Johann Mühlegg

Johann Mühlegg
nation	Germany Spain from 1999
birthday	8th November 1970 (age 49)
place of birth	Marktoberdorf , Germany
Career
discipline	Cross-country skiing
society	SC Garmisch
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 1 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2001 Lahti 50 km silver 2001 Lahti 20 km pursuit  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1989 Vang 30 km gold 1990 Les Saisies 30 km bronze 1990 Les Saisies Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
World Cup victories in individual 7 ( details )  Overall World Cup 1st ( 1999/2000 )  Distance World Cup 1st ( 1999/2000 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 1 0 0  Distance races 6th 4th 1
last change: January 20, 2015

Johann Mühlegg (born November 8, 1970 in Marktoberdorf ) is a former German cross-country skier . Since 1999 he has also had the citizenship of Spain , for which he competed in competitions until he was banned from doping.

First successes and affair

After winning the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990, Mühlegg took part in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , 1994 in Lillehammer and 1998 in Nagano . In 1993 a dispute began with the then national coach Georg Zipfel : Mühlegg indirectly accused him of " discussing " his drinks . Mühlegg sought help from Justina Agostinho, a native Portuguese with German citizenship . Agostinho believed in “the incarnated spirit of the Eternal Father ” who spoke to Mühlegg through her. He told her that Mühlegg was cursed by Zipfel . She consecrated water for Mühlegg, which the athlete drank regularly. Mühlegg always carried a ration of this water with him when traveling. As a result, Mühlegg accused Zipfel of spiritualism , which led to the suspension of Mühlegg for the 1995 World Cup in Thunder Bay from the German Ski Association . In 1998 he was excluded from the team and subsequently started for the Spanish Ski Federation FEDI, for which he won the overall World Cup. At the World Championships in Lahti in February 2001, he won a silver medal (by moving up after a disqualification ) in the 20 km pursuit race and gold in the 50 km freestyle .

2002 Salt Lake City doping case

At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , Mühlegg, who started for Spain, first won two gold medals in the 30 km freestyle and 10 km pursuit disciplines, for which he accepted the congratulations of the Spanish King Juan Carlos . Shortly afterwards he also won the classic 50 km run; in a previous doping control in his blood in the A sample which has been EPO - derivative darbepoetin alpha demonstrated - Mühlegg first had the gold medal for the 50 km-running return. But since the NOKs of Canada and Norway appealed against the decision of the IOC to the International Sports Court (CAS) in Lausanne , Mühlegg was also stripped of the two gold medals previously received . The CAS , chaired by Thomas Bach, confirmed the judgment.

Mühlegg was banned by the FIS for two years until February 20, 2004. Shortly before this suspension expired, he announced his retirement from competitive sports. Mühlegg presented his view of things in an autobiography published in 2004. In 2014, he lived as a real estate agent in Natal, Brazil .

Wins in singles

World cup

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 10, 1999	Sappada	15 km freestyle
2.	January 9, 2000	Moscow	30 km freestyle
3.	February 20, 2000	Lamoura / Mouthe	72 km freestyle (mass start)
4th	February 28, 2000	Stockholm	Classic sprint
5.	January 10, 2001	Soldier Hollow	30 km freestyle
6th	January 13, 2001	Soldier Hollow	15 km classic
7th	December 12, 2001	Brusson	15 km freestyle

FIS races

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	5th December 1993	Tauplitz	10 km freestyle
2.	January 13, 1999	Ulrichen	15 km freestyle
3.	November 20, 1999	Muonio	10 km classic
4th	January 30, 2002	Sun Valley	10 km freestyle

World Cup overall placements

season	total		Long distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1991/92	33	17th	-	-	-	-
1992/93	149	19th	-	-	-	-
1993/94	145	17th	-	-	-	-
1994/95	104	28.	-	-	-	-
1995/96	312	9.	-	-	-	-
1996/97	114	26th	34	26th	28	41.
1997/98	106	24.	-	-	106	15th
1998/99	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999/2000	948	1.	315 592	1. 2. 1	41	36.
2000/01	603	2.	-	-	35	38.
2001/02	322	8th.	-	-	-	-

¹ Middle distance world cup.

Fonts

• Johann Mühlegg: Alone against all: the autobiography , weropress, Pfaffenweiler 2004, ISBN 3-937588-08-6 .

Web links

• Johann Mühlegg in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Johann Mühlegg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Portrait: Johann Mühlegg: Whimsical, quirky, weird
2. ↑ spiegel.de : Eternal Father, Help
3. ↑ Mühlegg loses all three gold medals. faz.net , February 28, 2004, accessed April 21, 2018 . 
4. ↑ How Johann Mühlegg became a phantom , accessed on April 20, 2019