Uschi Disl
Ursula " Uschi " Disl (* November 15, 1970 in Bad Tolz ) is a former German biathlete. She was among the first internationally successful German biathletes and was instrumental in the growing popularity of the sport. After the end of her career and a one year baby break Disl worked during the biathlon World Cup season 2007/ 08 and 2008/2009 as a TV expert in the ARD.
Private life
Dyslexic lives in Mora ( Sweden), along with working at the Norwegian team Skitechniker Thomas Söderberg of Sweden, with whom she has a daughter and a son. In addition to the biathlon activity, she was a civil servant at the Federal, today's federal police, who gave her the opportunity to train for their sport.
Biathlon career
Uschi Disl changed in the winter of 1986/ 87, cross-country biathlon. Three years later, she was junior world champion with the team in Finland. Their first season in the World Cup was Disl in the winter of 1990/ 91; She finished the season as the overall World Cup Fourth, their first World Cup victory she succeeded in sprint races of Saisies. At the 1991 World Championships in Lahti, she won the bronze medal in the relay race their first World Championship medal, at the German Championships she won the individual competition over 15 km.
Successful years
At the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville Women Biathlon was the first time an Olympic discipline. Uschi Disl won with the German relay silver medal and thus her first Olympic medal.
Olympic Games in Nagano
After two silver medals and a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1994, winning a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan was the target of Uschi Disl. The single game on 9 February 1998 Disl was with three clean shooting on victories course, fell back due to an error in the final stage and finally reached the bronze medal. In six days later held sprint races Disl was 0.7 seconds behind second behind the Russian Galina Kuklewa. Could complete Uschi Disl their set of medals with a gold medal in the final relay race, which she won along with Martina Zellner, Katrin Apel and Petra Behle.
Could finish Uschi Disl the 1997/98 season with two victories in Hochfilzen, Austria, so she was again behind Magdalena Forsberg second in the overall World Cup.
Single triumph in Hochfilzen
At the World Championships 2005 in Hochfilzen you get two individual titles. In the sprint race Disl reached with a flawless shooting performance and a projection of 3.5 seconds ahead of Russia's Olga Saizewa the first single of their career success. In Pursuit they gave up in the end a duel with the Chinese Liu Xianying they only 17.9 seconds ahead could win in the end. The last regular world championships of their careers could Uschi Disl ie 14 years after winning her first World Cup medal in addition to the long-awaited two individual gold medals also finish with a silver medal in the relay race. Thus they became the most successful athlete in the world championships.
The last season
The 2005/06 season was to Uschi Disls last season. Like last year, she won at the start of the season, the sprint race in Ostersund, this was also the last World Cup victory of her career. Up to the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, the fifth of her career, she convinced by solid performances in the World Cup. Were less successful for Disl the first Olympic race: In the Individual, Sprint and Pursuit it showed places 12, 34 and 10 was one of the consequences that follow that Disl was not used at all for the first time in an Olympic relay. So she was not involved in winning the silver medal. In the concluding mass start race on February 25, 2006 Disl was after the last shooting at No. 6; with the fastest final lap of all athletes, she could still fight to the front and won the bronze medal their ninth overall Olympic medal.
On 23 March 2006 Disl announced their withdrawal from the Biathlon World Cup. The mass start race on 26 March 2006 at Holmenkollen in Oslo was their last World Cup start, she finished her career as a fifth in the World Cup.
Balance
For Olympic Winter Games Uschi Disl is one of the most successful female biathlete, she won a total of nine Olympic medals ( gold 2x, 4x Silver, 3x bronze). At the World Championships she won a total of 19 medals, including two individual gold medals at the Biathlon World Championships 2005 in Hochfilzen and a total of 6x gold with scales or the team.
With the fourth place in the overall World Cup in 2003/ 04, after three second (1996, 1997, 1998 ) and three third places (1995, 1999, 2002 ), she was the best German biathlete across the entire season. Your total of 30 individual victories in the World Cup were far exceeded in the women's biathlon only by the Swede Magdalena Forsberg (42 individual victories ) and Magdalena Neuner ( 34 individual victories ).
TV - commitment
In the Biathlon World Cup season 2007/ 08 and 2008/ 09 Uschi Disl worked at the ARD as an expert commentator. She accompanied there especially the women's race, while Ricco Gross is responsible for the competitions of Lords. Dyslexic and large solved in this function from the former biathlete Magdalena Forsberg.
Achievements
Olympic Winter Games:
World Championships:
Overall World Cup:
- 3 × location 2 ( 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98)
- 3 × 3 square ( 1994/95, 1998/99, 2001/ 02)
Discipline World Cup:
- 2 × medalist in the individual World Cup ( 1996/97, 1998/99)
- 1 x winner in Sprint Cup (1996/ 97)
Biathlon World Cup rankings
Awards
- 2003 Bavarian Sport Award in the category "Ambassadors of the Bavarian Sports"
- Bambi in the category Sports
- Sportswoman of the Year - 1st Place