Joan Guetschow
Joan Guetschow 
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| Full name | Joan Elizabeth Guetschow |
| Association |
 United States
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| birthday | September 6, 1966 |
| place of birth | Akron |
| Career | |
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| status | resigned |
| End of career | 1994 |
| World Cup balance | |
| last change: end of career | |
Joan Elizabeth Guetschow (born September 6, 1966 in Akron ) is a former American biathlete .
Joan Guetschow lives in Minnetanks . In her youth she practiced various sports - including swimming and triathlon - and did not specialize in cross-country skiing until 1986 during a one-year stay as an exchange student . That year she also took part in the Finnish triathlon championships and finished second behind Marjo Matikainen . Her first international biathlon championship was the 1991 World Championships in Lahti , where she was 16th in the sprint and seventh in the relay race with Mary Ostergren and Anna Sonnerup . In 1992 she was one of the athletes who first took part in women's biathlon races at the Olympic Games . In Albertville , Guetschow finished 64th at her only start, the sprint. She gave a better place because she ran in the wrong direction at times. At the World Championships in 1993 in Borovets , she reached the placements 29 in the individual and 64 in the sprint. With Joan Miller Smith , Mary Ostergren and Ntala Skinner , she finished eleventh in season. The last major event and the end of his career was the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . Guetschow was used in all three races. In the sprint, she finished 52nd, with Beth Coats , Joan Miller Smith and Laura Tavares finishing eighth. Her 17th place in the individual was for a long time the second best US result at the Olympics. In the World Cup she achieved points several times in her career.
Guechev is open to her homosexuality. She belongs to a relatively early group of female athletes who openly admitted to it. She is married to the American skeleton pilot Tricia Stumpf .
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 relay
| placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | team | Season | total |
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| Top 10 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Scoring | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6th | |||
| Starts | 7th | 9 | 3 | 19th | |||
| Status : End of career, data incomplete, including World Championships and Olympic Games | |||||||
Web links
- Joan Guetschow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Joan Guetschow in the IBU database (English)
- Results for Joan Guetschow at the-sports.org (English)
- One Lesbian Olympian's Story (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Guetschow, Joan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guetschow, Joan Elizabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Akron |