Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle

Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle (German pronunciation: [ˈeːfi ˈzaxənbaxɐˈʃteːlə]; born 27 November 1980) is a retired German cross-country skier and biathlete from Reit im Winkl who has competed since 1998. She was born in Traunstein, West Germany. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she won five medals with two golds (Team sprint: 2010, 4 × 5 km relay: 2002) and three silvers (Individual sprint: 2002, 4 × 5 km relay: 2006, 2010).[1]

Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Sachenbacher-Stehle in Stockholm, 2007
Country Germany
Born (1980-11-27) 27 November 1980
Traunstein, West Germany
Height162 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Ski clubWSV Reit im Winkl
World Cup career
Seasons1999–2011, 2014
Individual wins3
Team wins7
Indiv. podiums12
Team podiums25
Indiv. starts228
Team starts42
Overall titles0 – (4th in 2003, 2006)
Discipline titles0

Sachenbacher-Stehle has also won six medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold (4 × 5 km relay: 2003) and four silvers (5 km + 5 km double pursuit: 2003, team sprint: 2007 with Claudia Künzel-Nystad, 4 × 5 km relay: 2009) and a bronze. She also has fourteen individual victories at various levels in distances up to 5 km in her career from 1998 to 2006.

She received a five-day suspension at the beginning of the 2006 Winter Olympics due to a high hemoglobin level.[2] She was one of twelve athletes given five-day suspensions for health reasons – the International Ski Federation decided they could not safely compete due to an abnormally high red blood cell counts.

From the 2012/2013 season, she switched to biathlon, citing motivational problems, and was given a slot in the German B-team. Members of the B-team are eligible to compete in IBU Cup races.[3] Her results in the IBU-Cup made her eligible to compete in the Biathlon World Cup. In her first World Cup race, on 14 December 2012 in Pokljuka, Sachenbacher-Stehle finished 59th.[4] On 6 January 2013 she achieved the first IBU Cup podium, finishing second in the 7.5 km sprint in Otepää.[5] As of January 2014, her best individual performance in a World Cup race remains sixth place in 7.5 km sprint in Sochi on 10 March 2013. She finished fourth in the 12.5 kilometre mass start biathlon competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games on 17 February 2014.

On 21 February 2014, it was confirmed that Sachenbacher-Stehle had tested positive for methylhexanamine during the Sochi Olympic Games.[6][7] She was stripped of her Olympic accreditation, and her results were annulled. In July 2014, she was banned for two years for doping.[8] In November 2014 it was announced that the Court of Arbitration for Sport had ruled that her ban should be cut to six months after she appealed, on the grounds that her failed test was due to contamination of food supplements.[9] However shortly afterwards she announced her retirement from the sport in an interview on the television programme Sportschau.[10]

She married German alpine skier Johannes Stehle in July 2005.

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[11]

Olympic Games
  • 5 medals – (2 gold, 3 silver)
 Year   Age   10 km   15 km   Pursuit  30 km   Sprint   4 × 5 km 
 relay 		  Team 
 sprint 
200221—1812—SilverGoldN/A
20062520N/A—13—Silver5
20102912N/A114—SilverGold

World Championships
  • 6 medals – (1 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze)
 Year   Age   5 km 
individual		  10 km 
individual		  15 km  Pursuit  30 km  Sprint   4 × 5 km 
 relay 		  Team 
 sprint 
19991823N/A—25—N/ABronzeN/A
200120N/A—31—CNX[a]——N/A
200322N/A——Silver65GoldN/A
200524N/A17N/A———4—
200726N/A6N/A4——SilverSilver
200928N/A—N/A13DNS—Silver7
201130N/A—N/A1313——5
a. 1 Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.

Season standings
 Season   Age  Discipline standings Ski Tour standings
Overall Distance Long Distance Middle Distance Sprint Nordic
Opening		 Tour de
Ski		 World Cup
Final
19991944N/A40N/A51N/AN/AN/A
20002029N/A485438N/AN/AN/A
20012143N/AN/AN/A41N/AN/AN/A
20022216N/AN/AN/A4N/AN/AN/A
2003234N/AN/AN/A9N/AN/AN/A
2004241112N/AN/A13N/AN/AN/A
2005251413N/AN/A31N/AN/AN/A
20062645N/AN/A19N/AN/AN/A
200727914N/AN/A18N/A8N/A
2008281010N/AN/A11N/A817
2009291717N/AN/A29N/ADNF8
2010301613N/AN/A39N/ADNF13
2011316040N/AN/ANCDNF——
201434NCNCN/AN/A——DNF—

