Karolin Horchler

Karolin Horchler
Association	Germany
birthday	9th May 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Arolsen , Germany
Career
job	Sports soldier
society	WSV Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Trainer	Kristian Mehringer Florian Steirer
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2011
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	10 (9 individual wins)
Debut in the World Cup	2014
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 4 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × DM medals 8 × 9 × 2 ×
Biathlon world championships silver 2020 Antholz Season  European biathlon championships gold 2013 Bansko Season bronze 2013 Bansko persecution silver 2014 Nove Mesto Season silver 2015 Otepää Season silver 2016 Tyumen sprint silver 2016 Tyumen persecution  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2010 Torsby singles  German championships gold 2013 Langdorf Season gold 2013 Langdorf sprint silver 2013 Langdorf persecution silver 2013 Ruhpolding Mass start bronze 2013 Ruhpolding singles silver 2014 Altenberg sprint silver 2014 Altenberg persecution gold 2015 Langdorf sprint silver 2015 Langdorf persecution gold 2015 Ruhpolding Season silver 2015 Ruhpolding Mass start bronze 2017 Ruhpolding Mass start gold 2018 Altenberg sprint gold 2018 Altenberg persecution gold 2018 Oberhof Mass start silver 2018 Oberhof Season gold 2019 Arber persecution silver 2019 Arber sprint silver 2019 Ruhpolding Mass start
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	32nd ( 2018/19 )
Individual World Cup	30. ( 2019/20 )
Sprint World Cup	29. (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup	30. (2019/20)
Mass start world cup	29. (2018/19)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Season 0 3 2
Continental Cup balance
Overall IBU Cup	1st ( 2017/18 ) 2nd ( 2014/15 ) 3rd ( 2016/17 )
Individual IBU Cup	1. ( 2016/17 )
Sprint IBU Cup	1. (2017/18)
last change: March 14, 2020

Karolin Horchler (born May 9, 1989 in Arolsen ) is a German biathlete . Her greatest success is winning the silver medal with the German women's relay at the 2020 World Championships .

Personal

Karolin Horchler grew up in Ottlar . She started her career at SC Willingen and starts today for WSV Clausthal-Zellerfeld . Her older sister Nadine and her twin sister Kristin also practice biathlon. Kristin has already ended her career as an active competitive athlete. Her younger brother Adrian (* 1996) is an active mountain bike athlete .

Athletic career

Beginnings (2007 to 2012)

In 2007 she competed in her first international race as part of the European Junior Cup . Participation in the biathlon junior world championships in 2008 followed in Ruhpolding . In the individual she was tenth, in the sprint eleventh and in the pursuit race 14th. Another participation followed in 2010 in Torsby in which Horchler won the silver medal in the individual behind Réka Ferencz . In the sprint she came in 18th and was 16th in the pursuit. In 2011 she contested her first races in the IBU Cup . In Altenberg , she won her first points as 38th of a sprint in her first race, and in the pursuit race she improved to 11th place. In Annecy , she achieved a podium finish for the first time in an individual as second behind Carolin Hennecke .

In the 2011/2012 season , Horchler was able to gain his first international competition experience in the IBU Cup. Her best result was a ninth place in the Haute-Maurienne pursuit . In the lying position she had a hit rate of 94% in the IBU Cup competitions, in the standing position she was also one of the safest shooters with 92%. This made Horchler the best shooter in the German team. However, clear serious running deficits prevented top placements. At the European Biathlon Championships in 2012 , she only reached 24th place, over two minutes behind the leading Ukrainian Olena Pidhruschna in the sprint, despite faultless shooting bouts . In the shooting-heavy individual competition it was only enough for ninth place despite another faultless shooting. Due to the weakness in the trail , it was for the competitions in the Canadian Canmore ignored and ended with solid results in Altenberg their first season as 13th in the standings.

First European Championship medals (2012 to 2014)

The following year, Karolin Horchler was used for the first time at the sixth IBU CUP in Martell . Thanks to a strong shooting performance and an improved running form, she was able to land a double success with her first places in sprint and pursuit, which were also the first German IBU Cup victories of the season. At the 2013 European Biathlon Championships , she won gold in the relay and bronze in the pursuit. At the German Championships in 2013 , she won the sprint and relay, was second in the pursuit as well as in the mass start and third in the individual. Nevertheless, she was classified in course group 1b at the beginning of the 2013/2014 season and initially did not belong to the German World Cup team.

First World Cup starts (2014 to 2017)

Karolin Horchler at the EM 2017

After good performances in the IBU Cup , Horchler was nominated for the 2014/15 World Cup opener in Östersund. With a 24th place in the individual, she also reached a place in the points. Although she started four times in the World Cup, she was still runner-up in the overall IBU Cup after winning four IBU Cup races, including three in Canmore , Canada . At the European Championships in Otepää , Estonia , she won the silver medal in the women's relay.

In the 2015/16 season , Karolin Horchler initially only started in the individual race in Ruhpolding . When Vanessa Hinz fell ill overnight , the trainers ordered Horchler, who was already on the way to the IBU Cup races in South Tyrol , back to Ruhpolding. She started the race as the starting runner, and although Miriam Gössner had to complete two penalties, the German relay team came in second after Maren Hammerschmidt and Laura Dahlmeier at the end of the run. It was Horchler's first podium finish in the Biahtlon World Cup. In the Canmore sprint she was able to achieve a top 10 result for the first time with a ninth place and thus qualify for the mass start for the first time in the World Cup. In Presque Isle she stood together with Franziska Preuss , Luise Kummer and Miriam Gössner for the German relay. After a penalty loop from Gössner, Horchler started the race in fifth, over 40 seconds behind. With a good shooting performance, Horchler temporarily improved to second place, but had to admit defeat to Olena Pidhrushna from Ukraine in the finish sprint and crossed the finish line in third place. She could not qualify for the Biathlon World Cup in Oslo and did not take part in the last races of the season in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia . However, she took part in the 2016 European Biathlon Championships in Tyumen , Russia , and won the silver medal in both the sprint and the pursuit. Together with her sister Nadine , Matthias Bischl and Florian Graf , she only achieved fourth place in the mixed relay, after Graf had to complete three penalties after the prone shooting while in the lead. In the overall World Cup she finished 63rd.

