Michela Carrara

Michela Carrara
Association	Italy
birthday	10th May 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Aosta
Career
society	CS Esercito
Debut in the World Cup	2020
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2017 Osrblie sprint silver 2017 Osrblie persecution
World Cup balance
last change: June 8, 2020

Michela Carrara (born May 10, 1997 in Aosta ) is an Italian biathlete . She became junior sprint world champion in 2017 and has been competing in the World Cup since 2020 .

Career

Michela Carrara is the niece of the Olympic silver medalist Pieralberto Carrara . In her early childhood, she joined the local ski club SC Valdigne Mont Blanc and was initially active in cross-country skiing, before switching to biathlon after a few years. Later she became a member of the sports group of the Italian Army ( Centro Sportivo Esercito ).

After success in national youth competitions, Carrara took part in five consecutive youth and junior world championships from 2015 to 2019. In 2017 she was in Brezno-Osrblie ahead of the Norwegian Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Junior World Champion in the sprint and one day later she won the silver medal in the pursuit behind Valerija Wasnezowa from Russia. In winter 2018/19 she made her debut in the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in the adult division, where she achieved her best result at the end of the season with a sixth place in the Martell sprint . At the beginning of the following winter, she started as a B-team athlete in the IBU Cup, but was appointed to the World Cup team for the first time in Oberhof in January 2020 and subsequently received regular appearances in both individual races and in the relay, with the In shape, Nicole Gontier replaced. With the relay, she finished sixth as the best result in March 2020 in Nové Město . Carrara also took part in the 2020 home world championships in Antholz . There she achieved a 49th place in the 15-kilometer race as the best individual result and also competed as the final runner of the Italian relay together with Lisa Vittozzi , Dorothea Wierer and Federica Sanfilippo . The team in the lead at halftime had already dropped to fifth after two penalty loops from Sanfilippo, Carrara shot another penalty loop and finished in tenth place.

In spring 2020, the Italian winter sports federation took Carrara as one of four biathletes in the A-team (alongside Wierer, Vittozzi and Irene Lardschneider ), which contributed to the significant rejuvenation of the squad.

Placements in the biathlon world cup

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					5	5
Scoring					5	5
Starts	2	5	1		5	13
Status: end of season 2019/20

Web links

• Michela Carrara in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carrara delusa dopo il 10 ° posto con la staffetta azzurra ai Mondiali di biathlon di Anterselva: “La mia gara peggiore”. In: La Stampa. February 22, 2020.
2. ↑ Giorgio Capodaglio: Michela Carrara, la ragazza d'oro: "Amo il biathlon e la sua imprevedibilità". on fondoitalia.it. 17th March 2017.
3. ^ Nicolò Persico: Biathlon, intervista alla giovane Michela Carrara on oasport.it. 17th November 2013.
4. ↑ Michele Brugnara: Biathlon, intervista a Michela Carrara: “Una preparazione ottimale, sono impaziente di gareggiare e misurarmi con le altre” on oasport.it. November 25, 2019.
5. ↑ Biathlon - Nicole Gontier: "Guardare il Mondiale da fuori è stato bruttissimo, ma i tecnici hanno preso la decisione giusta" on fondoitalia.it. April 5, 2020.
6. ↑ New national biathlon team dedicated to the youth on sportnews.bz. May 8, 2020.