Susan Dunklee

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Susan Dunklee biathlon
2020-01-12 IBU World Cup Biathlon Oberhof IMG 2957 by Stepro.jpg
Association United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 13th February 1986 (age 34)
place of birth Newport , United States
Career
Trainer Armin Auchentaller
Admission to the
national team 		2008
Debut in the World Cup 2011
status active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
EM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
IBU Biathlon world championships
silver 2017 Hochfilzen Mass start
silver 2020 Antholz sprint
IBU European biathlon championships
bronze 2018 Ridnaun Single mixed relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 10. ( 2016/17 )
Individual World Cup 09. ( 2014/15 )
Sprint World Cup 10. (2016/17)
Pursuit World Cup 11. (2016/17)
Mass start world cup 11. (2016/17)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
sprint 0 2 2
persecution 0 0 1
Mass start 0 1 0
Season 0 1 0
last change: August 16, 2020

Susan Dunklee (born February 13, 1986 in Newport ) is an American biathlete . She made her debut in the 2011 Biathlon World Cup and rose to become the most successful female athlete in her country in the 2010s. She was the first US woman to win medals at Biathlon World Championships in 2017 with silver in the mass start and in 2020 with silver in the sprint.

Life

Susan Dunklee is the daughter of Stan Dunklee and niece of Everett Dunklee , both former cross-country Olympians for the USA. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in ecology in 2008, Dunklee moved to Lake Placid and joined the US biathlon development program. She later returned to her home state of Vermont and in 2010 became a member of the Craftsbury Green Racing Project , which includes her national team colleague Clare Egan . Dunklee divides her training time between Craftsbury and Lake Placid as the headquarters of the US team.

Athletic career

Beginnings, switch to biathlon and World Cup debut (until 2012)

During her studies at Dartmouth College, Dunklee was initially active in cross-country skiing and athletics. In athletics, she operated heptathlon and once just missed participation in the US championships. She was more successful in cross-country skiing, where she competed for the Dartmouth ski team . In 2002 she contested her first FIS races , in January 2004 she took part in her first US championships without achieving any front positions. In December of that year she reached the podium for the first time at the NorAm Cup races in Presque Isle . Two months later, in Stowe , she won her only FIS classic-style 5 km race.

In 2008, the United States Biathlon Association (USBA) recruited Dunklee - who had never shot with a rifle before - for a development team created a few years earlier to counteract the shortage of young athletes in the sport. In addition to Dunklee, the team also included other former cross-country skiers such as Sara Studebaker . The group coach James Upham confirmed that Dunklee had world-class potential in terms of her physical requirements early on, but the coaching team let her compete in rather low-class competitions until 2011, where she developed into one of the strongest US biathletes: she won the Biathlon NorAm Cup in March 2009 her first race, finished second overall in 2009/10 and became North American champion in the 2010 mass start. In the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in international biathlon, she achieved her best result as tenth in the Altenberg sprint in January 2011.

At the age of 25, Dunklee made his debut in the 2011/12 season in Östersund in the Biathlon World Cup . In the first race, an individual, she missed the points by four places in 44th place. Two days later she won her first World Cup points as 28th in a sprint race. In Antholz , she first improved her best performance in a sprint race to 16th place, at the 2012 World Championships in Ruhpolding she was fifth in the individual race over 15 kilometers and achieved the best result of a US biathlete in World Cup history. Dunklee made a mistake and was 7.1 seconds behind third-placed Helena Ekholm . She ended the winter with two more top ten placements at the season finale in Khanty-Mansiysk and was the best US woman in the overall World Cup ranking as 33rd.

