Martina Zellner-Seidl (born 26 February 1974 in
Traunstein
Traunstein (Central Bavarian: ''Traunstoa'') is a town in the south-eastern part of Bavaria, Germany, and is the administrative center of a much larger district of the same name. The town serves as a local government, retail, health services, ...
) is a former
German
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biathlete. By the end of her career she had won one Olympic gold and six world championship medals, (2 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze). In the
World Cup she achieved 14 podium places with three victories. The best overall placing she achieved was in the 1997/98 season when she finished third.
Achievements
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Winter Olympics
*
1998 Nagano: Gold medal in the relay
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World Championships
**
1998 Pokljuka: Bronze medal in the pursuit
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1999 Kontiolahti: Gold medal in the sprint and in the relay, bronze in the pursuit
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2000 Oslo: Silver medal in the relay and bronze in the sprint
*World Cup victories
3 (1 sprint, 1 pursuit and 1 mass-start)
External links
Martina Zellner's homepage*
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1974 births
Living people
People from Traunstein
Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria
German female biathletes
Olympic biathletes for Germany
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Biathletes at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in biathlon
Biathlon World Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
20th-century German women