Kathrin Lang

Kathrin Cornelia Lang ( born September 3, 1986 in Balingen as Kathrin Cornelia superheater ) is a German biathlete.

Career

Kathrin Lang competed for the SC Gosheim and since 2013 for the TSV victory village. First they played football. At twelve, she began cross-country skiing. When the father of Simone Hauswald, Rudi thought Inger, she learned the sport of biathlon. The former student of ski boarding school in Furtwangen and soldier in the sports promotion group of the Armed Forces for the first time launched the first World Cup of the season 2006/ 07 in Ostersund in the elderly. Already in the first race (single ) reached with a 25th place in a place in the points and lay before the last shooting even its winning ways. In the second race (sprint ) they won in spite of two error prone and the 19th place and thus also secured the starting position for the pursuit race. Lang is often compared in their first season with the little younger Magdalena Neuner. This could present themselves successful in the first two thirds of the season and won three world titles and a World Cup race. However, with the progression of the season, Lang was always more stable and better. In Hochfilzen 2006 became for a single race or ninth. In early March 2007, she rushed in the final sprint in Lahti as third parties for the first time on the podium. This ranking could improve in second three races later. On January 3, 2007, she ran in Oberhof for the first time in the German squadron. On the day a year later, she won the same place with the German relay their first victory in the World Cup. Your first solo success in the World Cup they reached after streaky season on 8 March 2008 in pursuit of the Russian Khanty-Mansiysk, where they one day later also won the mass start before Magdalena Neuner.

In the junior world championships in Haute Maurienne in 2004 was long- vice world champion in the sprint behind her teammate Magdalena Neuner. The following year, she was again in Kontiolahti with the team vice world champion. In 2006 she was before Martina Glagow and Sabrina Buchholz also German champion in singles. In the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz Lang reached the 31st place and thus their worst result of the season in singles. In addition, it was used in the mixed relay, but could not prevent the German squadron remained in fifth without a medal despite good personal performance. Personally better ran the Biathlon World Championships 2008 in Ostersund. Long been used in the sprint and pursuit, and came to the ranks 12 and nine. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she could not qualify because of a foot injury in the preseason and the resulting training deficit. She started then the IBU Cup and participated in the Biathlon European Championships 2010 in Otepaeae part. There Kathrin Lang was European champion in singles and also won the German relay the title. In addition, she won silver in the pursuit. To kick off the 2010/2011 season, she won the German Championships in Oberhof the title in the mass start, in Willingen almost a week later also in pursuit. The 2011/12 season they finished ahead of schedule because of her pregnancy in December 2011.

In the 2012/13 season long returned to the World Cup when they started the sprint in Ruhpolding. She was ranked 67, and it was her only use in the World Cup. In the 2013/14 season, she received an insert in the World Cup, to meet the required internal qualification standard for the Olympic Winter Games ( a place in the top 8 or two places in the top 15 ). In individual in Ruhpolding she was ranked 72, falling short of both the standard and the qualification for the pursuit competition connected to this single race. A few days later she started in Ruhpolding again within the IBU Cups and won both the sprint and the pursuit of its own. As in the first World Cup after the Olympics in Slovenia Pokljuka only five starters were nominated, though the German team were six places available, they criticized on their facebook page, the German coach sharp and accused them of " that they do not trust places to be filled with people who have already offered several times for it, but just do not fit into their concept. "They also criticized that the communication between the World Cup and IBU Cup teams was bad that athletes despite fulfilled qualification standards are not in the World Cup team are recorded and that neither they, as an overall third in the IBU Cup overall standings Nadine Horchler should fill as Leading the scoring the free launch site.

Private life

After graduating from high school in July 2006, Kathrin Lang moved to Ruhpolding. Since then, she lives and trains there. Kathrin Lang plays French horn in an orchestra and sought a career as a primary school teacher at. From 2008 to 2010, she was romantically involved with her teammate Michael Greis. Early December 2011 was long known her pregnancy. Since June 2012 she is married to the former biathlete Toni Lang. Mid- July 2012 was their daughter.

Since 2007, Kathrin Lang hired as a board member for the German Children's Cancer follow-up - Foundation for the chronically ill child in Tannheim at Villingen -Schwenningen, which advocates for family-oriented rehabilitation of chronically ill children and those families.

Statistics

World Cup wins

Biathlon World Cup rankings

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).