Maren Hammerschmidt

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Maren Hammerschmidt biathlon
Maren Hammerschmidt (2018)
Association GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 24th October 1989 (age 30)
place of birth Frankenberg , Germany
Career
job Customs officer
society SK Winterberg
Trainer Kristian Mehringer
Florian Steirer
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup March 13, 2010
Debut in the World Cup March 16, 2012
World Cup victories 6 relay wins
status active
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 3 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EYOF medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
DM medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
JDM medals 2 × gold ? ×silver ? ×bronze
IBU Biathlon world championships
bronze 2016 Oslo Season
gold 2017 Hochfilzen Season
IBU European biathlon championships
bronze 2012 Osrblie Season
silver 2014 Nove Mesto Season
silver 2015 Otepää Season
IBU Biathlon Junior World Championships
gold 2008 Ruhpolding sprint
gold 2008 Ruhpolding Season
gold 2010 Torsby sprint
bronze 2010 Torsby Season
Olympic rings European Youth Olympic Festival
bronze 2007 Jaca persecution
German Ski Association German championships
bronze 2012 Oberhof Mass start
silver 2016 Altenberg sprint
bronze 2016 Altenberg persecution
silver 2017 Arber sprint
German junior championshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 2009 Bayerisch Eisenstein sprint
gold 2010 Clausthal-Zellerfeld sprint
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 16. ( 2017/18 )
Individual World Cup 6. ( 2016/17 )
Sprint World Cup 18. (2017/18)
Pursuit World Cup 16. (2017/18)
Mass start world cup 9. (2017/18)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
sprint 0 1 0
persecution 0 1 0
Season 6th 5 3
Continental Cup balance
Overall IBU Cup 1st ( 2011/12 )
Individual IBU Cup 1st (2011/12)
Sprint IBU Cup 1 (2011/12)
Pursuit IBU Cup 4th (2011/12)
last change: March 29, 2020

Maren Hammerschmidt (born October 24, 1989 in Frankenberg (Eder) ) is a German biathlete . At world championships she won a gold and a bronze medal with the German relay.

Life

Maren Hammerschmidt comes from Winterberg and has been practicing biathlon since she and her sister took part in a taster course in the first grade of elementary school. After leaving school, the sisters first moved to Werdenfelser Land to train in Mittenwald . In 2012 Maren moved to Ruhpolding without her sister , where she still lives and trains in the Chiemgau Arena there . The customs officer starts for the SK Winterberg and was trained in the past by Thomas Pawliczek , Carsten Pieper, Bernhard Kröll, Remo Krug and Tobias Reiter . Since August 2008 she has been part of the ski team of the Federal Customs Administration .

Her twin sister Janin was also a biathlete. In 2010 and 2011 she started sporadically in the IBU Cup , but has since ended her career due to an injury.

Maren Hammerschmidt is actively committed to animal welfare. She actively supports an organization on site that supports neutering projects and animal shelters for street dogs in Romania . In July 2016, she was photographed for the PETA campaign “Better to be naked than in fur”.

Career

Beginnings (2007 to 2011)

Maren Hammerschmidt competed in her first international races at the European Youth Olympic Festival 2007 in Jaca , where she was fifth in the sprint race and won the bronze medal in the pursuit race. A year later, the 2008 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding followed . In the sprint, she first won the title ahead of Elise Ringen and her sister, in the subsequent pursuit, when her sister won, she fell back to ninth place due to ten shooting errors. In the individual she was 32nd, in the relay race she won her second title as a starting runner with her sister and Nicole Wötzel . Hammerschmidt also achieved good results in Canmore in 2009 , without winning medals again as eleventh in the individual, seventh in the sprint and tenth in the pursuit races. She won this again in Torsby in 2010 . In the singles she came in 21st place, in the sprint she won the title, like two years before, ahead of Sophie Boilley and Synnøve Solemdal . In the pursuit she fell back to fourth place behind Boilley, Anastassija Kalina and Solemdal. In the relay race she won the bronze medal with Miriam Behringer and Wötzel. Nationally, Hammerschmidt won the sprint title at the German Junior Championships in Bayerisch Eisenstein in 2009 and in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in 2010 . She won two races in the juniors' German Cup and four races for women since 2010.

Towards the end of the 2009/10 season , Hammerschmidt made her international debut among women in the IBU Cup . In her first sprint race, she won first points in Pokljuka in tenth place. In 2011 she improved her best result in the racing series to sixth place in a sprint in Ridnaun .

