Nicole Fessel

Nicole Fessel ( born March 19, 1983 in Annweiler am Trifels ) is a German cross country skier.

Career

Nicole Fessel lives in Blaichach and starts for the SC Oberstdorf. Her international debut was at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Štrbské Pleso. Just like a year later in Karpacz Szklarska she could reach no particular success. Much better it ran at the Junior World Championships in 2002 in Schonach, where she was Junior World Champion in the sprint. Between 2000 and her first start in the World Cup in Linz in December 2002, she competed in FIS and Continental Cup competitions. Greatest successes in 2002 were victories over 5 and 10 km in Continental Cup race in Pontresina. In her first World Cup sprint from Linz she was ranked 20th. About the same distance she won in 2003 in Sollefteå again the Junior World Championship title. From now on, it was also used regularly in World Cup races. Their first result in the top ten reached bondage with the second German relay in the relay World Cup race in March 2003 in Falun as a tithe placed.

To kick off the season 2003/ 04 they reached the team sprint in Dusseldorf with Manuela Henkel sixth place. In the aftermath bondage could achieve good results again and again, without creating their final breakthrough. The end of 2005, she won in Munich the title of German Champion in the sprint. At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin bondage started in two races. In the sprint she placed 31st in the 30 -kilometer race in 48th place. It was not until the start of the 2006/07 season that bondage again came up with Katrin Zeller with the eighth place in the team sprint in Dusseldorf in the top ten. In season now increasingly more positive results to a set, in Changchun, she finished fourth in the Sprint Cup.

In distance races bondage started sporadically. In the following season 2007/ 08 was the eighth place in the sprint from Dusseldorf their seasonal best and also their only Top 10 ranking. In distance races, you get no further placements in the points. The stagnant performance continued into the 2008/ 09 season. She managed as best individual performance a 9th place in the sprint of Valdidentro. In the Olympic season 2009/10, an upward trend was evident. In the sprint, she has succeeded in Rybinsk with seventh and ninth place in Canmore again two top - 10 finishes. For the first time she also managed a place in the top ten in a distance race in the 15 -km double pursuit of Rybinsk, but where much of the world elite were absent. At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver bondage reached rank 17 and Sprint in the double tracking over 15 km of the 22nd place.

With more consistent training a greater increase in performance was recorded in the 2010/11 season. For the season opener in Gällivare occupied fetter a ninth place in the 10-km freestyle race. At this good performance could also link in Kuusamo. There, she reached the ranks of five, two and four in the World Cup stage race. This fetter was pre- run in the world's elite, which also aroused great hopes for the Sprint Cup in Dusseldorf. This could, however, be reached only in the team sprint with fifth place. At the height of Davos it was in the 10 km classic race 16 After this race then followed for a long pastern disease series, which she missed a number of World Cup races and the Tour de Ski 2010/2011. It was not until the weekend before the 2011 World Championships in Oslo, Drammen they could celebrate their World Cup comeback and was 22 over 10 km classic. At the World Championships, she was 15th in the sprint race. Better run it by finishing seventh in the double tracking.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal as first leg in the 4x5 - km relay.

Bondage is an official of the simple customs service in the Federal Customs Administration, where she is a member of the Customs - Ski - Team.

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