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Martina Glagow Profile |
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Birth Date: September 21, 1979
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Birth Place: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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Birth Name: Martina Glagow
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Height: 5'2"
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Biography |
Martina "Molly" Glagow is a German biathlete. She now lives
in Mittenwald in Bavaria. She was most successful in the
2002–03 season, when she was the first German to win the
women's overall Biathlon World Cup. She is also a
three-times world champion and three-times Olympic silver
medalist.
Glagow's talent was discovered in fourth grade, when she
beat out male competition up to three years older than
herself in a cross-country skiing event. Although Glagow
stands only 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) tall, she is a strong skier,
but is renowned for her shooting ability: she is regularly
among the female athletes with the highest accuracy rate,
leading the shooting statistics in the 2003–04 season with a
rate of 89 percent.
She became a member of the German World Cup team in 2000,
when she impressed by winning an event in her first year and
even finished third in the mass start World Cup standings.
Later, she became the first German biathlete to win the
women's Biathlon World Cup in the 2002–03 season, alongside
the pursuit World Cup; in 2005–06, she finished third in the
overall standings and won the mass start standings. In
2007–08, she was the best biathlete in the individual
discipline. As of March 17, 2008, she has won a total of 12
individual world cup events.
During the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Glagow won three
silver medals: one in the sprint competition, one in the
pursuit, and one in the relay. At world championships, she
has won a total of eleven medals: she was World Champion
thrice, in 2003 in the pursuit (together with Sandrine
Bailly) and in 2007 and 2008 in the relay. |
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since July 22, 2008