Joanne Reid

Joanne Reid
Full name	Joanne Firesteel Reid
Association	United States
birthday	28th June 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Madison , United States
Career
job	Student
society	Colorado Biathlon Club
Trainer	Jonne Kähkönen, Jean Paquet
Admission to the national team	2016
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2016
Debut in the World Cup	2016
status	active
Medal table
USM medals 0 × 5 × 0 ×
US championships silver 2016 Fort Kent sprint silver 2016 Fort Kent persecution silver 2016 Fort Kent Mass start silver 2017 Jericho sprint silver 2017 Jericho persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	49th ( 2018/19 )
Individual World Cup	59th (2018/19)
Sprint World Cup	52nd (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup	52nd (2018/19)
Mass start world cup	32nd (2018/19)
last change: March 24, 2019

Joanne Firesteel Reid (born June 28, 1992 in Madison , Wisconsin ) is an American biathlete and former cross-country skier .

Life

Joanne Reid grew up in Palo Alto , California and has lived in Boulder , Colorado since 2010 . She is the daughter of former speed skaters Beth Heiden and Russell Reid. Reid had three siblings: her older brothers Garrett and Carl and her older sister Susan Elizabeth, who died of heart, liver and kidney problems at the age of 19 days. Her uncle is the speed skater and Olympic champion Eric Heiden .

She has a bachelor in applied mathematics and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder .

Career

Cross-country skiing (2009 to 2015)

Joanne Reid started out in cross-country skiing and began her international career in a competition in West Yellowstone on November 25, 2009 as part of the US Super Tour 2009/10 , where she finished 21st. In January 2010 she took part for the first time in the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2010 in Hinterzarten , where she initially failed to qualify in the sprint freestyle with 44th place, but then in the pursuit race over the 10 kilometers an 18th place and in the 4x3.3 km Season, along with Sophie Caldwell , Caitlin Patterson and Jessica Diggins, took eighth place. The following year she started again at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2011 , this time in Otepää , and was 36th over the five kilometers, 24th over the ten kilometers and seventh with the American team. By 2015 she had won a total of eight FIS races. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 2015 in Almaty , she finished 25th in the 10 km freestyle and 22nd place in the 15 km skiathlon. In 2015 she also started in the Slavic Cup and the Alpencup for the first time .

Beginnings in biathlon and cardiac arrhythmias (2016 and 2017)

For the 2015/16 season , Reid switched to biathlon . First at the second-class IBU Cup in Nové Město na Moravě in the Czech Republic , then at the World Cups in Ruhpolding , Antholz and Canmore . However, she did not reach the points in any single race. In Ruhpolding and Antholz, she was also part of the US women's relay, which took 16th and 17th place.

In the following winter she stood from the beginning of the season in American US in the squad of the team for the World Cup, reaching the individual race in the Swedish Ostersund with 29th place, her best result as well as their first World Cup points. In February 2017 she took part in her first biathlon world championships.

After Reid almost passed out during a competition at the penultimate World Cup of the season in Kontiolahti, Finland , she was diagnosed with convulsive supraventricular tachycardia . She was therefore successfully treated at Massachusetts General Hospital in August and October 2017 and was able to fully train again after a two-week recovery period.

First Olympic participation (from 2017)

In the winter of 2017/18 , Reid had to qualify for the World Cup team as well as for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang through elimination competitions, the Nor-Am Cup and the IBU Cup . It was not until January 2018 that she took part in competitions in the IBU Cup in Brezno and the Arber and was nominated for the Olympics shortly afterwards. After the individual competition on the Arber, she and Emily Dreissigacker no longer took part in the sprint, but were lined up for the World Cup relay in Ruhpolding together with Susan Dunklee and Clare Egan . At the Olympic Games, it was initially only intended for participation in the sprint . With seven penalties, Joanne Reid was ranked second last and, like Susan Dunklee and Clare Egan, failed to qualify for participation in the pursuit race . On February 15, she replaced the sick Maddie Phaneuf , with whom she shared a room in Pyeongchang, in an individual race over 15 km. With only one shooting mistake, she placed 22nd, just three places behind the best-placed US American Susan Dunklee. In the mixed relay she took over from starting runner Dunklee with little residue, she lost almost three minutes in her position - also with three penalties after the standing shooting - Tim Burke and Lowell Bailey were only able to reduce this gap by a few seconds by the end of the race. She was used again in the women's relay and was the third runner on the track after Susan Dunklee and Clare Egan. Despite a penalty loop after the prone stop, her gap to the top increased only minimally, she sent last runner Emily Dreissigacker onto the track, a good 20 seconds behind. Dreissigacker did not have to go to the penalty loop, but finished the race more than two minutes behind in 13th place. The US biathlon team boycotted the last World Cup of the season in Tyumen , Russia , and Joanne Reid ended the season without placing in the points in an individual race.