Overall victory in the IBU Cup (2011 to 2015)

In the 2011/12 season , Maren Hammerschmidt came second in the singles behind Jacquemine Baud in Forni Avoltri for the first time a podium place in the IBU Cup . Second place in the sprint came in Canmore . Thanks to her consistent results in the top 20, she achieved victory in the overall standings as well as in the sprint and individual standings. Her first international championship for women was the 2012 European Championships in Osrblie . Hammerschmidt was sixth in the individual, 13th in the sprint and tenth in the pursuit race. With Nadine Horchler , Carolin Hennecke and Juliane Döll , she won the bronze medal as the starting runner in the relay race behind the relays from Ukraine and Russia. By winning the IBU Cup, she made her debut at the World Cup final in Khanty-Mansiysk , where she was able to collect her first World Cup points in the sprint with 34th place. In the following pursuit, she improved to 26th place. She just failed to qualify for the following mass start. In the winter of 2012/13 she was used four times in the World Cup, with a 34th place in the pursuit of Antholz being her best result. Otherwise, as in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 winters, it only competed in the IBU Cup and the German Cup.

Return to the World Cup and World Cup gold (2015 to 2017)

Maren Hammerschmidt in Oberhof

In preparation for the 2015/16 season, Maren Hammerschmidt fought for a starting place in the World Cup team with good performances and at the season opener on November 29, 2015 in Östersund, together with Daniel Böhm, she achieved third place in the single mixed relay and thus her first podium in the World cup. Almost two weeks later, on December 11th, 2015, she achieved her best ever World Cup result in Hochfilzen when she finished second in the sprint behind her teammate Franziska Hildebrand . In the pursuit competition that followed, she was able to confirm this result and again achieved second place behind Laura Dahlmeier with two shooting errors . Because of her strong results, she was nominated for her first women's relay. At the side of Franziska Hildebrand, Vanessa Hinz and Franziska Preuß , she also came second here. In Pokljuka she was able to qualify for a mass start in the World Cup for the first time and reached 14th place. In Ruhpolding she started again in a mass start and was classified in fifth place after she got stuck with Tiril Eckhoff in the finish sprint and fell. In the relay she was sent into the race after two penalties by Miriam Gössner in eleventh place, almost two minutes behind the front. With a courageous performance and the fastest running time, she brought the German team back to second place and passed Laura Dahlmeier 28 seconds behind, who was only beaten by Olena Pidhruschna in the finish sprint. Hammerschmidt skipped the races in Antholz , Canmore and Presque Isle in order to prepare extensively for the 2016 Biathlon World Championships . Due to her good placements during the season and the performances in Oslo, she was nominated for the relay and won bronze together with Franziska Preuss, Franziska Hildebrand and Laura Dahlmeier and thus her first medal at world championships.

Maren Hammerschmidt was accepted into the A-squad of the German Ski Association for the 2016/17 season and assigned to course group 1a. At the German Championships in 2016 she was on the podium twice in Altenberg and took third place in the cup standings. The first individual races in the World Cup were similarly mixed as in the previous season, with five starts she did not reach the points in two races. Nevertheless, she was placed in the women's relay at the World Cup in Pokljuka and won her first World Cup race together with Vanessa Hinz , Franziska Hildebrand and Laura Dahlmeier . Although Hammerschmidt traveled to the World Cup in Nové Město na Moravě in the Czech Republic , her starting places were awarded to Denise Herrmann . She finished the first home races after the Christmas break in Oberhof in fifth and fourth and thus qualified for participation in the World Championships in Hochfilzen . In Ruhpolding and Antholz she was again part of the German women's relay, which won both races. In the world championships she started with a 55th place in the sprint and a 40th place in the pursuit with little success. In the individual competition over 15 km, she finished 7th with two shooting errors and the resulting two penalty minutes, less than a minute behind the medal ranks. The German team contested the relay race with the same line-up as in Pokljuka and Antholz. Although Hammerschmidt needed all the reloading cartridges in the second position in the standing position, she was able to make up one position and in the end the German relay won the gold medal. At the World Cup in Pyeongchang , she was nominated again for the German women's relay after mixed results in the sprint and pursuit races. After the leader of the overall World Cup, Laura Dahlmeier, was not set up for the relay and both Franziska Preuss and Vanessa Hinz were absent due to illness, the relay won with the cast Nadine Horchler , Maren Hammerschmidt, Denise Herrmann and Franziska Hildebrand. Maren Hammerschmidt started in all relay races during the winter, all of which were won by the German team. She finished the mixed relay race in Kontiolahti together with Nadine Horchler, Benedikt Doll and Arnd Peiffer in second place. She was part of the German women's team that won the Nations and Relay World Cups this winter, as well as the Mixed Relay World Cup together with the men.

