Mitja Drinovec

Mitja Drinovec
Association	Slovenia
birthday	22nd February 1996 (age 24)
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2015
Debut in the World Cup	2016
status	active
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	106th ( 2016/17 )
Individual World Cup	63rd (2016/17)
Continental Cup balance
Overall IBU Cup	90th ( 2015/16 )
last change: end of season 2017/18

Mitja Drinovec (born February 22, 1996 ) is a Slovenian biathlete .

Career

Mitja Drinovec took part in international competitions for the first time at the Junior World Championships 2014 in Presque Isle and reached 34th place in both the sprint and the pursuit. At the Junior European Championships in 2015 he achieved a 29th place in the pursuit as the best placement. At the junior world championships of the same year he reached eighth place with the relay, as in the previous year, his best individual result he achieved again in the pursuit race with a 44th place.

At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , Drinovec took part in an IBU Cup race for the first time. His best result this season was a 21st place in the sprint. At the Junior World Championships he was able to reach 19th place in the sprint and only reached 36th place in the subsequent pursuit. The Junior European Championships were more successful for him this year. In the sprint he finished seventh and in the pursuit he reached the top ten with a tenth place.

In the 2016/17 season , Drinovec took part in the World Cup opener in Östersund and immediately achieved the points in his first World Cup race with a 39th place. But he was unable to build on this result for the rest of the season. At the Junior European Championships he reached the 14th place in the individual and at the Junior World Championships the 26th place in the pursuit. At the end of the season he took part regularly in races of the IBU Cup, but could not achieve a top ten placement.

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season , Drinovec was able to achieve its first top ten placement in the IBU Cup with eighth place. After two races in the IBU Cup, he started the rest of the season in the World Cup . With the Slovenian relay he was tenth in Ruhpolding , together with Miha Dovžan , Lenart Oblak and Jakov Fak . This was the best result of a Slovenian relay since tenth place at the 2015 Biathlon World Championships . This result could repeat the relay at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang . At the Olympic Winter Games, Drinovec also started in singles and sprints. In these races he achieved an 80th and a 72nd place. At the last relay race of the season, Drinovec was able to achieve ninth place together with Klemen Bauer , Jakov Fak and Miha Dovžan.

statistics

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10					2	2
Scoring	1				9	10
Starts	3	10	2		9	24
As of December 28, 2018

winter Olympics

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	80.	72.	-	-	10.	-

Junior World Championships

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2014	Presque Isle	54.	34.	34.	8th.
2015	Minsk	49.	49.	44.	8th.
2016	Cheile Grădiştei	23.	19th	36.	DNS
2017	Osrblie	41.	44.	26th	-

Web links

Commons : Mitja Drinovec  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mitja Drinovec in the IBU database (English)