At the beginning of winter 2018/19 , Reid was, alongside Susan Dunklee and Clare Egan, an integral part of the US World Cup team, which only had three starting places in the World Cup this season. In several races she reached the points, at the Biathlon World Championships 2019 in Östersund, Sweden, she achieved her best result in a World Cup race with a 15th place in the sprint. After she had made no shooting errors in the sprint, she passed a total of six in the subsequent pursuit race, and she fell back to 32nd place. With another 32nd place in the individual race, she qualified for the first time in her career to participate in a mass start. After Susan Dunklee and Clare Egan, she started the relay race as the leader; she handed over to the final runner Emily Dreissigacker from Sweden, just 17 seconds behind the relay, after two penalties and a total of five shooting errors by Dreissigacker, the US American team finished ninth.

Trivia

Joanne Reid's first biathlon rifle came from her grandfather. Shortly before he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease , he bought an old weapon from Anschütz . After the diagnosis, he first bequeathed the rifle to his daughter Beth , who in turn passed it on to her daughter Joanne, as she was the only cross-country skier in the family with competitive ambitions. This rifle called Joanne Reid "forget-me-not" ( English for Forget-Me ) and used it in their first international race in the IBU Cup and World Cup 2015/16 . Reid has had a new rifle since winter 2016/17 , which she calls the "Tunkasila". This word comes from the Lakota language and means "grandfather" or "great spirit" and is supposed to remind of your grandfather, who in the last years of his life could neither remember his rifle nor his granddaughter. Reid made the stock of her rifle himself, which is decorated on one side with the state flowers of the US states of Wisconsin , Colorado and California , and on the other side with a portrait of a naked woman.

“Lady Fortune - the mistress of biathlon. [..] In a sport full of ups and downs, dependent on both skill and luck, chance is a part of our lives. Without Fortune's favor, we cannot succeed, and she is a fickle mistress indeed. "

“ Fortuna - the mistress of biathlon. In a sport full of ups and downs, where both skill and luck count, chance is part of life. You cannot be successful without Fortuna's favor, but she is a very capricious contemporary. "

- Joanne Reid : Portrait on nbcolympics.com

Joanne Reid was named after the "Firesteel River" in Michigan named that in Ontonagon County to Lake Superior feeds. Her full name is Joanne Firesteel Reid.

Competition balance

winter Olympics

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2018	Pyeongchang	22nd	86.	-	-	13.	15th

World championships

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2017	Hochfilzen	56.	49.	38.	-	14th	-
2019	Ostersund	32.	15th	32.	10.	9.	-	-

World Cup ratings

season	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2015/16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	56.	12	80.	6th	82.	3	-	-	84.	21st
2017/18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	59.	9	58.	42	52.	32	32.	31	49.	114

World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10				1	5	6th
Scoring	2	4th	4th	1	18th	29
Starts	6th	21st	12	1	18th	58
Status: end of season 2018/19

Web links

• Joanne Reid in the database of the IBU (English)
• Joanne Reid in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Joanne Reid on the US Association's website
• Joanne Reid's private website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Heiden olympic legacy lives on with Joanne Reid ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2018 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. on nbcolympic.com, accessed February 16, 2018 
2. ↑ Success in CU Buff Joanne Reid's DNA on buffzone.com, accessed February 2, 2017
3. ↑ Joanne Reid on teamusa.org, accessed November 26, 2018
4. ↑ jfiresteel on instagram.com, accessed February 16, 2018
5. ↑ Joanne Firesteel Reid US Biathlete (About Rifle) ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2018 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. at jfiresteel.wixsite.com, accessed May 16, 2017