Katharina Heinz
Katharina Heinz (* June 27, 1987 in Siegen ) is a German skeleton pilot.
Sports career
Katharina Heinz lives in wins and starts for the RSG Sauerland, where she is coached by Bernhard Lehmann. The Seelbacherin began in 2003 with the skeleton and belongs since 2006 to the German national squad. In November 2006, Heinz debuted in Igls Skeleton European Cup and finished fourth. Since the 2007/ 08 season Heinz starts in the newly created Skeleton Intercontinental Cup.
In January 2008 she won a race in Calgary as part of the America's Cup after Second City and then in Calgary was third before in Park race of the Intercontinental Cup. In 2008, she managed the victory at the German Championships for the year 2009, Kathleen Lawrence, and Marion Trott. January 16, 2009 Heinz was on the bobsled and luge track at Koenigssee with a total time of 1:39,48 minutes Junior World Champion. The Intercontinental - 2008/09 season was very successful for Heinz. Two races, both in Park City, she won, once was Heinz Second, third twice. This she placed in five of the eight races of the season on the podium. In the overall standings, she placed in front of Amy Gough and Donna Creighton in the first place. In early 2010 succeeded Heinz at the German Championships winning the silver medal. At the Junior World Cup in 2010 she won the 6th place. In the overall standings of the Intercontinental Cup in 2009/10, it ranked with 805 points and thus with only five points behind second placed Lucy Katherine Chaffer at the end of the season in third position. So it was best junior season. For the season 2010/11, Heinz was able to secure Germany's third starting place for the Skeleton World Cup after the resignation of Kerstin Szymkowiak. In Whistler on the Olympic track the preseason they instantly reached a first top ten placement as an eight- place finisher. Your best results of the season were two fifth places in Calgary and Cesana. The Skeleton Championship 2011 in Winterberg, she was eighth in the World Cup in Koenigssee sixth.
The Skeleton Championship 2012 in Altenberg, she won the runner-up and thus their first medal at an international championship.
Except Sporting
Heinz studied at the Hochschule Ansbach International Management, a bachelor's degree program, which was designed for elite athletes. She is also a sports soldier of sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr Warendorf.
Awards
2010 Heinz was elected for the third year in a row in their home in the performed at year-end choice of Siegen newspaper in the ranking of the winning countries sport for women on the podium. In 2009, she was third, in 2010 she won the duration behind winner Mockenhaupt and before Princess Nathalie zu Sayn -Wittgenstein- Berleburg second place.