Pavlina Filipova

Pavlina Filipova
Full name	Павлина Филипова
Association	Bulgaria
birthday	20th December 1975
place of birth	Berkowiza
Career
job	policewoman
society	Levski
Trainer	Wassil Jordanow Tonchew
Admission to the national team	1996
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 1 × 2 ×
European biathlon championships bronze Minsk 2004 singles gold Langdorf 2006 singles silver Langdorf 2006 Season bronze Nove Mesto 2008 persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	15th (1999/00)
last change: January 30, 2009

Pavlina Filipowa ( Bulgarian Павлина Филипова ; born December 20, 1975 in Berkowiza ) is a Bulgarian biathlete . She was probably the most successful Bulgarian biathlete of the 2000s and took part in three Winter Olympics and ten Biathlon World Championships .

Pavlina Filipowa is a police officer and lives in Berkowiza. She has been running biathlon since 1996 and has been part of the Bulgarian national team for just as long. Your club is Levski, your coach Wassil Jordanow Tonchew. The Bulgarian has been competing in the biathlon World Cup since the 1996/97 season . She contested her first race in 1997 in a sprint in Oberhof , which she finished 44th. A little later she achieved a result in the top ten as ninth in a team competition with the Bulgarian team. The high point of the first season for Filipowa were the Biathlon World Championships in 1997 in Osrblie , where it was not used in the individual races, but was eleventh in the relay and eighth in the team competition. The following season brought her first good individual results for the Bulgarian. In Östersund she was 15th to win World Cup points for the first time. In the last pre-Olympic race she came sixth in a sprint for the first time in the top ten. The individual at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano brought with fourth place one of the best career results for Filipowa. In the sprint, she reached 41st place and was 16th with the relay. After the games, she started the pursuit race in Pokljuka , which was based on the Olympic sprint and is classified as a world championship . There she was 33rd. After the season, the Bulgarian finished 31st in the overall ranking of the World Cup.

The 1998/99 season was less successful for Filipowa . The 1999 World Cup in Kontiolahti and Oslo did not bring any results among the top 40. The 1999/2000 season , which was Filipowa's best, was far better . With a third place in an individual in Pokljuka, she achieved her best result in a World Cup race. She also achieved the same placement in a relay race in the same place. The 2000 World Championships at Holmenkollen in Oslo brought the results 29 in the individual, 26 in the sprint and eleven in the pursuit as well as 20 in the mass start and six with the relay. In the overall ranking of the season Filipowa took 25th place. 2001 brought another very good result at the World Cup in Pokljuka. There the Bulgarian ran in the singles to the 24th place in the singles, the 20th place in the sprint, the 25th place in the pursuit race, a sixth place with the relay and was fourth in the mass start and missed a medal against Liv Grete Poirée . Also in 2002 , Filipova missed a medal behind Russia as fourth in the relay race of the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City by almost six seconds.

For the next four years Filipova was able to maintain its performance roughly. At the world championships she ran several good places. In 2003 she achieved the best results in Chanty-Mansiysk, eleventh in the sprint, 15 in the pursuit and 17 in the mass start, and in 2004 in Oberhof, 13th in the individual. The 2005 results in Hochfilzen were somewhat less good . Her third Olympic Winter Games ran Filipowa 2006 in Turin . There she ran in the individual on the 43rd place, in the sprint on the 46th place and in the pursuit she was 32. With the relay she came in eighth place. Since the games, the average performance of the Bulgarian has deteriorated from season to season. At the 2007 in Antholz and 2008 in Östersund Filipowa still achieved results in the middle field, but did not achieve results among the top 40.

Since the mid-2000s Filipowa started more often at the European biathlon championships and was sometimes quite successful. In 2004 she won bronze in the singles in Minsk and missed another medal in the relay when she came fourth. The Bulgarian achieved her best results in 2006 in Langdorf , where she won the individual title and together with Irina Nikultschina , Nina Klenowska and Ekaterina Dafowska won the silver medal in the relay race behind Belarus and ahead of the German starters. At the home European championships in 2007, Bansko missed Filipowa as fourth in relay and pursuit a medal. She won the medal in the pursuit a year later in third place in Nové Město na Moravě .

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 relay

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place	1					3	4th
Top 10	3	4th	4th	4th	2	36	53
Scoring	19th	41	44	17th	2	47	170
Starts	40	92	64	17th	2	48	263
Status : after the 2009/2010 season

Web links

• Pawlina Filipowa in the IBU database (English)