Iris Schwabl

Iris Schwabl
Association	Austria
birthday	2nd July 1987
place of birth	Schladming
Career
society	ATV Irdning
Trainer	Reinhard Gösweiner
Admission to the national team	2008
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	4th
Debut in the World Cup	2007
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × 3 × 0 × JEM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2006 Presque Isle Season silver 2006 Presque Isle persecution bronze 2008 Ruhpolding singles  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2007 Bansko persecution silver 2007 Bansko singles silver 2007 Bansko sprint silver 2008 Nove Mesto singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	42nd ( 2012/13 )
Individual World Cup	25. (2012/13)
Sprint World Cup	45th (2012/13)
Pursuit World Cup	50th (2012/13)
last change: end of career

Iris Schwabl (* as Iris Waldhuber , July 2, 1987 in Schladming ) is a former Austrian biathlete .

Life and origin

Iris Schwabl comes from Aigen im Ennstal . In addition to her active career as an athlete, she worked as an industrial clerk.

In 2012 she married Andreas Schwabl and subsequently competed under the name Schwabl. Iris and Andreas Schwabl are parents of two children.

Career

Iris Schwabl started for the ATV Irdning and was trained by Reinhard Gösweiner for a long time. She was a biathlete from 1996 and started for Austria in 2002. Schwabl was very successful as a junior. She ran her first Junior World Championships in 2005 in Kontiolahti , without reaching top ten placements. For the new season she began to run in the Junior European Cup. At the end of the season she started at the World Cup in Presque Isle and surprisingly won the gold medal there with the Austrian relay. After finishing fourth in the individual and fifth in the sprint, she also won silver in the pursuit behind Tamara Baric. The 2007 Junior World Championships were less successful for the Austrian. In Martell Schwabl achieved no results below the first 20. The European Junior Championship of the year in Bansko was much better . In the individual behind Jekaterina Schumilowa and in the sprint behind Swetlana Slepzowa she won silver, in the pursuit she was able to win the title. The Junior European Championship in 2008 again brought three top ten placements, including silver in the individual behind Elise Ringen . At her last Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding , she was also able to win a medal in individual, bronze behind Susann König and Marie-Laure Brunet . In 2007 in particular, there were also several placements among the top ten in the Junior European Cup. In 2008, she won a pursuit race in Cesana San Sicario after finishing third in the sprint to get her first podium finish. There are also various national youth and junior championship titles.

Schwabl made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup at the beginning of the 2007/08 season in Kontiolahti. In the first individual of the season, she finished 66th. The best result so far is a 37th place in the sprint in Pokljuka . At the end of the season, she started in the Biathlon European Cup for the first time and was fifth in the sprint and fourth in the pursuit. Up until the 2008/10 season , the Austrian started as the best Austrian biathlete, quite unchallenged in the World Cup. The highlights were the 2009 Biathlon World Championships in Pyeongchang , where she was 69th in the individual, 47th in the sprint and 51st in the pursuit, and the leadership of the Austrian women's relay at the start of the 2009/10 season . In Östersund , the Austrian women were able to start a relay for the first time. With Ramona Düringer , Romana Schrempf and Kerstin Muschet she reached 17th out of 20 places. She also took part in the European Biathlon Championships in 2009 in Ufa and in 2010 in Otepää . In Russia she was 12th in the individual, in Estonia 18th in the sprint and 23rd in the pursuit. In the 2010/11 season Schwabl temporarily lost her World Cup place to Romana Schrempf and entered the IBU Cup . Although the performances there were mixed at first, she found her way back on the road to success with two victories in the sprint and pursuit of Altenberg . At the Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk she was 32nd of the individual and won world cup points for the first time. In the sprint she was 77th, with Ramona Düringer, Dominik Landertinger and Christoph Sumann in the mixed relay race seventh.

So far, Iris Schwabl has won a total of 14 Austrian championship titles. In 2005 she won in the pursuit and in the relay, in 2008 in the individual, in the mass start and in the sprint, in 2009 she won the individual, pursuit and sprint and in 2010 she was Austrian champion in the pursuit, in the individual on roller skis and with the relay. Other titles followed in pursuit (2011), sprint (2012) and with the relay (2013).

She ended her active career at the end of 2014. She contested her last World Cup race in 2014 on the Pokljuka plateau. It was the women's sprint in which her teammate Katharina Innerhofer became the first Austrian biathlete to win a World Cup race.

statistics

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					3	3
Scoring	4th	6th	3		17th	30th
Starts	15th	37	10		17th	79
Status: end of career

World championships

Results at Biathlon World Championships:

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2009	Pyeongchang	69.	47.	51.
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	31.	76.				7th
2012	Ruhpolding	32.	64.			16.	21st
2013	Nové Město	24.	30th	33.		19th	16.

Web links

Commons : Iris Waldhuber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage
• Iris Schwabl in the database of the IBU (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austrian championships in biathlon. ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ÖSV winner board, accessed on June 8, 2010