Petra Behle

Petra Behle
Full name	Petra Behle (née Schaaf)
Association	Federal Republic of Germany Germany
birthday	5th January 1969 (age 51)
place of birth	Offenbach am Main , Germany
Career
job	Sports economist
society	SC Willingen
Debut in the World Cup	1987
World Cup victories	20 (11 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 9 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver Albertville 1992 Season silver Lillehammer 1994 Season gold Nagano 1998 Season  Biathlon world championships gold Chamonix 1988 sprint gold Feistritz 1989 singles bronze Feistritz 1989 team bronze Minsk 1990 singles silver Oslo 1990 team gold Lahti 1991 singles gold Novosibirsk 1992 team gold Borovets 1993 singles gold Antholz 1995 Season silver Antholz 1995 team gold Ruhpolding 1996 Season gold Ruhpolding 1996 team gold Osrblie 1997 Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	3. ( 1991/1992 , 1995/1996 )

Petra Behle at the Tour of Hope 2019

Petra Behle (born January 5, 1969 in Offenbach am Main ; born Petra Schaaf ) is a former German biathlete .

Biathlon career

After the family moved to Mittenwald , Petra Behle learned to ski at the age of eight and began cross-country skiing . In 1986 she came to the ski boarding school in Willingen . There she brought her then trainer Renate Schinze to the biathlon. Petra Behle started for SC Willingen . In 1988 she became the youngest German world champion in biathlon. With four individual and five relay gold medals, she was the most successful World Cup participant of all time until she was replaced by Magdalena Neuner on March 12, 2011 . Despite her outstanding world championship results, she could not win an individual medal at three Olympic Games, but won a medal with the relay. It was similar for her in the World Cup : with twenty races won, she is also one of the most successful athletes here - Magdalena Forsberg was the best and won 42 races. Petra Behle, however, did not manage to win an individual or even the overall World Cup, two third places in the overall World Cup are for her.

For her sporting success she received the Silver Laurel Leaf on May 6, 2002 .

Professional background

From 1998 to 2007 she was the ZDF seen as biathlon expert. Together with Christa Haas and from the 2006/2007 winter season with Norbert König , she moderated the live broadcasts of the competitions. Sven Fischer was her successor in this position .

Sports official

Petra Behle is a personal member of the NOK and active spokesperson in the State Sports Conference Hesse . She is also a member of the expert committee of Deutsche Sporthilfe . In 2003 she successfully completed her training as a sports economist at the European Business School .

Private life and engagement

In 1994 she married the cross-country skier Jochen Behle , from whom she separated again in April 1999. On January 30, 2009, she married her partner, with whom she has lived since 2003. Petra Behle currently lives in Biebertal . She volunteers as patron of the Tour of Hope , a celebrity bike tour that helps raise funds for children with cancer every year. In 2009 she was appointed Ambassador to Central Hesse for her services to the region .

successes

winter Olympics

• 1992: Silver (relay)
• 1994: Silver (relay)
• 1998: Gold (relay)

World championships

• 1988: Gold (Sprint)
• 1989: Gold (individual), bronze (team)
• 1990: silver (team), bronze (individual)
• 1991: Gold (individual)
• 1992: Gold (team)
• 1993: Gold (individual)
• 1995: Gold (relay), silver (team)
• 1996: 2 × gold (relay, team)
• 1997: Gold (relay)

Overall World Cup

• 2 × 3rd place (1991/92; 1995/96)

World Cup victories

• 20th

literature

• Ernst Probst: Super women 12 - sport . Biographies of famous sportswomen in words and pictures. 1st edition. 2001, ISBN 3-935718-04-7 , Petra Behle: The best biathlon athlete, p. 27-28 .

Web links

• Petra Behle's website
• Petra Behle in the IBU database (English)
• Petra Behle in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of May 6, 2002: Greeting from President Johannes Rau on the occasion of the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medalists of the 2002 Winter Olympics, the 2002 Paralympic Winter Games and the Deaflympics 2001 , accessed on November 23, 2017
2. ↑ What does ... Petra Behle actually do? , biathlon-online.de, October 20, 2009
3. ↑ Tour of Hope: Organization ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed October 5, 2012 
4. ↑ Rheinische Post of August 15, 2009: Give children a little hope  ( 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. Rheinische Post of August 17th, 2007: Cycling for a good cause  ( 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. , accessed February 21, 2010    
5. ↑ Regionalmanagement Mittelhessen: Where personalities show commitment , accessed on November 23, 2017