Renate Schinze

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Renate Schinze (* 1950 ) is a former teacher and German biathlon trainer . She was the first women's biathlon national trainer in Germany.

Career

Renate Schinze attended the old state school in Korbach , where she passed the Abitur examination in 1969. She studied physics, education and sport in Gießen and Cologne as well as at Cortland University . Schinze is co-founder of the ski boarding school Willingen. Since 1980 she has been a teacher at the Upland School.

Coaching career

Schinze is an autodidact as a biathlon trainer.She built up the first German training group for women’s biathlon in Willingen (Upland) from 1986 onwards, initially with Inga Kesper , Petra Schaaf and Martina Stede . All three were already active in cross-country skiing , but had no shooting experience . Schinze was with the former shooting coach of the German biathletes, Rupert Plechaty (the Sergeant Juergen Seifert was head coach in the men's biathlon), a good friend and asked him to teach her and her group shooting in its fundamentals. Schinze went to Ruhpolding with her athletes , where she and her students learned about biathlon shooting in a course in which Uschi Disl also took part. As a teacher at the Upland School , which is now an elite sports school , she was able to gear her lessons towards biathlon. At the beginning, Schinze took on all of the care tasks himself, including training, medical-scientific care and technology such as waxing , as well as teaching . She ensured that women's biathlon was included in the promotion of sport by persistently referring to the level of performance already achieved and urging that competitions for women be held parallel to the men's competitions. Schinze also struggled for public recognition, for example in the forerunner of the program “heimspiel!” On hr-fernsehen during an interview by Jürgen Emig , in which the trainer and her girls were laughed at by the presenter.

After the German championships in 1986 had a women's competition in their program for the first time, in which, however, the only participant was the Australian Helen Wills, in 1987 an athlete supervised by Schinze won the women's title. The first German female champion was Martina Stede and came from the Willingen training group. Schinze then achieved their first international successes with their athletes, when the biathletes trained by Schinze took part in the biathlon junior world championships. In the biathlon world cup season 1987/88 there were the first podium places for German biathletes.

Petra Schaaf's victory in the 5 km sprint at the Biathlon World Championships in 1988 was almost a sensation ; it was the first participation for the women supervised by Schinze. The first World Cup victories came in the 1988/89 season , when Schinzes protégé Martina Stede again won the singles on January 26, 1989 in Ruhpolding, the relay with Stede, Pieper and Schaaf had already been victorious in Borowez . The fact that Schaaf became world champion again just two weeks later , this time in the 15 km individual, plus the bronze medal for the team ( Kesper , Hörburger , Pieper, Schaaf) generated a first major media response for the women's biathlon. Further medals were added at the Biathlon World Championships in 1990 , bronze in the individual with Schaaf and silver in the team with Schroll , Hörburger, Kesper, Schaaf.

The 1990 World Championships in Oslo also marked the turning point and the end of Schinze's coaching career. In an interview with Waldemar Hartmann, she announced her resignation as national coach, as she did not see outside interference as not promoting performance.

“It's just that too many speak in from the outside. And if too many talk into it, then, in my opinion, the performance is absolutely in the basement. And I'm the kind of guy who really wants to get ahead and really wants to be at the Olympics. And if I already have to expect that parents and other coaches will talk into it, then I don't have to go on, then I have no chance of being at the '92 Olympics. "

- Renate Schinze : TV interview with Waldemar Hartmann

Renate Schinze was the trainer and supervisor for most of the premiere successes for the German women's biathlon, the first national titles, the first World Cup and World Championship medals were won during her tenure. At world championships athletes supervised by von Schinze won two gold, one silver and two bronze medals. Her successor was Uwe Müssiggang .

family

Renate Schinze was married to Oswald Schinze , who discovered the cross-country skier Jochen Behle . Her husband was the head coach of the Hessian Ski Association and took part in the Four Hills Tournament six times between 1964 and 1970 . She is an honorary member of SC Willingen . Even after she left school on July 1, 2012, the retired senior teacher lives in Willingen.

Publications

  • Renate Schinze: Knowledge: In search of reality and truth . Books on Demand 2019, ISBN 9783748123439

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Renate Schinze. Scribd Inc., accessed on December 31, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ a b Christoph Nahr : "Flintenweiber" - When biathlon discovered women. (Video) ARD , November 30, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019 (German, available until November 30, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b c d e René Musser: Renate Schinze adopted. Uplandschule, July 1, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2019 (German, archived report from June 29, 2012).
  4. ^ A b René Musser: Ski boarding school: history of an odyssey. Uplandschule, July 1, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2019 (German, archived report from November 5, 2011).
  5. ↑ Saskia Aleythe: "Women's biathlon? Will not prevail". Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 9, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Honorary Members. SC Willingen , November 30, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Schinze, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biathlon trainer, German women's biathlon team
DATE OF BIRTH 1950