Michael Greis
Michael Greis ( born August 18, 1976 in Füssen) is a former German biathlete.
Greis won three gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics and three gold medals at the World Championships. He also won the overall World Cup in the 2006/07 season. The sergeant major was a member of the sports promotion groups of the Bundeswehr. On December 5, 2012 old man announced his retirement from competitive sports.
- 3.1 Olympic Winter Games
- 3.2 World Championships
- 3.3 World Cup ratings
- 3.4 World Cup wins
- 3.5 World Cup rankings
Childhood and education
The son of an undertaker grew up in Nesselwang on in the Allgäu. Michael Greis has a year- older sister, the operation Biathlon itself. After school, he trained as a communications electrician ( Department of Information Technology ), after which the diploma was followed at a Telekolleg.
An begun studies in International Management at the University of Applied Sciences Ansbach closed old man, because of the great time spent, not from.
Career
Beginnings and establishment in the World Cup team
Michael Greis started as an alpine skier, before joining the SK Nesselwang cross-country skiing at the age of eleven years. Together with older athletes he got there later under the guidance of former world-class athlete Andreas Schweiger know the sport of biathlon, in which he stayed. At the age of 20 years old man received a battalion place in the army and began from 1996 in Ruhpolding, to train under Fritz Fischer. Just one year later occupied old man at the German championships a third place.
After good results in the European Cup and the victory of the season and the second in the pursuit at the 2001 European Championships in Haute Maurienne Michael Greis end of the season 2000/ 01 was first used in the Biathlon World Cup. At the Olympic rehearsal in U.S. Soldier Hollow, he ran his first World Cup race. After a 66th place in his first ever race in the Allgäu surprised with two sixth places in the sprint and pursuit. In the following weeks old man came to sporadic operations, but reached no significant placements. For the first time intense attention to himself made an old man in January 2002 in Oberhof, when he places 7 and 5 finished in the sprint and pursuit. A week later, he reached behind the Frenchman Raphael Poirée with second place in the sprint of Ruhpolding his first podium.
From this time old man was an integral World Cup squad and was also used at the Olympic Winter Games 2002. He reached in the sprint and pursuit of the places 15 and 16 After the Olympics old man was again in Östersund as in Ruhpolding second in the sprint, this time behind his teammate Sven Fischer. His second World Cup season ended old man than the 17th of the overall World Cup. In the 2002/03 season old man was first start of the season at each station at the World Cup start. Although he played a lot more races than the previous season, he succeeded in only two top - 10 finishes, including a fifth place finish at the last World Cup in Ostersund station. At the 2003 World Championships old man began only in the sprint, where he also was unable to convince a 29th place. As 26 the overall World Cup he deteriorated compared to the previous year. Success in this season was for old man but together with Martina Glagow winning the inaugural in the Schalke Arena in Gelsenkirchen World Team Challenge.
First success at World Championships
Much more successful was the Allgäu, however, the season 2003/04. In Pokljuka in January 2004 old man was in the mass start of third parties and only had to wafer-thin the two Norwegians Halvard Hanevold and Ole Einar Bjørndalen beaten. Two other placements in the top ten athletes reached the old man held before the World Championships in Antholz World Cup. By Places 5 in the sprint and 9 in the pursuit at the world championships 2004 in Oberhof old man who had previously been used only three times in a German squadron in the World Cup recommended for the relay race. Together with Frank Luck, Ricco Gross and Sven Fischer, Michael Greis as cage rotor World Champion with the German biathlon relay, the only two spare rounds needed 40 shots. Also the race after the World Championships ran quite successfully for old man, in the American Fort Kent he succeeded for the third time in his career a second place finish in a World Cup race. Old man could finish the season as the 13th of the overall World Cup, he reached more than twice as many World Cup points as last season.
