Andrejs Rastorgujevs (born 27 May 1988) is a Latvian biathlete. He has participated in three Winter Olympics and has two individual and one relay Biathlon World Cup podium.
Career Andrejs Rastorgujevs is a biathlete from Latvia. In the first event of 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup in Östersund, he participated in 10 km sprint, where he finished 47th, but later on he was disqualified for finishing in the wrong lane. 2012-13 Biathlon World Cup was the breakthrough season for Rastorgujevs, finishing the season 36th overall. Next year, he finished the season 16th overall, while earning four Top 6 finishes.
After finishing fourth four times during his career, he finally won his first podium at the last race of the 2016-17 Biathlon World Cup, finishing second at the 15 km mass start in Oslo.
Rastorgujevs also took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics, where he finished 50th at the sprint and 58th at the pursuit.
Rastorgujevs served an 18 month competition ban from March 2021 to September 2022 for an anti-doping rule violation in relation to whereabouts failures. All of his results were disqualified from 1 July 2020 including his gold medal in the 20 km sprint at the 2021 IBU Open European Championships. Rastorgujevs appealed the decision, but this was rejected in August 2022.
On 5 March 2023, Rastorgujevs and Baiba Bendika placed third in the BMW IBU World Cup placed in Nové Město na Moravě, in the Single Mixed Relays and earned a first-ever Relay podium for Latvia.
On 18 February 2024, Rastorgujevs won a silver medal in the 15-kilometer mass start at the Biathlon World Championships 2024 in Nove Mesto, winning his biggest success in his career and also in the history of Latvian biathlon.
Career results Olympics EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartRelayMixed Relay 2010 Vancouver — 50th 58th — 19th 2014 Sochi 33rd 17th 9th 14th — — 2018 Pyeongchang 59th 24th 12th 28th — — 2026 Milano Cortina 41st 30th 29th — 18th 12th
World Championships EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartRelayMixed relaySingle mixed relay 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk 43rd 66th — — 14th — rowspan="6" 2012 Ruhpolding 68th 83rd — — LPD — 2013 Nové Město 50th 65th — — LPD — 2015 Kontiolahti 48th 42nd 25th — LPD — 2016 Oslo Holmenkollen 59th 20th 27th 26th LPD — 2017 Hochfilzen 56th 57th 37th — 22nd LPD 2019 Östersund 13th 14th 6th 25th LPD — 10th 2020 Rasen-Antholz 22nd 70th — — LPD — 17th 2021 Pokljuka 15th 10th — 2023 Oberhof 56th 7th 9th 5th 18th — 19th 2024 Nové Město 4th 12th 19th Silver 16th — 8th 2025 Lenzerheide 16th 33rd 33rd 20th 19th — 9th
World Cup Season Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass Start Overall Points Position Points Position Points Position Points Position Points Position 2009–10 — — — — — — — — — — 2010–11 — — 40 56th 6 80th — — 46 71st 2011–12 14 52nd 11 81st 8 74th — — 33 76th 2012–13 43 24th 85 42nd 88 34th 13 45th 229 36th 2013–14 23 34th 138 21st 191 11th 93 7th 445 16th 2014–15 19 44th 186 19th 93 27th 72 26th 370 27th 2015–16 — — 161 19th 151 18th 82 24th 394 20th 2016–17 38 27th 160 16th 171 19th 76 26th 445 21st 2017–18 60 6th 224 5th 134 19th 63 28th 481 13th 2018–19 46 21st 139 22nd 122 24th 88 21st 395 20th 2019–20 48 23rd 100 26th 51 31st 27 33rd 226 29th 2022–23 56 22nd 136 19th 73 30th 84 19th 349 22nd 2023–24 118 6th 74 32nd 119 23rd 122 10th 433 17th 2024–25 65 18th 62 37th 47 35th 70 26th 244 28th 2025–26 68 12th 26 51st 10 70th 37 27th 141 38th *Key:Points—won World Cup points; Position—World Cup season ranking.
European Championships EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay2007 Bansko, Bulgaria 32nd 8th 16th 2008 Nové Město, Czech Republic 28th 30th 31st 2009 Ufa, Russia 8th 2010 Otepää, Estonia 15th 49th 2011 Ridanna, Italy 4th 8th 7th 2012 Osrblie, Slovakia 27th 5th 5th 2013 Bansko, Bulgaria 4th DNS 2014 Nové Město, Czech Republic Gold Bronze 2015 Otepää, Estonia DNF 10th 10th 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój, Poland 20th 4th Bronze 2018 Ridnaun, Italy Gold 2019 Raubichi, Belarus 24th 8th 5th 2020 Raubichi, Belarus 9th Silver 10th 2021 Duszniki-Zdrój, Poland Disqualified 22nd 2023 Lenzerheide, Switzerland 33rd 4th 4th 2024 Osrblie, Slovakia 9th 4th 13th
At the 2021 European Championships, Rastorgujevs was placed 1st in the 20 km individual sprint and received the gold medal, but his result was later disqualified.
World Cup record Individual podiums No. Season Date Location Race Place1 2016–17 19 March 2017 Oslo Holmenkollen Mass Start 2nd2 2017–18 8 March 2018 Kontiolahti Sprint 2nd3 2024–25 15 January 2025 Ruhpolding Individual 3rd
Relay podiums No. Season Date Location Race Place Teammate(s)12022–23 5 March 2023 Nové Město Single Mixed Relay 3rd Bendika
Shooting Shooting2009–102010–112011–122012–132013–142014–152015–162016–172019–202020–212022–23 Prone position 56% 82% 84% TBD 91% 80% 92% 87% 76% 81% 86% Standing position 62% 73% 81% TBD 76% 76% 72% 69% 78% 77% 72% Total 59% 78% 82% TBD 83% 78% 82% 78% 77% 79% 79%
References
External links
Andrejs Rastorgujevs at Milano Cortina 2026