Katharina Echter

Katharina Echter
Full name	Katharina Echter
Association	Germany
birthday	July 18, 1982
place of birth	Germany
Career
job	Student
society	SC Partenkirchen SC Eibsee Grainau D'Waxlstoana Grainau
Trainer	Hans-Ulrich Spengler Remo Krug
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2003
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	1
status	not active
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × DM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JEM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
European biathlon championships bronze Minsk 2004 Season  German championships gold 2004 Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2003 Kościelisko Season  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2002 Kontiolahti Season
World Cup balance
last change: March 13, 2008

Katharina Echter (born July 18, 1982 ) is a German biathlete , who also competes in the cross-country run of the summer biathlon , and a BMX athlete from Grainau .

Echter was a student at the Berchtesgaden Ski School and graduated from high school in 2001 . At that time she was one of the best young athletes in German biathlon. At the European Championships in Kontiolahti in 2002 , Echter won gold in the junior relay together with Barbara Ertl and Jenny Adler . Her most successful year was the 2003/04 season , when she came second in the overall European Cup standings behind Irina Malgina and ahead of Ute Niziak , and won her only European Cup race with the relay in Méribel . In 2004 she became German champion with the Bavarian relay team, which also included Uschi Disl and Martina Glagow . In the 2004/05 season she won the Germany Cup ahead of Hanna Möller and Niziak. She was a participant in the first ever European Summer Biathlon Championships in 2004 , where she was penultimate and last with ninth places in the sprint and pursuit.

Since she started her studies in Augsburg, she has been taking less time in biathlon, but has not officially ended her career, including taking part in the Universiade in Turin in January 2007. In addition to biathlon, Echter operates a number of other sports, for example, she plays soccer at SC Eibsee Grainau, competes in cross-country skiing and rides mountain bikes and BMX in the BMX Bundesliga for the BMX Vereinigung e. V. Bavaria. With the 20 "BMX bike, Echter was fourth in the 2007 German championships. In 2006, she took fourth place in the German cruiser class , and in 2008 she was sixth.

Web links

• Katharina Echter in the IBU database (English)
• Pictures by Katharina Echter
• Profile at the German Schützenbund

Individual evidence

1. ^ Universiade - Results of the German Students . General German University Sports Association. January 21, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
2. ↑ Jan Gorbach: BMX Bundesliga . BMX marketing agency. May 21, 2006. Archived from the original on February 6, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 29, 2009. 
3. ^ Department of BMX (Bicycle Moto Cross) . www.bmx-garmisch.de. Accessed on January 29, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ BMX Federal Ranking List 2006 (PDF; 32 kB) BMX Rennverwaltung rad-net.de. May 21, 2006. Retrieved January 29, 2009.
5. ↑ Season ranking list - female cruiser 2008 (PDF; 138 kB) BMX marketing agency. August 26, 2008. Accessed on January 29, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.