Martina Beck

Martina Beck
Full name	Martina Beck (née Glagow)
Association	Germany
birthday	21 September 1979 (age 40)
place of birth	Garmisch-Partenkirchen,  Germany
Career
job	Police chief in the federal police
society	SC Mittenwald
Trainer	Bernhard Kröll
Debut in the World Cup	2000
World Cup victories	24 (15 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	March 27, 2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 3 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 5 × 4 ×
winter Olympics silver 2006 Turin singles silver 2006 Turin persecution silver 2006 Turin Season bronze 2010 Vancouver Season  Biathlon world championships silver 2001 Pokljuka Mass start gold 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk persecution bronze 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk Season silver 2004 Oberhof persecution bronze 2004 Oberhof sprint bronze 2004 Oberhof Season gold 2007 Antholz Season silver 2007 Antholz Mass start bronze 2007 Antholz singles gold 2008 Östersund Season silver 2008 Östersund singles silver 2009 Pyeongchang Season  German championships gold Oberhof 2001 singles silver Oberhof 2001 persecution gold Oberhof 2002 singles silver Oberhof 2002 persecution gold Ruhpolding 2002 Season gold Oberhof 2003 Season bronze Oberhof 2004 persecution gold Oberhof 2004 Season bronze Ruhpolding 2005 sprint gold Ruhpolding 2005 persecution bronze Altenberg 2005 singles gold Oberhof 2005 Mass start silver Oberhof 2005 Season bronze Altenberg 2006 persecution silver Oberhof 2006 singles bronze Oberhof 2007 persecution bronze Altenberg 2007 singles silver Ruhpolding 2009 singles gold Ruhpolding 2009 Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1st  ( 2002/2003 ) 3rd ( 2005/2006 )
Individual World Cup	1. ( 2007/2008 )
Sprint World Cup	2. ( 2002/2003 )
Pursuit World Cup	1. ( 2002/2003 )
Mass start world cup	1. ( 2005/2006 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 3 3 3 sprint 4th 1 9 persecution 6th 4th 4th Mass start 2 3 0 Season 9 14th 5

Martina Beck , b. Glagow (born September 21, 1979 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a former German biathlete .

Life

Martina Beck grew up in Mittenwald after brief stays in Ulm and Murnau - due to her father's occupation in the Bundeswehr . She took part in the first school cross-country race in fourth grade. She was discovered for biathlon by trainer Jörg Brandt.

From 1990 Martina Beck attended the grammar school of the St. Irmengard School in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In 1996 she was accepted into the C- team of the German Ski Association and decided to pursue a career in sport. In August 1996 she was hired as a police officer candidate at the sports school of the Federal Border Police (currently Federal Police ) in Bad Endorf . In September 2000, the 1.58 meter tall athlete passed the final exam to become a police officer .

Martina Beck has been married to the former Austrian biathlete Günther Beck since July 24, 2008 . The couple have two daughters and a son who were born between April 2011 and August 2014. Beck has a younger sister and has lived in Höhnhart since the end of August 2010 .

Career

Martina Beck at the pursuit race in Oberhof, January 2007

Martina Beck during the World Championships in Östersund, February 2008

Martina Beck was four times world champion in the junior division. At the 2001 Biathlon World Championships in Pokljuka , Slovenia , she had her breakthrough when she was second in the mass start. At the 2003 World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia , she was world champion in the pursuit alongside the French Sandrine Bailly at the same time . In the 2002/2003 season she was the first German to win the overall World Cup and the Pursuit World Cup.

She was also the most successful German biathlete at the 2004 Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof , with one silver and two bronze medals. From the beginning of her sporting career, father Martin Glagow prepared her skis as a ski technician at all competitions and worked for them as a manager for many years.

At the 2005 World Championships in Hochfilzen they could not attend due to illness. Andrea Henkel , who later became individual world champion, joined the German team for her . At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Beck won three silver medals in the individual, pursuit and relay at the venue Cesana San Sicario . She also won three medals at the 2007 World Championships in Antholz . She won gold in the relay, silver in the mass start and bronze in the individual race. She once again demonstrated her strength as one of the best shooters in the entire field of the World Cup at the 2008 World Championships in Östersund when she won the silver medal in the individual race. In the relay race, she defended the title as the starting runner of the same team as last year.

The 2007/08 season began Beck with two wins and a third place in the first three races in Kontiolahti. Two further podium places in Pokljuka and at the World Cup race in Östersund as well as eight placements among the top ten brought her to win the individual World Cup this season.

