Frauke Schmitt Gran
Frauke Schmitt Gran, born Frauke Schmitt ( born March 12, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German former orienteer.
Career
Schmitt dates from Lahr in the Black Forest began in 1979 with the orienteering. In 1987, she started for the first time at a World Cup and finished it the 42nd place in the competition on the classic distance, the then represented in addition to the season of the only competition at World Orienteering Championships. In the following three world championships, she took 16th place with 1991 in part on long distance as best finish in a single competition. At the 1995 World Championships in Detmold she managed the hitherto greatest success. On the short distance over 4.4 kilometers they finished fifth in the victory of the Swiss Marie- Luce Romanens. The bronze medal she missed it by a mere two seconds. On the long distance she was ten and the season ( with Kerstin Hellmann, Karin narrow field and Anke Xylander ) it also reached number five.
In 1998 she had her first child and therefore put a also a break from competition. 1999 she succeeded the next triumph: At the World Championships in Scotland Inverness she won after the British Yvette Baker and the Austrian Lucie Böhm the bronze medal in the sprint, and thus the first medal for Germany at a World Orienteering Championship in history. The following year she became Norwegian champion in sprint and long distance, and was with her Norwegian club Halden SK as the year second in the national championship season. At their last World Cup participation in 2001 it reached number ten on the short distance.
When Venla relay in the same year she saved perhaps the Russian runner Anna Fadeeva life as she untied her shirt using the leg of the Russian, after the artery was torn. They later also received support from the Finn Virpi Juutilainen and the Briton Jo Stevenson. Had arrived as medical assistance, she continued to run. For her actions, she was awarded by the German Association of Journalists with the Fair Play Award. 2005 presented her with the then Schily the Flatow Medal.
Schmitt Gran 's married to a Norwegian and lives in Norway Halden. It measures 1.71 m and weighed about 61 kg competition times.