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| 09.04.2007 |
Sven had a reception in his hometown Schmalkalden on Mach 28th. He
planted a lime-tree at this event. Here
are the pictures. French Julien Robert and Christelle Gros retired from biathlon aswell, wereas Ludwig Gredler retired from his retirement for one more season. |
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| 18.03.2007 |
Today the biathlon season for 2006/2007 came to an end. We had really
thrilling mass start competitions at the World Cup final. In the women's
race the decision was made whether Anna Carin Olofsson, Kati Wilhlem or
Andrea Henkel would win the overall World Cup. All 3 athletes had great
shooting problems, Henkel even had 5 misses in her first shooting. In
the end, she was the best of the three (15th Andrea Henkel,
17th Kati Wilhelm, 20th Anna Carin Olofsson) and
took the Cup. Helena Jonsson won the race ahead of Oksana
Khvostenko and Kathrin Hitzer. The men's race was thrilling aswell,
though it was sure that Michael Greis was the winner of the overall
World Cup since yesterday's competition. So both Cups go to Germany this
year. Ivan Tcherezov achieved the victory of the mass start, Michael
Greis became 2nd, Sven finished 3rd. So he ended
this season on the rostrom, even though he didn't win a race. He took 6th
place in the overall World Cup. Look here
for further results... Rather a lot of athletes quit their career now apart from the Germans Katrin Apel and Ricco Groß. Florence Baverel-Robert, Ludwig Gredler, Willi Pallhuber and Sergej Tchepikov retire aswell, Linda Grubben and Raphaël Poirée had already said "good-bye" during the saison. And what about Sven? Will he continue? I don't join speculations in public, I'm waiting until he announces his decision. Everything's possible... |
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| 17.03.2007 | Magdalena Neuner was the winner of the women's pursuit today ahead of Anna Carin Olofsson and Andrea Henkel. In the men's pursuit won Maxim Tchoudov, whereas Björn Ferry and Stian Eckhoff took places 2 and 3. Sven came in 11th. Here are the results... | ||
| 15.03.2007 | Magdalena Neuner and Michael Roesch won the sprint races of Khanty Mansiysk today. Congratulations to the two youngsters! Sven became 6th. The decision about the overall World Cup is postponed. Look here for further results... | ||
| 14.03.2007 | The biathletes finally arrived at the last venue of the actual season, in Sibirian Khanty Mansiysk. The sprint competitions of men and women will take place tomorrow. The German team is the same as it was at Holmenkollen, apart from one athlete: Ricco Gross joined the team for his very last World Cup races. Sven has start number 36. | ||
| 11.03.2007 | It was the day of the mass start competitions at Holmenkollen. Magdalena Neuner achieved her 5th victory of the saison, Kathrin Hitzer became 2nd, it was her best ever result in her career. Ekaterina Iourieva took 3rd place. The men's race was a special one: it was Raphaël Poirée's last World Cup race and he nearly won it. But Ole Einar Bjørndalen finished 0,1 sec ahead of Poirée. In German we have a special term for such athletes: we call them cannibals... Sven finished 3rd and was annoyed because of an unfair attack of Bjørndalen on the last leg in the stadium on the verge of the finishing line. Here are the results... | ||
| 10.03.2007 | Another triple victory for the German women in today's pursuit: Magdalena Neuner ahead of Andrea Henkel and Kati Wilhelm. Ole Einar Bjørndalen won the men's race due to faultless shooting. Raphaël Poirée and Michael Greis took places 2 and 3. Sven also shot clean and came in 9th. He now takes 7th place in the overall World Cup ranking. Here are further results... | ||
| 08.03.2007 | Andrea Henkel won the women's sprint today, Magdalena Neuner also achieved a place on the rostrum, she became 3rd. Ekaterina Iourieva took 2nd place. The men had an individual competition, Raphaël Poirée was the winner again, Michael Greis finished 2nd, Dmitri Iarochenko 3rd. Sven took 19th place in Oslo's soft and deep snow. Alexander Wolf became ill, he had to return to Germany. Look here for further results... | ||
| 07.03.2007 | The World Cup has arrived in Oslo. Tomorrow there will be a sprint competiton (women) and an individual race (men) at Holmenkollen. This is the line-up of the German team: Jenny Adler, Katrin Apel, Simone Denkinger, Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Kathrin Hitzer, Magdalena Neuner, Ute Niziak, Kati Wilhelm for the women's team, Andreas Birnbacher, Sven, Daniel Graf, Michael Greis, Carsten Pump, Michael Roesch, Christoph Stephan, Alexander Wolf and Joern Wollschlaeger for the men. Sven has startnumber 7. | ||
| 04.03.2007 | The German athletes were rather sucessfull in the pursuit competitions today. Martina Glagow won the women's race ahead of Kati Wilhelm and Kathrin Hitzer (it was her first podium), the men's winner was Raphaël Poirée again, but Michael Greis and Sven took places 2 and 3. Look here for further results... | ||
| 03.03.2007 | Double victory for the German women in yesterday's sprint race: Martina Glagow ahead of Kati Wilhelm and Ekaterina Iourieva. Andrea Henkel, Kathrin Hitzer and Simone Denkinger all came in in the top 8. The men's sprint winner is Raphaël Poirée, the 2 young Norwegians Alexander Os and Hans Martin Gjedrem took places 2 and 3. Michael Greis, Sven and Michael Rösch came in 5th, 6th and 7th. Ricco Gross had to quit the 20 km due to health reasons. He already returned home. Maybe it was the last time, we saw him in a World Cup competition. Here are further results... | ||
| 01.03.2007 | 2 French won the last 20 km competition of the season: Raphaël Poirée ahead of Simone Fourcade and Alexander Wolf. Sven became 12th, Michael Greis took the yellow bib, because Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Lars Berger stay at the Nordic WCHs in Japan. Look here for further results... | ||
| 28.02.2007 |
The short training- and rest period after the WCHs is over, the women
had their first competition in Lahti today. Andrea Henkel won the 15 km,
Florence Baverel-Robert became 2nd, Kati Wilhelm 3rd. Magdalena Neuner
and Kathrin Hitzer also finished in the top 10. Here
are further results... These are the German athletes starting tomorrow: Sven (start number 30), Michael Greis, Ricco Groß, Michael Roesch, Christoph Stephan, Alexander Wolf and Jörn Wollschläger. Andreas Birnbacher was ill recently and just started training again. He will join the team in Oslo. Congratulations to Lars Berger: he became cross country World Champion in Sapporo today. |
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| 26.02.2007 | Katrin Apel will quit her career after his season. She took this decision because of repetitiv health problems. | ||
| 11.02.2007 | On the WCH's final day, the German relay won the gold medal, France won silver, Norway took bronze. After the competition Linda Grubben announced her retirement from sports from now on, which will be a great loss for the Norwegian women's team. Michael Greis became mass start World Champion, Andreas Birnbacher took the vize title, Raphaël Poirée won the bronze medal. Sven finished 5th. Look here for further results... | ||
| 10.02.2007 | Bronze medal for the German men's relay team. Despite of 2 penalty loops by Ricco Gross and Michael Roesch they made it on the podium. Sven even skiied fastest on his leg. The Russian relay won due to great shooting, Norway took silver. In the women's mass start there were 3 German women on the rostrum: Andrea Henkel became World Champion, Martina Glagow took silver, Kati Wilhelm won bronze. Here are further results... | ||
