Tofalvi, Eve

Eve's niece - Orshoya - also professionally engaged in biathlon. ^[one]

At the 2002 Olympics, 2010 Olympics and 2014 Olympics, Eva was the standard bearer of her country at the opening of the games.

For a long time was one of the oldest biathletes performing at a high international level.

Eva Tofalvi has been a leader of the Romanian women's biathlon team for a very long time, being the strongest representative of this country. Participant of five Olympics. At the junior world championships she showed good results, at the stages of the world cup her achievements, until recently, were not very impressive.

She made her world cup debut on January 9, 1997 - in the individual race (held as part of the 5th stage of the 1996-1997 World Cup) in Ruhpolding , Germany , showing the 75th result (and the 2nd among Romanian athletes). The thirty strongest first hit December 11, 1997 - in the individual race in the framework of the 2nd stage of the World Cup 1997-1998 , which took place in Ostersund , Sweden , taking 29th place in it. Already at her first Olympic Games in 1998, she became 11th in the individual race. And a year later, at her debut world championship, in the same discipline, she became 12th.

I first got on the podium in a personal race on December 18, 2008 - in the individual race within the framework of the 3rd stage of the 2008–2009 World Cup , held in Hochfilzen , Austria , taking 2nd place in it, which after a positive doping test finished ahead of Albina Akhatova turned into a first victory. This is the highest achievement in the entire biathlon history of Romania. The same season was the most successful in the career of a biathlete, she completed it at 11 positions, taking part in each race, receiving cup points for each. It was close to conquering the Small Crystal Globe in individual races, but in the end it went to Magdalena Neuner . Moreover, in April she took part in the races of the Vitaly Fatyanov memorial in Kamchatka, where she won a landslide victory in the pursuit race, winning the main prize - a Lexus car. Romanian admitted that she trained mostly separately, and emphasized shooting.

Coaches had high hopes for Tofalvi at the Vancouver Olympics . However, in the new season, she was waiting for a decline, which was caused by an infection in her thigh. Nevertheless, she showed good results: in the sprint and pursuit she took 14th and 19th places, respectively, in the individual race she became 11th, and in the mass start 24th. In the Olympic relay race, the Romanian team took 10th place (the best result of Romania in these games).

She participated in the farewell race of Magdalena Neuner , in which she became the 3rd, after Dorothea Wierer and Magdalena herself. After the relay race at the 2013 World Cup, in which Romania was disqualified for passing Luminica Piskoran three meters outside the race track, she criticized the activities of the IBU and accused them of double standards. Since the World Cup was, among other things, a qualifying tournament for the 2014 Winter Olympics , Romania was unable to put up the relay team in Sochi.

In April 2016, it became known about the use of Eldo's meldonium . The athlete refused to open the sample “B”, which means agreement with the sample “A”. She was later acquitted and returned to the big sport.

In March 2017, Tofalvi announced the completion of her twenty-year sports career. But already in December, she entered the sprint race of the first stage of the World Cup in Ostersund.

World Cup Seasons

World Cup Best Races

Team Relay

Performances at World Championships and Olympics

• Profile on the IBU website