Kathrin Hitzer

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Kathrin Hitzer biathlon
Kathrin Lang
Full name Kathrin Cornelia Hitzer
Association GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 3 September 1986 (age 33)
place of birth Balingen
Career
job Teacher
society TSV Siegsdorf
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup December 12, 2009
European Cup / IBU Cup victories 5 (4 single)
Debut in the World Cup November 29, 2006
World Cup victories 8 (2 individual wins)
status resigned
End of career May 30, 2014
Medal table
EM medals 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
JWM medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
DM medals 4 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
IBU European biathlon championships
gold 2010 Otepää singles
gold 2010 Otepää Season
silver 2010 Otepää persecution
Biathlon Junior World Championships
silver 2004 Haute Maurienne sprint
silver 2005 Kontiolahti Season
German Ski Association German championships
gold 2006 Altenberg singles
bronze 2008 Oberhof Season
gold 2009 Ruhpolding singles
gold 2010 Oberhof Mass start
gold 2010 Willingen persecution
silver 2011 Langdorf persecution
silver 2011 Langdorf Season
bronze 2013 Ruhpolding Mass start
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 10th ( 2006/07 )
Individual World Cup 14th (2006/07)
Sprint World Cup 7th (2006/07)
Pursuit World Cup 9th ( 2007/08 )
Mass start world cup 4th (2006/07)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
persecution 1 0 1
Mass start 1 1 1
Season 6th 3 1
last change: June 19, 2012

Kathrin Cornelia Hitzer (born September 3, 1986 in Balingen , now married Kathrin Cornelia Lang ) is a former German biathlete .

Life

Kathrin Hitzer started for SC Gosheim and from 2013 for TSV Siegsdorf . At first she played soccer. She started cross-country skiing when she was twelve. She learned biathlon from Simone Hauswald's father , Rudi Denkinger. She was a student at the ski boarding school in Furtwangen and a soldier in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr.

After graduating from high school in July 2006, Kathrin Hitzer moved to Ruhpolding to join the training group there. Kathrin Hitzer played French horn in an orchestra. From 2008 to 2010 she was in a relationship with her then teammate Michael Greis . In early December 2011, she announced her pregnancy. In June 2012 she married the former biathlete Toni Lang , and in July 2012 her daughter was born.

After Kathrin Hitzer resigned from active competitive sport on May 29, 2014, she studied elementary school teaching in Salzburg . Since completing her studies, she has been employed as a teacher at the primary school in Inzell. She is the patron of the Chiemgau-Team-Trophy , a popular cross-country race of around 40 km; the route leads from Inzell via Ruhpolding to Reit im Winkl . In 2019 she took her maiden name again.

social commitment

Starting in 2007, Kathrin Hitzer was a member of the board of trustees for the German aftercare for children in Tannheim near Villingen-Schwenningen.

Career

Beginnings (2003 to 2006)

Kathrin Hitzer competed in her first international biathlon race at the IBU Junior Cup on November 29, 2003 in Geilo . In her first season she reached three podium places, at the Junior World Championships in 2004 in Haute-Maurienne , Hitzer was runner-up in the sprint behind her team-mate Magdalena Neuner . In the 2004/05 season she achieved a podium finish in a total of six races; she won the individual race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ahead of Tina Bachmann and Marie Dorin . At the Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti in March 2005 she was again runner-up in the relay together with Magdalena Neuner and Anne Preussler . In winter 2005/06 it was only in the race in Obertilliach and Windischgarsten at the start, in the pursuit in Windischgarsten they finished third. In the summer of 2006 she was German champion in the individual ahead of Martina Glagow and Sabrina Buchholz .

World Cup debut and first victories (2006 to 2008)

She made her World Cup debut in the 2006/07 season in Östersund . In the first race of the winter, the individual competition, she achieved a place in the points with a 25th place and was even on course for victory before the last shooting. In the sprint, despite two mistakes in prone shooting, she fought her way to 19th place and thus secured a starting place for the pursuit race. With fourth place in the sprint in Hochfilzen , Hitzer narrowly missed her first podium finish in the World Cup, but qualified for participation in the World Championships in Antholz . On January 3, 2007, she ran in Oberhof for the first time in the German season, together with Martina Glagow , Andrea Henkel and Kati Wilhelm she reached second place. In her first season, Hitzer was often compared to Magdalena Neuner , who was only a little younger . This was able to present itself more successfully in the first two thirds of the season and also won three world championship titles and a world cup race in Antholz. Hitzer was used in the title fights only in the individual competition and the mixed relay, which she finished 31st and 5th. At the beginning of March 2007 she prevailed in the final sprint at the pursuit race in Lahti against her teammate Andrea Henkel and was third - together with Martina Glagow and Kati Wilhelm - on the podium for the first time. In the mass start in Oslo she finished second behind Magdalena Neuer and was thus on the podium again.

