Hannah Dreissigacker

Hannah Dreissigacker
Personal information
BornDecember 2, 1986 (1986-12-02) (age 38)
Morrisville, Vermont, U.S.
Sport
CountryUnited States
SportBiathlon

Hannah Dreissigacker (born December 2, 1986, in Morrisville, Vermont) is a former American biathlete. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.[1][2]

Career

Dreissigacker comes from a family of Olympic rowers. Her father Richard "Dick" Dreissigacker competed in 1972,[3] her mother Julia "Judy" Geer in 1976 and 1984,[4] and her aunt Charlotte "Carlie" Geer won a silver medal in single sculls in the 1984 Olympics.[5][6] Her sister Emily Dreissigacker also competed in Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[7]

She competed in cross-country skiing for Dartmouth College, where she graduated in 2009 with a degree in engineering and studio art, following in the footsteps of her parents, who were both engineers.[8]

Dreissigacker retired from biathlon in the spring of 2016, although she did subsequently compete in the 2017 edition of the Merino Muster marathon cross-country ski race in New Zealand, where she finished second among the women, behind winner Jessie Diggins.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Hannah Dreissigacker – United States". Sochi 2014 Olympics. Archived from the original on February 9, 2014. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hannah Dreissigacker". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dick Dreissigacker". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  4. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Judy Geer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  5. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carlie Geer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  6. ^ Williams, Doug (January 22, 2014). "In Olympic Family, Hannah Dreissigacker Takes Her Own Course". TeamUSA.org. Archived from the original on January 25, 2014.
  7. ^ "Vermont Olympian Emily Dreissigacker: 'More About the Process, Less About the Result'". February 12, 2018.
  8. ^ Fiorentino, Anna (January 2014). "Dartmouth Engineer Makes US Olympic Biathlon Team". Thayer School of Engineering. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  9. ^ Naranja, Gabby (June 9, 2017). "Americans Dominate 2017 Merino Muster and Half Marathon". Ski Classics. Retrieved February 26, 2018.


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