Denise Herrmann
Denise Herrmann ( born December 20, 1988 in Schlema ) is a German cross country skier.
Career
Herrmann came through her father, a former handball player in the DDR - Oberliga, cross-country skiing. At eight, she took part in competitions for the first time, four years later she moved to the Skigymnasium in 35 km distant Oberwiesenthal, where she trained at WSC Erzgebirge since the beginning of their careers. In the coming years Herrmann denied various regional races; starting in 2004, she went to international junior race at the start. Greatest success in this period was the victory over 7.5 kilometers in the free technique at the European Youth Olympic Festival, the end of January 2005 took place in the Swiss Monthey. In winter 2006/ 07 Herrmann launched throughout the Alpine Cup, in which they, thanks to continuing good results took second place in the overall standings. The biggest success of her career up to that point they reached in March 2007, when the 18 -year-old reached the final at the Junior World Championships in Classic Sprint and behind Astrid Jacobsen and Charlotte Kalla took the bronze medal.
In November 2007, Herrmann was suspended for one year, as they had been tested positive after taking a cough syrup on Clenbuterol and had thus violated the drug policy of the German Ski Association ( DSV). After the lock she took in the fall of 2008, again in part in international competitions, where they continue to successfully overturned and therefore in February 2009 came to their first use in the World Cup. In the Italian Valdidentro the German 37th among 64 participants was. Thus she gained experience, put the DSV Herrmann in the following season, often in a World Cup; among other things, she competed in the Tour de Ski, where she reached the quarterfinals for the first time in the Sprint in Prague and the 28th collected their first three World Cup points. In addition, it has been this winter U23 World silver medalist in freestyle sprint and reached once more the third in the Alpine Cup overall standings.
Already at the beginning of the 2010/11 season pass Herrmann further success: First, she pulled at the home World Cup in Dusseldorf for the first time in the semifinals of a sprint, where they indeed after a fall retired, but still finished in twelfth place. This meant half the performance of the WM standard for which the athletes had to finish in the top eight in either twice among the top fifteen or even. The final qualification reached the 22 -year-old at the start of the Tour de Ski: There she finished in the prologue as the best German in seventh place and let Among other things, the more time World Cup champion Petra Majdič and the reigning sprint world champion Arianna Follis behind. Herrmann was surprised about the good result himself and explained that this was not to be expected.
Your first podium in the World Cup was able to win the team sprint with Hanna Kolb in Quebec City on 7 December Denise Herrmann in the 2012/13 season. Your previously best individual result in the cross-country World Cup they reached on December 15, 2012 at the Sprint in Canmore, where she finished fourth. At its first fully completed Tour de Ski Herrmann was in January 2013 in the standings 13, after she had finished fourth in the seven individual stages, among other things twice.