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Canadian biathlete

Zina Kocher (born December 5, 1982, in Red Deer, Alberta) is a Canadian cross-country skier and former biathlete.

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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 inte Zina Kocher - Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website FIK