At the beginning of winter 2007/08 , Hitzer could not build on the successes of the previous season, but she was able to qualify again for participation in the world championships. In January she was part of the German relay team that won the races in Oberhof and Ruhpolding . At the 2008 World Championships in Östersund she only started in the sprint and in the pursuit and finished the races in 12th and 9th place. Kathrin Hitzer celebrated her first and only individual victories in the biathlon on March 8, 2008 in the pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, and one Day later when she also won the mass start.

Missed Olympic qualification and pregnancy (2008 to 2011)

Kathrin Hitzer suffered a first setback in her sporting career in the 2008/09 season. Although she was able to qualify again for participation in the world championships and won the races in Hochfilzen and Ruhpolding with the women's relay and came second in Oberhof , she only achieved a top 10 position once in the individual races during the winter. At the Biathlon World Championships in Pyeongchang in 2009 she only started in the individual race and finished 78th with nine shooting errors. After the championship fights, Kathrin Hitzer ended the season prematurely. In April 2009, she had an operation on her foot because a painful over- leg had given her problems for the whole season. Due to the lack of training due to the operation, she was unable to qualify for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . She then started in the IBU Cup and took part in the 2010 European Biathlon Championships in Otepää . There Kathrin Hitzer became European champion in the individual and also won the title with the German relay. She also won silver in the pursuit. Afterwards she started again in the three remaining World Cups, but a 14th place in the sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk remained her best result.

In preparation for the 2010/11 season , she won the mass start title at the German championships in Oberhof, and a week later in Willingen in the pursuit. During the winter she achieved some results within the top 10, but not a podium finish in an individual race. Together with Magdalena Neuner , Sabrina Buchholz and Andrea Henkel she won the relay race in Hochfilzen and with Magdalena Neuner, Alexander Wolf and Daniel Böhm the mixed relay race in Presque Isle . With Sabrina Buchholz, Miriam Gössner and Andrea Henkel, she came second in the women's relay in Antholz . At the World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk , Kathrin Hitzer was 27th in sprint and 26th in pursuit.

In the 2011/12 season she only took part in the sprint in Hochfilzen and ended the pursuit early. In December 2011, she ended the season because of her pregnancy. In July 2012, their daughter Lenia Maria was born.

Return to the World Cup and criticism of the coaches (2012 to 2014)

In the 2012/13 season Kathrin Hitzer returned to the World Cup when she started the sprint in Ruhpolding . She finished 67th, two more appearances at the second-class IBU Cup in Ridnaun remained her only international races of the winter. In the 2013/14 season , she mainly started in the IBU Cup, but received an assignment in the World Cup in order to meet the required internal qualification standard for the Olympic Winter Games (a place in the top 8 or two places in the top 15). In the individual competition in Ruhpolding she finished 72nd and thus missed both the norm and the qualification for the pursuit competition connected to this individual race. A few days later she started again in Ruhpolding as part of the IBU Cup and won both the sprint and the pursuit. When only five starters were nominated in the first World Cup after the Olympic Games in Pokljuka, Slovenia, even though the German team had six starting places available, they sharply criticized the German coaches on their Facebook page and accused them “that they don't dare to take places to fill with people who have already offered themselves several times, but simply do not fit into their concept. ”She also criticized the fact that communication between the World Cup and IBU Cup teams was bad, that athletes did not get into the World Cup team would be included and that neither they as third overall in the IBU Cup overall standings nor Nadine Horchler as leader of the standings should fill the free starting place.

For the 2014/15 season , Kathrin Hitzer did not receive any management status for the DSV national team. Shortly afterwards, on May 29, 2014, she announced her retirement from active competitive sports.

statistics

World Cup victories

All victories at biathlon world cups, listed separately according to individual and relay races. The columns can be sorted by clicking the symbol in the table header.

