Luise Kummer

Luise Kummer
Association	Germany
birthday	29th June 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Jena , Germany
Career
job	Sports soldier
society	SV Eintracht Frankenhain
Admission to the national team	2014
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2014
Debut in the World Cup	2014
World Cup victories	2 (0 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2019
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 2 × 1 × 0 × DM medals 2 × 0 × 2 ×
European biathlon championships silver Tyumen 2016 Single mixed relay gold Tyumen 2016 Mass start  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold Presque Isle 2014 singles gold Presque Isle 2014 Season silver Presque Isle 2014 persecution  German championships bronze Langdorf 2015 persecution bronze Ruhpolding 2015 Season gold Ruhpolding 2015 Mass start gold Ruhpolding 2017 Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	34th ( 2014/15 )
Individual World Cup	26. (2014/15)
Sprint World Cup	29. (2014/15)
Pursuit World Cup	35th (2014/15)
Mass start world cup	38th (2015/16)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Season 2 0 1

Luise Kummer (born June 29, 1993 in Jena ) is a former German biathlete .

Athletic career

Luise Kummer started biathlon after primary school. Because of her interest, she moved from the Goethe Gymnasium in Ilmenau to the Sports Gymnasium in Oberhof , where she successfully completed her Abitur. She has been a member of the D / C squad of the German biathlon team since 2012. After the 2014/15 season , she was accepted into course group Ia and the B-team.

The sport soldier made her international debut at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2011 in Liberec . There she drew attention with a tenth place in the sprint and 13th place in the individual. She made her European Cup debut in 2014 in Ridnaun -Val Ridanna with a 54th place in the sprint. She achieved her best result in the European Cup in Ruhpolding , where she reached 21st place.

At the 2014 Junior Biathlon World Championships in Presque Isle , she won silver in the pursuit after finishing eighth in the sprint. In the individual and the relay, she won the gold medal. Because of these results, she was used at the World Cup in Oslo . In the sprint she missed the subsequent pursuit with rank 82.

After good performance in the IBU Cup , Kummer was nominated for the 2014/15 World Cup opener in Östersund. Here she achieved her best career result to date with 18th place in the individual without a shooting error. This also exceeded her previous best IBU Cup result. At the relay race in Hochfilzen she achieved her first World Cup victory together with Franziska Hildebrand , Vanessa Hinz and Franziska Preuß . At the World Cup in Antholz , she achieved a 13th place in the sprint thanks to faultless and fast shooting bouts. In the relay race that followed, she won her second World Cup victory together with Franziska Hildebrand, Franziska Preuss and Laura Dahlmeier . In the pursuit of the World Cup in Nové Město na Moravě you managed a twelfth place despite adverse conditions, which you could also meet the standard for the World Championships in Kontiolahti , Finland . On February 19, she was officially nominated for her first World Cup as the fifth woman. There she was sixth as the starting runner of the mixed relay. On March 20, 2015, she achieved her best position in a World Cup race to date in the sprint race at the World Cup finals, finishing eighth. In the following pursuit she was 15th and was able to qualify for a mass start for the first time.

In preparation for the 2015/16 season , she had to undergo an operation on her wisdom teeth . An infection caused an additional loss of training. As a result, she was unable to qualify for the World Cup team and started the winter competition after a short break at the second station of the IBU Cup in Ridnaun .

At the 2016 European Biathlon Championships in Tyumen , Russia , she won the gold medal in the mass start and, together with Matthias Dorfer, the silver medal in the single mixed relay.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season, after the first race of the IBU Cup, she decided to take a break from training. She also injured herself while jogging and tore the outer ligament. Since the end of January 2017 she started again in the German Cup and won three competitions, in March 2017 she was again active in the IBU Cup.

After the 2018/19 season, Luise Kummer ended her career as an active biathlete.

statistics

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	Dec 13, 2014	Hochfilzen	Season 1
2.	Jan. 25, 2015	Antholz	Season 2

¹with Vanessa Hinz , Franziska Hildebrand and Franziska Preuß

²with Franziska Hildebrand, Franziska Preuß and Laura Dahlmeier

World championships

Results at biathlon world championships

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2015	Kontiolahti	25th	-	-	-	-	6th

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					2	2
2nd place
3rd place					1	1
Top 10		1			7th	8th
Scoring	2	7th	4th	2	7th	22nd
Starts	2	12	6th	2	7th	29
Status: end of career

Web links

Commons : Luise Kummer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Luise Kummer in the IBU database (English)
• Luise Kummer at the German Ski Association
• Portrait at the German Sports Aid Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nominated for the World Cup in Östersund. In: biathlon-online.de. November 30, 2014, accessed December 1, 2014 .