| 09.02.2007 | The German men's relay starts (as supposed) in the following line-up: Ricco Groß, Michael Rösch, Sven, Michael Greis. The women's mass start will take place tomorrow aswell. These are the German participants: Magdalena Neuner, Martina Glagow, Kati Wilhelm and Andrea Henkel. | ||
| 08.02.2007 | Kati Wilhelm had to quit her competition yesterday due to stomach pain, Andreas Birnbacher had to cancel his start in the mixed relay due to the same reason today. Michael Greis took his place. Sweden with Helena Jonsson, Anna Carin Olofsson, Björn Ferry and Carl Johan Bergman won the gold medal, France took silver, Norway got bronze. The German team finished 5th. Look here for more detailed results... | ||
| 07.02.2007 | Another medal for the German women biathletes: Martina Glagow won bronze in the 15 km. Congratulations! Linda Grubben took gold, Florence Baverel-Robert silver. - The mixed relay will take place tomorrow, for the first time within the World Championships. This is the line-up for Germany: Kathrin Hitzer, Simone Denkinger, Andreas Birnbacher and Alexander Wolf. By the way: after his World Champion titel yesterday Raphaël Poirée announced, that he will quit his career after the season. - Here are today's results. | ||
| 06.02.2007 | Silver medal for Michael Greis in the men's indivudual competition. Congratulations! Raphaël Poirée won the gold medal, Michal Slesingr took bronze. Sven had 3 misses and finished only 20th. Ole Einar Bjørndalen hadn't his best day either: he missed 6 targets and came in 32nd. Click here for the results... | ||
| 05.02.2007 | The men's 20km race will take place tomorrow. This is, where Ricco Gross will have his first performance in this years WCHs, Michael Roesch won't compete. Sven has start number 16. Magdalena Neuner will not start in the women's individual on Wednesday. Kathrin Hitzer - as announced before - will take her place in that competition. | ||
| 04.02.2007 | As I supposed, it was the problems with the high altitude conditions, which lead to Sven's bad result yesterday. It was much better today, he improved from 43rd to 18th place. Sven was the only athlete shooting clean today and his skiing was very good either. Ole Einar Bjørndalen took his next World Champion title in the pursuit, Maxim Tchoudov got silver, Vincent Defrasne won the bronze medal. Michael Roesch became best German, he finished 10th. In the women's race Magdalena Neuner won her 2nd gold medal, Linda Grubben is the silver medalist, Anna Carin Olofsson took bronze. Look here for further results... | ||
| 03.02.2007 | Young Magdalena Neuner ist the new sprint World Champion! Congratulations! It is the first WCHs the 19 year old takes part in. Kati Wilhelm took 7th place, not bad for the coming pursuit. The German men didn't do well today. Alexander Wolf was best German, he took 15th place. Sven had a really bad start into the WCHs, he became 43rd. His 3 faults can't be the only reason for that, but unfortunately I'm not in Anterselva, so I can't tell you, what really happened. Maybe he can't cope with the high altitude conditions yet, despite of his efforts to get used to it (he even didn't go home after Pokljuka, but started to Ridnaun immediately, which has high altitude level aswell). Ole Einar Bjørndalen became World Champion, Czech Michal Slesingr won silver, Ukrainian Andriy Deryzemlya took the bronze medal. Here are further results... | ||
| 02.02.2007 | Tonight Romano Prodi will declare the biathlon World Championships in Antholz / Anterselva open. The sprint competitions will take place tomorrow, Sven has start number 6. | ||
| 31.01.2007 | Simone Denkinger will complete the women's team in the World Championships in Anterselva. She won the test competitions against Katrin Apel. | ||
| 29.01.2007 | The Anterselva World Championships are only a few days ahead of us. At the moment the German athletes are on their final trainingscamp in Ridnaun. Sven regained his health, he will start in the sprint competition on Saturday. Due to his Olympic gold medal he is the additional starter in the sprint. The German coaches have already decided who will compete in the sprint races. Apart from Sven, the men's starters are: Andreas Birnbacher, Michael Greis, Michael Rösch and Alexander Wolf. Ricco Groß will compete in the 20 km. Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Magdalena Neuner and Kati Wilhelm are the women starters. Kathrin Hitzer shall start in the 15 km. It has not yet been decided, whether Katrin Apel or Simone Denkinger will be the 6th starter of the German women's team. | ||
| 21.01.2007 | If you saw the race yesterday, you might not be surprised to hear that Sven isn't healthy and couldn't take part in today's mass start. We have to hope that the remaining time until the World Championships is time enough to get healthy and fit enough. - These are today's results: Oksana Khvostenko won ahead of Kati Wilhelm and Tatjana Brankovic, the men's winners are Christoph Sumann, 2nd Vincent Defrasne, 3rd Andreas Birnbacher. Kati Wilhelm and Michael Greis wear the yellow bib now. Here are further results... | ||
| 20.01.2007 | A few days ago it was nice and cold in Pokljuka, meanwhile the temperatures unlike winter arrived here aswell. Yesterday the women's pursuit took place at about +17°C. Kati Wilhelm won ahead of Tatjana Moiseeva and Natalja Sokolova. At the men's pursuit today it wasn't that warm, but the track was soft, deep and dirty. Christoph Sumann was the winner today, Alexander Wolf took 2nd place, Vincent Defrasne became 3rd because Nikolaj Kruglov got a 2 min penalty (he missed one penalty loop). Sven became 7th. Look here for further results... | ||
| 17.01.2007 |
Anna Carin Olofsson won the sprint of Pokljuka today. Tatjana Moiseeva
became 2nd, Kati Wilhelm 3rd. Andrea Henkel and
Martina Glagow are still ill. Look here
for furtheer results... Sven has start number 7 in tomorrow's race. The Norwegian teams will compete without Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Lars Berger. |
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| 16.01.2007 | Yesterday Uschi Disl gave birth to a baby girl. Her name is Hanna Ursula. | ||
| 14.01.2007 | The first mass starts of season took place today. Anna Carin Olofsson was the women's winner ahead of Kati Wilhelm and Lind Grubben. Ole Einar Bjørndalen won the men's competition, Emil Hegle Svendsen became 2nd, Christoph Sumann was 3rd. Sven came in 18th. Here are further results... | ||
| 13.01.2007 | Things didn't work out very well for Sven today. He came in 43rd in the sprint race, but fortunately we have a mass start competition tomorrow and not a pursuit, so in tomorrow's race he can start anew. On the rostrum: 3 Norwegians. Ole Einar Bjørndalen ahead of Halvard Hanevold and Emil Hegle Svendsen. Andreas Birnbacher was best German (10th). Click here for further results.. | ||
| 12.01.2007 |
Today was the day of the women's sprint in Ruhpolding. Sandrine Bailly
was the winner ahead of Anna Carin Olofsson and Florence Baverele-Robert.
Kathrin Hitzer became best German (placed 7th) though she didn't feel
well. Here are further results... Sven will compete in the men's sprint tomorrow (startnumber 7). |
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| 11.01.2007 | The Norwegian team won the relay competition of Ruhpolding today. Russia came in 2nd, Germany with it's unusual line-up finished 3rd. Raphaël Poirée was part of the French team again. Yesterday he became father of little daughter Anna. Look here for detailed results... | ||
| 10.01.2007 |
The German women's relay became 2nd in Ruhpolding (no snow aswell!)
