Athlete profile

Janina Hettich -

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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 

Having a close, trust-based relationship is very important to me. That is why I’m glad to have Viessmann at my side as a long-term partner.

Janina Hettich // Biathlete

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.

Biathlon relay with Viessmann sponsoring

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