Emma Fowler

Emma Fowler
Association	United Kingdom
birthday	5th June 1979
place of birth	Taunton
Career
job	Soldier
society	1 LS Regiment Royal Logistic Corps
Trainer	Walter Pichler
Admission to the national team	2004
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2006
Debut in the World Cup	2007
status	resigned
Medal table
British Championships 25 × 7 × 1 ×
British Championships gold 2002 Ruhpolding singles gold 2002 Ruhpolding sprint gold 2002 Ruhpolding Mass start gold 2002 Ruhpolding Season gold 2002 Ruhpolding team bronze 2002 Ruhpolding Military patrol gold 2004 Ruhpolding singles gold 2004 Ruhpolding sprint gold 2004 Ruhpolding Mass start gold 2004 Ruhpolding Season gold 2004 Ruhpolding Military patrol gold 2005 Ruhpolding singles gold 2005 Ruhpolding sprint gold 2005 Ruhpolding Mass start gold 2005 Ruhpolding Season silver 2005 Ruhpolding Military patrol gold 2007 Ruhpolding Military patrol gold 2008 Obertilliach singles gold 2008 Obertilliach Mass start gold 2008 Obertilliach Season silver 2008 Obertilliach sprint gold 2009 Obertilliach Season gold 2009 Obertilliach team silver 2009 Obertilliach singles silver 2009 Obertilliach sprint gold 2010 Ruhpolding Mass start gold 2010 Ruhpolding Season gold 2010 Ruhpolding Military patrol gold 2010 Ruhpolding team silver 2010 Ruhpolding singles silver 2010 Ruhpolding sprint gold 2011 Ruhpolding Season silver 2011 Ruhpolding team
World Cup balance

Emma Fowler (born June 5, 1979 in Taunton ) is a former British biathlete .

Career

Emma Fowler, like almost all British biathletes, serves in the British Armed Forces. The sergeant starts for the 1st LS Regiment Royal Logistic Corps and is trained by Walter Pichler . The Canningtoner has been practicing biathlon since 1997 and has been a member of the British national team since 1998. She made her first international races as part of the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 1998 in Osrblie , where she was 32nd in both the sprint and the pursuit. She ran the first winter race in 1999 as part of the Biathlon European Cup in Friedenweiler and was 21st in the sprint. Only a little later she came 33rd in the individual at the Junior World Championships in Pokljuka . In Alt St. Johann she was second behind Brigitte Weisleitner in a European Cup sprint. in March 2000 Fowler started in Ruhpolding for the first time in the biathlon world cup . In her first race, a sprint, she was 73rd. Her best results in this competition were achieved in the 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons with results in the top 50, including a 44th place in the Oberhof pursuit . In 2001 , 2005 , 2007 and 2008 Fowler took part in biathlon world championships . She achieved the best results in 2005 in Hochfilzen with places 53 in the sprint and 55 in the pursuit. Previous career highlight was the participation in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games of Turin , where the Briton was the first woman from the United Kingdom in biathlon started and was 78th in singles and 76th of the sprint. In 2010 she ended her career as a biathlete in the national team.

Emma Fowler hiking in the Alps with Andy McCann in the background

Nationally, Fowler has been the measure of all things for British women since the mid-2000s. She was able to win titles at the national championships 25 times, in 2004 even all five possible. There are also the titles in the relay at the cross-country championships in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008 as well as the title over 7.5 km in free technology in 2007 and 2004 over 10 km.

Fowler missed the entire 2002/03 season because she was serving as a soldier in the Gulf War .

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					3	3
Starts	24	56	5		3	88
Status: after the 2009/2010 season

Individual evidence

1. ^ Section Short Story on the IBU statistics page by Emma Fowler. Retrieved April 3, 2010 . 

Web links

Commons : Emma Fowler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Emma Fowler in the database of the IBU (English)
• Portrait on the website of the British Association