Franziska Hildebrand (born 24 March 1987) is a German
biathlete
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...
. Hildebrand started in her first world cup races in the
2011/12-season after winning three medals at the two previous European Championships. In 2014, she participated in the
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...
in
Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...
. She was officially nominated by the
DOSB
The German Olympic Sports Confederation (german: Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund or DOSB) was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the ''Deutscher Sportbund'' (DSB), and the ''Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland'' (NOK) which dates ...
on 23 January 2014. She retired after 2021/2022, one day after she announced pregnancy.
Record
Olympic Games
World Championships
References
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1987 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Halle (Saale)
People from Bezirk Halle
German female biathletes
Olympic biathletes for Germany
Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Biathlon World Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in biathlon
Universiade silver medalists for Germany
Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade
21st-century German women