today. Russia won, France came in 3rd. Martina Glagow and Andrea Henkel
didn't start because of a cold, so Kathrin Hitzer, Magdalena Neuner,
Simone Denkinger and Kati Wilhelm was the German team today. Look here
for the results... The line-up for the men's relay tomorrow is a bit unusual too: Ricco Groß, Michael Rösch, Andreas Birnbacher and Alexander Wolf. Michael Greis has a light cold, Sven cannot start due to his injury. He wants to compete in the sprint race though. |
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| 07.01.2007 | The pursuit competitions could take place despite of the desperate snow and weather condititions in Oberhof. Nikolaj Kruglov won the race ahead of Dmitri Iarochenko and Maxim Tchoudov. Andreas Birnbacher placed 6th was best German. In the women's race Linda Grubben won. Sandrine Bailly became 2nd and Magdalena Neuner 3rd. Here are more results.. | ||
| 07.01.2007 | Sven's x-ray confirmed, that he has no rip-fracture. He thinks, that he will be able to compete in Ruhpolding next week. | ||
| 06.01.2007 | Update about Sven's injury: he fell on his right shoulder and bruised his rips painfully, that's what it looks like at least. Eventually he will be x-rayed later on. | ||
| 06.01.2007 |
Sven started with a handicap in today's sprint. He had fallen during the
warm-up and hurt himself. After all he became 62nd and won't be able to
compete in the pursuit (which might be better anyway). Nikolaj Kruglov
won the race ahead of Michael Greis and Rene Laurent Vuillermoz. Look here
for further results. Please notice: tomorrow the men's pursuit will take place before the women's!!! |
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| 05.01.2007 |
Sven has start number 12 for tomorrow's sprint race. All the athletes
who had to opportunity chose the 1st start group, because the track goes
worse with every starter. If you are interested, have a look on a few pictures from Oberhof. |
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| 05.01.2007 | German triple victory in the women's sprint today. Despite of 2 penalties Magdalena Neuer won the first World Cup of her career. Andrea Henkel and Martina Glagow took places 2 and 3. Look here for further results... | ||
| 04.01.2007 | Russias men took the relay victory today because of very good shooting. Sven shot clear and was able to exchange first on his leg, the Germans finally became 2nd. Norway took 3rd place, more than 2 min behind. The conditions were very hard today, due to the snow which was produced out of crushed ice and due to the wind. Only 3 out of 22 relay teams were free of penalties.Here are the results... | ||
| 03.01.2007 | France won the women's relay of Oberhof. After a thrilling last shooting, when both Sandrine Bailly and Kati Wilhelm shot 2 penalties, Bailly took her chance and finished first. The Chinese women achieved the rostrum for the first time, they became 3rd. Here are further results... | ||
| 03.01.2007 | Frank Ullrich announced the line-up for tomorrow's men's relay: Michael Roesch, Sven, Andreas Birnbacher and Michael Greis are the starters. | ||
| 03.01.2007 |
Now that the World Cup is going to start it began to snow in Oberhof, so
it looks like winter, even beneath the track. It's not really cold
though. Kathrin Apel will not able to compete in Oberhof, Simone
Denkinger was nominated instead of her. Raphaël Poirée won't compete
in Oberhof either. He stays with his wife Liv Grete, who will give birth
to their second child soon. This is the line-up for the German women's relay: Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Kathrin Hitzer and Kati Wilhelm. |
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| 31.12.2006 | Here you finde the results of the Biathlon World Team Challenge in Gelsenkirchen. | ||
| 28.12.2006 | Changes in the German squad before the Oberhof World Cup. Carsten Pump will replace Robert Wick, Sabrina Buchholz comes for Simone Denkinger. Wick and Denkinger are going to start in the European Cup for the time being. - Andreas Birnbacher and Katrin Apel cancelled their participation in the Biathlon-auf-Schalke-event because of a cold. Kathrin Hitzer and Robert Wick will take part for them. | ||
| 26.12.2006 |
On Dec 30th 2006 the biathlon event in Gelsenkirchen takes
place again. Sven won't participate, as he didn't the years before. Hier
are the athletes taking part in the event: Linda Grubben / Ole Einar Bjørndalen (Norwegen) Martina Glagow / Michael Greis (Deutschland) Kati Wilhelm / Ricco Groß (Deutschland) Florence Baverel-Robert / Julien Robert (Frankreich) Anna Bogali / Dmitri Iarochenko (Russland) Tora Berger / Halvard Hanevold (Norwegen) Sylvie Becaert /Vincent Defrasne (Frankreich) Andrea Henkel / Alexander Wolf (Deutschland) Simone Denkinger / Andreas Birnbacher (Deutschland) Magdalena Neuner / Michael Rösch (Deutschland) Katrin Apel / Daniel Graf (Deutschland) Michela Ponza / Rene Laurent Vuillermoz (Italien) Here are further informations. |
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| 17.12.2006 | Two biathletes won the prize "Sportsmen of the Year 2006" in Germany. The sports journalists mostly voted for Kati Wilhelm and Michael Greis. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (who had a cross country competition today) came to Baden-Baden to hand over the prize to Michael. The German men relay team won the 3rd prize as "Team of the Year". | ||
| 17.12.2006 | The last World Cup competitions of this year were the women's and men's relays in Hochfilzen today. The French women won this race ahead of Russia and China. Germany became 4th due to 3 penalty loops. Winner of the men's relay was Norway. Russia became 2nd, Germany 3rd. Click here for more detailed results... | ||
| 16.12.2006 | In this week's second sprint, Sven managed a place on the rostrum today. He became 3rd behind Raphaël Poirée and Michael Rösch. Michael Greis took 9th place and the yellow bib. - Not only in the men's but also in the women's race we had a "French comeback". Sandrine Bailly was 2nd behind Anna Carin Olofsson and ahead of Andrea Henkel. Look here for further results... | ||
| 14.12.2006 | Michael Greis was the winner of first men's sprint. Maxim Tchoudov and Swede Björn Ferry became 2nd and 3rd, Sven was 6th. Ole Einar Bjørndalen didn't compete. Look here for more results... | ||
| 13.12.2006 | Despite of recent plans, the women had an individual competition today. The men though will have a sprint race tomorrow. Sven will start as 102nd. - Andrea Henkel won the race today, ahead of Martina Glagow and Ukrainian Oksana Khvostenko. Here are further results... | ||
| 11.12.2006 | The individual competitions planned for the 3rd World Cup cannot take place, because of the lack of snow. There will be sprint competitions instead. Ole Einar Bjørndalen won't take part in that World Cup, he will have a cross country race instead. | ||
| 10.12.2006 | It was the day of the Russian relay teams: both the Russian men and women won the competition. The German teams (Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Magdalena Neuner and Kati Wilhelm for the women and Michael Roesch, Alexander Wolf, Sven, Andreas Birnbacher for the men) became 2nd. The Norwegian women and the French men took 3rd places. Look here for details... | ||
| 09.12.2006 | The weather was special again in Hochfilzen today: it didn't stop raining during the women's pursuit. Andrea Henkel was the winner of this race, followed by Linda Grubben and Anna Carin Olofsson. Before the men's competition the rain changed into snow, which didn't make things easier on the track at all. Ole Einar Bjørndalen was the leader from start to finish, but behind him it was a really thrilling race. Dmitri Iarochenko and Ivan Tcherezov took places 2 and 3, Sven improved from 17th to 6th place.Click here for further results... | ||
| 08.12.2006 |
The audience might appreciate the competitions with over 10°C, the
athletes definately don't. The Hochfilzen organizing committee however
managed to put a snowy band in the green surrounding - and it works.
Let's hope there will be lower temperatures as soon as possible, because
the next World Cup will be taken out in Hochfilzen aswell. Osrblie had
to cancel the event. Andrea Henkel won the women's sprint today and still wears the yellow bib. Ole Einar Bjørndalen won again today, Michael Greis became 2nd and Swiss Matthias Simmen - rather surprisingly - took 3rd place. Sven's skiing was fast, but he had 3 misses and became 17th. Look here for further results... |
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| 04.12.2006 |
The 3rd World Cup cannot take place in Osrblie due to lack of snow and
too high temperatures. Substitute venue might be Hochfilzen. This will
be decided later this week. Off topic: I will be in Hochfilzen this week and will likely not have access to the internet there. I will provide you with news and results as soon as I'm back home. |
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| 03.12.2006 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen won the pursuit followed by Dmitri Iarochenko and Raphaël Poirée. Sven bacame 16th. The winner of the women's race was Linda Grubben ahead of Anna Carin Olofsson and Magdalena Gwizdon. Click here for further results... | ||
| 02.12.2006 | Sven became 8th in today's sprint of the men in Oestersund, which means he has his WCH qualification now. Ole Einar Bjørndalen won again, 2nd became Russian Dmitri Iarochenko, Michael Greis took 3rd place. Here are further results... | ||
| 01.12.2006 | There were two Germans on the rostrum in the women's sprint today. Magdalena Gwizdon (POL) won the race, Kati Wilhelm became 2nd, Martina Glagow (only 63rd in the 15 km) came in 3rd. Martina Henkel (8th) took the yellow bib. Click here for further results... | ||
| 30.11.2006 | fine start for the German men: Ole Einar Bjørndalen finally took the dop of the rostrum, but a 2nd place for Andreas Birnbacher and a 3rd one for Michael aren't bad! Michael Roesch took 9th place, Sven became 11th. More results... | ||
| 29.11.2006 |
Andrea Henkel was best German in this season's first world cup race.
