Susan Dunklee

Susan Dunklee ( born February 13, 1986 in Barton ) is an American biathlete, cross-country skier and athlete.

Susan Dunklee is the daughter of Stan Dunklee and niece of Everett Dunklee, both former Olympian in cross-country skiing for the United States. She attended until 2008 Dartmouth College, where she studied ecology. They first operational cross-country and track and field. In athletics, she ran heptathlon and missed here once just to participate in the U.S. Championships. Successful it was cross-country skiing, where it took for the Dartmouth ski team. In 2002 she played her first FIS races, in January 2004, she participated in her first U.S. Championships in part, without achieving success. This first presented themselves in December of the year when she reached at NorAm Cup race at Presque Isle podiums. In February 2006 she won in Stowe her only FIS races over 5 kilometers in the classical style. Since Dunklee international breakthrough, however, did not succeed, she moved in 2008 to biathlon.

Dunklee lives and trains since June 2008 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid. Your coach is James Upham. Quickly first successes came a. In biathlon NorAm Cup 2008/2009 it ran on the second competition Station in Itasca behind Carolyn Bramante in a sprint to second place. Three more top- ten finishes followed in the season, including the first victory in a Sprint in Fort Kent for the finale of the race series. Since it was also the U.S. Championship, Dunklee also won this item. In the pursuit they missed in fourth place when just one more medal in the mass start was sixth. In the overall standings of the Nor -Am Cup they finished fourth. The good results brought Dunklee a nomination for the IBU Cup 2008/2009, where she made her debut in Altenberg. She denied four races in the series and was always in the points. The following season they reached as a tithe placed in a sprint in Altenberg her first top ten result and at the same time her best placement in the race series.

The 2009/10 season brought, particularly in North America, further success. In biathlon NorAm Cup 2009/2010 Dunklee won three races and finished third once. In the overall standings, they took second place. After she had placed at the North American Championships 2010 in Fort Kent in the sprint and pursuit of each on the last place, they could decide the final mass start for themselves. There were also the U.S. Championships in 2010 and Dunklee so was U.S. Champion in the mass start. They also took part in the Biathlon European Championships in 2010 and reached the part in Otepaeae ranks 37 in singles, 17 in the sprint, 39 in the pursuit and nine with Annelies Cook, Laura Spector and Hanah Dreissigacker as the final runner of the season. Even a year later started Dunklee Ridnaun at the European Championships, where she was the 15th of the Single Page, 42 of the sprint and 19th of the pursuit race. To kick off the season 2011/12 she made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup in Ostersund. In the first race, a single, she missed more than 45 five places the points. Two days later, she won the 28th in a sprint race first World Cup points. In Antholz it has improved its best performance in a sprint race first up to rank 17 and thus achieve one of the best benefits of a U.S. biathletes in the last two decades. At the World Championships in Ruhpolding, she was in the single surprisingly Fifth, increasing this best performance yet by more than ten ranks. The final breakthrough to the world class succeeded in the 2013/2014 season. Dunklee reached four digit placements and ran to the season finale at Holmenkollen in Oslo as third place for the first time on the podium, reaching one of the best places for a female U.S. biathlete ever.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

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

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