In the 2004/05 season old man was able to improve on. In early December, he succeeded in Oslo with positions 6, 5 and 9 for the first time in his career to finish all three discharged at a World Cup race place among the top 10. He also managed an old man in this season also regularly being placed among the top 30 and thus to gain World Cup points. In February 2005, Greis won at the Olympic rehearsal in San Sicario in Cesana Torinese (Italy ) his first World Cup race: Single, he won with a flawless shooting performance against the three Russians Sergei Tschepikow, Sergei Rozhkov and Ivan Tscheresow. At the World Championships in March 2005 in Hochfilzen old man won with a gap of just under ten seconds behind the Czech Roman Dostal silver in the individual race over 20 kilometers, his first individual medal at major events. The other World Cup races went for him with 6 places in the sprint, 5 successful in tracking and 10 in the mass start. Although old man showed a good individual performance in the season, it was only enough for a 6th place due to the weaker results of the other three athletes. Old man could finish the season as the ninth overall and the first time among the ten best athletes in the overall standings, with the single - discipline World Cup he also won his first World Cup standings. In addition, Greis won the conclusion of this season together with Uschi Disl, Kati Wilhelm and Ricco Groß the bronze medal in the mixed relay. In the summer of 2005, he also won the inaugural City Biathlon in Nailsworth.
Triumph at 2006 Olympics
After the German athletes had the first World Cup station omitted to prepare the 2005/06 season for Michael Greis began very successfully. In his first race of the season he reached the beginning of December in Hochfilzen 3 in singles, a week later, three times 4th place in Osrblie. At the beginning of 2006, he achieved 4th place in Oberhof, Ruhpolding and 3rd place in 6th place in Antholz more good results, so that it was between late second place in the overall World Cup.
The greatest success up to this point in his career succeeded Michael Greis on 11 February 2006 to kick off the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, when he was in individual over 20 km of the first Olympic champion of the Games. With only one penalty in the first standing shooting as well as the third fastest run time he was able to hold in front of the Norwegian Ole Einar Bjørndalen. This was the second win in the career of Michael Greis, in the same place, where he also celebrated his first in 2005. After a disappointing 33rd place in three days later held sprint race, old man could fight until rank 8 forward in pursuit.
The German squadron was after they had won three of four races, even in the Olympics as a favorite. Together with his team-mates Ricco Gross, Michael Roesch and Sven Fischer, Michael Greis secured on 21 February 2006 with the German relay victory against Russia and France, and thus won his second Olympic gold medal. Old man was the eighth biathlete who managed to achieve both Olympic individual and relay gold. On February 25, 2006 Michael Greis won his third gold medal of these games ahead of Poland's Tomasz Sikora and the Norwegian Ole Einar Bjørndalen favorites in the first Olympic mass start race over 15 km. This old man is the first German Olympic athlete who won three gold medals during the same Winter Olympics. At the 2006 Olympic Games, only the South Korean short track speed skating Ahn Hyun -soo - runner was successful, who won three gold medals and one bronze.
Since old man after the Olympics was nothing more than the sprint in Pokljuka at the start and did not compete in the last eight races of the season due to dental problems, he fell in the World Cup from the third place he had occupied after the Olympics, nor to 10th place back. In this World Cup stage, however, no individual races were more discharged, so that old man already stood in the preseason as winners of the single - discipline World Cups.
Overall World Cup Winner 2006/ 07
The 2006/07 season began with two third places to kick off in Östersund and the second in the Sprint Hochfilzen for Michael Greis very successful. Nevertheless, he stood in the shadow of Ole Einar Bjørn Dalen, who won the first five races of the season all in the one week later again discharged as a substitute for Osrblie in Hochfilzen World Cup but was not at the start. His first World Cup victory of the season 2006/ 07 succeeded Michael Greis in the sprint race in Hochfilzen on December 14, 2006 by a 9th place in the second sprint race took over old man for the first time in his career, the yellow jersey of World Cup leader. Of the German sports journalists old man was ever elected as the first biathlete Sportsman of the Year in December 2006.
