Joanne Firesteel Reid (born June 28, 1992) is an American
biathlete
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...
. She competed at the
2018 Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...
, and
2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's mass start,
Women's relay,
Women's pursuit,
Women's individual, and
Women's sprint.
Life
Joanne Reid is the daughter of Olympian
Beth Heiden
Beth may refer to:
Letter and number
*Bet (letter), or beth, the second letter of the Semitic abjads (writing systems)
*Hebrew word for "house", often used in the name of synagogues and schools (e.g. Beth Israel)
Name
*Beth (given name) lists p ...
and niece of
Eric Heiden
Eric Arthur Heiden (born June 14, 1958) is an American physician and a former long track speed skater, road cyclist and track cyclist. He won an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at th ...
. She grew up in
Palo Alto
Palo Alto (; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
The city was es ...
and skied cross country at
University of Colorado
The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, and the University o ...
.
She competed in the
Biathlon World Championships 2017
The 49th Biathlon World Championships was held from 9 to 19 February 2017 in Hochfilzen, Austria. There were a total of 11 competitions: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, and relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the events ...
, and
Biathlon World Championships 2021
The Biathlon World Championships 2021 took place in Pokljuka, Slovenia, from 9 to 21 February 2021.
Host selection
On 4 September 2016, Tyumen won the voting (25 votes) during the 12th IBU Congress in Chisinau in Moldova over Pokljuka in Slove ...
.
Biathlon results
All results are sourced from the
International Biathlon Union.
[International Biathlon Union]
Joanne Reid
IBU Datacenter. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
Olympic Games
''0 medals''
World Championships
''0 medals''
:''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.''
World Cup
References
External links
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Website of the official fan club of Joanne Reid :OFFICIAL FAN CLUB - CLICK HERE
1992 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Madison, Wisconsin
American female biathletes
Olympic biathletes for the United States
Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics
21st-century American women
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