Wolfgang Rottmann

Wolfgang Rottmann ( born May 15, 1973 in Altenmarkt im Pongau) is a former Austrian biathlete.

Life

In the Biathlon World Championships 2000 at Holmenkollen (Norway ), he became world champion over 20 km. At his home World Cup in 2005 in Hochfilzen, he won the team of 4 x 7.5 km relay bronze medal.

One of his weakest race showed the Austrians Rottmann, who never was one of the best shooters in the relay race on January 25, 2003 in Antholz. After a flawless shooting performance in prone Rottmann met in the standing shooting not one of the five discs, either with the regular five cartridges or the additional space in the relay race three spare rounds. So Rottmann had to walk five penalties, which threw back the good lying up to this point in the race Austrian team to eighth place.

After an unannounced doping raid on the house of the Austrian biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin traveled Rottmann and his colleague Wolfgang Perner from rushed. Both were subsequently excluded from the Austrian Olympic team. However, doping was not detected the athletes. In March 2006 he announced his final retirement from competitive sport.

In April 2007, Rottmann and Perner and four Austrian skiers by the International Olympic Committee (IOC ) were excluded for life from Olympic Games. All were considered by the IOC as converted to have jointly used doping agents. Justification of the IOC for the harsh sentence: " These cases go further than simple possession of prohibited substances and methods, and are clear examples of cases in which a network, athletes included, common cause made ​​to manipulate blood and exert doping practices. " Your results of Turin have been deleted.

2000 Rottmann was awarded the Golden Badge of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).

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