Slovakia Biathlon 2014 - 15'', double exchange of technical guidance

Slovakia joins the many nations that, at the end of the Olympic cycle, they decided to change the technical staff in view of the year 2014'' - 15''. The Central European nation faces a fundamental change because change the leadership of both the male and the female sector.

Thursday 12 June 2014 3 minutes reading time

The contracts of German Geyer and Manfred'' s Austrian Josef Obererlacher, respectively responsible for the men and women in the'' last season, have not been renewed. The women's team is been entrusted to Pavel Kobela, in a sense, horse back into what had been the head coach'' (but the male sector) from 2008 to 2010, which announced that it will continue Anastasiya Kuzmina to train independently, followed by her husband Daniel. Moreover, the new coach said that the'' main goal for next year will be to see the second lines, especially girls more young people being able to get into the points in the World Cup. The men's team will its driving Juraj Sanitra, in recent years the technical Anastasiya Kuzmina shot and previously personal trainer Pavol Hurajt for seven seasons, which has set a target for 2014 - 15'' to get two placings in the top ten. But Sanitra Strong tip on veterans as it has explicitly said it will seek to convince Matej Kazar, Dusan Simocko and Miroslav Matiasko (all athletes over-30) to continue to Pyeong Chang 2018. Neo-head coach also said he would perform a specific job on the roll to raise the precision, far too deficient. In terms of composition of teams are not expected major changes. Among men, there is the withdrawal of Hurajt, among women'' s enlargement of the team to eight units. MASCHILEHASILLA Tomas (1990) KAZAR Matej (1983) MATIASKO Miroslav (1982) OTCENAS Martin (1987) SIMOCKO Dusan (1983) FEMMINILECHRAPANOVA Martina (1989) Fialkova Ivona (1994) Fialkova Paulina (1992) GEREKOVA Jana (1984) Anastasiya Kuzmina (1984) Poliakova Terezia (1989) PREKOPOVA Natalia (1989) Å ÃmovÃ¡ Lucia (1990)

Francesco Paone

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