ranks. In the summer of that year, Tandy started in the junior competitions of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2008 and was fourth in the sprint and bronze medalist in the pursuit behind Anaïs Bescond and Marine Bolliet . A year later she won the sprint and pursuit titles in Oberhof .
Her debut in the senior division gave Tandy at the Biathlon World Championships in 2008 in Östersund , where she was used in four races. With the mixed relay was on the side of Megan Imrie , Robin Clegg and Jean-Philippe Leguellec 15, in the relay competition of women with Imrie, Zina Kocher and Sandra Keith 19. In individual could be 70th in Sprint 77. In Pokljuka Tandy won World Cup points for the first time in 2009 as 35th in an individual. In the following sprint she ran to 21st place. Megan Tandy took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was 36th place in the pursuit. With the relay she finished 15th. At the 2010 Canadian Championships , Tandy won the sprint and pursuit titles. In Kontiolahti , Tandy improved her best place in a sprint to 15th place in the 2013/14 season .
In order to raise money for her sport and especially to finance better preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in her home country Canada, Tandy took part in the Bold Beautiful Biathlon calendar project. After the 2010 Winter Games, she married her German trainer Ilmar Heinicke, moved to his home town of Klingenthal and gave birth to their son in November 2010. After the divorce in September 2014, she took the surname Tandy again and, alongside her active career, worked on her master's degree in sports management at the University of Bayreuth .
In January 2019, Megan Tandy announced her retirement from active competitive sports.
Competition balance
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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3rd place | ||||||
Top 10 | 14th | 14th | ||||
Scoring | 7th | 8th | 10 | 2 | 37 | 64 |
Starts | 20th | 51 | 23 | 2 | 37 | 133 |
Status: end of career |
World championships
World Championship | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | Mixed relay | |
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2008 |
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70. | 77. | - | - | 19th | 15th |
2009 |
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53. | 71. | - | - | 9. | - |
2010 |
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2012 |
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30th | 52. | 42. | - | 13. | - |
2013 |
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50. | 54. | 44. | - | 12. | 14th |
2015 |
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21st | 23. | 27. | 23. | 9. | - |
2017 |
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43. | 64. | - | - | 16. | - |
winter Olympics
winter Olympics | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | Mixed relay | |
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2010 |
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49. | 45. | 35. | - | 14th | |
2014 |
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51. | 59. | DNF | - | 8th. | - |
2018 |
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- | 57. | DNS | - | - | - |
Web links
- Homepage
- Megan Tandy in the database of the IBU (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jason Peters: 'Our Megan' seeking Olympic support. The Prince George Citizen , November 29, 2013, accessed January 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ted Clarke: Tandy gunning for World Cup podium. The Prince George Citizen , September 2, 2015, accessed January 2, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tandy, Megan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinicke, Megan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian biathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Victoria , British Columbia |