Merle Viirmaa
Merle Viirmaa 
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| Association |
 Estonia
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| birthday | June 15, 1974 |
| place of birth | Tallinn, Soviet Union
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| Career | |
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| society | Dünamo |
| Debut in the World Cup | 1993 (?) |
| status | resigned |
| End of career | 1995 |
| World Cup balance | |
| last change: end of career | |
Merle Viirmaa (born June 15, 1974 in Tallinn ) is a former Estonian biathlete .
Merle Viirmaa lives in Saha . She started biathlon in 1987 and started for Dünamo . After Estonia separated from the Soviet Union in 1991, when she had reached the appropriate age at about the same time, she was promoted to the national team of her country. In 1993 she competed in her first World Cup races in the second half of the 1992/93 season . At the second stop of the following season in Pokljuka , the Estonian achieved her best international result in an individual race with 42nd place in an individual. Viirmaa's first international championship at the height of its career was participation in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . She came to the side of Jelena Poljakova-Všivtseva , Eveli Peterson and Krista Lepik in the relay race and finished there in 12th place. The only participation in a biathlon world championship followed the following year in Antholz , where she was 76th in the sprint and 65th in the individual. After the season she ended her career.
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
| placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | team | Season | total |
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| Top 10 | |||||||
| Scoring | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Starts | 6th | 7th | 1 | 14th | |||
| Status : End of career, including World Cup and Olympics, data probably not complete | |||||||
Web links
- Merle Viirmaa in the database of the IBU (English)
- Merle Viirmaa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- World Cup results
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Viirmaa, Merle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tallinn |