Sanna Markkanen

Sanna Markkanen
Association	Finland
birthday	14th April 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Leppävirta , Finland
Career
society	Leppavirran Viri
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2011
Debut in the World Cup	2011 (World Cup)
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: October 8, 2011

Sanna Markkanen (born April 14, 1990 in Leppävirta ) is a Finnish biathlete .

Athletic career

Sanna Markkanen lives in Leppävirta and works for Leppävirran Viri . She was initially a cross-country skier . Since 2007 she took part in races of the Scandinavia Cup and in FIS races. For the 2010/11 season she switched to biathlon. She competed in her first international race in 2011 as part of the IBU Cup in Nové Město na Moravě and was 63 in singles and sprints. The 2011 Biathlon Junior World Championships followed in the same place , in which the Finn finished 19th in singles and 32 in sprints , 40 in the pursuit and ten in the relay. This was followed by appearances in the junior races of the Biathlon European Championships 2011 in Ridnaun , where Markkanen was 45th in individual and sprint, and was taken out of the race as a lapped runner. Finland was also unable to finish the mixed relay race because it was lapped. The 2011 biathlon world championships in Khanty-Mansiysk became a first career highlight . At the competitions in Siberia , the Finn was used in the sprint and finished 95th.

statistics

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	1			22nd	24
Starts	12	39	4th		23	78
As of March 16, 2019

World championships

Results at Biathlon World Championships:

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	-	94.	-	-	-	-
2012	Ruhpolding	98	81.	-	-	LAP (18.)	-
2013	Nové Město	101.	93.	-	-	LAP (21.)	-
2015	Kontiolahti	48.	68.	-	-	16.	-
2016	Oslo	83.	94.	-	-	17th	-
2017	Hochfilzen	83.	-	-	-	15th	-
2019	Ostersund	-	-	-	-	LAP (22.)	-	-

Web links

• Sanna Markkanen in the IBU database (English)
• Sanna Markkanen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)