First participation in the Olympics and ankle surgery (2017 to 2019)

In preparation for the winter of 2017/18 , Maren Hammerschmidt was reassigned to the DSV A-team and the first course group. In the summer she won silver in the sprint at the German championships . In her first race of the season, the mixed relay in Swedish Ostersund , reached together with the returning from an illness break Franziska Preuss and Benedikt Doll and Arnd Peiffer third. With a ninth place in the sprint race in Annecy , Hammerschmidt fulfilled the qualification standard required by the DSV for the Olympic Winter Games . In addition to a sixth place in the sprint in Antholz , this was the only top 10 placement before the Winter Games, it finished with one exception in the points in all individual races. In Pyeongchang she only intervened in the individual over 15 km , after three shooting errors she finished the race as the worst German in 17th place. She did not qualify for the mass start . Although Hammerschmidt was on the podium in every relay race that she contested within the framework of the World Cup , the IBU Cup , Biathlon European Championships and the youth and junior championships organized by the IBU, she was neither on the podium for the mixed relay race taken into account for the relay race of women. Before the next World Cup in Kontiolahti , Finland , Hammerschmidt sustained an injury to the ligaments of his left ankle. She was not used in the relay races; despite her impairment, she reached the twelfth time in the sprint and even the fifth best running time of the entire field in the mass start race.

In summer 2018, she was the only one of the German biathletes qualified for the 2018 Olympic Games, not to be assigned to the new Olympic squad , but to the perspective squad. At the German Biathlon Championships in Altenberg in 2018 , she took part in the sprint race, but had to forego the pursuit race and also the second competition weekend in Oberhof , as she suffered from tendinitis in her foot before the sprint . In the absence of corresponding results, it was no longer taken into account by the German Ski Association for the World Cup team, which has been determined for the first three events by the end of 2018. Maren Hammerschmidt was assigned to the team of the second-rate IBU Cup for the 2018/19 season . At the beginning of October, Hammerschmidt was operated on on the inner and outer ligaments of the left ankle. The first rehabilitation measures began at the end of November, including in a special clinic on Lake Chiemsee , not far from her adopted home in Ruhpolding . In mid-December she began slowly with the cross-country skiing at end January 2019 she participated in the cross-country race Chiemgau Team Trophy part.

Return to the World Cup (from 2019)

Although she did not contest any national or international competitions in winter 2018/19, Hammerschmidt was assigned to the first course group and the perspective squad in spring 2019 . After a year off from competition, she took part in the German Championships in September 2019 . With a fourth place in the special cross-country skiing, she just missed the medal ranks and could not qualify for the World Cup team. She was then assigned to the team of the second-rate IBU Cup . In the first race of the 2019/20 season in Sjusjøen , Norway , she set the fastest time and finished third behind Karoline Erdal and Kelsey Dickinson . After some mixed results, she was nominated for the World Cup races in Annecy / Le Grand-Bornand after a fifth and a fourth place at the races in Ridnaun . After a total of six shooting errors in the sprint, she clearly missed both the points and the qualification for the pursuit race.

Awards

In March 2018 she was awarded the Gerhard Winkler Prize as Professional Sportswoman of the Year 2017 at the HSK Sports Gala organized by the Hochsauerlandkreis District Sports Association.

Performance development

Skiing

Maren Hammerschmidt 2018 at the pursuit race in Oberhof
Development of mileage of Maren Hammerschmidt (World Cup excluding relay races), source: IBU Datacenter

Before the 2015/16 World Cup season , Maren Hammerschmidt only had three appearances in the Biathlon World Cup , which is why it will only be possible to compare her performances from November 2015. The runtimes from the IBU Cup are not suitable because of the significantly lower level of performance. From winter 2015/16, which began with a podium finish in the first race of the season, the single mixed relay in Östersund , Sweden , and which she won with two second places in the sprint and pursuit in Hochfilzen , two second places in the relay races in Hochfilzen and Ruhpolding as well as the bronze medal with the women's relay at the 2016 World Championships in Oslo , she was a permanent member of the DSV World Cup team . From then on, their mileage can also be compared internationally.

In 2015/16 she usually achieved placements in the top 20 or top 30 in the pure running time, her best results were at the mass start in Ruhpolding, where she was in seventh running time, and at the pursuit race in Khanty-Mansiysk , in which she was eighth fastest Was a cross-country skier.

For the 2016/17 season , there was already a significant increase in their physical performance. Their times were usually within the top 20 of a race, including a total of seven top 10 times. She had the fastest time in the pursuit race in Pyeongchang , only 1.9 seconds slower than Denise Herrmann , who set the fastest time in this race. Herrmann had only switched from cross-country skiing to biathlon at the beginning of the season .

In the following winter , Hammerschmidt's running times improved again. She could not set a best time in a race, but with one exception she was always among the 20 fastest cross-country skiers and in more than half of the races she contested even among the ten fastest athletes.

