Stefanie Hildebrand

Stefanie Hildebrand
Association	Germany
birthday	24th March 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Halle (Saale) ,  GDR
Career
job	Sports soldier
society	WSV Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Trainer	Frank Spengler Wolfgang Hildebrand
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	2 (1 individual victory)
status	resigned
End of career	2013
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × SJEM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × DM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2010 Otepää Season  Junior Summer Biathlon European Championship silver 2005 Bystrice Mixed  German championships bronze 2009 Altenberg sprint
World Cup balance
last change: December 2nd, 2011

Stefanie Hildebrand (born March 24, 1987 in Halle (Saale) ) is a former German biathlete .

Career

Stefanie Hildebrand comes from Köthen in Saxony-Anhalt and was trained by Frank Spengler and her father Wolfgang Hildebrand. As a summer biathlete , she started for the Privileged Rifle Club in Cöthen from 1443 , and in winter for the WSV Clausthal-Zellerfeld . From 2007 she studied international management at Ansbach University . Her twin sister Franziska Hildebrand is also a biathlete.

As a summer biathlete, Hildebrand first took part in the relay race of the Junior World Championships in Jablonec in 2002 and came in seventh with her. The following year she missed the first medal in Forni Avoltri with the relay as fourth. In the sprint she ran in 24th place, in the pursuit she was 16th and 19th in the mass start. At her third Junior World Championships in 2004 in Osrblie , she was sixth in the relay, 22nd in the sprint, 17th in the pursuit and eighth in the mass start race. In the same year she took part in the Junior European Championship and achieved sixth place in the pursuit race as the best result. In 2005 Hildebrand won the mixed relay at the EM in Bystrice, the first medal at a major international event. She finished sixth in the mass start. The first major event for women was the 2009 Summer Biathlon European Championships in Nové Město . In the sprint, she reached tenth place, in the mass start she was sixth and, together with Robert Janikulla , Wolfgang Kinzner and her sister, fifth in the mixed relay competition.

In winter Hildebrand made her international debut at the beginning of the 2006/07 season in the Junior European Cup at races in Obertilliach . In her third outing, a sprint, she achieved a podium finish for the first time in third place. A year later she had to admit defeat only Marion Blondeau in the sprint in Nové Město . Since the end of the 2007/08 season , Hildebrand started in the women's biathlon European Cup . In her first race, the sprint in Turin , she won first points in 26th place. In 2009 she was sixth in Altenberg and was among the top ten for the first time. The 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin came in tenth in the singles, 31st in the sprint and 24th in the pursuit. At the German Championships in 2009 Hildebrand won bronze in the sprint competition. Hildebrand won her first IBU Cup race in Obertilliach in 2009 after finishing third in Ridnaun a week earlier on the podium for the first time. At the 2010 Biathlon European Championships , after finishing seventh in the sprint, she won the gold medal in the relay together with Kathrin Hitzer , Juliane Döll and sister Franziska.

After the 2012/2013 season, Hildebrand announced her retirement from biathlon.

Web links

• Stefanie Hildebrand in the IBU database (English)
• Portrait at the German Rifle Federation ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ resignation message ( Memento from 29 October 2013 in the Internet Archive ), on goslarsche.de, accessed on July 23, 2013.