Uroš Velepec
Uroš Velepec 
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.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia Slovenia
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| birthday | 17th May 1967 (age 53) |
| place of birth | Dolsko, Yugoslavia
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| Career | |
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| job | Biathlon coach |
| society | SD Sokol |
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Admission to the national team |
1988 |
| Debut in the World Cup | 1989 (?) |
| status | resigned |
| End of career | 1994 |
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| last change: end of career | |
Uroš Velepec (born May 17, 1967 in Dolsko ) is a former Yugoslav and Slovenian biathlete and two-time Olympian (1992, 1994) who later worked as a triathlete . He lives in Domžale .
Career
Uroš Velepec is the younger brother of Jure Velepec (* 1965),
He started biathlon in 1988 and started for SD Sokol . At the Biathlon World Championships in 1989 in Feistritz an der Drau , Velepec was 61st in the individual and 72nd in the sprint race.
1992 Winter Olympics
He was only able to run his next major event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , after Slovenia separated from Yugoslavia and a new national team with Slovenian athletes was formed. In France, the Slovene was 68th in the sprint and as a starter with Aleksander Grajf , his brother and Janez Ožbolt 20th in the relay race. Velepec reached only starts at world championships for Slovenia in the inter-Olympic season 1993 in Borowetz . In the individual he was 47th, achieved his best international result in the sprint with a seventh place and came with the relay in the Olympic line-up - Velepec this time as the final runner - on a 13th place.
1994 Winter Olympics
A last career highlight and conclusion were the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , where he was 36th of the sprint and with his brother, Boštjan Lekan and Ožbolt as the starting runner, tenth in relay.
In 2000, the then 34-year-old was able to win the Ultraman Hawaii (10 km swim, 421 km bike and 84 km run) in the triathlon and repeat this success in 2001.
Coaching career
Velepec was the Slovenian national coach in biathlon before he coached the Ukrainian women from 2014 to 2018. He then returned to Slovenia as head coach.
Biathlon World Cup placements
| placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | team | Season | total |
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| Top 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Scoring | 2 | 4th | 3 | 9 | |||
| Starts | 15th | 17th | 3 | 35 | |||
| Status : end of career, data not complete | |||||||
Web links
- Uroš Velepec in the IBU database (English)
- Uroš Velepec in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Statistics at the-sports.org (wrongly listed as Finn)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uros Velepec Wins This Year's Ultraman (November 27, 2000)
- ↑ New Season Ahead: Taking a Ride on Coaching Carousel on biathlonworld.com, accessed October 21, 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Velepec, Uroš |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav or Slovenian biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dolsko |