Johann Passler
Johann Passler ( born August 18, 1961 in Antholz, South Tyrol ) is a former Italian biathlete. The South Tyrolean participated in four Olympic Winter Games and several Biathlon World Championships. At his time he was one of the best and most successful biathletes his country and was at times a world leader.
Johann Passler lives in Antholz, is a policeman and started for Centro Sportivo Carabinieri. Since the first half of the 1980s he went to the biathlon championship. He regularly achieved standings in the points. Even at the Biathlon World Championships 1983 in Antholz he ran in single to sixth place. A year later, he ran in his first Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo and showed places 35 in the sprint and five in the relay. The Biathlon World Championships 1985 in Ruhpolding were very successful for Passler, he won the sprint bronze medal. 1986 missed the Italians at Holmenkollen in Oslo in the sprint in fourth place another medal and also finished seventh in the individual. A medal he won together with Werner Kiem, Gottlieb Taschler and Andreas Zingerle in third place of the relay race. Not quite on the successes of previous Passler could build 1987 in Lake Placid, where he was 31 in the sprint and 19th in singles. His most successful year in biathlon experienced the South Tyrol in 1988, when he with the Italian season 4 × 7.5 km in the World Cup line-up of the previous year and the bronze medal in the individual 20-kilometer also won bronze at the Olympic Games in Calgary. In the sprint he ran eighth. In the same year he finished third in the overall standings of the Biathlon World Cup. A race of this season, a single in Antholz, he won.
Pass Jewellers career went after the Games for some time at a high level. At the World Championships 1989 in Feistritz an der Drau he reached number twelve in the individual and missed fourth in the sprint once more a medal just barely. In 1990, Passler with Pieralberto Carrara, Wilfried Pallhuber and Andreas Zingerle the world title in the relay. A year later, missed the season with Italian Passler in Lahti in fourth place podium. In Albertville South Tyrolean started for the third time in the Olympic Games. In the sprint he ran at No. 15, he finished seventh in the individual and with the season he again reached a fourth. In the overall World Cup standings, he finished fourth. The last title was won in 1993 Passler in Borovets at the Pallhubers, Carrara and Zingerle with the relay side of Italy. In the sprint he finished eleventh in individual Seventeenth. Also, for the entire season as he reached fifth overall once again an outstanding result. The last major event of the Italian were the Olympic Games in 1994 in Lillehammer. With No. 13 in singles and sixth in the relay race, he reached again good results. He continued his career until 1996, reaching more times results in the top ten. At the end of the career Passler won the overall title of the Biathlon European Cup 1995 /96 apply.