Vedrana Vučićević

Vedrana Vučićević
Association	Bosnia and Herzegovina
birthday	March 14, 1984
place of birth	Sarajevo,  Yugoslavia
Career
society	SK Romanija Pale
Trainer	Tomislav Lopatić
Admission to the national team	2001
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2004
Debut in the World Cup	2001
status	resigned
End of career	2007
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Vedrana Vučićević (born March 14, 1984 in Sarajevo ) is a former Bosnian cross-country skier and biathlete .

Vedrana Vučićević lives in Pale and started for SK Romanija Pale . In 1998 she started biathlon and was trained by Tomislav Lopatić . The athlete, who suffers from congenital asthma , has been part of her country's national team since 2001 . As a junior she started at the Biathlon Junior World Championships in 2002 in Ridnaun and came in 31st in the individual, 35th in the sprint and 39th in the pursuit race. A year later she went to Kościelisko for the Junior World Championships, where she was 49th of the individual, just qualified as 59th of the sprint for the pursuit race, which she finished 52nd. Shortly afterwards she also took part in the junior races of the Biathlon European Championships in Forni Avoltri in 2002 and was 38th of the sprint, did not start in the pursuit and did not finish the individual. At the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2004 in Haute-Maurienne , the ranks 53 in the individual and 45 in the sprint were added, but she did not compete in the pursuit despite qualifying. The fourth and final Junior World Championships were the title fights for the Biathlon Junior World Championships in 2005 in Kontiolahti . Vučićević was 52nd of the individual and 48th in sprint and pursuit.

Vučićević made her international debut at the start of the 2001/02 World Cup season in Hochfilzen when she was 103rd in a sprint. The following season she came 82nd in a sprint in Osrblie for the first time on a single-digit place. In 2004 she also competed in her first races in the European Women's Cup and was 36th in her first sprint in Brusson and 34th in the pursuit race based on it. Later in the season, the Bosnian won points in the European Cup for the first time in Langdorf as the 26th of a sprint. As 17th a pursuit race in Geilo Vučićević reached her best result in the racing series at the beginning of the following season . In 2005 she took part in her only biathlon world championships in Hochfilzen and finished 93rd in the individual and 95th in the sprint. In the next season Vučićević reached 74th place in a sprint in Kontiolahti, her best result in the World Cup. The highlight of the season was the 2006 European Biathlon Championships in Langdorf, where the Bosnian was 69th in the sprint, but did not finish her individual. The 2007 European Biathlon Championships in Bansko became the last major international event in his career. In the individual she was 42nd in the sprint 43rd The pursuit race Vučićević no longer denied. After the 2006/07 season , she ended her active career.

Between 2004 and 2006 Vučićević also ran cross-country skiing on an international level. At first she only competed in lower class FIS races and races in the Alpine Cup . Without achieving outstanding here placements could, after all, for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games of Turin qualify. In the races on the Pragelato Plan tracks , it was used in the 10-kilometer classic race, where it was 70th and last. After that, she did not contest any other international cross-country skiing races.

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
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring
Starts	10	32				42
Status: end of career

Web links

• Vedrana Vučićević in the IBU database (English)
• Vedrana Vučićević in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Vedrana Vučićević in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )