Vanessa Hinz

Vanessa Hinz ( born March 24, 1992) is a German biathlete and cross-country skier former.

Vanessa Hinz started for the SC Schliersee and attended the schools CJD Christopher Berchtesgaden. The sports soldier began as cross-country skier, where they in junior and FIS races came from the end of 2007 for use later in the race of the Alpine Cup, but without reaching significant results. In 2011 she missed at the German Championships in Hirschau as fourth-placed 5 -kilometer freestyle just a medal and was later at the Junior World Championships in Otepaeae the same route 58th 2012, she was at the German Junior Championships 2012 in Upper Wiesenthal third of the freestyle sprints. In Erzurum, she started for the second time at a World Junior Championship, where she was the 24th of the freestyle sprints, 25 of Skiathlons and fourth with the German relay.

For the 2012/13 season Hinz moved from cross-country skiing to the sport of biathlon and was taken immediately to the German B national squad. Her international debut was at the Junior World Championships in 2013 Obertillach and was the 19th of the Single Page, Ninth of the sprint, missed the Fourth of persecution just an individual medal and won this on the side of Franziska Preuss and Laura Dahl Meier with gold in the relay race. After the debut of the IBU Cup followed in Osrblie where they immediately won points as 34th and 18th Single Page the sprint. At the European Championships in 2013 in Bansko won by Nicole Wötzel, Franziska Preuss and Karolin Horchler the title with the German relay and finished sixth of Single Page. In the sprint she missed a good placement because of their six shooting errors, five of them in the first shooting. In Pursuit they scored four errors in two shooting and was then taken as a lapped runner from the race. Towards the end of the season came Hinz in Sochi at a single surprising to her first deployment in the World Cup and missed by good shooting performance with only one error after spills generic problems on the difficult Olympic course as a 45 to a few places the points.

In the IBU Cup 2013/2014 Hinz won in Ridnaun with two sprints her first race in the second race series. In Antholz, she was again used in the World Cup, where they 50 in the sprint and 41 reached the courts in pursuit. Although she had therefore does not meet the required standard, she was nominated as the sixth biathlete for the Winter Games in Sochi. As a substitute runner but she was not traveling with to Sochi. In March, it was used again in the World Cup in Pokljuka and managed, after moderate ranked 57th in the sprint, in the pursuit on the 36th for the first time in the points.

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