Franziska Preuss

Franziska Preuss
Association	Germany
birthday	11th March 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Wasserburg am Inn , Germany
size	173 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
job	Customs officer
society	SC Hague
Trainer	Kristian Mehringer , Florian Steirer
Debut in the World Cup	2013
World Cup victories	9 (1 individual victory)
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 4 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × YOG medals 3 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 2 × DM medals 7 × 5 × 2 ×
Biathlon world championships gold 2015 Kontiolahti Season silver 2015 Kontiolahti Mass start silver 2016 Oslo Mixed relay bronze 2016 Oslo Season silver 2020 Antholz Single mixed relay silver 2020 Antholz Season  European biathlon championships gold 2013 Bansko Season silver 2013 Bansko persecution  German championships gold 2013 Langdorf persecution gold 2013 Ruhpolding singles gold 2013 Ruhpolding Mass start bronze 2014 Oberhof singles bronze 2014 Oberhof Season gold 2016 Altenberg sprint silver 2016 Altenberg persecution gold 2016 Oberhof Mass start gold 2016 Oberhof Season silver 2017 Ruhpolding Mass start silver 2017 Ruhpolding Season silver 2018 Altenberg sprint bronze 2018 Altenberg persecution silver 2018 Oberhof Mass start gold 2018 Oberhof Season  Youth Olympic Winter Games gold 2012 Innsbruck sprint gold 2012 Innsbruck Mixed relay gold 2012 Innsbruck Mixed relay (biathlon / cross-country skiing) silver 2012 Innsbruck persecution  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2013 Obertilliach Season bronze 2013 Obertilliach persecution bronze 2013 Obertilliach singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	6. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	5th ( 2019/20 )
Sprint World Cup	6. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	8. (2014/15)
Mass start world cup	1. (2014/15)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 0 2 0 persecution 0 0 1 Mass start 1 2 2 Season 8th 11 8th
last change: March 14, 2020

Franziska Preuss (born March 11, 1994 in Wasserburg am Inn ) is a German biathlete .

Athletic career

At first Preuss was active in athletics , but in March 2009 her parents gave her a voucher for the "Experience Biathlon" program in Fritz Fischer's biathlon training camp. As a result, on Fischer's advice, she took part in the training base in Ruhpolding during the Whitsun holidays .

Beginnings (2010 to 2013)

In her second biathlon season 2010/11 she secured the title in the sprint at the German championships (classification J17) and also second places in both the individual and the relay. In addition, she also won the overall ranking of the 2011 German Cup (J17). Because of these achievements, she qualified for the C / D team of the German Ski Association and was nominated by the DSV for the European Youth Olympic Festival held in Liberec , Czech Republic in February 2011 . There she missed a podium finish. Preuss achieved her greatest successes to date just under a year later in January 2012 when she won three gold and one silver medals at the first Winter Youth Olympic Games and became the most successful athlete in the competitions. At the Junior World Championships that followed about a month later in Kontiolahti , Finland , she finished tenth in singles and sixth in relay. She reached 36th place in the sprint and 29th place in the pursuit.

In September 2012, she secured first place in the mass start and second place in special cross-country skiing at the German Junior Championships in Oberhof . With good performances in the German Cup, she qualified for the Junior World Championships in Obertilliach at the beginning of January 2013 . At the start she finished fifth in the sprint when her teammate Laura Dahlmeier won and won the bronze medal in the subsequent pursuit and in the individual race. With the relay she was first and won her third medal overall.

She made her first start in the women's field in February 2013 at the European Championships in Bansko. After a moderate individual competition, she reached fifth place in the sprint. In the pursuit race that followed she was able to improve to second place and became vice European champion behind Monika Hojnisz from Poland. The biggest success of the European Championship was the relay competition, in which she was European champion with Nicole Wötzel , Vanessa Hinz and Karolin Horchler before the Czech Republic. At the German Championships in Langdorf and Ruhpolding in September 2013 she won the pursuit, individual and mass start titles.