Karolin Horchler at the EM 2017

As in the previous year, Karolin Horchler was assigned to course group 1b and received B-management status. In the 2016/17 season she started in the second-rate IBU Cup from the start . In January 2017 she started - for the first time together with her sister Nadine - at the World Cup races in Oberhof . In the Biathlon European Championships in Poland Duszniki-Zdroj could not repeat the success of last year, the German team won at the competitions no medal. In the IBU Cup, she won the individual race in Obertilliach and the mixed relay in Otepää , together with Marion Deigentesch , Matthias Dorfer and David Zobel . Thanks to her consistently good performance, she secured the overall ranking of the individual races of the IBU Cup. Although the DSV had two additional starting places for the women for the last race of the World Cup in Oslo , among other things due to their placement in the overall ranking of the IBU Cup, these were neither with Karolin Horchler nor with another athlete from the IBU Cup team occupied. Only women who had already formed the German team for Pyeongchang and Kontiolahti were nominated .

After the end of the season, Karolin Horchler was assigned to the B2 squad of the DSV . She no longer belongs to course group 1b, from which the team for the IBU Cup is usually formed, and can therefore no longer participate in many training camps. As a member of the sponsorship cadre , she is more on her own when preparing for the winter.

Overall victory IBU Cup (from 2017)

While preparing for the 2017/18 Biathlon World Cup , Karolin Horchler was struck by a truck while training with roller skis in June 2017 and fell and broke her shoulder joint. In training and in preparation for the coming winter, she was severely limited and could not complete any shooting training for almost ten weeks. Nevertheless, they won at the German Championships in September in Ruhpolding bronze in the mass start and was able for the World Cup opening in the Swedish Ostersund qualify. In the first race of the season, the individual race over 15 km, she finished 19th and achieved her best result in this discipline. At the second World Cup of the season in Hochfilzen , Horchler was also part of the German team and replaced the sick Franziska Preuss . Then she started again in the second-class IBU Cup and took part in the European Championships in Ridnaun, Italy. Although she did not take part in two IBU Cups and thus a total of four individual races, Horchler won the overall classification and the sprint classification of the IBU Cup. During this time she won two races and achieved five more podium finishes. With this placement in the overall ranking, she also qualified for participation in the season finale of the World Cup in Tyumen, Russia . After an eleventh place in the sprint, she improved to fifth place in the pursuit race. It was her first top 10 placement in this discipline, she improved her personal best in a World Cup race and qualified for the mass start, which she also finished eighth with a top 10 placement.

At the German Championships in September 2018, Karolin Horchler won all biathlon competitions and came second in the relay race together with Franziska Hildebrand and Stephanie Jesse. On September 17, Horchler was nominated for the first three events of the 2018/19 World Cup , taking over the position of Maren Hammerschmidt , who, after suffering from tendinitis, was only able to compete in one competition at the German championships and subsequently not for the World Cup team by the DSV taken into consideration. For the first World Cup of the season on the Slovenian Pokljuka plateau, she had a personal right to start, regardless of Germany's quota positions. She thus benefited from a rule change by the IBU, which grants last year's winners of the overall IBU Cup standings a personal right to start at the first World Cup of the season. Karolin Horchler was thus also the first biathlete to start the World Cup in a "blue jersey". She maintained her World Cup place in the team and was also nominated for the team at the 2019 World Championships in Östersund, Sweden , but was not used in the title fights.

statistics

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					3	3
3rd place					1	1
Top 10		1	1	2	10	14th
Scoring	5	11	13	5	11	45
Starts	9	24	17th	5	11	66
Status: February 22, 2020

World Cup ratings

Results at biathlon world cups (discipline and overall world cup) according to the point system

season	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2014/15	47.	17th	-	-	75.	5	-	-	73.	22nd
2015/16	-	-	58.	32	60.	21st	45.	16	63.	69
2017/18	32.	22nd	59.	30th	43.	49	33.	34	45.	135
2018/19	68.	4th	29	100	33.	83	29	52	32.	239

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2020	Antholz	26th	23.	15th	13.	2.	-	-

IBU Cup victories

date	place	discipline
February 2, 2013	Martell	sprint
3rd February 2013	Martell	persecution
February 8, 2015	Osrblie	persecution
February 28, 2015	Canmore	sprint
March 1, 2015	Canmore	sprint
4th March 2015	Canmore	singles
December 16, 2016	Obertilliach	singles
March 8, 2017	Otepää	Mixed relay
December 16, 2017	Obertilliach	sprint
March 14, 2018	Khanty-Mansiysk	Super sprint

Web links

Commons : Karolin Horchler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Karolin Horchler in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nominated for the World Cup in Östersund. In: biathlon-online.de. November 30, 2014, accessed December 1, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Gössner dropout prevents victory of the German season in Ruhpolding on youtube.com, accessed on July 11, 2017
3. Jump up ↑ Oslo @skiverband on twitter.com, accessed on March 15, 2017
4. ↑ Karolin Horchler - First accident, now World Cup comeback on hessenschau.de, accessed on January 25, 2017
5. ↑ DSV nominations for World Cup and IBU Cup teams on the German Skiverband.de, accessed on September 17, 2018