In 2010 she won the bronze medal in the biathlon relay at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver together with Kati Wilhelm , Simone Hauswald and Andrea Henkel .

With the end of the 2009/10 World Cup season , Beck ended her career as a professional athlete.

successes

• Winter Olympics:
  • 2010: 1 × bronze (relay)
  • 2006: 3 × silver (individual, pursuit, relay)

• World Championships:
  • 2001: 1 × silver (mass start)
  • 2003: 1 × gold (pursuit), 1 × bronze (relay)
  • 2004: 1 × silver (pursuit), 2 × bronze (sprint, relay)
  • 2007: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (mass start), 1 × bronze (individual)
  • 2008: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (individual)
  • 2009: 1 × silver (relay)

• Overall World Cup:
  • 1 × overall World Cup winner (2002/03)
  • 1 × 3rd place (2005/06)

• Discipline World Cup:
  • 1 × Winner of the Pursuit World Cup (2002/03)
  • 1 × winner of the mass start world cup (2005/06)
  • 1 × winner of the individual World Cup (2007/08)

• World Cup victories:
  • 24, 15 times in a single discipline and 9 times with a relay

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	3	4th	6th	2	9	24
2nd place	3	1	4th	3	14th	25th
3rd place	3	9	4th		5	21st
Top 10	21st	39	43	18th	34	155
Scoring	31	80	69	40	34	254
Starts	33	93	71	40	34	271
Status: March 27, 2010 (end of career)

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. January 20, 2000  Antholz Sprint (7.5 km) 2. February 13, 2000  Ostersund Pursuit (10 km) 3. February 16, 2003  Oslo Pursuit (10 km) 4th March 16, 2003  Khanty-Mansiysk (ws1) Pursuit (10 km) 5. December 18, 2003  Osrblie Single (15 km) 6th December 9, 2004  Oslo Single (15 km) 7th January 8, 2006  Oberhof Mass start (12.5 km) 8th. January 22, 2006  Antholz Mass start (12.5 km) 9. March 23, 2006  Oslo Sprint (7.5 km) 10. March 2, 2007  Lahti Sprint (7.5 km) 11. March 4, 2007  Lahti Pursuit (10 km) 12. November 29, 2007  Kontiolahti Single (15 km) 13. November 30, 2007  Kontiolahti Sprint (7.5 km) 14th December 7, 2008  Ostersund Pursuit (10 km) 15th December 13, 2008  Hochfilzen Pursuit (10 km)

No. date place discipline 1. January 23, 2000  Antholz Women's relay 2. December 7, 2001  Hochfilzen Women's relay 3. March 2, 2002  Lahti Women's relay 4th February 11, 2007  Antholz (ws2) Women's relay 5. December 9, 2007  Hochfilzen Women's relay 6th December 16, 2007  Pokljuka Women's relay 7th February 17, 2008  Östersund (ws3) Women's relay 8th. March 14, 2009  Vancouver Women's relay 9. December 6, 2009  Ostersund Women's relay

^(ws1) Biathlon World Championships 2003

^(ws2) Biathlon World Championships 2007

^(ws3) Biathlon World Championships 2008

Awards

• Golden Ski 2003 from the German Ski Association
• Awarded honorary citizenship of Mittenwald on March 2, 2006
• Silver bay leaf 2006 and 2010
• Winter star 2007 in the category best team (biathlon relay), chosen by the viewers of the Bavarian radio and the readers of the picture
• Bavarian Sports Prize 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martina Glagow got married. biathlon-online.de, July 26, 2008, accessed on June 26, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Martina Beck gives birth to daughter Hilde. biathlon-online.de, April 2, 2011, accessed on April 2, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Maria is here. (No longer available online.) September 21, 2012, archived from the original on July 15, 2013 ; Retrieved September 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Martina Beck in an interview: "Being a mom is a full-time job". September 29, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015 . 
5. ^ DSV press office: Biathlon: Beck and Hauswald end their careers. (No longer available online.) In: ski-online.de. Deutscher Skiverband eV, March 18, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 18, 2010 .  ( 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.    

Web links

Commons : Martina Beck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Martina Beck  - in the news

• Official website of Martina Beck
• Martina Glagow fan club
• Martina Beck in the IBU database (English)
• Martina Beck at biathlon.xc-ski.de