Milanko Petrovic

Milanko Petrovic
Association	Serbia
birthday	21st September 1988 (age 31)
Career
society	SK Jelenak
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2005
Debut in the World Cup	2007
status	resigned
End of career	2014
World Cup balance
last change: January 13, 2012

Milanko Petrović (born September 21, 1988 in Sjenica ) is a former Serbian biathlete .

Milanko Petrović starts for SK Jelenak . He has competed in the Junior European Cup since 2005. In 2006 he started at the European Junior Championships in Langdorf , where he was 75th in the individual and 67th in the sprint. In the summer of the year the Serb competed at the Junior World Championships in the summer biathlon in Ufa and achieved 15th place in sprint and pursuit as the best results. Petrović has been running in the European Biathlon Cup since the 2006/07 season . He contested his first race in 2006 in Obertilliach and was 108th of the sprint. In Martell he was used in 2007 at the Junior World Championships and was 63rd in the sprint race. At the European Junior Championships in Bansko his best result was a 40th place in the individual. At the start of the 2007/08 season , Petrović made his debut in Kontiolahti in the Biathlon World Cup . In the individual he was 118. In 2008 three major events followed one another. First Petrović was 77th in the individual and 76th in the sprint at the Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding , then 102nd in the individual, 112th in the sprint and 24th in the relay race at the Biathlon World Championships in 2008 in Östersund . After the World Cup, he ran at the Biathlon European Championships in 2008 in Nové Město na Moravě and was there 65th of the individual. In Haute-Maurienne , Petrović finally ran at the 2008 Summer Biathlon World Championships . In the cross-country competitions, the Serb finished 30th in the sprint and 25th in the pursuit, in the better-filled competitions on roller skis, he reached 28th in the sprint and 23rd in the pursuit. A 67th place in the Presque Isle sprint in the 2010/11 season was the Serb's best World Cup result so far. It was also Petrović's first place in the top 100. His best result in the European Cup he achieved so far in a poorly filled pursuit race in Bansko, which he finished 17th in 2007. Milanko Petrović took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. His best result was 81st place in the sprint. In the individual, he was 87th The Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk brought exactly the same placements as the Olympic Games. In the 2011/12 season , Petrović achieved 51st place in the individual and 58th place in a sprint in Nové Město na Moravě on his best World Cup results to date. Milanko Petrović was able to improve this result at the sprint in Oberhof in the 2012/13 season . There he was ranked 39th and won World Cup points for the first time. It was also the first ever point win by a Serbian biathlete in the World Cup. He collected more points as 40th in the subsequent pursuit and in the further course of the season as 35th of a pursuer at Holmenkollen in Oslo . He also competed in the 2012 World Championships in Ruhpolding and in 2013 in Nové Město. In Bavaria he was 112th of the individual and 65th of the pursuit, the relay was taken out of the race as in 2011 and again in 2013 as a lapped relay. In the Czech Republic he was also 88th of the individual, qualified as 49th of the sprint for the pursuit, in which he achieved his best result at a world championship with 47th place. At the European Championships 2012 in Osrblie , Petrović finished ninth in the sprint, his best international placement, was 23rd in the pursuit and 20th in the individual, in 2013 in Bansko he was 37th in the individual and 22nd in the sprint. In the 2013/14 season , Petrović improved his best performance in the first sprint of the season in Östersund to 31st place.

In addition to biathlon, Petrović also does cross-country skiing . In the sport he has also been participating in races since 2005. Here he mainly starts in lower-class events, for example in FIS races, Alpine , Balkan and Scandinavian Cups . However, his results are so far not worth mentioning, the best results are in the top 20. At the Balkan Championships in 2003 he won the bronze medal in the 10-kilometer race. In December 2013 he won gold in the 10 km freestyle at the Winter Universiade in Lago di Tesero . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he competed in biathlon and cross-country skiing. In biathlon, he finished 69th in sprint and individual. In cross-country skiing, 50th place in the 50 km mass start race was his best result.

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring		1			13	14th
Starts	16	41	2		13	72
As of January 5, 2013

Web links

• Milanko Petrović in the database of the IBU (English)
• Milanko Petrović in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Milanko Petrović in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )