sport.wikisort.org - AthleteKatrin Apel (born 4 May 1973 in Erfurt) is a retired German biathlete. 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in), 61 kg (134 lb). Apel now resides in Gräfenroda, and is a member of the SV Eintracht Frankenhain club. Like most German winter sport athletes, Apel is a sport soldier, performing normal soldier duties but released for training and competitions.
German biathlete
Katrin Apel
 Katrin Apel in 2012 |
Medal record |
Women's biathlon |
Representing Germany |
Olympic Games |
 | 1998 Nagano | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
 | 2002 Salt Lake City | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
 | 2006 Turin | 4 × 6 km relay |
 | 1998 Nagano | 7.5 km sprint |
World Championships |
 | 1996 Ruhpolding | Team event |
 | 1996 Ruhpolding | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
 | 1997 Brezno-Osrblie | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
 | 1999 Kontiolahti | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
 | 2000 Oslo | 7.5 km sprint |
 | 2000 Oslo | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
 | 2001 Pokljuka | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
 | 2004 Oberhof | 12.5 km mass start |
 | 2005 Hochfilzen | 4 × 6 km relay |
 | 2004 Oberhof | 4 × 6 km relay |
Women's cross-country skiing |
Junior World Championships |
Representing Germany |
 | 1993 Harrachov | 5 km classical |
Representing East Germany |
 | 1990 Les Saisies | 4 × 5 km relay |
Apel began her career as a cross-country skier; between 1990 and 1994, her best results were third place in the junior World Championships 5 km classical in 1993, and second in the relay also in the Junior World Championships, in 1990. However, when Apel failed to qualify for the Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994, she made the decision, along with her friend and then training partner Steffi Kramer, to switch to biathlon.
Apel began biathlon in 1994 in the European Cup, the second division to the World Cup. In Apel's first season in the World Cup, 1995/96, she placed 33rd, but her results improved from then on. In the 1998/99 season she placed 8th, in 1999/00 10th, 2000/01 12th. The 2001/02 season was her best when she finished the season in 5th place. In that season Apel placed 13th in the individual, 4th in the sprint, 4th in the pursuit, and 12th in the mass start. The year after she could only finish a lowly 20th place. She bounced back to 7th in the 2003/04 season and 8th again in 2004/05, where her best discipline was the pursuit, in which she finished 7th.
Apel has had 18 podium finishes in the World Cup. Four wins, five second places and nine third places. All but one of her World Cup wins were in the 2001/02 season when she came 5th in the final standings. Also three of the four wins were in the sprint. Apel is a solid shooter in the prone position, averaging mid 80% over the years, but her standing shoot lets her down, only in the low 70%, though it has improved from mid 60% from a few years ago.
Apel has four Olympic medals, two gold, one silver, and one bronze. Her only solo medal is a bronze in the sprint in the 1998 Winter Olympics. She won the other medals in relay events. Apel has ten World Championship medals, four gold, five silver, and one bronze. However, only two of the medals are solo medals, one a silver won in Oslo's Holmenkollen ski festival in 2000 in the sprint, and the other, also a silver, won in the mass start in Oberhof in 2004. The remaining medals were won in relays.
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 Olympic champions in women's biathlon – 4 × 6 km relay |
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3 × 7.5 km | |
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4 × 7.5 km | |
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4 × 6 km |
- 2006:
Anna Bogaliy, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Olga Zaitseva, Albina Akhatova (RUS)
- 2010:
Svetlana Sleptsova, Anna Bogaliy, Olga Medvedtseva, Olga Zaitseva (RUS)
- 2014:
Vita Semerenko, Yuliia Dzhima, Valentyna Semerenko, Olena Pidhrushna (UKR)
- 2018:
Nadezhda Skardino, Iryna Kryuko, Dzinara Alimbekava, Darya Domracheva (BLR)
- 2022:
Linn Persson, Mona Brorsson, Hanna Öberg, Elvira Öberg (SWE)
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World champions in women's biathlon – Team event |
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4 × 15 km |
- 1989:
(Natalia Prikazchikova, Svetlana Davidova, Luisa Zherepenova, Elena Golovina)
- 1990:
(Elena Batsevich, Elena Golovina, Svetlana Paramygina, Svetlana Davidova)
- 1991:
(Elena Belova, Elena Golovina, Svetlana Paramygina, Svetlana Davidova)
- 1992:
(Petra Bauer, Uschi Disl, Inga Kesper, Petra Schaaf)
- 1993:
(Nathalie Beausire, Delphyne Heymann, Anne Briand, Corinne Niogret)
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4 × 7.5 km |
- 1994:
(Natalia Permiakova, Natalia Ryzhenkova, Irina Kokoueva, Svetlana Paramygina)
- 1995:
(Elin Kristiansen, Annette Sikveland, Gunn Margit Andreassen, Ann-Elen Skjelbreid)
- 1996:
(Katrin Apel, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Petra Behle, Uschi Disl)
- 1997:
(Annette Sikveland, Ann-Elen Skjelbreid, Liv Grete Skjelbreid, Gunn Margit Andreassen)
- 1998:
(Anna Volkova, Olga Romasko, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Albina Akhatova)
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World champions in women's biathlon – 4 × 6 km relay |
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3 × 5 km |
- 1984:
(Venera Chernyshova, Liudmila Zabolotnaya, Kaija Parve)
- 1985:
(Venera Chernyshova, Elena Golovina, Kaija Parve)
- 1986:
(Kaija Parve, Nadiya Billova, Venera Chernyshova)
- 1987:
(Venera Chernyshova, Elena Golovina, Kaija Parve)
- 1988:
(Venera Chernyshova, Elena Golovina, Kaija Parve)
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3 × 7.5 km |
- 1989:
(Natalia Prikazchikova, Svetlana Davidova, Elena Golovina)
- 1990:
(Elena Batsevich, Elena Golovina, Svetlana Davidova)
- 1991:
(Elena Belova, Elena Golovina, Svetlana Davidova)
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4 × 7.5 km |
- 1993:
(Jana Kulhavá, Jiřina Adamičková, Iveta Knížková, Eva Háková)
- 1995:
(Uschi Disl, Antje Harvey, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Petra Behle)
- 1996:
(Uschi Disl, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Katrin Apel, Petra Behle)
- 1997:
(Uschi Disl, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Katrin Apel, Petra Behle)
- 1999:
(Uschi Disl, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Katrin Apel, Martina Zellner)
- 2000:
(Olga Pyleva, Svetlana Tchernousova, Galina Kukleva, Albina Akhatova)
- 2001:
(Olga Pyleva, Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Galina Kukleva, Svetlana Ishmouratova)
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4 × 6 km |
- 2003:
(Albina Akhatova, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Galina Kukleva, Svetlana Tchernousova)
- 2004:
(Linda Tjørhom, Gro Marit Istad Kristiansen, Gunn Margit Andreassen, Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée)
- 2005:
(Olga Pyleva, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Olga Zaitseva)
- 2007:
(Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Magdalena Neuner, Kati Wilhelm)
- 2008:
(Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Magdalena Neuner, Kati Wilhelm)
- 2009:
(Svetlana Sleptsova, Anna Boulygina, Olga Medvedtseva, Olga Zaitseva)
- 2011:
(Andrea Henkel, Miriam Gössner, Tina Bachmann, Magdalena Neuner)
- 2012:
(Tina Bachmann, Magdalena Neuner, Miriam Gössner, Andrea Henkel)
- 2013:
(Hilde Fenne, Ann Kristin Flatland, Synnøve Solemdal, Tora Berger)
- 2015:
(Franziska Hildebrand, Franziska Preuß, Vanessa Hinz, Laura Dahlmeier)
- 2016:
(Synnøve Solemdal, Fanny Horn Birkeland, Tiril Eckhoff, Marte Olsbu)
- 2017:
(Vanessa Hinz, Maren Hammerschmidt, Franziska Hildebrand, Laura Dahlmeier)
- 2019:
(Synnøve Solemdal, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, Tiril Eckhoff, Marte Olsbu Røiseland)
- 2020:
(Synnøve Solemdal, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, Tiril Eckhoff, Marte Olsbu Røiseland)
- 2021:
(Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, Tiril Eckhoff, Ida Lien, Marte Olsbu Røiseland)
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На других языках
- [en] Katrin Apel
[it] Katrin Apel
Katrin Apel (Erfurt, 4 maggio 1973) è un'ex sciatrice nordica tedesca attiva sia nello sci di fondo sia nel biathlon, specialità nella quale ha colto i maggiori successi.
[ru] Апель, Катрин
Ка́трин А́пель (4 мая 1973, Эрфурт, ГДР) — немецкая биатлонистка, начинавшая карьеру в лыжных гонках. Двукратная олимпийская чемпионка (1998, 2002), серебряный (2006) и бронзовый (1998) призёр Олимпийских игр. Она является также четырёхкратной победительницей чемпионатов мира. В общей сложности, в её коллекции 69 медалей, завоёванных на этапах Кубка мира. Самое высокое место в общем зачёте Кубка мира — 5-е (2002). Завершила карьеру в конце сезона 2006/2007 годов.
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