Single race Relay race
No. date place discipline
1. 0March 8 2008 RussiaRussia Khanty-Mansiysk persecution
2. 09 Mar 2008 RussiaRussia Khanty-Mansiysk Mass start
No. date place discipline
1. 0Jan. 3, 2008 GermanyGermany Oberhof Season 1
2. 0Jan. 9, 2008 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding Season 2
3. Dec 21, 2008 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen Season 3
4th Jan. 14, 2009 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding Season 4
5. Dec 11, 2010 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen Season 5
6th 0Feb 5, 2011 United StatesUnited States Presque Isle Mixed season 6
2with Magdalena Neuner , Sabrina Buchholz and Kati Wilhelm
3with Andrea Henkel, Simone Hauswald and Magdalena Neuner
4th with Andrea Henkel, Kati Wilhelm and Magdalena Neuner
5 with Magdalena Neuner, Sabrina Buchholz and Andrea Henkel
6thwith Magdalena Neuner, Alexander Wolf and Daniel Böhm

World championships

Results at biathlon world championships

World Championship singles sprint persecution Mass start Season Mixed relay
year place
2007 ItalyItaly Antholz 31. - - - - 5.
2008 SwedenSweden Ostersund - 12. 9. - - -
2009 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang 78. - - - - -
2011 RussiaRussia Khanty-Mansiysk - 27. 26th - - -

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
2006/07 14th 66 7th 190 18th 112 4th 134 10. 502
2007/08 34. 15th 9. 185 9. 183 7th 124 11. 507
2008/09 57. 18th 24. 131 29 74 32. 45 31. 268
2009/10 63. 11 41. 71 49. 21st - - 47. 103
2010/11 55. 12 15th 237 14th 156 20th 100 20th 505

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 relays
placement singles sprint persecution Mass start Season total
1st place 1 1 6th 8th
2nd place 1 3 4th
3rd place 1 1 1 3
Top 10 2 9 7th 8th 13 39
Scoring 9 35 24 14th 13 95
Starts 14th 41 29 14th 13 111
Status: end of career

literature

  • Klaus Blume: Who plays the French horn too seldom. Kathrin Hitzer . In: Kicker 10 . 2007, p. 80 .

Web links

Commons : Kathrin Hitzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.biathlon-online.de/news-89/6211-kathrin-lang-startet-zukuenftig-fuer-den-tsv-siegsdorf-.html
  2. ↑ Kathrin in brief. Retrieved June 18, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Blume: Who plays the French horn too seldom. Kathrin Hitzer , in: Kicker 10 (2007), p. 80.
  4. ↑ Colorful exclusive: Michael Greis freshly in love. June 10, 2008, accessed December 1, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Just before the home World Cup: Hitzer pregnant! December 9, 2011, accessed December 9, 2011 .
  6. ↑ The wedding bells rang for Kathrin Hitzer and Toni Lang. June 19, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Kathrin Hitzer: "At the moment everything revolves around Lenia Maria"
  8. ↑ Patronage on chiemgau-team-trophy.com, accessed on March 4, 2019
  9. ↑ Inzell: The new life of Kathrin Hitzer in the Traunsteiner Tagblatt - www.traunsteiner-tagblatt.de, accessed on October 10, 2019
  10. ↑ Board of Trustees at kinderkrebsnachsorge.de, accessed on November 22, 2019
  11. ↑ Michi Greis and his Kathrin: The busted dream couple in Münchner Abendzeitung from January 14, 2010
  12. ↑ http://www.bz-berlin.de/sport/mehr-sport/schwangere-biathletin-hitzer-beendet-saison-article1338752.html
  13. ↑ Lenia Maria is here! on kathrin-hitzer.de, accessed on February 15, 2017.
  14. ↑ www.sueddeutsche.de - Trouble in the Biathlon Team - Attacks from the second row , accessed on March 10, 2014.
  15. ↑ DSV cadre for the 2014/2015 season on biathlon-news.de , accessed on May 20, 2014.
  16. ↑ Kathrin turns her back on competitive sports on kathrin-lang.com , accessed on June 4, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Hitzer, Kathrin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hitzer, Kathrin Cornelia (full name); Lang, Kathrin Cornelia (between 2012 and 2019)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Balingen , Germany