Walter Pichler

Walter Georg Pichler ( born October 23, 1959 in Bad Reichenhall ) is a former German biathlete and today's biathlon coach.

Walter Pichler was the mid 1980s, the most successful biathletes of West Germany. In 1984 he participated at the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo, where it was used in two of the three races. In individual he ran to the 16th place, with Ernst Reiter, Peter Angerer and Fritz Fischer, he won the relay competition behind the USSR and Norway the bronze medal. The following year, he again won the bronze medal behind the Soviet Union and the East Germans relay at the Biathlon World Championships 1985 Ruhpolding with Angerer, Fischer and Herbert Fritz Wenger. In the Biathlon World Championships 1986 in Oslo Pichler was 16th in the sprint. In 1986 he also won the title in the sprint competition at the German Championships. After the season, he left in a dispute from the German national squad.

After his playing career biathlon Pichler became a coach. At first he was coach of the U.S.. As the youngest World Cup coach this time, he worked on Max Cobb. Then he was youth coach at Bavarian Biathlon Association. Since 2009, Pichler head coach of the British Biathlon Team and serves as such, among others Adele Walker, Emma Fowler, Olwen Thorn, Lee - Steve Jackson and Marcel Laponder. His cousin Wolfgang Pichler is also a former biathlete biathlon and successful coach.