Beate Gauss

Beate Gauss
nation	Germany
birthday	August 10, 1984
place of birth	Ammerbuch
Career
discipline	Sport shooting
Classes	Air rifle (LG) small caliber (KK) large caliber (GK)
society	SV Odenheim SF Gechingen
Trainer	Claus Dieter Roth
status	active
Medal table
Universiade medals 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 5 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 5 × 2 × 2 × JEM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
last change: September 15, 2014

Beate Gauß (born August 10, 1984 in Ammerbuch ) is a German marksman in the air rifle (LG) and small-bore rifle (KK) classes .

Career

Beate Gauß is a student at the SRH FernHochschule Riedlingen and starts for SV Odenheim , SF Gechingen and in the 1st Bundesliga air rifle for SSVG Brigachtal and is trained by Claus Dieter Roth. The sports soldier belongs to the German B national squad. She won the bronze medal with the air rifle when she first took part in the indoor European championships in Győr . A year later she won the bronze medal with Barbara Engleder and Britta Großecappenberg with the LG team and was tenth in the individual. It was not until 2007 that Gauß took part in the European Championships again and won team gold with Sonja Pfeilschifter and Barbara Engleder in Deauville . In the individual she reached fifth place. At the Universiade in Bangkok in August 2007 she won the air rifle team silver medal with Jessica Kregel and Manuela Felix . In this composition she also won the silver medal in the small- bore three-position battle . In 2008 she was able to defend the team title at the European Championships in Winterthur in the same line-up, in the individual Gauß was 12. At the European Championships in Prague in 2009 she was able to win two medals for the first time: in the individual she was only beaten by Snježana Pejčić , with Martina Rave and Tatjana Poseiner won her bronze in the team. In 2010 she was able to win the team title again with Sonja Pfeilschifter and Jessica Mager in Meråker and was again silver medalist behind Andrea Arsović . In 2010, Gauß also took part in World Championships for the first time in Munich. In the LG singles Gauß was sixth, with Jessica Mager and Sonja Pfeilschifter she won the world championship title in the team. The sixth place in the individual secured the German Olympic team a second starting place for the 2012 Games. In addition to the air rifle competitions, she also competed with the small bore rifle. In the three-position battle she was ninth in the individual, with the team she won bronze. In 2011 she won her fourth gold medal in the LG team competition with Sonja Pfeilschifter and Barbara Engleder in Brescia and was ninth in the individual. In 2012 in Vierumäki Gauß again won the team title at the European Championship with Engleder and Pfeilschifter, but was only 29th in the individual. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , she missed the final as 32nd of the preliminary fight with 392 points.

In 2014 she became world champion in the three-position fight in Granada and, together with Barbara Engleder and Eva Rösken, won the gold medal in the team competition with the new world record of 1750 rings. At the 2015 European Games , she finished fifth.

Gauß became German champion in 2010, the best place in the World Cup so far is second, achieved in 2008 in Rio de Janeiro .

Others

Before the 2012 Olympic Games, Gauß, along with Regina Sergeeva , Christina Schütze , Christin Steuer and Angela Maurer, was among the five athletes who posed naked in the German edition of Playboy .

Web links

• Beate Gauß in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Gauss on the website of the German Olympic Sports Confederation
• Gauss on the website of the German Shooting Federation
• Results overview at Bikala

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SSVG Brigachtal strengthens itself with Beate Gauß
2. ↑ Rifle shooter Beate Gauß wins World Cup gold in the three-position match Sportal.de, September 12, 2014, accessed on September 12, 2014.