Establishment in the international top and World Cup medals (since 2012)

Dunklee shooting prone at the World Cup in Oberhof in January 2018

In the course of the 2010s, Dunklee established itself in the extended world elite. During the 2013/14 season she was among the top ten athletes in five individual World Cup races. Als - Association claims to - the third American biathlete (after Anna Sonnerup and Joan Smith ) reached in March 2014 at Oslo Holmenkollen the podium of a World Cup race, when they met in the sprint with all ten shots and behind Darya Domracheva and Berger Tora third position occupied . Dunklee was also part of the US contingent for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , where she handed over to Hannah Dreissigacker in fourth place as the starting runner of the women's relay and in the end came in seventh together with Sara Studebaker and Annelies Cook . From 2014/15 to 2016/17 , Dunklee was among the top 20 in the overall World Cup ranking three times in a row. The tenth place in winter 2016/17 was her first result in this classification. Dunklee attributed her improved performance in particular to progress in shooting: she was always a slow shooter and lost up to 15 seconds at the shooting range. With a shooting training tailored to her, however, she has become significantly faster; In 2017 she was one of the fastest shooters on the World Cup field.

Between 2014 and 2020, Dunklee was on the podium in six World Cup races: three times in second and three times in third. She achieved two of her top results at world championships: in 2017 in the mass start and in 2020 in the sprint, she won the world championship silver medal. Dunklee became the first US American to win an individual medal at world championships and, after Canadian Myriam Bédard, the second North American with precious metal in an individual competition. At the 2017 World Championships mass start, Dunklee led the race on the last lap with faultless shooting and was only overtaken by Laura Dahlmeier , in 2020 she was only defeated by Marte Olsbu Røiseland by 6.8 seconds - again without a miss .

On March 12, 2017, Dunklee and Lowell Bailey finished second in the single mixed relay in Kontiolahti , Finland , it was the first podium in a relay race for an American team since the Biathlon World Cup 1993/94 as the women's relay Beth Coats , Joan Miller Smith , Laura Tavares and Ntala Skinner took second place at the World Cup in Canmore, Canada , the last and only podium finish for a men's relay was a third place at the World Cup in Ruhpolding in January 1988 . At the 2018 European Open Championships , Dunklee and Bailey won the bronze medal in the single-mixed relay.

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 2 1 1 4th
3rd place 2 1 3
Top 10 3 17th 14th 3 20th 57
Scoring 12 54 44 22nd 59 191
Starts 24 79 52 22nd 59 236
Status: end of season 2019/20

World championships

Results at biathlon world championships

World Championship singles sprint persecution Mass start Season Mixed relay Single mixed relay
year place
2012 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding 5. 55. 36. 16. 11. 12.
2013 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město 15th 49. 47. - 11. 8th.
2015 FinlandFinland Kontiolahti 12. 42. 34. 20th 12. 8th.
2016 NorwayNorway Oslo 18th 8th. 10. 11. 13. 10.
2017 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen 6th 29 22nd 2. 14th 16.
2019 SwedenSweden Ostersund 30th 57. 24. - 9. 19th 13.
2020 ItalyItaly Antholz 55. 2. 36. 27. 15th 13. 11.

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics singles sprint persecution Mass start Season Mixed relay
year place
2014 RussiaRussia Sochi 34. 14th 18th 11. 7th 8th.
2018 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang 19th 66. - - 13. 15th

Web links

Commons : Susan Dunklee  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susan Dunklee in the Olympedia.org database (English)
  2. ↑ Overview biathlon in the Craftsbury Green Racing Project , accessed on August 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ biography on teamusa.org. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  4. ↑ Chelsea Little: Dunklee's Success Brings New Attention to US Women's Squad, Validates Unusual Development Strategies - With Video on fasterskier.com. March 9, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b Chelsea Little: USBA's Grand Experiment: How Quickly Can You Build a Biathlete? on fasterskier.com. May 28, 2012.
  6. ↑ Chelsea Little: USBA's Grand Experiment: How Quickly Can You Build a Biathlete? on fasterskier.com. May 28, 2012. The US women's coach Jonne Kähkönen explained in retrospect that the support team had deliberately withheld Dunklee from the World Cup until she could achieve top results there.
  7. ↑ BREAKING NEWS Susan Dunklee Wins Bronze in Oslo Sprint on teamusa.org. March 20, 2014.
  8. ↑ Susan Dunklee: Biathlete and… a Beekeeper on biathlonworld.com. 7th July 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Dark, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biathlete, cross-country skier, and track and field athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport , Vermont , United States