She became 4th in the indivudual race of Ostersund, Sabrina Buchholz
became 6th, the other German starters came in between places 23 to 63.
Winners were - rather surprisingliy - Irina Malgina (RUS) ahead of
Liv Kjersti
Eikeland (NOR) and Canadian Zina Kocher. Look
here for further results... Sven will start as 5th in tomorrow's men's race. |
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| 28.11.2006 | These are the German athletes starting in the Ostersund World Cup: Katrin Apel, Sabrina Buchholz, Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Kathrin Hitzer, Magdalena Neuner and Kati Wilhelm for the women. Simone Denkinger has a bit of health problems, she might start in the Hochfilzen World Cup. These are the men starting: Andreas Birnbacher, Sven, Michael Greis, Ricco Groß, Michael Rösch, Robert Wick and Alexander Wolf. | ||
| 27.11.2006 | The new biathlon saison is going to start with the women's individual on Wednesday in Ostersund. Even in Sweden it is much too warm for this time of the year. In Hochfilzen the Organizing Committee announced, they will bring snow from the Alps to make the World Cup possible. Let's wait and see what will happen... | ||
| 06.11.2006 | The German biathletes have departed for their final trainingscamp in Muonio (Finland) before the World Cup seasons starts in Oestersund in the end of November. | ||
| 24.10.2006 | After returning from the trainings camp of Ramsau, Sven was elected Thuringia's sportsman of the year. | ||
| 08.10.2006 | The German men have started for another trainings camp in Austria today. | ||
| 30.09.2006 |
Good news from Sven: he was able to start training again this week. And here are some more news: Michael Greis was voted "Champion of the Year" by the athletes of the "Club of the Best". German athletes, who won medals in the Olympic Games and/or World Championships (in all kinds of sports) are invited to a holiday to the "Club of the Best" each year. Co-trainer Fritz Fischer celebrated his 50th birthday during the German Championships in Ruhpolding. Ricco Gross announced, that the coming season will be his last as an athlete. Katja Beer won't be starting in the World Cup any more. Coach Uwe Muessiggang made this clear in Ruhpolding. Up to now it is unsure whether she will retire or not. |
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| 24.09.2006 |
Internationl participation at the mass start in Ruhpolding today. The
Swedes Anna Carin Olofsson and Sofia Domej took part in the women's race,
Anna Carin Olofsson took 2nd place in the international ranking. This is
the national ranking: 1st Kati Wilhelm, 2nd Ute
Niziak, 3rd Magdalena Neuner. Here
are further results. Swiss athletes, us american Brian Olson and an athelte of the Netherland take part in the men's competition. |
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| 23.09.2006 | Katja Beer won the sprint under relay conditions in Ruhpolding today, 2nd became Sabrina Buchholz, 3rd was Kati Wilhelm. Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel and Katrin Apel were absend, they stay at the "Club of the Best" (in Turkey this year). German medal winner of all sport disciplines are invited to the "Club of the Best" each year. Kati Wilhelm takes part in the Ruhpolding competitions anyway and so do the German men. They had a relay competition today. Thuringia I (Wollschlaeger, Wick and) Graf took place 1, Saxonia I (Roesch, Pump, Zimmer) place 2, Bavaria I (Gross, Birnbacher, Greis) became 3rd. Sven, as reported before, has to skip the competitions due to illness. Click here for the results... | ||
| 20.09.2006 | Simone Denkinger and Andreas Birnbacher won the "Formula 1-Sprints" of Oberhof. Michael Rösch and Fabian Mund took places 2 and 3 in the men's competion, Martina Glagow and Andrea Henkel got on the women's rostrum. Look here for further results... | ||
| 19.09.2006 | It is clear meanwhile that Sven won't be able to start in Ruhpolding this weekend. - The individual competitions took place in Oberhof today. Kathrin Hitzer took the women's title ahead of Martina Glagow and Sabrina Buchholz. Andreas Birnbacher was the men's winner. Ricco Gross took place 2, Robert Wick became 3rd. | ||
| 18.09.2006 | Sven suffers from an inflammation of the middle ear,he can defintely not take part in the German Championships in Oberhof and it is unlikely that he will be able to compete in Ruhpolding. | ||
| 16.09.2006 |
Sven couldn't take part in today's pursuit, he is ill. I have to find
out, how the chances are for him to take part in Oberhof and/or
Ruhpolding. Today's winner was Andreas Birnbacher, Robert Wick and Daniel Graf took places 2 and 3. Simone Denkinger won the women's title ahead of Kati Wilhlem and Martina Glagow. Click here for further results... |
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| 15.09.2006 | Sven didn't have the best start today in the international German Championships. He became 9th. Robert Wick was the winner of the sprint ahead of Andreas Birnbacher and Robert Janikulla. The women's results weren't that surprising: Kati Wilhelm won ahead of Jenny Adler and Simone Denkinger. Look here for more detailed results... | ||
| 14.09.2006 | The German Championships will start on Friday. They will take place in three different locations, as they did last year. Altenberg will be the venue of the sprint and pursuit competitions this Friday and Saturday. | ||
| 13.08.2006 | Sven became 6th in the city-biathlon event in rainy Puettlingen today. Julien Robert won ahead of Vincent Defrasne (both FRA) and Halvard Hanevold (NOR), Ole Einar Bjørndalen became 5th, Michael Greis didn't reach the finale. Sabrina Buchholz won the women's race ahead of Tadeja Brankovic (SLO) and Sandrine Bailly (FRA). Look here for further results. - After the race, Sven and Michael Greis left for a high altitude trainingscamp in Italy. | ||
| 02.07.2006 | The German men are on a trainingscamp again. This time, they are in Austria. | ||
| 08.06.2006 | Sven's hometown (as reported before) wanted to honor Sven for his great achievements at the Olympics this year, by renaming Schmalkalden's track and field stadium "Am Walperloh" into "Sven Fischer Stadium". Meanwhile Sven decided to refuse the naming. At a press conference in Schmalkalden he said: " That's too much honor and inappropriate compared to the ones, who did so much more for sports in Schmalkalden and especially for this stadium." | ||
| 23.05.2006 | Most of the German men's team stays in Mallorca for a trainingscamp since Sunday. | ||
| 19.04.2006 | Sven wanted to decide in April whether he would continue his career or quit. Now the decision has been made and the result is - he will continue! He'll start training for the next saison in the beginning of May, as usual. | ||
| 02.04.2006 | Yesterday Sven was honored by his hometown Schmalkalden. During a great feast, Schmalkalden's mayor Gellert announced, that the track and field stadium "Am Walperloh" will be named "Sven Fischer Stadium" from July 1st on. Sven was very touched, not at last because Sven had started as a sportsman in precisely that stadium as a track and field athlete. | ||
| 30.03.2006 | Will Sven go on or will he quit his career? There have been a lot of fifferent messages from different agencies lately, but the only thing that's for sure is: Sven will decide about that in a few weeks time. I won't speculate about that, but tell you as soon, as the decision has been made. | ||
| 30.03.2006 | Some of you will have noticed, that there are problems with the guestbook. It was spamed during the last week and I can't get rid of every spam article. I'm very sorry for any inconvience and hope to be able to delete new spam immediately! | ||
| 26.03.2006 | The World Cup season 2005/2006 is over. Unfortunately Holmenkollen wasn't the best place for Sven this time, he came in 19th in the final mass start of the season. Ole Einar Bjørndalen won again, Roman Dostal and Sergej Rozhkov took places 2 and threes. Anyway, Sven can be satisfied with this season: he takes 3rd place in the overall World Cup and won 3 olympic medals, which is a great result. - After the women's race (won by Linda Tjørhom ahead of Sandrine Bailly and Olga Nazarova) it was time for big emotions. Both Uschi Disl and Liv Grete Poirée had finished the last race of their career and were pulled through the stadium in a sledge to wave good-bye. It was a moving moment for both spectators and athletes. - Here are today's results... | ||
