Sara Studebaker-Hall

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Sara Studebaker-Hall biathlon
Association United StatesUnited States United States
birthday October 7, 1984
place of birth Boise
Career
society Dartmouth SKI team
Trainer Gary Colliander
Admission to the
national team
2008
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup 2008
Debut in the World Cup 2009
status resigned
End of career 2014
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 33rd ( 2010/11 )
Individual World Cup 32nd (2010/11)
Sprint World Cup 33rd (2010/11)
Pursuit World Cup 37th (2010/11)
Mass start world cup 31st (2010/11)
last change: end of career

Sara Studebaker Hall (* 7. October 1984 in Boise as Sara Studebaker ) is a former US biathlete and former cross-country skier .

Life

Sara Studebaker-Hall is from Boise , the capital of the US state Idaho .

In 2015 she married the biathlete Zach Hall and has been called Studebaker-Hall since then.

After her active career as a biathlete, Studebaker-Hall worked as a cross-country trainer at the University of Alaska Anchorage and in Soldier Hollow . In January 2020 she was appointed Director of Operations in a managerial position at Biathlon USA. In this position, Studebaker-Hall u. a. Public relations, anti-doping and sponsorship tasks.

Athletic career

Sara Studebaker-Hall began international cross-country skiing in the Continental Cup in 2002. The athlete of the Dartmouth SKI Team could not achieve any notable results at the national and international level in the various lower-class races until the beginning of 2007. It was not until February and March of that year that she achieved several single-digit placements in FIS races, including a win in a 15-kilometer FIS race in Stowe . Nevertheless, Studebaker-Hall switched to biathlon in 2007. In the summer biathlon variant , the American took part in the junior competitions of the summer biathlon world championships in 2000 in Khanty-Mansiysk and was 19th in the sprint and 18th in the pursuit race.

Studebaker-Hall, who was trained by Gary Colliander, made her real debut in biathlon in the 2008 European Biathlon Cup and above all in the Biathlon NorAm Cup . In 2008 she won the overall ranking of the Nor-Am-Cup series. Further successes came in the Biathlon-NorAm-Cup 2008/09 . At the competitions in Itasca , the biathlete from Lake Placid was first third, then second in a sprint and finally won her first race in a pursuit. In the overall ranking of the competition series she finished ninth, although she could not take part in all races because of some races that she contested in the IBU Cup in Europe. As a reward for the good development Studebaker-Hall was nominated for the races in Whistler in the World Cup . In her first race, an individual, she finished 70th. In the second race, a sprint, she won her first World Cup points as 38th. Sara Studebaker-Hall participated in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games . Her best result was 34th place in the individual. With the relay she finished 17th. In the post-Olympic season 2010/11 she reached in Presque Isle as the 14th of a sprint, her best ever World Cup result. At the end of the 2013/14 season , she announced her retirement from biathlon.

statistics

Biathlon 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  
2nd place  
3rd place  
Top 10 6th 6th
Scoring 5 14th 10 2 22nd 53
Starts 16 46 23 2 22nd 109
Status: end of career

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics singles sprint persecution Mass start Season Mixed relay
year place
2010 CanadaCanada Vancouver 34. 44. 45. - 16. -
2014 RussiaRussia Sochi 55. 44. 51. - 7th -

World championships

Results at Biathlon World Championships:

World Championship singles sprint persecution Mass start Season Mixed relay
year place
2011 RussiaRussia Khanty-Mansiysk 17th 47. 37. - 13. 13.
2012 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding 38. 49. 41. - 11. 12.
2013 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město 27. 65. - - 11. -

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sara Studebaker-Hall Bio on nmnathletics.com, accessed January 11, 2020
  2. Olympian Named To Key US Biathlon Operations Role on teamusa.org, accessed January 12, 2020
  3. ^ Resignation from Sara Studebaker. March 9, 2014, accessed February 3, 2016 .