Janina Hettich -
Successes:
Vice World champion
Three-time Vice European champion
Two-time German champion
World Cup: First place relay
Birthday: 06/16/1996
Profession: Armed forces athlete
Club: SC Schönwald
Hobbies: Cooking, piano, card games
Role model: Laura Dahlmeier, Gesa Felicitas Krause
What's important to me: Family, home, roots, working with young people
Career
At the age of ten, Janina has her first contact with skiing. After graduating from the sports boarding school in Furtwangen in 2014, she joins the Todtnau sports training group. One year later, she participates for the first time in a Youth World Cup in Minsk. The following season, she competes for the German team in the IBU Cup and achieves her first podium finish in 2019, with a third place in sprint in Lenzerheide. She finishes fourth in the overall ranking, enabling her first World Cup start in Oslo in the same season. She achieves her first podium place at the World Cup in Pokljuka in the 2019/20 season with the mixed relay team. Together with the mixed relay team, she achieves her first podium finish at the World Cup on the Pokljuka in the 2019/20 season. Her career highlight so far follows at the 2021 World Championships at the same venue, where she is runner-up together with the women's relay team.