| 25.03.2006 | Sven improved to 11th place in the pursuit. Ole Einar Bjørndalen won this race aswell, Tomasz Sikora came 2nd., Ricco Groß took 3rd place. - Kati Wilhelm on the women's competition with a clean shooting. Look here for further results... | ||
| 24.03.2006 | Finally it's an official message: Uschi Disl will quit after this season. So she and Liv Grete Poirée will both have their final races on Sunday. | ||
| 23.03.2006 | Unfortunately things didn't work out for Sven in today's sprint in Oslo. He came in 26th after two misses. Ole Einar Bjørndalen won ahead of Ilmars Bricis and Mattias Nilsson Jr. - Martina Glagow won the women's sprint. Michaela Ponza and Ekaterina Ivanova took places two and three. Look here for further results.. | ||
| 19.03.2006 | Tomasz Sikora won the men's mass start today, Raphaël Poirée became 2nd, Ole Einar Bjørndalen 3rd.. Sven took 6th place, all the other Germans apart from Ricco Gross, came into the top 10. - Olena Zubrilova won the women's race ahead of Kati Wilhelm and Tadeja Brankovic. Due to this result, Kati will win the overall World Cup this season. Look here for further results... | ||
| 18.03.2006 | In today's pursuit Sven became 4th behind Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Rahpaël Poirée and Lars Berger. Anna Carin Olofsson won the women's race, Kati Wilhelm took 2nd, Olena Zubrilova 3rd place. Look here for further results... | ||
| 16.03.2006 | Sven ran on the rostrum today. He became 3rd behind Carl Johan Bergman (who achieved his first World Cup victory) and Tomasz Sikora. Five Germans came in the top 10. - Anna Carin Olofsson won the women's sprint head of Olena Zubrilova and Tadeja Brankovic. Youngster Magdalena Neuner became best German, she took 4th place. Here are the results... | ||
| 15.03.2006 | Tomorrow is the beginning of the World Cup in Kontiolahti. The German team is allowed nine starters each. That's the women's line-up: Jenny Adler, Katrin Apel, Katja Beer, Simone Denkinger, Uschi Disl, Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Magdalena Neuner and Kati Wilhelm. For the men: Andreas Birnbacher, Sven, Stephan Christoph, Ricco Groß, Carsten Pump, Michael Rösch, Alexander Wolf, Jörn Wollschläger and Daniel Graf. Michael Greis has some problems with his teeth, be won't compete in Kontiolahti. | ||
| 12.03.2006 | Today's Mixed Relay World Championships took place under extremly bad, maybe even irregular conditions. In heavy winds up to 34 km/h the race should have been cancelled... But the second WCHs took place under partly different conditions as last year. The 5 best in the nations cup were allowed to send two squads, women and men started alternating, course distance was 4 x 6 km. Russia II won ahead of France I and Norway I. Germany I came in fourth, Germany II (with Sven) took 10th place. Click here for the results to find out about the line-ups of the different squads. | ||
| 11.02.2006 | In today's pursuit Sven managed to came forward to 9th place after 35th place in sprint! Ole Einar Bjørndalen won ahead of Rahpaël Poirée and Carl Johan Berman. Michael Greis did not start. This are the results... | ||
| 09.03.2006 | Another Norwegian victory today in the women's sprint. Linda Tjørhom won ahead of Sandrine Bailly and Florence Baverel-Robert. Simone Denkinger was best German athlete, she placed 4th. Look here for further results... | ||
| 08.03.2006 | The first World Cup competition after the Olympics didn't work well for Sven - as expected. The period from the Olympics to the sprint of Pokljuka was too short for Sven to adjust to "normal level" after nearly 2 months in high altitude. As a result to these circumstances he lost the yellow bib today by making 35th place. Hopefully the pursuit in 3 days time will work out better. Here's the result of today... | ||
| 25.02.2006 |
Third gold medal für Michael Greis at the Olympics - congratulations
for such a phantastic perfomance! Tomasz Sikora and Ole Einar Bjørndalen
won silver and bronze in the mass start. Sven was pretty exhausted today,
one could see it from the beginning, he finished 17th - as he did in the
first race. - Anna Carin Olofsson won the women's race, Kati Wilhelm got
silver and Uschi Disl finally managed to win a medal too, the bronze one.
Here are
further results... The German athletes won 11 medals in the 10 Olympic competitions, that's a great result. Michael Greis was the most successful athlete of this year's games, having won three gold medals. Sven is just a tiny bit behind with two gold and one bronze medal. |
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| 23.02.2006 | Today Sven got his next gold medal - together with his team mates in the relay. Russia won silver, France got bronze. The photofinish showed, that Raphaël Poirée pushed his ski was a tiny little bit earlier over the finishing line than the Swede Carl Johan Bergman. Michael Roesch shot and skated extremly fast (and clean), Sven had one penalty in standing, but changed on Michael Greis 18 seconds ahead of Russia anyway. Michael Greis finished in his well known manner. Compliments and congratulations to all four of them! Here are the results... - The German women's relay on Thursday will compete without Uschi Disl, who was not nominated. The line-up is: Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Katrin Apel and Kati Wilhelm. | ||
| 21.02.2006 | Today Sven got his next gold medal - together with his team mates in the relay. Russia won silver, France got bronze. The photofinish showed, that Raphaël Poirée pushed his ski was a tiny little bit earlier over the finishing line than the Swede Carl Johan Bergman. Michael Roesch shot and skated extremly fast (and clean), Sven had one penalty in standing, but changed on Michael Greis 18 seconds ahead of Russia anyway. Michael Greis finished in his well known manner. Compliments and congratulations to all four of them! Here are the results... - The German women's relay on Thursday will compete without Uschi Disl, who was not nominated. The line-up is: Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Katrin Apel and Kati Wilhelm. | ||
| 20.02.2006 | This is the line-up for tomorrow's relay of the German men: Ricco Gross, Michael Roesch, Sven Fischer, Michael Greis. According to Frank Ullrich, he prefers Michael Roesch because he didn't compete in sprint and pursuit and should be able to race with renewed strengh. - The Austrian team seems to have a doping problem. Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottmann fled the country over the border after a nightly raid and were dismissed from the team. The ex-trainer Walter Mayer was arrested after a crazy drive. So let's wait for the results of the investigations. Nevertheless an Austrian relay team will take part in the competition tomorrow. - It's a shame, that biathlon obviously has lost its innocence! | ||
| 18.02.2006 |
Another olympic medal for Sven! Prone shooting wasn't too good, but
after shooting clear in standing, he managed to achieve the bronze medal
placing. Vincent Defrasne defeated Ole Einar Bjørndalen in the
finishing sprint and won gold, OEB won silver. Congratulations to all
three of them. - The German women won medals today aswell: Kati Wilhelm
took Gold, Martina Glagow silver and Albina Achatova bronze. Here
are further results.... By the way: Sven is leader of the overall world cup now! |
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| 16.02.2006 | Florence Baverel-Robert won the gold medal in the women's sprint today. Anna Carin Olofsson won silver, Lilya Jefremova won bronze. Kati Wilhelm was Germany's best athlete today. The Germans had deciced to start in the first start group, which was at a disadvantage today. Here are further results... - The first doping case became fact today: Olga Pyleva was tested on carphedon, a non-medical kind of amphetamine, which is produced as stimulant only. There's nothing more to say about that, is there? | ||
