Miroslava Špácová

Miroslava Špácová
Association	Czech Republic
birthday	May 23, 1986
place of birth	Czechoslovakia
Career
society	Střelka Brno
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2007
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: October 10, 2009

Miroslava Špácová (born May 23, 1986 ) is a Czech biathlete .

Miroslava Špácová starts for Střelka Brno . She made her international debut in 2006 at the Junior World Cup in Obertilliach . This was followed by the 2007 Junior World Championship in Martell as the first major event. Špácová finished 43rd in the individual, 47th in the sprint and 43rd in the pursuit race. The junior European championships of the year in Bansko were more successful , where the Czech finished 11th in the individual, 16 in the sprint and 12 in the pursuit. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season she made her debut in Geilo in the performance area. In her first race, a sprint, she finished ninth with a first top ten result. In Bansko she was able to finish third in the sprint and the pursuit behind Pawlina Filipowa and Eliška Švikruhová during the season , she achieved her best results in this competition with the podium finishes. In the overall standings, Špácová was 13. The highlight of the season was the 2008 European Biathlon Championships in Nové Město na Moravě . With 41st place in the individual, 33rd in the sprint and 23rd in the pursuit, she achieved mixed results. The 2009 European Championships in Ufa achieved better results with positions eleven in the individual, 18 in the sprint and 16 in the pursuit.

In the summer of 2009, Špácová appeared for the first time more intensively in cross-country competitions in the summer biathlon . In the IBU Summer Cup 2009 she started in the first two summer cups of the season. In Bystřice pod Hostýnem she only had to admit defeat to her compatriot Veronika Hořejší , the German Judith Wagner slipped between the two in the pursuit . The following competitions in sprint and pursuit she won both in Predajná . At the Summer Biathlon European Championships 2009 in Nové Město Špácová reached places 24 in the sprint and 22 in the mass start.

Web links

• Miroslava Špácová in the IBU database (English)