Debut in the World Cup and Olympic Games (2013/2014)

Preuss at the World Cup in Oberhof in January 2018

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season , Preuss was accepted into the World Cup team. In her first race, an individual in Östersund , she finished 44th. In Annecy-Le Grand Bornand she achieved 6th place in the sprint and in the relay race she won her first World Cup victory as a starter, together with Andrea Henkel , Franziska Hildebrand and Laura Dahlmeier . On January 12th, 2014 in Ruhpolding she achieved 4th place in the pursuit with a mistake and a very good mileage and thus her best career result so far. In February 2014, she took part in the biathlon competitions of the Winter Olympics in Sochi . After a 41st place in the sprint and a 40th place in the pursuit race, Preuss wanted to forego a start in the individual race. At the insistence of the coach, she started and was taken out of the race after five shooting errors in the third lap. In a conclusion on the Olympic Games and the situation in the German women's team, Magdalena Neuner stated that Preuss had ended the individual race "with a nervous breakdown" and that the coaches had "forced her to run". Before the relay race, the German women's team was impressed by the positive doping test by Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle . Franziska Preuss fell as the starting runner on the first lap of the race. As a result, snow got into the sighting device of her weapon, which meant an additional loss of time at the shooting range. However, she kept her nerve in both prone and standing shooting, observed all safety rules when cleaning the sighting device and did not afford a penalty loop. In eleventh place, she handed over to the experienced Andrea Henkel, who lost three additional places. Neither Franziska Hildebrand nor Laura Dahlmeier were able to change the result significantly. In the end, the team reached eleventh place with a total deficit of almost four minutes on the victorious women from Ukraine .

World Championship Gold and Mass Start World Cup (since 2014)

Preuss at the World Cup in Oberhof in January 2018

In the 2014/15 season Preuss started again in the World Cup and won her third season World Cup victory as the final runner in Hochfilzen , together with her teammates Luise Kummer , Franziska Hildebrand and Vanessa Hinz . In Ruhpolding , Preuss came second in the mass start and was on the podium for the first time in an individual World Cup race. At the 2015 Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti , Finland , the relay started with a similar line-up as at the Olympic Games. Andrea Henkel , who has since resigned , was replaced by Vanessa Hinz. Franziska Hildebrand, the most experienced athlete on the team, took over the starting position. Franziska Preuss shortened the small gap of just 10.4 seconds to 7.6 seconds. Vanessa Hinz finally brought the relay into the lead, which Laura Dahlmeier was able to expand until the end of the race. Franziska Preuss won the silver medal in the mass start and was the youngest biathlete to take on the red jersey in the mass start. Due to her consistently good performance in this discipline, she also won the World Cup ranking in the mass start in addition to the silver medal.

The 2015/16 season got off to a similarly successful start for Preuss. Of the first eight races she was able to finish four in the top ten. She could no longer take part in the competitions in Ruhpolding due to a hairline crack in her tailbone. She had already contracted this at the first World Cup in Östersund , Sweden , but a diagnosis only followed later. After a long break, she only took part in World Cup races again in Canmore, Canada . She reached sixth place in the sprint and won the mixed relay together with Franziska Hildebrand , Arnd Peiffer and Simon Schempp . In Presque Isle she was third in the season together with Luise Kummer , Miriam Gössner and Karolin Horchler . At the Biathlon World Championships in Oslo , Norway , she won the silver medal in the mixed relay with the same line-up as in Canmore and bronze in the relay competition together with Franziska Hildebrand, Maren Hammerschmidt and Laura Dahlmeier .

With a fourth place in the first race of the season, the individual competition in the Swedish Östersund , she launched successfully in the Biathlon World Cup 2016/17 and secured with this result, the nomination for the World Championships in Hochfilzen . Due to several illnesses, she missed the competitions in Pokljuka , Oberhof and Antholz . Nevertheless, she achieved good results , especially with three top 10 placements in Nové Město na Moravě , and won the relay race at the Home World Cup in Ruhpolding together with Vanessa Hinz , Maren Hammerschmidt and Laura Dahlmeier. At the beginning of February, Franziska Preuss canceled her participation in the World Championships because she was not physically able to participate in the competitions again - especially after she caught the flu again shortly after the World Cup in Ruhpolding. During the World Championships, Franziska Preuss announced that she would end the season prematurely for health reasons. Shortly thereafter, she underwent an operation that had become necessary after a sinus infection .