| 14.02.2006 |
Everyboday
knowing him knows, that this was a real sacrifice, because familiy
means so much to him. He himself said, this was almost over the
limit. But it payed off at last. |
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| 13.03.2006 | Martina Glagow won the Bronze medal in the women's indivudual today. Svetlana Ishmouratova und Olga Pyleva took Gold and Silver. Click here for further results... These are the German men starting in tomorrow's sprint race: Alexander Wolf (19), Sven (25), Ricco Gross (38) and Michael Greis (40.) | ||
| 12.02.2006 | These are the German women starting in the olympic individual race tomorrow: Kati Wilhelm, Andrea Henkel, Uschi Disl and Martina Glagow. | ||
| 11.02.2006 |
Gold medal for Michael Greis in the Individual! Congratulations! Due to
only one single miss and great course time, he managed to win gold ahead
of Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Halvard Hanevold, who won silver and
bronze. Sven took 17th place, because of 3 misses. Here
are more results... A little bit off topic, but congratulations aswell to Georg Hettich. He won gold in the first competition of the Nordic Combination. |
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| 10.02.2006 | There will be 89 competitors starting in tomorrow's first olympic race in San Sicario. Ricco Gross starts 4th, Michael Greis 38th, Michael Roesch 41th and Sven 63rd. His start time: 13:31:30 (local time). | ||
| 06.02.2006 | Yesterday the German biathletes (apart from Alexander Wolf and Andreas Birnbacher) arrived in San Sicario. Sven, Michael Roesch and Alexander Wolf will share a cabin, Michael Greis, Ricco Gross and Andreas Birnbacher will share another one. - Wolf and Birnbacher are still training in Ridnaun and will arrive in San Sicario on Wednesday. - Meanwhile we know, that Sven, Ricco Gross, Michael Greis and Michael Roesch will start in the first competition of the Olympics, the Individual on Saturday. Ricco Gross won a test competition against Alexander Wolf. The decision about who will start in the further competitions will be taken shortly before the races. - Simone Denkinger and Andreas Birnbacher go to Torino as "substitude" competitors. But if you followed last year's WCHs, you might remember what became of one of the substitude women! | ||
| 25.01.2006 | Today the German National Olympic Committee NOC announced the nomination for the Olympic Winter Games in Torino. These are the biathletes: Andreas Birnbacher, Sven Fischer, Michael Greis, Ricco Groß, Michael Rösch, Alexander Wolf, Katrin Apel, Simone Denkinger, Uschi Disl, Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel and Kati Wilhelm. They are going to start there direct preparation for the Games in Obertilliach (women) and Ridnaun (men). Sven didn't go home for a few days after the World Cup in Anterselva as all of his team mates, but stayed in high altitude to avoid problems in getting used to these conditions once more before the Olympics. | ||
| 22.01.2006 | Sven took 8th place in the last race before the Olympic Games. After having problems in his first shooting he came back and became best German. Alexander Wolf competed today, but Michael Greis had to skip the mass start as he already had to skip the pursuit due to a cold. - The German women had the rostrum for themselves today: Martina Glagow won, Andrea Henkel and Uschi Disl became 2nd and 3rd. Look here for further results... | ||
| 21.01.2006 | Kati Wilhelm won the women's pursuit ahead of Sandrine Bailly and Albina Achatova. All German women achieved places in the top 11. Further results... | ||
| 20.01.2006 | In today's pursuit things worked much better for Sven. He improved from 39th to 13th place. Ricco Gross won ahead of the Norwegians Halvard Hanevold and Frode Andresen. Michael Greis didn't start and will not on Sunday, but hopefully Alexander Wolf will be able to compete in the mass start. The decision hasn't been made yet. Here are the results... | ||
| 19.01.2006 | Things didn't go well for Sven today. His problems in getting used to high altitude conditions of Anterselva are well known meanwhile and Sven was pretty realistic before the race: he knew he wouldn't be able to ski fast today and ended up 39th. Not the best base for the pursuit. Today's winner is Frode Andresen, ahead of Ricco Gross and Maxim Tchoudov. Alexander Wolf hasn't recovered from his cold yet, Steve Renner took his place and made his World Cup debut. He placed 49th. - Kati Wilhelm was the winner of the women's sprint, Sandrine Bailly and Albina Achatova took places 2 and 3. All German women, even Magdalena Neuner, placed in the Top 20. Click here for further results... | ||
| 15.01.2006 | Today Michael Rösch made his first World Cup win. Congratulations! In the pursuit of Ruhpolding he won a split of a second ahead of Raphaël Poirée and Sergej Tschepikov. Liv Grete Poirée won the women's race, Kati Wilhelm became 2nd, Albina Achatova took 3rd place. More results... | ||
| 14.01.2006 | Michael Roesch nearly won his first World Cup race today the sprint of Ruhpolding, but in the end Frode Andresen overtook him on the last lap and took the victory. Michael Roesch became 2nd, Michael Greis 3rd. Sven had 2 misses and ended up 12th. - In yesterday's women's sprint Sandrine Bailly won ahead of Kati Wilhelm and Svetlana Ishmouratova. Look here for further results... | ||
| 12.01.2006 | The women's relay yesterday was really thrilling. The Russian team won a part of a second ahead of Germany, Slovenia became 3rd. The men's race wasn't that thrilling: the German men (Michael Roesch, Alexander Wolf, Sven and Michael Greis) leaded from the first leg on till the finish. They had only 3 misses and were very strong in skiing. The Austrian team became 2nd, Norway tool 3rd place. Here are more results... | ||
| 10.01.2006 | The World Cup of Ruhpolding will begin tomorrow with the women's relay. Uschi Disl won't compete in Ruhpolding because of back problems, Ricco Gross however wants to race at his home World Cup, though he suffered lumbago in Oberhof. | ||
| 08.01.2006 | Sven on the rostrum again! He achieved a 2nd place in the mass start in Oberhof behind Halvard Hanevold and ahead of Raphaël Poirée. In the women's race Martina Glagow was the winner. Olga Pyleva took 2nd place, Katrin Apel became 3rd. Here are more results... | ||
| 07.01.2006 |
It's still misty in Oberhof, but at least the races could be started
today. Vincent Defrasne was the winner of the men's sprint, it was his
first World Cup victory. Alexander Wolf became 2nd and keeps
the yellow bib, Russian Maxim Tchoudov became 3rd. The German
team was strong, they had four athletes in the top 10: Michael Greis (4th,
best course time), Michael Roesch (6th) and Sven (10th). The conditions during the women's race were hard. The fog became thicker and the later starters didn't see the targets very well. Kati Wilhelm won the race ahead of Anna Carin Olofsson (Sweden) and Linda Tjørhom (Norway). Kati Wilhelm also keeps her yellow bib. More results... |
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| 06.01.2006 | Today's men's sprint had to be cancelled due to the thick fog here in Oberhof. It was postponed to Satuarday, 10.30 a.m.. We all hope the weather will have changed then, so that both the women's and men's sprint will take place then. | ||
| 05.01.2006 | Conditions at the women's "Night Relay" were as bad as they were yesterday - mist, wind and snow fall made it hard for the athletes. The race was thrilling till the very end. The French team won ahead of the German squad, Belarus became third. Here are the results... | ||
| 04.01.2006 | The "Night Relay" was a premier for Oberhof. Conditions weren't too fine due to darkness, fog and snow fall. The German men's team won ahead of the Russian and Belarussian teams. Sven didn't feel too well on the track, as he said, but raced the fastest course of the day anyway. Look here for the results. | ||
