Soňa Mihoková

Soňa Mihoková (born November 11, 1971 in Liptovský Mikuláš ) is a former Slovak biathlete .

Career

Soňa Mihoková started her career as a cross-country skier. At the Junior World Championships in 1989 in Vang , Norway , she won the silver medal with the Czechoslovak 4x5-kilometer relay, which also included Lenka Tučková , Eva Pradecková and Iveta Zelingerová . The following year she won the Junior World Championships in 1990 in Les Saisies , France , she won the silver medal in the 15 kilometer competition in free technique.

The sports teacher from Liptovský Hrádok , who started for KB Osrblie , has been running biathlon since 1993. She made her World Cup debut as 34th in an individual in Bad Gastein . At the second World Cup station of the season in Pokljuka , she came in eleventh in the sprint for the first time in the points. The highlight of her first season was her participation in the Olympic Games . Here she was able to take a good twelfth place in the sprint race. The following season she finished fourth in an individual at the season opener in Bad Gastein, making it into the top ten for the first time. At the world championships of the season in Antholz , she just missed the medal ranks both in the sprint and with the relay, which also included Martina Halinárová , Anna Murínová and Erika Lehotska , finishing fourth. The upward trend continued over the next season. At the Holmenkollen in Oslo , Mihoková came third in the individual for the first time on the podium. The 1996 biathlon world championships brought further good placements. She was eleventh in the sprint and sixth in the team. After the world championships, she won her only world cup race ahead of the Chinese Yu Shumei with a sprint in Hochfilzen .

In the 1996/97 season she was fit again in time for the season highlight, the World Championships in Osrblie . In the sprint and team competition, she was fourth here, fifth in the individual and seventh in the relay. Although she took part in all other world championships until 2007, she could never achieve such a result in world championships again. To this day she was denied a medal. The Olympic Games went very well again for Mihoková. In Nagano , she narrowly missed medals in the sprint and with the relay, which now also included Tatiana Kutlíková in addition to Halinárová and Murinova, finishing fourth. Mihoková also achieved good results again at the next Olympic Games in Salt Lake City . In the individual, she was 14 and the relay - in addition to her two long-term partners now with Marcela Pavkovčeková - came in fifth place. Although she also took part in the following games in Turin in 2006 , she could no longer achieve such placements. The relay, which often achieved good results not only at major events but also in the World Cup, had meanwhile passed its zenith and was only tenth. In 2000 the Slovak quartet won a title once at an international championship, the European Championships in Zakopane . Mihoková also won bronze in the singles championship in Langdorf in 2006 .

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place		1					1
2nd place
3rd place	1					1	2
Top 10	7th	11	1		1	34	54
Scoring	22nd	41	17th	8th	2	50	140
Starts	56	100	50	8th	2	52	268

Web links

• Soňa Mihoková in the database of the IBU (English)