Katharina Innerhofer

Katharina Innerhofer
Association	Austria
birthday	January 17, 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Zell am See , Austria
size	166 cm
Weight	56 kg
Career
society	SC Maria Alm
Trainer	Markus Fischer , Gerald Hönig
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2010
Debut in the World Cup	2011
World Cup victories	1
status	active
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	26. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	24. ( 2013/14 )
Sprint World Cup	24. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	43rd (2013/14)
Mass start world cup	22. (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 1 0 0
last change: May 2, 2020

Katharina Innerhofer (born January 17, 1991 in Zell am See ) is an Austrian biathlete . In March 2014 she became the first Austrian to win a race in the Biathlon World Cup .

Career

Beginnings and World Cup debut (until 2013)

Katharina Innerhofer comes from Maria Alm in the state of Salzburg and starts for SC Maria Alm . She started biathlon in her school days. As a 13-year-old, she joined Sandra Flunger's training group at the Saalfelden ski school , a majority of whom came from the later women's national team. In addition to several successes at Austrian youth championships, Innerhofer also took part in international youth championships from 2010. As the best individual result, she achieved a 15th place in the sprint at the 2011 Junior World Championships .

Unlike the men's team, Austrian women only played a subordinate role in international biathlon in the early 2010s. In the Nations Cup of the World Cup , the team was not represented in the top twenty. The Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) was therefore only allowed to nominate one or two athletes for the individual competitions of the top racing series, but had the opportunity to set up relays. Innerhofer, who had already been used in the second-class IBU Cup from 2010 and collected points there in several races, was regularly included in these World Cup relays from January 2011. In Oberhof she made her debut as a starting runner and came 14th alongside Ramona Düringer , Kerstin Muschet and Romana Schrempf . A few weeks later, the Austrian relay team in a similar line-up (with Iris Waldhuber in Muschet's place) took fifth place at the European Championships . In 2012 Innerhofer started for the first time at the World Championships in the adult area and received both in the relay race (16th place) as well as in the sprint and 15-kilometer individual races, placing 78th and 96th in the back field. As a result, she was sporadically nominated for the World Cup team, but in winter 2012/13 she mainly competed in the IBU Cup, where she finished tenth in the Ostrov sprint and later sprinted seventh at the European Championships .

World Cup victory, sick leave and return (since 2013)

Katharina Innerhofer at the World Cup in Oberhof in January 2020

The ÖSV promoted Innerhofer to the A-squad for the 2013/14 season , for the first time she was given one of the two Austrian World Cup starting places and, along with Lisa Hauser, was the first Austrian to represent the country in Olympic biathlon competitions. At the Winter Games in Sochi , Innerhofer reached 28th place in the individual , and ninth place in the mixed relay . Her first best World Cup result was a 22nd place, until she celebrated her maiden victory on March 6, 2014 in the sprint on the Pokljuka , the first post-Olympic race. As one of eight female athletes, she scored with all ten shots - for the first time in a World Cup race - and won 9.2 seconds ahead of World Cup debutante Darja Wirolaynen from Russia, who also made no mistakes . The first World Cup success of an Austrian biathlete was seen as a big surprise, Innerhofer was a "blatant outsider" who had run "the race of her life". In the following pursuit, Innerhofer stayed in the top ten with four errors and finished the competition in seventh place.

At the age of 23, Innerhofer was the most experienced athlete in the young Austrian team at the beginning of winter 2014/15 , and the women's trainer Walter Hörl saw her as a “lead wolf” because of her World Cup victory. While Lisa Hauser, who was three years younger than her , established herself among the top ten in the following years with several top ten results, Innerhofer , who was initially ill with Pfeiffer glandular fever, did not continue her performance from the previous winter and started working after the diagnosis in December 2015 a training and competition break. When she returned to the 2016/17 World Cup season , she never reached the top 40 points in any single race; at the home World Championships in Hochfilzen , after finishing 60 and 56 in sprint and pursuit, she was not included in the relay. In December 2017, Innerhofer was the 33rd in the pursuit of Annecy after more than two and a half years, again collecting points in a World Cup individual race. In addition to Hauser and Dunja Zdouc , she traveled as one of three Austrian biathletes to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where she placed 29th as the best individual result in the sprint and was tenth in the mixed relay .

