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Petra Behle (born Petra Schaaf on 5 January 1969 in
Petra Behle (born Petra Schaaf on 5 January 1969 in Offenbach am Main
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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 ti ...
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Career
Behle won her first gold medal in the 1988 World Championships when she was 19 and she also has three gold medals in the 15 km that happened in 1989, 1991 and 1993 she also has three biathlon-world championship medals in relays from 1995, 1996 and 1997. She has 1 gold and 2 silver medals from olympic relays silver in 1992 and 1994 and gold medal from 1998. And she also has two team world championship gold medals fromNovosibirsk
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in 1992 and Ruhpolding
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in 1996. She was married to Jochen Behle
Jochen Behle (born 7 July 1960 in Korbach, Hesse) is a former (West) German cross-country skier who competed from 1980 to 1998.
Competing in six Winter Olympics, he earned his best career finish of fourth in the 4 × 10 km relay at Lilleham ...
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* * German female biathletes 1969 births Living people Schaaf, Petra Schaaf, Petra Biathletes at the 1998 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in biathlon Biathlon World Championships medalists Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes for Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Sportspeople from Offenbach am Main 20th-century German sportswomen West German female biathletes {{Germany-biathlon-bio-stub