Michael Rösch
Michael Roesch ( born May 4, 1983 in Pirna ) is a Belgian biathlete German origin. He grew up in Cínovec.
Michael Roesch, the son of former biathlon world champion Eberhard Rösch began when nine years with the biathlon. He is a four-time Junior World Champion, three times with the season and 2002/ 03 in the sprint. He reached the World Cup Final 2003/ 04 in Fort Kent sixth place in the sprint, but was unable to repeat this performance in the following season. On 16 December 2005 the Slovak Osrblie he was in the sprint runner-up, after he had occupied the day before the third place over 20 km of his first podium finish in a World Cup.
On 14 January 2006 he was relegated to second place in the sprint in Ruhpolding by the Norwegian Frode Andresen with 3.8 seconds difference scarce. The first victory he won just one day later, however, in pursuit, as he managed to beat Raphael Poirée in a photo finish. In the XX. Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 he won with Ricco Gross, Sven Fischer and Michael Greis the 4 x 7.5 km biathlon relay and thus his first Olympic gold medal. Roesch contributed very fast and error-free shooting and a strong running performance while significantly to winning the gold medal at and had the second-best individual time of all athletes, only beaten by Ole Einar Bjørndalen. In the same year Rösch fifth in the overall World Cup standings. At this time he was regarded by many experts as the greatest talent of the German biathlon and as " Prince ", which could build on the great successes of the generation to Ricco Gross and Sven Fischer. In the following years, however, deteriorated the performance Rösch. In the 2008/2009 season to him only a podium finish in a single race succeeded (2nd place in the sprint in Oberhof ). In the end, it was enough for 16th place of the overall World Cup.
In the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2009 in Oberhof Rösch won the mixed relay with Magdalena Neuner, Tina Bachmann and Christoph Stephan the gold medal and won a silver medal in the sprint. In Pursuit Michael Roesch became world champion. Since the winter season 2009/2010 Roesch went through a career low. After weak World Cup race in late 2009 ( 106th place in the sprint in Pokljuka ) was downgraded by the federal trainer in the sub-prime IBU Cup Rösch. He also reached there only rear placements. For the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, he was not nominated. In the 2010/2011 season he only started in the IBU Cup, to be no longer nominated for poor performance even for this. Then he started only in Germany Cup. On December 9, 2011 Rösch returned to the World Cup: In Hochfilzen, he finished in the sprint to 27 and in the subsequent pursuit race the 12th Place.
Roesch has received many awards. In 2006 he was athlete of the year in Saxony and in the election for the German Sportsman of the Year by third parties with the team. In addition, he was selected the winner in the election for " Winter Star " 2006 in the category " Best team ", with the Olympic biathlon season, viewers of the Bavarian Radio and the readers of the newspaper picture. In 2007, he became a police Sportsman of the Year.
In 2011 he took part in the classical technique at the 90 km long Vasa Race.
Mid- September 2012 it was announced that he wants to go for Belgium at the start of the future. Rösch chose to give up his post at the Federal Police. The naturalization took place over a longer period, however, since January 27, 2014 Rösch has the Belgian nationality. Since Belgium has no quota for athletes in the World Cup, needs Rösch either a " wildcard" for launch permissions, or he has to qualify first on the IBU Cup for the World Cup. Participation at the Olympic Winter Games 2014 is not possible for him because he does not yet possess the citizenship of Belgium long enough. The first competitions under the Belgian flag, he played under the IBU Cup in March 2014 in the Italian Martell. There he was in a sprint with three penalties 19, he finished the chase with two penalties at the 11th rank. He has met the criteria for obtaining a wild card and can start the following season in the World Cup, where he gets drawn against a wildcard.
Achievements
Olympic Winter Games:
- 2006: 1x Gold (season )
World Championships:
- 2007: 1x Bronze (Season )
- 2008: 1x Bronze (Season )
- 2009: 1x Bronze (Season )
World Junior Championships:
- 2001: 1x Gold (season )
- 2002: 1x Gold (season ), 1x Silver (Single)
- 2003: 1x Gold ( Sprint), 1x Silver (season )
- 2004: 1x Gold (season ), 2 silver ( sprint, pursuit )
Biathlon World Cup rankings: The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).