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Hannah Dreissigacker
American biathlete (born 1986) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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