Simone Hauswald

Simone Hye-Soon Hauswald, born Simone Hye-Soon Denkinger on 3 May 1979, is a former German biathlete and Winter Olympics bronze medalist. She was born to a German father and a Korean mother and trained as a teenager at the Skiinternat Furtwangen, a winter sports school in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, where she met her coach and future husband, the former skier Steffen Hauswald; the couple have twin daughters. She won her first individual World Cup race in 2008 and finished her career with seven race victories, three in the sprint, two in the mass start, one in the individual and one in the pursuit. Hauswald retired after the 2009-10 season.