Tadeja Brankovič-Likozar

Tadeja Brankovič-Likozar (born 20 December 1979 in Kranj, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Slovenian biathlete. She has been a member of the Slovenian biathlon team since 1995. So far she has five podium finishes (two silver and three bronze medals) in the Biathlon World Cup.

Tadeja Brankovič-Likozar
Born (1979-12-20) 20 December 1979
Kranj, SFR Yugoslavia
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Ski clubTŠK Merkur Kranj
World Cup career
Seasons1995–2011
Individual wins0
Indiv. podiums6
Updated on February 6, 2016.

Career

The former instructor in the Slovenian military,[1] Tadeja Brankovič starts for TSK Merkur Kranj. Since 1995 she runs the Biathlon sport and has since also the national team. She now lives in Cerklje na Gorenjskem. Her debut in the Biathlon World Cup Brankovič was 1995 in a single (50) in Östersund. In her first season, they rarely achieved good results and came only three times in the points. Already in its second season, she came in Ostersund in sixth with a single first among the ten best. Her best finish was a second place in a World Cup sprint - again in Ostersund.

Since the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, she participated in all four Olympic games. They always started there in individual, sprint and in the season, 2006 in Turin in the pursuit. In the individual races they never came in the top 30 in the relay race, they achieved the best results 2002 in Salt Lake City in 2006 and ranks sixth. Looks like its balance sheet at the World Championships in which she participated since 1996 in at least one sub-discipline. Best finish was a 26th in singles at the World Championships in 2001 in Pokljuka.

Between 2004 and 2007, Tadeja was achieved the fantastic results, but in 2007 she was going to hiatus for two seasons, due to pregnancy when was gave birth to her daughter Maša, in 2009, after she married with a former handball player Domen Likozar.[2] She was returned for the 2009–10 season, but has not made approximately good results before going to the hiatus. After a 2010–11 season, Brankovič-Likozar was gave birth to her son and then was retired.[3]

References
  1. "Nisem več zaposlena v vojski". Ekipa24. 5 September 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  2. Brun, Alenka (15 May 2007). "Biatlonka odplesala v jarem". Gorenjski Glas. Archived from the original on 20 November 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  3. Finc, Mojca (21 December 2014). "Če je po vsakem porodu tako, bi imela Tadeja še pet otrok". Delo. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
Olympic Games
Preceded by
Dejan Košir		 Flagbearer for  Slovenia
Turin 2006		 Succeeded by
Tina Maze
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