Romy Beer

Romy Beer
Full name	Romy Beer
Association	Germany
birthday	January 14, 1981
place of birth	Dohna, GDR
Career
job	Police chief
society	SSV Altenberg
Trainer	Willfried Bock Frank Püschel
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2001
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	1
Debut in the World Cup	2002
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
European biathlon championships bronze 2004 Minsk Season Junior World Championships gold 2001 Khanty-Mansiysk sprint silver 2001 Khanty-Mansiysk persecution bronze 2001 Khanty-Mansiysk Season
World Cup balance
last change: March 20, 2008

Romy Beer (born January 14, 1981 in Dohna ) is a former German biathlete .

Career

Romy Beer is the daughter of the successful biathlete Manfred Beer and the former GDR champion in acrobatics Heidi Beer and sister of Katja Wüstenfeld . The police chief lives in Zinnwald , is stationed at the Federal Police Sports School Bad Endorf and starts for the SSV Altenberg . Your trainers are Willfried Bock and Frank Püschel.

In 2000 Beer started at the Junior World Championships for the first time. In Hochfilzen she was ninth in the individual. The following year in Khanty-Mansiysk she won the sprint, came second in the pursuit behind Jenny Adler and won bronze in the relay. In 2003 she started for the first time at the European Championships in Forni Avoltri . At the 2004 European Championships in Minsk , Beer was fourth in the individual and won bronze with the relay, which also included Sabrina Buchholz . She competed again in Langdorf in 2006 .

Beer behind Amanda Lightfoot at the IBU Cup 2009 in Ridnaun

2001 started Beer first time in Ridnaun in the European Cup and finished second in the sprint. In 2002 she made her debut in Antholz at the Biathlon World Cup in a relay race that she competed with Buchholz, her sister Katja and Peggy Wagenführ . In the following seasons she switched several times between the World Cup and the European Cup team. In the European Cup, she won two races, an individual in Obertilliach in 2005 and a relay in Méribel in 2005 . The greatest success in the World Cup was a 14th place in 2002 in Östersund and a second place with the relay in Antholz.

On May 19, 2009, Beer sustained serious injuries during bike training with teammate Anne Preussler when she fell headlong into the ditch on a wet and slippery road after braking. She was admitted to the hospital with a splintered cervical vertebra, a broken thoracic vertebra, and a contusion on the carotid artery. According to trainer Frank Püschel, she was “ still very lucky. [...] It looked bad. We are glad that she is still alive and that she doesn't have to sit in a wheelchair. “After a severe fracture of the fibula, which she suffered from Frank Luck's farewell race in 2004 , she had to take a long break. In 2006 she was also absent for a few weeks after an operation due to cartilage damage to the ankle. After seven weeks of rehabilitation , she started training again in September 2009 and took part in the first qualifying race for the IBU Cup in Obertilliach at the beginning of December .

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place					1	1
3rd place
Top 10					2	2
Scoring		2	1		2	5
Starts	1	4th	3		2	10
Status: after the 2007/08 season

Individual evidence

1. ^ Romy Beer seriously injured in a bicycle accident. biathlon-online.de, May 26, 2009, accessed on September 11, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Romy Beer had a bad fall on his bike . Print edition of the Dresdner Latest News from May 27, 2009, page 21
3. ^ Romy Beer: Romy Beer - News . Romy Beer - romy-beer.de. December 12th, 2009. Archived from the original on January 26th, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 20, 2010. 

Web links

Commons : Romy Beer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Romy Beer in the database of the IBU (English)