Beth Coats

Beth Coats
Full name	Beth Jan Coats
Association	United States
birthday	July 20, 1966
place of birth	Albuquerque
Career
society	National Guard
Admission to the national team	198?
Debut in the World Cup	1989 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	1995
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Beth Jan Coats (born July 20, 1966 in Albuquerque ) is a former American biathlete and cyclist . She took part in two Olympic Winter Games and seven biathlon world championships as well as two world championships in mountain biking , but had to end her career early due to a permanent injury.

Beth Coats was active in many sports such as mountain biking, telemarking and climbing. In 1989, the future National Guard from Breckenridge began biathlon and was part of Josh Thompson's training group . She quickly moved up to the US national team. The first international championship was the 1989 Winter Universiade in Bulgaria. In 1991 Coats started in Lahti at her first world championships and was 39 in both individual and sprint. The following year she started at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , where biathlon for women was also on the program for the first time. Coats was used here in singles and was 47. Two years later she was used in all three Olympic races in Lillehammer . In the sprint she was 51st, in the individual 33rd and on the side of Joan Smith , Laura Tavares and Joan Guetschow eighth in the relay race. A little later she started in Canmore at the World Championships , where only the non-Olympic team race was held. With Tavares, Smith and Gillian Sharp , she finished fifth. The last major international event was the 1995 World Championships in Antholz . As in 1991, Coats was 39th of the individual and came in eighth with Kristina Sabasteanski , Stacey Wooley and Ntala Skinner . After the season she ended her career in biathlon, during which she was able to run into the points in the Biathlon World Cup several times and once reached the top ten ranks as tenth of an individual in Canmore in the 1993/94 season .

In 1995 Coats switched to mountain biking as a professional, which she had been doing for a long time as a compensation in the snow-free summers to keep fit. As early as the winter of 1995, she decided not to participate in biathlon in Europe and began preparing for the following year of cycling, as the sport promised her a secure livelihood. By the end of 1995 she was tenth in the world rankings. At the 1996 World Championships she finished 17th and in 1997 16th. In 1997 she was also third in the national racing series, second in the US national rankings and fourth in a World Cup race in Vermont . However, the year before she missed a sixth two ranks to qualify for the Olympic Games of Atlanta . For 1998 Coats was one of the favorites for the world title. But she crashed on a climbing tour between two bike races in Eldorado Canyon State Park near Boulder and was seriously injured. Since then she has been paralyzed from the abdomen down, but continues to do sports as a handbiker .

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relay

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10	1				1	2	4th
Scoring	4th	2			1	2	9
Starts	11	10			1	2	24
Status : End of career, data incomplete, including World Championships and Olympic Games

Web links

• Beth Coats in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Beth Coats in the database of the IBU (English)
• Results for Beth Coats at the-sports.org (English)
• An unexpected life: The rise and fall of Beth Coats (English)
• Pro mountain bikers Beth Coats is Paralyzed (English)
• Desperate measures (English)