Zina kocher biography

Zina Kocher

Zina Kocher (born December 5, 1982 in Red Deer, Alberta) is an Olympic Gamesbiathlete for Team Canada.

Bold Beautiful biathlon

She was part of a group of five athletes (along with Canadian biathletes Megan Tandy, Sandra Keith, Rosanna Crawford, and Megan Imrie), who posed for the Bold Beautiful Biathlon calendar.[1]

Although Zina Kocher was one of the lone fully funded athletes in the national biathlon program, she took the initiative to find opportunities for extra funding. Kocher felt the calendar would build a new image for young Canadian girls to look up to; the image of a healthy, athletic body. The nude photos were taken by Rachel Boekel and Adrian Marcoux in Canmore, Alberta. The concept is that each athlete will be featured on two pages of the calendar, and there will be four group photos. The calendar was called Bold Beautiful Biathlon, and sold for $25.

The biathletes were inspired by a calendar that was done featuring Olympic cross-country skiers, Sara Renner and Beckie Scott in 2001. Renner and Scott, along with three other teammates, tastefully to

Zina Kocher

Canadian biathlete

Zina Kocher (born December 5, 1982, in Red Deer, Alberta) is a Canadian cross-country skier and former biathlete. She competed for Team Canada in biathlon at the 2006, 2010, 2014Winter Olympics and in 12 editions of the Biathlon World Championships.[1][2]

Career

Kocher started out competing as a cross-country skier, and was introduced to the sport of biathlon at the 1998 Alberta Winter Games. After graduating from high school in 2000, she moved to Canmore to train full-time. She subsequently was selected to compete for Canada at the 2001 Junior World Championships, before embarking on her first full-time Biathlon World Cup campaign in the 2003-04 season, during which she took five top 30 finishes.[2][3]

In the opening race of the 2006-07 season, a 15 km individual competition in Östersund, Sweden, Kocher finished third, becoming the first Canadian biathlete to make the podium in a top-level international event since Myriam Bédard ten years earlier.[3] After a two-year period wh

2006 Winter OlympicsBiathlonCANZina Kocher7.5 kilometres Sprint, Women(Olympic)6215 kilometres, Women(Olympic)274 × 6 kilometres Relay, Women(Olympic)Canada172010 Winter OlympicsBiathlonCANZina Kocher7.5 kilometres Sprint, Women(Olympic)6415 kilometres, Women(Olympic)714 × 6 kilometres Relay, Women(Olympic)Canada142014 Winter OlympicsBiathlonCANZina Kocher7.5 kilometres Sprint, Women(Olympic)3110 kilometres Pursuit, Women(Olympic)2415 kilometres, Women(Olympic)614 × 6 kilometres Relay, Women(Olympic)Canada7

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