| 03.01.2006 | The Oberhof World Cup will start with the men's relay tomorrow. Here's the line-up of the German team: Ricco Groß, Alexander Wolf, Sven, Michael Greis. There's lots of snow here in Oberhof. - Further news: Olle Einar Bjørndalen has already departed due to illness, Raphaël Poirée will come for the mass start only, because he's training in France right now. | ||
| 18.12.2005 | The German men could even improve the result of the sprint 2 days ago, because Ricco Groß managed to take place 6 in today's pursuit in Osrblie. This time the winner was Sven - it was his 32nd World Cup victory. Alexander Wolf (wearing the yellow bib now) became 2nd, Michael Roesch 3rd and Michael Greis took 4th place. Anna Carin Olofsson won both sprint and pursuit of the women's competitions. Look here for further results.... | ||
| 16.12.2005 | The German biathletes seem to be in a rather good shape. In the sprint of Osrblie today they took the first four places: Alexander Wolf won, Michael Roesch became second, Sven took third place, Michael Greis came in fourth. Click here for more results... And look at the overall World Cup result (below). | ||
| 15.12.2005 | 31st World Cup victory for Sven! He had an almost perfect race in the 20 km race having no misses and being the second fastest skater on the track. Just team mate Alexander Wolf ran faster. All of the German athletes managed to come into the top 20. Michael Roesch (3rd) achieved his first place on the rostrum in a World cup competition and Andreas Birnbacher had a good race, came in 6th and also qualified for the Olympics. None of the German women got on the rostrum today, but four of them achieved a place in the top 15. Look here for further results... | ||
| 11.12.2005 | The German men won the today's relay in Hochfilzen. Sven and Michael Greis were able to compensate the time, Alexander Wolf lost due to a penalty loop. It was their first relay victory since the WCHs of Oberhof in 2004. Look here for more results... | ||
| 10.12.2005 | Sven got on the rostrum after the sprint in Hochfilzen today. He became 3rd behind the Norwegians Frode Andresen and Lars Berger. Alexander Wolf became (just like yesterday) 4th. - The Norwegian women won the relay ahead of Russia and Germany. - Kati Wilhelm won yesterday's women's sprint. Look here for more results.- This is the lining up for tomorrow's relay: Ricco Groß, Alexander Wolf, Sven, Michael Greis. | ||
| 08.12.2005 | Sven had his first race of the season in Hochfilzen today. He placed 18th due to 4 misses, but was fastest racer on the track. Winner was Raphaël Poirée ahead of Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Michael Greis became 3rd, Alexander Wolf 4th. Look here for further results. | ||
| 07.12.2005 | Swedisch Anna Carin Olofsson celebrated her first World Cup victory today in Hochfilzen. She won the individual competition ahead of the Russians Olga Zaitseva and Natalia Guseva. Martina Glagow and Katja Beer were best Germans, they placed 6th and 13th. Click here for more results... The men's individual will take place tomorrow. Sven is back in the World Cup, his start number is 65. | ||
| 29.11.2005 | Things didn't go to well for the German relay teams in Oestersund today. The German men (Michael Roesch, Alexander Wolf, Carsten Pump and Andreas Birnbacher) became 11th, the women (Martina Glagow, Uschi Disl, Andrea Henkel and Kati Wilhelm) took 6th place. Winners were the Norwegian relay teams. More results... | ||
| 27.11.2005 | Ole Einar Bjørndalen won the Oestersund pursuit ahead of Vincent Defrasne and Ivan Tscherezov. Michael Roesch was best German biathlete once more. Olga Zaitseva won the women's race, Kati Wilhelm and Andrea Henkel placed 2nd and 3rd. Click here for more results. | ||
| 26.11.2005 | Today was the first World Cup race of the new saison. The competetion on rare snow in Oestersund took place without Sven, Ricco Gross and Michael Greis. Best German was Michael Roesch, he placed 23rd. The German women's start was a lot better: Uschi Disl won the sprint, Katrin Apel came in 3rd. Here are more results. | ||
| 21.11.2005 | News on the first World Cup again: the IBU decided on Oestersund instead of Idre today. Start times are as announced for Idre. - Sven won't take part in that competition, but hopes he will have recovered till the Hochfilzen World Cup. Ricco Gross and Michael Greis won't participate either. This is the team for Oestersund: Andreas Birnbacher, Daniel Graf, Carsten Pump, Michael Rösch, Alexander Wolf, Christoph Knie and Robert Wick. The women are Kathrin Apel, Uschi Disl, Simone Denkinger, Martina Glagow, Andrea Henkel, Kati Wilhelm and Katja Beer. | ||
| 17.11.2005 | There have been made changes in the program of the Wold Cup in Idre - and the start times are out now. Look here. | ||
| 16.11.2005 | The Oestersund World Cup was cancelled and postponed to Idre (SWE). Click here to find the program. The decision about the start times has not yet been made. | ||
| 14.11.2005 |
The German biathletes are back from their trainingscamp in Muonio. They
didn't have good conditions there, because the temperatures were high
and there was hardly any snow. Ruhpolding however stored snow this
spring and prepared a skiing track, so the athletes will be going there
by tomorrow.Originally they wanted to go to Obertilliach, but - no snow
yet... Whether the Oestersund World Cup can be started on Nov. 23rd is still not uncertain. Likewise is, whether Sven will be able to participate or not, because he's suffering from backache which knocked him out for days in Muonio. The problems are an aftermath of his thumb injury in summer. After that he had to train with only one pole for weeks, which caused imbalanced strain on his back. |
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| 11.11.2005 | There are rumours, that the first World Cup in Oestersund is postponed to Nov. 30th. A Norwegian newspaper reported about that, but the IBU won't decide about that before Nov. 16th. At the moment there is hardly any snow in Oestersund. | ||
| 01.11.2005 | Since Monday the German biathletes are in Muonio (Finnland) on a trainingscamp. | ||
| 20.10.2005 | Sven was awarded the "Golden Ski" 2005 of the German Skiing Federation DSV. The honoring was handed over when the DSV athletes were fitted out for the coming season. Click here for a little report and pictures of the event. | ||
| 27.09.2005 | Click here for a short video clip on the German biathletes' training from the German broadcasting station ZDF (sorry, German only). | ||
| 26.09.2005 | Now it's time to inform you about the results of the Oberhof competitions. Martina Glagow and Alexander Wolf won the title in the mass start, winners of the relays are Bavaria 1(Ricco Groß, Andreas Birnbacher, Michael Greis) and Thuringia 1 (Andrea Henkel, Katrin Apel, Kati Wilhelm). For more results click here. | ||
| 24.09.2005 | Orginally Sven wanted to take part in the German Championships competitions in Oberhof, with one single pole though. But the trainers finally decided against it. | ||
| 21.09.2005 |
The mixed-relay at the German Championships in Altenberg won the
team Thuringia 2 (Wollschlaeger, Apel, Wolf) head of Saxonia 1 (Roesch,
Niziak, Pump) and Bavaria 1 (Greis, Neuner, Reiter). And the fans could say good-bye to Carsten Heymann and Ina Menzel yesterday. Both of them quit high performance sports this year. |
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| 20.09.2005 | The individual competition of the German Championships took place in Altenberg today. Winners of the women: 1. Uschi Disl, 2. Ute Niziak, 3. Martina Glagow. Winner of the men: 1. Michael Greis, 2. Ricco Groß, 3. Michael Roesch. Sven couldn't take part due to his hand injury. | ||
| 17.09.2005 | These are the winners of the sprint at the German Championships 2005: Women: 1. Uschi Disl, 2. Simone Denkinger, 3. Martina Glagow. Men: 1. Andreas Birnbacher, 2. Michael Greis, 3. Michael Roesch. German Champions of the pursuit: Women: 1. Martina Glagow, 2. Simone Denkinger, 3. Uschi Disl. Men: 1. Andreas Birnbacher, 2. Michael Greis, 3. Michael Roesch. Congratulations! | ||
