Martina Beck

Beck's father, Martin Glagow, is a former army officer and ski technician: he waxed Martina's skis until the end of the 2004–05 season, and was also a wax technician for the British biathlon team from 2000 until his retirement in 2011. Although Beck stands only tall, she was a strong skier, but was renowned for her shooting ability: she was regularly among the female athletes with the highest accuracy rate, leading the shooting statistics in the 2003–04 season with a rate of 89 percent. Her father attributed her shooting ability to family inheritance: he had won multiple divisional shooting championships, and he noted that his father was also a good marksman. ==Achievements==

• Winter Olympics: • 2006: 3 × Silver (Individual, Pursuit, Relay) • 2010: 1 × Bronze (Relay) • Biathlon World Championships: • 2001: 1 × silver (mass start) • 2003: 1 × gold (pursuit), 1 × bronze (relay) • 2004: 1 × silver (pursuit), 2 × bronze (sprint, relay) • 2007: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (mass start), 1 × bronze (individual) • 2008: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (individual) • Biathlon World Cup overall: • 1 × overall World Cup winner (2002/03), 1 × World Cup pursuit winner (2002/03), 1 × World Cup individual winner (2007/08) • Biathlon World Cup victories: • 14 (as of: 7 December 2008) • Holmenkollen ski festival victories • Three (as of 2006) - 2003 (pursuit), 2004 (individual), and 2006 (sprint) ==References==