Sergiu Balan
Sergiu Balan 
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| Association |
 Moldova
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| birthday | August 15, 1987 |
| place of birth | Chișinău |
| Career | |
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| job | college student |
| society | Army Sports Club Chisinau |
| Trainer | Nadejda Bria |
| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2008 |
| Debut in the World Cup | 2009 (World Cup) |
| status | active |
| World Cup balance | |
| last change: March 13, 2009 | |
Sergiu Balan (also Serghei Balan ; born August 15, 1987 in Chișinău ) is a Moldovan biathlete .
Sergiu Balan lives and trains in Chișinău and starts for the local army sports club. He has been running biathlon since 2000 and is trained by Nadejda Bria. The student contested his first international race in the context of the Junior World Championships 2005 in Kontiolahti and was 74th of the sprint. Since the 2005/06 season he also competes in the Junior European Cup. The highlight of 2006 was the Junior European Championships, in which Balan took part in Langdorf without achieving any results worth mentioning. At the 2007 Junior World Championships in Martell , the athlete only achieved results beyond 80th place. He ran his third and last Junior World Championships in 2008 in Ruhpolding , where he placed similarly to last year's results. Also at the Junior European Championships shortly afterwards in Nové Město na Moravě Balan only placed in the back places.
At the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2008 in Haute-Maurienne Balan joined the mixed relay and was sixth with Natalja Levtschenkowa , Alexandra Camenșcic and Victor Pînzaru . He has been competing in the men's IBU Cup since the 2008/09 season . After he was 119th in his first sprint in Obertilliach , he stabilized his results in the 70s and 80s ranks in the following period. In Osrblie he even just missed the first point wins with low 40 placements. The highlight of Balan's first men's season was participation in the 2009 Biathlon World Championships in Pyeongchang , where a 91st place in the individual was comparatively good and he was also 105th in the sprint.
Balan also occasionally takes part in cross-country skiing competitions, mostly in the cross-country alpine cup or national championships. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Balan was part of Moldova's squad for the cross-country sprint, but was not used. He also started at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , where he finished 100th in the sprint competition.
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
| placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | total |
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| Scoring | ||||||
| Starts | 4th | 6th | 10 | |||
| Status: after the 2009/2010 season | ||||||
Web links
- Sergiu Balan in the IBU database (English)
- Sergiu Balan in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Sergiu Balan in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Balan, Sergiu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balan, Sergiu; Balan, Sergei |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moldovan biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chișinău |