Eberhard Rösch

Eberhard Rösch
Association	German Democratic Republic
birthday	April 9, 1954
place of birth	Karl Marx City
Career
society	SG Dynamo Zinnwald
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1980 Lake Placid singles silver 1980 Lake Placid Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1978 Hochfilzen singles silver 1978 Hochfilzen sprint gold 1978 Hochfilzen Season gold 1979 Ruhpolding Season gold 1981 Lahti Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	3. ( 1977/78 , 1979/80 )

Eberhard Rösch (born April 9, 1954 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a former German biathlete .

In 1978 and 1980 he took third place in the overall ranking of the Biathlon World Cup . At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , he won the silver medal with the GDR relay and took third place over 20 kilometers. In 1978 he won the silver and bronze medals at the biathlon world championships over 10 and 20 kilometers and won the relay. He was able to repeat the season success in 1979 in Ruhpolding and 1981 in Lahti .

In 2005 it became known that Eberhard Rösch had worked for 17 years as an unofficial employee for the State Security of the GDR.

Today, Rösch is the organizer of biathlon events and was the base manager of the Altenberg Olympic base until 2012 . Since 2012 he has been the biathlon sports officer and technical director there. His son Michael is also a successful biathlete.

Awards

• 1980 - Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1988 - Order Banner of Labor Stage I

Web links

• Database Olympics
• Eberhard Rösch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Eberhard Rösch writes on the history of biathlon in the GDR ( Memento from November 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )