Ina Menzel

Ina Menzel
Association	Germany
birthday	June 27, 1978
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2001
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	1
Debut in the World Cup	2004
status	resigned
Medal table
EM medals 2 × 0 × 3 × DM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2001 Haute Maurienne Season gold 2002 Kontiolahti Season bronze 2003 Forni Avoltri singles bronze 2003 Forni Avoltri persecution bronze 2004 Minsk Season  German championships gold 2003 Ruhpolding singles  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 1996 Kontiolahti Season gold 1996 Kontiolahti team
World Cup balance

Ina Menzel , from 2008 Ina Hildebrandt (born June 27, 1978 as Ina Menzel ), is a former German biathlete .

Ina Menzel made her debut in 2001 in a sprint race of the European Cup in Ridnaun , where she finished seventh. There she won a sprint race a year later. A second European Cup race won was a relay race in Méribel in 2004 . In 2004 it was used for the first time in Pokljuka in the Biathlon World Cup . Her first race, in which she was 27th in a sprint, was also her best race.

Menzel celebrated her greatest successes at European level. At the title fights in 2001 in Haute-Maurienne , she won relay gold with Katja Beer , Simone Denkinger and Sabine Flatscher . The following year she won relay gold again in Kontiolahti with Janet Klein , Denkinger and Sabrina Buchholz . In 2003 in Forni Avoltri she could not achieve a relay medal, but she won bronze medals in individual and pursuit. The following year in Minsk she won another relay bronze with Sabrina Buchholz, Romy Beer and Katharina Echter .

In 2005 she ended her career surprisingly, but stayed with the Federal Police , where she trained as a law enforcement officer in Bad Endorf during her sporting career. She married in 2008 and has been called Ina Hildebrandt ever since.

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
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring		1				1
Starts		1	1			2
Status: after the end of the 2004/2005 season

Web link

• Ina Menzel in the database of the IBU (English)