Ralf Buchheim

Ralf Buchheim ( born October 10, 1983 in Lebus ) is a German sport shooter, specializing in the discipline of Skeet.

Ralf Buchheim is the son of Michael Buchheim, who trains him alongside William Metelmann. The sport soldier and members of the B- squad of the German Shooting Federation lives in his native town and starts for the Archers Frankfurt an der Oder, 1406. At the Junior European Championships in Zagreb, he reached the eighth. A year later, at the Junior World Championships in Lahti, he was Vice Junior World Champion.

Buchheim Quick increased after the change to the seniors in the national squad on. At the European Championships in 2004 in Nicosia, he missed the finals as 32 ​​, but won with Axel Wegner and Tino Wenzel behind the teams from Norway and Italy the bronze medal. A year later he won the bronze medal in the team event behind Norway and Italy with Wegner and Wenzel again, missed a 21 but again the singles final. At the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb he could even reach Wegner and Wenzel behind the representative from the Czech Republic to the Vice World Champion title. In the individual he was 27, the same year has win at the European Championships in Maribor again with Wegner and Wenzel behind the Russian team the silver medal for the first time and reached the singles final, where he finished fifth. In 2006 he also won the title at the German Championships. While at the European Championships 2008, the team result with eighth ranked first in Nicosia outside the medals, Buchheim reached in individual again the top ten and finished tenth. The European Championships in 2009 in Osijek did good, but not outstanding results. With the team to the next Wegner Thorsten Hapke was he was sixth in individual 13 Bad competitions ran a few weeks later at the World Championships in Maribor. Buchheim was in the EM- Cast Crew twelfth and 79th of Single Page. A year later he was at the European Championships in Kazan back to winning ways and won behind January Sychra and Anthony Terras with the bronze medal his first international single medal at the men. In the team that narrowly missed a medal with fourth, but came alongside Wenzel and René Wegner Damme used. At the World Championships in Munich Buchheim missed seventh of Single Page to only one rank the finals, with Wegner and Wenzel also in the team finishing fourth to re- rank a medal. When the Single European Championships 2011 in Belgrade, the individual competition went bad again and he was 32nd in the team, he had just defeated Norway with Wenzel and Wegner, and was again Vice-European Champion. A month later, the World Cup was held at the same place, was at the Buchheim eleventh of the Single Page, as well as Wenzel and Frank Cordesmeyer team - ninth. In 2012, he stepped up to the European Championships in Larnaca and was 27 of the Single Page, as well as Wenzel and Cordesmeyer tenth in the team competition. Buchheim is qualified for the skeet competition at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.