The first race in 2007 in Oberhof was also the first race in his career, in which Michael Greis took the yellow jersey. He reached the 2nd place behind the Russians Nikolai Kruglov in the sprint. However, due to some slightly weaker results old man lost the yellow jersey in Ruhpolding Bjørndalen, it could win back in Pokljuka, as the Norwegians also left out this World Cup station.
The Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz began with positions 19 and 12 in the sprint in pursuit of Michael Greis initially unsatisfactory. In the other races of the World Cup but old man has been improved. In single race over 20 kilometers, it took behind the Frenchman Raphael Poirée silver, with the season he won the bronze medal. In the concluding mass start race he won with the best running time in spite of two shooting errors in the first standing shooting gold in front of his team-mate Andreas Birnbacher, so he could complete his set of medals of Antholz. This single gold medal Michael Greis after the two German Mark Kirchner and Sven Fischer, the two Norwegians Halvard Hanevold and Ole Einar Bjørndalen and the Russian Nikolai Kruglov the sixth biathlete who won both world championships and at the Olympic Winter Games individual and relay gold.
At the first World Cup weekend after the World Cup in Lahti, Finland Bjørndalen was again not at the start, so that old man was able to extend his lead over the Norwegians in the World Cup. In the previous World Cup station in Oslo the podium went to the three races almost without exception old man, Poirée and Bjørndalen, which thus lay close together on the top of the standings before the last World Cup race in Khanty- Mansiysk, Russia. However Poirée already finished at this time his World Cup career. After Bjørndalen had only occupies 48th place in the sprint race of Khanty-Mansiysk, old man handed in pursuit of a 16th place to prematurely to secure the win the overall World Cup, in the last race of the season, he finished in the mass start behind the Russian Ivan Tscheresow second place.
After the overall World Cup victory by Sven Fischer in 1999, the success of old man was after eight years of the first World Cup victory, which went not to Raphaël Poirée or Ole Einar Bjørndalen. Two days before old man has been handed the smaller crystal ball for winning the sprint discipline World Cups. Old man benefited from the fact, however, that his rival Ole Einar Bjørndalen had just missed a third of the season race. While Bjørndalen won eleven races for themselves, Greis won only two races during the season. Nevertheless, was an old man who was run there all season race, with 794 points at the end of 58 points ahead of Norway.
From the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver until withdrawal
Michal old man was able to achieve a podium finish ( fifth in the pursuit and relay, Tenth in individual and mass start and 21st in the sprint ), but was three times best German rider in the biathlon team of men in any of the four individual competitions of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The 2011/12 season began with streaky services, after about a third of the season old man fell for the rest of the season due to health reasons. For the following season, he tried to fight one back, but did not at the season opener in Östersund in the top 60 of the Single Page. During the race the decision matured to resign, he no longer denied the following two races already. On December 5, 2012 old man stepped away from the sport of biathlon. Following the resignation to old man would devote his intensive study.
Statistics
Olympic Winter Games
World Championships
World Cup ratings
Results in World Cup competitions ( disciplines and overall World Cup ) according to points system
World Cup wins
All victories in World Cup competitions, listed separately by individual and relay races. By clicking the icon in the table header columns are sortable.
World Cup rankings
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).
Awards
- 2006 - Bavarian sports award category " personal prize of the Bavarian Minister President "
- 2006 - Germany's Sportsman of the Year - 1st Place
- 2006 - Champion of the Year
- 2006 - European Athlete of the Year - 3rd Place
- Election to the Winter Star 2006 in the category " Best team " (with the biathlon relay) from the viewers of the Bavarian Radio and the readers of Bild Zeitung.
- Election to the Winter Star 2006 in the category " best male athlete " by the viewers of the Bavarian Radio and the readers of Bild Zeitung.
- 2011 - Holmenkollen medal
Others
Michael Greis was wearing at the competitions always contact lenses, but left in the fall of 2008 to correct the astigmatism surgery. He was romantically involved with his colleague Kathrin Sports superheater From mid- 2008 to 2010.