After several years without a first result in the World Cup, Innerhofer achieved three top ten results in the 2019/20 season : at the season opener in Östersund , she achieved her second-best career result in seventh place in the sprint, and later she finished both the sprint and the one in Oberhof Mass start as tenth. As 26th of the overall World Cup - and thus the second best Austrian behind Lisa Hauser - she did better in this ranking than in the winter of her World Cup victory. At the 2020 World Championships , Innerhofer led the field in the mass start after two faultless prone shooting, but shot six penalty loops standing up and fell back to 19th place. Over the entire season, Innerhofer's hit rate in the standing position was 55%, far below that in prone shooting with 84%. In an interview in 2014, she had indicated a lack of concentration when shooting as a weakness. In terms of running, Innerhofer exceeded the average times in the World Cup during the 2019/20 season by an average of three percent, making her the best runner in her team.

statistics

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	06th Mar 2014	Pokljuka	sprint

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		1				1
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10		3	1	1	16	21st
Scoring	5	19th	15th	6th	41	86
Starts	13	52	26th	6th	42	139
Status: end of season 2019/20

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2014 | Sochi	76.	-	28.	-	-	9.
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	29	40.	60.	-	-	10.

World championships

Results at biathlon world championships

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2012	Ruhpolding	86.	75.	-	-	16.	-
2013	Nové Město	64.	97.	-	-	19th	-
2015	Kontiolahti	63.	26th	31.	-	10 1	5.
2017	Hochfilzen	-	60.	56.	-	-	-
2019	Ostersund	-	49.	40.	-	16.	17th	-
2020	Antholz	20th	19th	28.	19th	12.	8th.	-

¹ The Austrian relay finished the race in eleventh place, but moved up one place due to the disqualification of the Russian relay.

Web links

Commons : Katharina Innerhofer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Katharina Innerhofer in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katharina Innerhofer. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Katharina Innerhofer: Every shot is a hit for the Austrian! on biathlon-news.de. November 18, 2014, accessed May 17, 2020.
3. ↑ Gerhard Öhlinger: “At some point it clicks”. In: Salzburger Nachrichten , March 26, 2014, p. 46. Retrieved via PressReader .
4. ↑ Gerhard Öhlinger: Life is like a boomerang. In: Salzburger Nachrichten. February 17, 2017, p. 19. Retrieved via PressReader . "Flunger once introduced all four of today's relay quartet to the secrets of biathlon at the Saalfelden ski school and later accompanied them as an ÖSV trainer."
5. ↑ The winners table of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) names 16 youth championship titles for Innerhofer from 2007 to 2012, cf. ÖSV winner board : all ÖSV medal winners since 1931 on oesv.at, accessed on May 17, 2020.
6. ↑ cf. for example nation ranking for the 2010/11 season . With 1481 points, Austria was in 25th place behind South Korea.
7. ↑ ÖSV National Team Biathlon: 2013/14 season on oesv.at. Archived version in the Internet Archive of January 3, 2014, accessed on May 17, 2020. As well as: Management division from 2012/13 , archived on November 18, 2012, retrieved on May 17, 2020.
8. ↑ Olympic premiere for ÖSV biathletes. In: Small newspaper. February 7, 2014.
9. ↑ APA / red, derStandard.at: Katharina Innerhofer wins biathlon sprint. In: The Standard. March 6, 2014. "" Last year at the Alpencup in Pokljuka, I shot zero-zero for the first time in my career, "said the 23-year-old in the winner's interview. "Today I managed to do this for the second time." "
10. ↑ ^{a b} Christoph Gastinger: Katharina Innerhofer: Out of nowhere into the limelight. In: The press. 2nd December 2014.
11. ↑ Innerhofer "Leitwölfin" of the biathlon women on salzburg.orf.at. December 13, 2014, accessed May 17, 2020.
12. ↑ Christoph Nister: Paralyzed by virus: When the body strikes on laola1.at. January 13, 2016, accessed May 17, 2020.
13. ↑ Röiseland with fifth World Cup gold in Antholz on sport.orf.at. February 23, 2020, accessed May 17, 2020.
14. ↑ Katharina Innerhofer in the IBU database (English) and database entries from other athletes
15. ↑ Kontiolahti - Women 4 × 6km Relay in the IBU database (English)