Megan Tandy

Megan Tandy
Full name	Megan Elizabeth Tandy
Association	Canada
birthday	10th September 1988 (age 31)
place of birth	Victoria , Canada
Career
society	BC High Performance Biathlon
Trainer	Ilmar Heinicke Fiona Coy
Admission to the national team	2005
Debut in the World Cup	2008
status	resigned
End of career	2019
Medal table
JSWM medals 2 × 0 × 1 × KM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships bronze 2008 Haute Maurienne Roller ski pursuit gold 2009 Oberhof Roller ski sprint gold 2009 Oberhof Roller ski pursuit Canadian Championships gold 2010 Canmore sprint gold 2010 Canmore persecution
World Cup balance
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

In January 2018 in Oberhof

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
1st place
2nd place
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
year	place
2008	Ostersund	70.	77.	-	-	19th	15th
2009	Pyeongchang	53.	71.	-	-	9.	-
2010	Khanty-Mansiysk						11.
2012	Ruhpolding	30th	52.	42.	-	13.	-
2013	Nové Město	50.	54.	44.	-	12.	14th
2015	Kontiolahti	21st	23.	27.	23.	9.	-
2017	Hochfilzen	43.	64.	-	-	16.	-

winter Olympics

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2010	Vancouver	49.	45.	35.	-	14th
2014	Sochi	51.	59.	DNF	-	8th.	-
2018	Pyeongchang	-	57.	DNS	-	-	-

Web links

Commons : Megan Tandy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage
• Megan Tandy in the database of the IBU (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jason Peters: 'Our Megan' seeking Olympic support. The Prince George Citizen , November 29, 2013, accessed January 2, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Ted Clarke: Tandy gunning for World Cup podium. The Prince George Citizen , September 2, 2015, accessed January 2, 2017 .