After sport, a television career: biathlete Kati Wilhelm not only shone on the cross-country ski trail, but also shows format on television as a sought-after TV expert.
Kathi Wilhelm
was born on August 2, 1976 in Schmalkalden.
She achieved five World Cup and three
Olympic gold.
After her professional sports career, she switched
to television
as a
commentator
.
Kati Wilhelm's
talent was
discovered
at the age of seven
.
Her career was promoted in the
Steinbach-Hallenberg
training center
as early as 1983.
Kati Wilhelm started as a cross-country skier until 1998, but switched to biathlon in 1999.
Your greatest successes at a glance:
Kati Wilhelm
achieved 21 World Cup victories in individual races and was once
overall World Cup winner.
She was five times
world champion in
her discipline.
At the 2010 Winter Games in Turin, the three-time
Olympic champion was the
flag bearer of the German team.
After her career as a
biathlete
, Wilhelm opened a
restaurant
in her hometown.
Kati Wilhelm started her sporting career in cross-country skiing
Kati Wilhelm's
career began in cross-country skiing under the trainer Reinhard Heil in the
training center in her hometown of Steinbach-Hallenberg
.
She later moved to the Oberhof sports high school, after which she was accepted into the
Bundeswehr
sports promotion group
at the Oberhof location.
Here she reached the rank of
sergeant major
during her professional career
.
At her first Olympic Games in
Nagano
,
Japan
, she competed as a
cross-country skier
in 1998
.
Kati Wilhelm's enthusiasm for biathlon was
awakened
during the
military world championships
when she was invited as a guest during a training session to try shooting.
Since she achieved a high hit rate ad hoc, switching to biathlon was easy for Wilhelm.
Since 1999 she started her new discipline as a
biathlete
.
While she was only able to achieve moderate results in cross-country skiing in the previous season,
Wilhelm's
first biathlon year in the
World Cup
was already
a success.
In the 2000/2001 season, she was able to achieve a podium in the third World Cup race.
As a permanent biathlete on the podium
Kati Wilhelm
was able to prove again and again
that the decision to switch was the right one
.
As a member of SC Motor Zella-Mehlis, the
biathlete
was accepted into the
national team
in
1999
, and made her debut in the World Cup in 2000. In the 2005/2006 season she was
overall World Cup winner
.
A total of 107 podium placings in World Cup races are in her track record, 37 of them in first place. In 192 races she was among the top 10.
Wilhelm finished the 2002 Olympic Games as
Olympic champion in
both the sprint and the relay.
She came second in the persecution.
The biathlete continued her Olympic success series in Turin with one gold and two silver.
In Turin she also had the special honor of being allowed to run as the flag bearer of the German team.
At her last games in Vancouver in 2010, she was a bronze winner with the relay.
Kati Wilhelm was able to climb the podium a total of 13 times at world championships, five of them as
world champion
.
Wilhelm announced her official end of career in professional sport on March 27, 2010. Wilhelm received several awards and honors for her achievements and commitment.
She was twice athlete of the year and was awarded media
prizes
such as the
Golden Hen
or the Herbert Award.
Kati Wilhelm - in demand as a TV expert
Kati Wilhelm
continued her career
as a sports commentator.
For Das Erste, she works as a
TV expert
at biathlon
races
.
She also gives lectures on motivational topics and advises entrepreneurs on the subject of "determination".
She made a conscious decision not to become a coach, as she wanted to devote more of her time to the family and her own projects.
Among other things, she opened the
“Heimatlon”
restaurant
in her hometown of Steinbach-Hallenberg
.
Here she specialized in regional cuisine and is involved, among other things, as a "
pleasure ambassador
" for her home country Thuringia.
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To this end, she takes the initiative for the organization “
Pink Ribbon
”, which is committed to early breast cancer detection, as well as for “The Colorful Sheep eV2”, an association that supports
single parents
and the Tambach-Dietharz children's hospice. Kati Wilhelm supports the promotion of young talent with her annual “
Kati Young Talent Camp powered by Knauf
” in Oberhof. The former
biathlete
completed her professional profile
with a
degree in
international management at the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences. Kati Wilhelm is married to the head technician of the German biathlon team. She has two children with him.