Martina Beck

Martina "Molly" Beck (née Glagow; 21 September 1979 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany) is a retired German biathlete. She now lives in Mittenwald in Bavaria. She was most successful in the 2002–03 season, when she was the first German to win the women's overall Biathlon World Cup. She is also a three-times world champion and three-times Olympic silver medalist.

She married the Austrian biathlete Günther Beck on 24 July 2008 and is now known as Martina Beck. She has one daughter named Hilde (born 1 April 2011).

Career 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)