| 16.09.2005 | Unfortunately I can't visit the German Championships in Ruhpolding and Altenberg this year. I hope to be able to present the results as soon as possilbe. As a kind of "consolation" I will soon show a few of Sven's own photos he took during the various training camps this year. | ||
| 08.09.2005 | Sven won't be able to participate in the German Championships. There is a tiny glimmer of hope for the competitions in Oberhof, this is about to be decided just before the races. The healing process goes on well, but such an injury needs its time to heal. Nevertheless, Sven could take up a very light training this week. | ||
| 29.08.2005 | Sven had a bad fall while roller skiing in an internal competition on the last day of the trainingscamp in France yesterday. He caught a bad injury in the joint of the thumb of his right hand. Fortunately the team's doctor Dr. Disch was present for first aid. After that Sven was taken to the university hospital of Freiburg (Germany), where he had an operation the same day. He was allowed to leave hospital and is at home meanwhile. The doctors said, the injury is supposed to heal completely and the joint should be alright. Given that there will be no complications, he might start a reduced light training soon, but it is rather unlikely, that he will participate in the German Champions in about 2 weeks. If the healing process goes well, he should be able to start into the upcoming season as planned. | ||
| 16.08.2005 | The German men's team stays in France for another trainingscamp currently. | ||
| 27.06.2005 | It's summer, but the biathletes are back on skis. The German men are on a glacier trainings camp in Austria at the moment. | ||
| 26.06.2005 | The IBU changed the World Cup schedule for the coming season. Click here for the download of the new provisional (!) schedule for 2005/2006. | ||
| 24.05.2005 | The German men's squad is on a cycling training camp in Sardinia at the moment. | ||
| 05.04.2005 | Originally Sven wanted to leave for Greenland today to take part in this year's Arctic Circle Race. But the cold he caught in Khanty Mansiysk is so persistent, that he had to cancel his participation. | ||
| 24.03.2005 | Sven feels better now. This hometown Schmalkalden held a reception for him yesterday. Here's an article about it (sorry, only German). | ||
| 20.03.2005 | Today's Mixed-Relay-WCH was the final competition of the season. Russia I and Russia II won the race in front of their home audience, Germany I (Uschi Disl, Kati Wilhelm, Michael Greis and Ricco Gross) took the bronze medal. More results... | ||
| 19.03.2005 |
The pure facts at first: Raphaël
Poirée won the mass start in Khanty Mansiysk,
Ole Einar
Bjørndalen became 2nd, Sergej Rozhkov 3rd. As reported before, Sven had
to cancel this important race due to health problems and had to hand
over the overall World Cup without a fight. Ole Einar
Bjørndalen and Sandrine Bailly got the overall World Cup. This is the unmanipulated
total score. Click here for my very personal point of view on that subject. |
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| 18.03.2005 | Sven is ill, he won't be able to compete tomorrow. | ||
| 17.03.2005 |
The decision about who will win the overall World Cup will be made in
the very last race, the mass start. The pursuit of today won
Ole Einar
Bjørndalen, Sven became 4th despite of the fact, that he's not
healthy. Andriy Deryzemlya and Tomasz Sikora took places 2 and 3, Raphaël
Poirée didn't even start, he had no longer the chance to take
the overall World Cup. Another German athlete achieved the top of the
rostrum today: Kati Wilhelm. Sandrine Bailly became 2nd and took the
yellow bib, Olga Zaitseva came in 3rd. More results... The mass start will take place on Saturday. Hopefully Sven feels better by then, so he'll be able to take his chance to win the overall World Cup for the third time! By the way: he won this season's dicipline World Cup in the pursuit. |
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| 16.03.2005 | Today was the start of the last World Cup of the saison, it was the sprint of Khanty Mansiysk - and Sven won! It was his 5th win of the season and his 30th World Cup win of his career. Michael Roesch achieved his best result this season, a 15th place. The other Germans didn't do too well, Ricco Gross couldn't even qualify for the pursuit, be came in 62nd. The women did a better job, 2 of the got on the rostrum: Katrin Apel won and Simone Denkinger became 3rd, 3 more come into top 11. Congratulations to all of them. Here are the further results... | ||
| 13.03.2005 | The World Championships ended with two thrilling competitions. Winners of the women's mass start weren't the "usual" ones, but the Norwegian Gro-Marit Istad-Kristiansen ahead of Anna Carin Olofsson of Sweden and Olga Pyleva. Kati Wilhelm (5th) became best German.Ole Einar Björndalen took another gold medal, but Sven managed to win silver due to a fabulous last lap. He was fifth after the last shooting, but overtook Nikolaj Kruglov and Andriy Deryzemlya in the first place and finally even Raphaël Poirée, who won bronze - his first medal of this WCHs. Congratulations to all medalists! More results... | ||
| 12.03.2005 | Gold medal: the Norwegians did it. The men's relay won their first World Champion titel since 1967. Congratulations! The Russians took silver, Austria got bronze. The Germans weren't lucky at all in the beginning: one penalty loop both for Alexander Wolf and Ricco Gross - and Germany was 1:54 min behind. Sven did a great job. He had the best leg time and achieved 6th place. Michael Greis shot clean, so it was 6th place for Germany in the end. More results... | ||
| 11.03.2005 |
The snowfall finally stopped and the women's relay took place in bright
sunshine. Russia's victory was never endangered, but Germany's chances
seemed to have vanished after Uschi Disl's penalty loop, but Katrin Apel
and Andrea Henkel made a great skiing und shooting performance and
brought Germany back into the medal rankings. Kati Wilhelm's shooting
wasn't really convincing, but she finally took silver. Belarus won
bronze. Details... The German relay squad will be as followed: Alexander Wolf, Ricco Gross, Sven Fischer, Michael Greis. |
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| 10.03.2005 | The German women's relay team for tomorrow will be: Uschi Disl, Katrin Apel, Andrea Henkel and Kati Wilhelm. The Norwegians will have to finish the saison without Liv Grete Poirée. She was diagnosed of suffering from the Pfeiffer glandfever. | ||
| 09.03.2005 | Today's weather conditions were even worse than yesterday's. Heavy snowfall and wind made things very difficult for the athletes. Despite of that Michael Greis managed to shoot clean (the only one!) and won silver, Ricco Gross (2 misses) won bronze. Surpisingly the Czech Roman Dostal (1 miss) became World Champion. Sven (3 misses) became fourth, but had the second best skiing time behind Ole Einar Bjørndalen, who had 5 misses and took sixth place. More results... | ||
| 08.03.2005 |
Gold medal for Andrea Henkel in the 15 km! Congratulations! Last week
she declared herself as substitute for the substitute, today she took
the title in the individual. And there was another Chinese on the
rostrum: Ribo Sun became 2nd and Norwegian Linda Tjörhom 3rd.
Conditions weren't too easy today: snow was falling all day long, in
addition to that there was partly strong wind during the competiton.
More results... These are the German men starting in the 20 km tomorrow: Daniel Graf, Michael Greis, Ricco Gross and Sven. Sven has start number 55. |
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| 06.03.2005 | Bronze medal for Sven in the pursuit of Hochfilzen. Ole Einar Bjørndalen took gold, Sergej Tschepikov silver. Michael Greis (5th) and Ricco Gross (6th) achieved places near the rostrum. Uschi Disl took her 2nd gold in a row ahead of Xianying Liu and Olga Zaitseva. Congratulations to both Uschi and Sven. Click here for more results... | ||
| 05.03.2005 | Sven became Vize-Worldchampion today! A silver medal in the first competition of the WCHs in Hochfilzen, it was a really good performance of Sven's, only Ole Einar Bjør |