Individual podiums
  • 3 victories – (3 WC)
  • 12 podiums – (12 WC)
No. Season Date Location Race Level Place
12001–0227 December 2001 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany0.7 km Sprint FWorld Cup1st
22002–0323 November 2002 Kiruna, Sweden5 km F IndividualWorld Cup1st
312 February 2003 Reit im Winkl, Germany1.0 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
422 March 2003 Falun, Sweden5 km + 5 km C/F PursuitWorld Cup2nd
52003–0429 November 2003 Rukatunturi, Finland7.5 km + 7.5 km C/F PursuitWorld Cup3rd
624 February 2004 Trondheim, Norway1.5 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
72005–0615 December 2005 Canmore, Canada10 km F IndividualWorld Cup3rd
88 March 2006 Falun, Sweden5 km + 5 km C/F PursuitWorld Cup1st
911 March 2006 Oslo, Norway30 km F Mass StartWorld Cup3rd
1019 March 2006 Sapporo, Japan7.5 km + 7.5 km C/F PursuitWorld Cup3rd
112007–081 March 2008 Lahti, Finland1.2 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
122009–101 March 2008 Rybinsk, Russia7.5 km + 7.5 km C/F PursuitWorld Cup2nd

Team podiums
  • 7 victories – (4 RL, 3 TS)
  • 25 podiums – (19 RL, 6 TS)
No. Season Date Location Race Level Place Teammate(s)
11998–9926 February 1999 Ramsau, Austria4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Championships[1]3rdBauer / Roth / Wille
22001–0210 March 2002 Falun, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup3rdHenkel / Bauer / Künzel
32002–0324 November 2002 Kiruna, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndHenkel / Bauer / Künzel
48 December 2002   Davos, Switzerland4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup3rdHenkel / Bauer / Künzel
519 January 2003 Nové Město, Czech Republic4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stBauer / Henkel / Künzel
619 January 2003 Asiago, Italy6 × 1.4 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup1stKünzel
723 March 2003 Falun, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stHenkel / Bauer / Künzel
82003–0423 November 2003 Beitostølen, Norway4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndHenkel / Böhler / Künzel
97 December 2003 Dobbiaco, Italy6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup2ndKünzel
1014 December 2003   Davos, Switzerland4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndBöhler / Henkel / Künzel
1111 January 2004 Otepää, Estonia4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndHenkel / Bauer / Künzel
1215 February 2004 Oberstdorf, Germany6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup2ndKünzel
132004–0524 November 2004 Düsseldorf, Germany6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup2ndHenkel
1421 November 2004 Gällivare, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup3rd Böhler / Reschwam Schulze / Künzel 
1512 December 2004 Lago di Tesero, Italy4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndHenkel / Künzel / Böhler
16 2005–06 20 November 2005 Beitostølen, Norway4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndHenkel / Böhler / Künzel
1715 February 2004 Sapporo, Japan6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup1stKünzel-Nystad
182006–0719 November 2006 Gällivare, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndHenkel / Zeller / Künzel-Nystad
1917 December 2006 La Clusaz, France4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stBöhler / Bauer / Künzel-Nystad
2025 March 2007 Falun, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup1stBauer / Böhler / Künzel-Nystad
212007–0825 November 2007 Beitostølen, Norway4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndBöhler / Zeller / Künzel-Nystad
229 December 2007   Davos, Switzerland4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndHenkel / Zeller / Böhler
2324 February 2008 Falun, Sweden4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndBöhler / Zeller / Künzel-Nystad
242009–101 March 2008 Rybinsk, Russia6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup1stBöhler
257 March 2010 Lahti, Finland4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndFessel / Zeller / Gössner

Note: 1 Until the 1999 World Championships, World Championship races were included in the World Cup scoring system.

Overall record
Result Distance Races[a] Sprint Ski
Tours		 Individual
Events		    Team Events[12] All Events
≤ 5 km[b] ≤ 10 km[b] ≤ 15 km[b] ≤ 30 km[b] ≥ 30 km[b] Pursuit[c] Team Sprint Relay
1st place1––––11–33410
2nd place–––––22–431017
3rd place–1–1–21–5–510
Podiums11–1–54–1261937
Top 1042279–17193811228121
Points13611711–276341961429239
Others5811–214–31––31
DNF––1––––45––5
Starts18691912–297782321429275
a. 1 Classification is made according to FIS classification.
b. 1 2 3 4 5 Includes individual and mass start races.
c. 1 Includes pursuit and double pursuit races.

Note: Until 1999 World Championships, World Championship races are part of the World Cup. Hence results from the 1999 World Championships are included in the World Cup overall record.

Biathlon results

Olympic Games
Event Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass start Relay Mixed relay
2014 Sochi 20th 11th 27th DSQ — DSQ

References
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