Franziska Preuss started the 2018/19 season with four top ten placements in Hochfilzen , Pokljuka , Nove Mesto and Oberhof . In Ruhpolding she celebrated her first World Cup victory on January 20th thanks to a faultless shooting in the mass start. With the women's relay she took second place in Oberhof and third in Ruhpolding.

Private life

Preuss comes from Albaching and has moved her residence near her training base in Ruhpolding . She attended the state technical college in Wasserburg am Inn and graduated from high school in 2012. On August 1, 2012, she was accepted into the customs ski team and began training in simple duty as a customs officer candidate .

The biathlete has been in a relationship with biathlete Simon Schempp since winter 2015/16 .

Awards

• 2012: Sportswoman of the month January of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and WinterStar in the category Perspective of Bavarian TV
• 2015: Goldene Henne audience award for the newcomer of the year
• 2015: Bavarian Sports Prize in the Ambassador of Bavarian Sports category for the relay world championship together with Laura Dahlmeier , Franziska Hildebrand and Vanessa Hinz

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. Jan. 20, 2019  Ruhpolding Mass start

No. date place discipline 1. Dec 12, 2013  Annecy-Le Grand-Bornand Season 1 2. 0Jan. 8, 2014  Ruhpolding Season 2 3. Dec 13, 2014  Hochfilzen Season 3 4th Jan. 25, 2015  Antholz Season 4 5. 13 Mar 2015  Kontiolahti ( WM ) Season 5 6th 0Feb 7, 2016  Canmore Mixed season 6 7th Jan. 12, 2017  Ruhpolding Season 7 8th. Jan. 13, 2018  Ruhpolding Season 8 1with Andrea Henkel , Franziska Hildebrand and Laura Dahlmeier 2with Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle , Franziska Hildebrand and Laura Dahlmeier 3with Luise Kummer , Franziska Hildebrand and Vanessa Hinz 4th with Franziska Hildebrand, Luise Kummer and Laura Dahlmeier 5 with Franziska Hildebrand, Vanessa Hinz and Laura Dahlmeier 6thwith Franziska Hildebrand, Arnd Peiffer and Simon Schempp 7thwith Vanessa Hinz, Maren Hammerschmidt and Laura Dahlmeier 8thwith Denise Herrmann , Franziska Hildebrand and Laura Dahlmeier

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 relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place				1	8th	9
2nd place		2		2	9	13
3rd place			1	1	8th	10
Top 10	4th	18th	17th	15th	34	88
Scoring	13	40	37	20th	35	145
Starts	14th	48	38	20th	35	155
As of March 16, 2020

season	Individual race 1	Placement individual races			Relay race 1		Placement relay races		Overall World Cup 3rd
		1st - 2nd - 3rd	Top ten	Scoring	Ladies	Mixed 2	1st - 2nd - 3rd	Top ten	Points	space
2013/14	19 (22)	0 - 0 - 0	03	15th	03 (3)	00 (1)	2 - 1 - 0	03	378	19th
2014/15	22 (25)	0 - 2 - 1	12	21st	06 (6)	02 (4)	3 - 0 - 2	08th	651	09
2015/16	17 (25)	0 - 0 - 0	10	16	04 (5)	02 (3)	1 - 2 - 2	06th	533	012
2016/17	8 (26)	0 - 0 - 0	4th	8th	01 (5)	01 (5)	1 - 0 - 1	02	230	035
2017/18	17 (22)	0 - 0 - 0	4th	14th	03 (4)	02 (4)	1 - 2 - 1	05	306	022nd
2018/19	22 (25)	1 - 1 - 0	010	20th	03 (5)	01 (6)	0 - 1 - 1	04th	570	9
2019/20	17 (21)	0 - 1 - 1	011	16	04 (6)	04 (6)	0-3-1	07th	573	6th
total	122 (166)	1 - 4 - 2	54	110	023 (34)	012 (29)	8 - 9 - 8	34

Status: end of season 2019/20

¹Number of race starts. The total number of races in the season is given in brackets.

