Tamara Schijff initially had some successes in cycling, and was about 2005 third in the regional time trial championships in Limburg en Zuid-Oost . In 2007 she won the NK Wielrennen Medici race to Amsterdam . Since the beginning of the 2010s she started increasingly in triathlons. In 2011 she finished 19th at the Ironman race in St. Pölten , and third at the middle distance in Heilbronn in the same year. Since 2012 she has also devoted herself more intensively to cross-country skiing and biathlon. At the national championships she just missed a podium finish in cross-country skiing freestyle in fourth place, at the biathlon championships she won the title. 2013 she won the Cross Country - Summer Biathlon at the open Thuringian Championships race in sprint and mass start. In cross-country skiing the traditional Wallenloop Naarden won . At the 2013 Summer Biathlon European Championships in Haanja , she took part in a European championship for the first time and was 25th in the sprint and 23rd in the pursuit race.