The season 2018/19 missed Maren Hammerschmidt completely. After suffering an ankle injury at the 2018 Winter Olympics , she had to undergo surgery in the fall of 2019 and spent much of the winter doing rehabilitation .

shoot

Maren Hammerschmidt in 2018 shooting at the pursuit race in Oberhof
Shooting performance Maren Hammerschmidt (World Cup races including relays), source: IBU Datacenter

Before Maren Hammerschmidt was continuously used in the World Cup in the winter of 2015/16 , she took part almost exclusively in races in the second-class IBU Cup for several years . In the winter of 2011/12 she played her first full season there, her hit rate at that time was 82%. In the following season she took part in fewer races in the IBU Cup, but her shooting performance remained almost unchanged at 81%. In the following two years their rate deteriorated significantly and was only 75% in each case.

Thanks to good performances in preparation, the German championships and the qualifying competitions in Sjusjøen, Norway , Maren Hammerschmidt secured a place in the World Cup team at the beginning of the 2015/16 season. This winter her hit rate had improved to 82%, which is her best average ever.

In the 2016/17 Biathlon World Cup , Hammerschmidt was nominated for the World Cup team at an early stage and, with the exception of the competitions in Nové Město na Moravě in the Czech Republic, competed in all races and also took part in all women's relays. While she was able to improve her mileage, she lost two percentage points in her hit performance. It is noticeable, however, that their quota for relay races this season was almost 87% and thus significantly above their performance in their individual races. It is usually assumed that in relay races with the security of three reloading cartridges per shooting insert, shooting is much more risk-taking and that therefore a slightly poorer hit performance can be observed in most athletes in these competitions. In addition to the mixed relay in Kontiolahti, Hammerschmidt played all women's relay this winter , all of which were won by the German team.

Maren Hammerschmidt's total hit performance did not change for the 2017/18 season . While she was able to improve her quota in the lying position by over three percentage points, her quota in the standing position deteriorated by a similar value.

The season 2018/19 missed Maren Hammerschmidt completely. After suffering an ankle injury at the 2018 Winter Olympics , she had to undergo surgery in the fall of 2019 and spent much of the winter doing rehabilitation .

Maren Hammerschmidt's hit rate in the World Cup races is currently around 80%, which means that on average she does not hit a target per shooting bout, which means two penalty laps in sprint races or four penalty laps in pursuit and mass start races or four penalty minutes in individual races. With this hit rate she is in the middle of the international comparison in the World Cup, but within the German team she is one of the worse shooters. In winter 2016/17, the shooting performance of Laura Dahlmeier and Nadine Horchler was 89%, Franziska Preuss 88%, Franziska Hildebrand 87% and Vanessa Hinz 85%. The lateral entrants Denise Herrmann with 72% and Miriam Gössner with 66% were worse than Hammerschmidt . Since you always have to consider both sub-disciplines in biathlon, you cannot draw any conclusions about Maren Hammerschmidt's hit rate alone. With an average hit rate of 77%, Magdalena Neuner even had a statistically worse value than Hammerschmidt, but due to her running performance that was dominant at the time, she was one of the most successful biathletes ever.

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 6th 6th
2nd place 1 1 5 7th
3rd place 3 3
Top 10 2 5 3 2 15th 27
Scoring 6th 18th 22nd 11 15th 72
Starts 10 27 24 11 15th 87
Status: end of season 2019/20

World Cup victories

No. date place discipline
1. Dec 11, 2016 SloveniaSlovenia Pokljuka Season 1
2. Jan. 12, 2017 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding Season 2
3. Jan. 22, 2017 ItalyItaly Antholz Season 1
4th 17th Feb 2017 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen (WM) Season 1
5. 05th Mar 2017 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang Season 3
6th Dec 10, 2017 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen Season 1
2with Vanessa Hinz, Franziska Preuß and Laura Dahlmeier
3with Nadine Horchler , Denise Herrmann and Franziska Hildebrand

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
2011/12 - - 73. 7th 62. 15th - - 72. 22nd
2012/13 - - 85. 5 75. 7th - - 85. 12
2015/16 29 33 27. 107 23. 112 24. 71 25th 323
2016/17 6th 76 24. 122 18th 164 24. 64 22nd 426
2017/18 23. 32 18th 119 16. 128 9. 142 16. 421
2019/20 - - - - 60. 13 - - 79. 13

World championships

Results at biathlon world championships

World Championship singles sprint persecution Mass start Season Mixed relay
year place
2016 NorwayNorway Oslo 27. - - - 3. -
2017 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen 7th 55. 40. - 1. -

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics singles sprint persecution Mass start Season Mixed relay
year place
2018 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang 17th - - - - -

Web links

Commons : Maren Hammerschmidt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maren Hammerschmidt: A committed animal rights activist on biathlon-news.de, accessed on March 27, 2017
  2. Maren Hammerschmidt likes to drop the covers on Westfalenpost - wp.de, accessed on March 27, 2017
  3. DSV nominations for World Cup and IBU Cup teams on the German Skiverband.de, accessed on September 17, 2018
  4. Sportgala 2018 on hochsauerlandsport.de (pdf), accessed on March 25, 2018