² Includes mixed relay races and individual mixed relay races.

³ For better comparability, the actually achieved World Cup points are listed here and the deleted results are not deducted.

→ Additional information: Distribution of points / cancellation results in the Biathlon World Cup

World Cup ratings

Results at biathlon world cups (discipline and overall world cup) according to the point system

season	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2013/14	26th	25th	22nd	140	13.	149	17th	65	19th	379
2014/15	19th	47	13.	196	8th.	197	1.	218	9.	658
2015/16	40.	22nd	11.	203	9.	213	18th	95	12.	533
2016/17	24.	43	45.	58	34.	92	33.	38	35.	231
2017/18	38.	20th	25th	99	21st	113	25th	74	22nd	306
2018/19	16.	58	12.	180	9.	182	7th	152	9.	572
2019/20	5.	109	6th	215	10.	133	17th	116	6th	573

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2014	Sochi	DNF	41.	40.	-	11.	-
2018	Pyeongchang	4th	-	-	12.	8th.	-

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2015	Kontiolahti	-	14th	13.	2.	1.	6th
2016	Oslo	-	14th	6th	8th.	3.	2.
2019	Ostersund	38.	16.	27.	19th	-	-	-
2020	Antholz	5.	8th.	7th	8th.	2.	4th	2.

Youth Olympic Winter Games

Results at Winter Youth Olympic Games

Youth Olympic Winter Games		sprint	persecution	Mixed relay	Mixed relay (biathlon / cross-country skiing)
year	place
2012	innsbruck	1.	2.	1.	1.

European championships

Results at European biathlon championships

European Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2013	Bansko	18th	5.	2.	1.

Junior World Championships

Results at the Biathlon World Championships for Juniors

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2012	Kontiolahti	10.	36.	29	6th
2013	Obertilliach	3.	5.	3.	1.

German championships

Results at German Biathlon Championships

German championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	places
2012	Altenberg , Oberhof	DNS	7th	12.	DNS	-	6th
2013	Langdorf , Ruhpolding	1.	5.	1.	1.	4th	-
2014	Altenberg, Oberhof	3.	10th / 3rd	6th	-	3.	-
2015	Langdorf, Ruhpolding	not participated
2016	Altenberg, Oberhof	-	1.	2.	1.	1.	-
2017	Langdorf, Ruhpolding	-	4th	4th	2.	2.	-
2018	Altenberg, Oberhof	-	2.	3.	2.	1.	-

Web links

Commons : Franziska Preuß  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Franziska Preuß in the IBU database (English)
• Website of Franziska Preuss
• Franziska Preuss at the German Ski Association
• Franziska Preuss at the Federal Customs Administration
• Information, collected press reports and results from Franziska Preuß on the SC Haag website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franziska Preuss. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. Jump up ↑ Biathlon career . In: OVB online , January 3, 2012, accessed on January 24, 2013.
3. ↑ Franziska Preuß is nominated for the World Cup . In: OVB online , January 15, 2013, accessed on January 23, 2013.
4. ^ Result list single Östersund November 28, 2013
5. ↑ Magdalena Neuner calls for a new beginning on t-online.de, accessed on March 17, 2016
6. ↑ In four years, your games - words of comfort from all over Germany for Franzi will be on wasserburger-stimme.de, accessed on March 17, 2016
7. ^ Claus Dieterle, Ruhpolding: Biathlon in Ruhpolding: Preuß has finally arrived on the big stage . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 23, 2019]).
8. ↑ Sport1.de: Biathletes Simon Schempp and Franziska Preuß are lovers . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed December 19, 2016]).
9. ↑ Surprise: Franziska Preuß is “Sportswoman of the Month” January. Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation, January 2012, archived from the original on March 24, 2014 ; Retrieved January 23, 2013 . 
10. ↑ WinterStar 2012: Neuner, Preuss and two holes. Bayerischer Rundfunk, March 19, 2012, accessed on March 25, 2013 .