Denise Herrmann-Wick (née Herrmann, born 20 December 1988) is a former German
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 tim ...
and
cross-country skier
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreatio ...
. She won gold at
2022 Winter Olympics – Women's individual, won gold at
Biathlon World Championships 2019 – Women's pursuit and won gold at
Biathlon World Championships 2023 – Women's sprint. Previously, she has competed in
FIS Cross-Country World Cup
The FIS Cross-Country World Cup is an annual Cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing competition, arranged by the International Ski Federation (FIS) since 1981. The competition was arranged unofficially between 1973 and 1981, although ...
since 2009. Herrmann has won several medals at the World Cup events. In April 2016, she announced that she would switch to competing in biathlon for the
following season, although in an interview in November of that year, she did not rule out competing in cross-country skiing in the future.
On 14 March 2023, she announced her retirement following the 2022–2023 season.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the
International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
* 1 medal – (1 bronze)
World Championships
World Cup
Season standings
Individual podiums
* 6 podiums – (3 , 3 )
World Cup team podiums
* 2 podiums – (2 )
Biathlon results
All results are sourced from the
International Biathlon Union
The International Biathlon Union (IBU; german: Internationale Biathlon-Union) is the international governing body of biathlon. Its headquarters were in Salzburg, Austria, until May 2020, when the Federation moved to Anif, on the outskirts of the ...
.
Olympic Games
''2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)''
World Championships
''9 medals (2 gold, 6 silver, 1 bronze)''
:''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.''
:''**The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.''
World Cup
Individual victories
* 13 victories (7 Sp, 4 Pu, 2 In)
* 22 podiums (7 Sp, 8 Pu, 5 In, 2 Ms)
Relay victories
References
External links
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1988 births
Living people
People from Erzgebirgskreis
German female cross-country skiers
German female biathletes
Tour de Ski skiers
Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic cross-country skiers for Germany
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in biathlon
Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic biathletes for Germany
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Biathlon World Championships medalists
Doping cases in cross-country skiing
German sportspeople in doping cases
Skiers from Saxony
21st-century German women