Romina Demetz made her international debut at the Biathlon Junior World Championships in 1998 in Jericho and Valcartier , where she was used in the sprint and was 30th. In 1999 she contested her first race in the Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding and was 76th in the sprint and did not finish the relay race alongside Michela Ponza , Nathalie Santer and Siegrid Pallhuber . In Antholz , she achieved a place in the top ten for the first time with the relay in the same composition in eighth place and achieved her best career result in an individual race with 58th place in the sprint. This was the only time she qualified for a World Cup pursuit race, but did not take part in this race. In 1999 she started again at the Junior World Championships in Pokljuka and was now used in all four races. In the individual, the Italian was 31st, in the sprint 21st, in the pursuit race 24th and with Michela Ponza and Dominique Vallet fifth in the relay race. In Hochfilzen a year later she took part in the Junior World Championships for the third and last time. In the individual she was 40th, 19th in the sprint, 14th in the pursuit and with Katja Haller and Fabienne Vittaz ninth in the relay. From 1999 to 2002 Demetz did not play any further in the World Cup, she was mainly used in the second division of biathlon, the Biathlon European Cup . In the 2000/01 season she was tenth overall in the competition. During the season she also took part in the 2001 European Biathlon Championships in Haute-Maurienne , the first international championships for women. In the individual she ran on the 27th, in the sprint on the 42nd and in the pursuer on the 36th place. A year later she was in Kontiolahti 24th in the individual, 31st in the sprint and 37th in the pursuit.
At the start of the 2002/03 season , there was again a use in the World Cup, in which Demetz achieved her second-best individual result in the World Cup as 62nd of a sprint in Östersund . She continued to run mainly in the European Cup and achieved her best result in the racing series as fourth in a sprint in Forni Avoltri in 2003 , which she was able to repeat in Gurnigel later in the season . At the 2003 European Biathlon Championships in Forni Avoltri, the Italian was 16th in the individual, 34th in the sprint and 34th in the pursuit. With Siegrid Pallhuber, Katja Haller and Leda Abati , she was also eighth in the relay race. After good season performances Demetz was nominated for the first time for the biathlon world championships 2003 in Khanty-Mansiysk . At the world championships in Siberia she was 63rd in the individual and with Michela Ponza, Nathalie Santer and Saskia Santer 12th in the relay race. In the further course of the year Demetz also took part in the 2003 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Forni Avoltri, where she won her only medal at a major international event with Maryke Ciaramidaro , Katja Haller and Dominique Vallet with bronze in the relay race. In 2004 the European Championships in Minsk were the only international championship. Demetz finished 30th in the individual, 26th in the sprint and 12th in the pursuit in Belarus. The 2004/05 season was the only one in which Demetz was used primarily in the World Cup. At the start of the season in Beitostølen , she achieved her best season result with Michela Ponza, Saskia Santer and Katja Haller in sixth place. The last highlight was the Biathlon World Championships 2005 in Hochfilzen. She was only used in the singles, which she finished in 81st.
World Cup statistics
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
Italy
