Lukas Hofer
Lukas Hofer ( born September 30, 1989 in Brunico, South Tyrol ) is an Italian biathlete.
The South Tyrolean started a long time for the amateur sports club Antholz (ASD Anterselva ), but is currently a member of the sports group of the Carabinieri. Training is living in Montal Lukas Hofer Andreas Zingerle.
Career
In 2007, he first participated at the Junior World Championships in Martell and finished in single the 23th Place. In the sprint, he was 29 and in the pursuit he came on the 22th rank. A year later, in Ruhpolding Hofer increased and peaked at the Junior World Championships, both in single as well as in the pursuit of fourth place. In 2008 he was Italian champion in the mass start. In Oberhof Lukas Hofer was in January 2009, his debut in the Biathlon World Cup. He was ranked 53 in the sprint. In Canmore at the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2009 he managed to jump onto the podium. After 44th place in the individual race Hofer won the title in the sprint and pursuit. Its strengths are in the running. The victory in the pursuit at the Junior World Championships 2009 he won despite 6 penalty laps before Simon Schempp, who shot only two errors.
In the second race of the season 2009/10 Hofer won the World Cup in Ostersund than 20 points of sprints for the first time. Even better, it was a week later at the pursuit race in Hochfilzen, where the Italians was 15. This result he was able to repeat in the same season at a single point in domestic Antholz. Hofer took part in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. His best result was the 56th place in the individual. With the season he was ranked 12th in the 2010/11 season, he continued his positive athletic development. After he was single for the season opener in Östersund yet 63, he ran in the following sprint for the first time in tenth place among the top 10, peaking in the pursuit race in seventh first digit placement, which he also in the sprint race in Hochfilzen, a week later, reached. At Home World Cup 2011 in Antholz South Tyrol Lukas Hofer reached together with Christian De Lorenzi, Rene Laurent Vuillermoz and Markus Windisch in the relay 2nd place. Thus for the first time the jump he succeeded with an Italian Men's Relay podium. Internationally, he sat down at the Biathlon World Cup 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk with the 3rd place in the 15 km mass start final by.
On January 17, 2014 he won with the same time Simon Schempp in Antholz his first World Cup race in the sprint.
World Cup wins
Biathlon World Cup rankings
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).