Frauke Schmitt Gran

Frauke Schmitt Gran , née Frauke Schmitt , (born March 12, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German orienteer .

Career

Schmitt comes from Lahr in the Black Forest and started orienteering in 1979. In 1987 it started for the first time at a world championship and took 42nd place in the competition on the classic distance, which at that time was the only competition at the world orienteering championships alongside the relay . At the following three world championships, she took 16th place in 1991 on the long distance as the best placement in an individual competition. At the 1995 World Championships in Detmold , she achieved her greatest success to date. On the short distance of 4.4 kilometers she finished fifth in the victory of Swiss Marie-Luce Romanens . She missed the bronze medal by just two seconds. On the long distance she was tenth and with the relay (with Kerstin Hellmann , Karin Schmalfeld and Anke Xylander ) she also reached fifth place.

In 1998 she had her first child and therefore took a break from competition. In 1999 she achieved the next triumph: at the World Championships in Inverness , Scotland , she won the bronze medal in the short distance behind the British Yvette Baker and the Austrian Lucie Böhm and thus the first medal for Germany at an orienteering world championship. In the following year she became Norwegian champion in sprint and long distance and, as in the previous year, came second at the national relay championships with her Norwegian club Halden SK . When she last participated in the World Cup in 2001, she reached tenth place on the short distance.

In the Venla relay in the same year, she may have saved the life of Russian runner Anna Fadejewa when she tied off the Russian's leg with her jersey after the artery was torn. She later received support from the Finn Virpi Juutilainen and the British Jo Stevenson . When medical help arrived, she continued the run. She was awarded the Fair Play Prize by the German Association of Journalists for her actions . In 2005 the then Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily presented her with the Flatow Medal.

Schmitt Gran is married to a Norwegian and lives in Halden, Norway. She measures 1.71 m and weighed 61 kg at competition times.

Placements

	World championships				European championships				North. Championships				German championships				Norwegian championships							GWC
year	KD MD	Kl LD	St.		KD MD	Kl LD	St.		KD MD	Kl LD	St.		MD	LD	St.		Sp	MD	LD	Kl	N	St.
1987		42.
1988
1989		33.	8th.
1990														1.
1991	22nd	16.	7th										1.	3.
1992
1993	45.	70.	9.										2.
1994
1995	5.	10.	5.
1996																								28.
1997	21st	14th	11.						27.		9.									10.	3.	5.
1998
1999	3.	11.	8th.						27.	30th	9.								5.		5.	2.
2000					20th	17th											1.	3.	1.	9.		2.		16.
2001	10.	33.	6th						27.	44.	13.						7th
Explanation: GWC = overall World Cup / Sp = sprint, KD = short distance, MD = middle distance, LD = long distance, Kl = classic distance, E = individual competition, St = relay, N = night orienteering

Web links

• Frauke Schmitt Gran on halden.net (German)
• Profile on the World Of O Runners website
• Competition results on iof.6prog.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ orientierungslauf.de : High award - admonishing reminder , May 20, 2005, accessed on August 19, 2011
2. ↑ orientierungslauf.de : Fair Play Trophy by German Journalists to Frauke , April 29, 2002, accessed on August 19, 2011