Sven Fischer

Sven Fischer
Association	Germany
birthday	16th April 1971 (age 49)
place of birth	Schmalkalden,  GDR
Career
job	Television commentator
society	WSV Oberhof 05
Trainer	Mark Kirchner
Debut in the World Cup	1992
World Cup victories	57 (33 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Olympic medals 4 × 2 × 2 × World Cup medals 7 × 6 × 7 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1994 Lillehammer singles gold 1994 Lillehammer Season gold 1998 Nagano Season silver 2002 Salt Lake City sprint silver 2002 Salt Lake City Season gold 2006 Turin sprint bronze 2006 Turin persecution gold 2006 Turin Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1993 Borovets Season gold 1993 Borovets team gold 1995 Antholz Season silver 1996 Ruhpolding Season gold 1997 Osrblie Season silver 1998 Hochfilzen team gold 1999 Kontiolahti singles bronze 1999 Kontiolahti persecution gold 1999 Kontiolahti Mass start bronze 2000 Lahti Season bronze 2001 Pokljuka persecution bronze 2001 Pokljuka Mass start silver 2002 Oslo Mass start silver 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk Mass start gold 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk Season gold 2004 Oberhof Season silver 2005 Hochfilzen sprint bronze 2005 Hochfilzen persecution silver 2005 Hochfilzen Mass start bronze 2007 Antholz Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1.  ( 1996/97 , 1998/99 ) 2. ( 1993/94 , 2004/05 ) 3. ( 1995/96 , 1997/98 ,      1999/2000 , 2005/06 )
Individual World Cup	3. ( 1998/99 , 2004/05 )
Sprint World Cup	1.  ( 1992/93 , 1993/94 ,      1998/99 , 2001/02 ) 2. ( 1996/97 , 2004/05 )
Pursuit World Cup	1.  ( 1997/98 , 2004/05 ) 2. ( 1996/97 , 1998/99 ,      1999/2000 , 2005/06 )
Mass start world cup	1st  ( 1998/99 , 2000/01 ) 3rd ( 1999/2000 , 2001/02 ,      2004/05 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 6th 2 2 sprint 13 10 16 persecution 10 4th 13 Mass start 4th 4th 5 Season 23 18th 12 team 1 1 0

Sven Fischer (born April 16, 1971 in Schmalkalden ) is a former German biathlete who is one of the most successful German biathletes in the recent past.

Biathlon career

Olympic games

Fischer won his first Olympic medals at his first Olympic Games (1994 in Lillehammer ). He was also successful at the following Olympic Winter Games and was a total of four times Olympic champion (including three times with German relays), in 2006 he won his first individual title at the Olympic Games in Turin with victory in the 10 km sprint.

World championships

Sven Fischer won a total of 20 medals at world championships. He won five world championship titles with German relays or teams, and at the 1999 biathlon world championships he also won two individual titles with victories in individual and mass start. In 1999 he became the first ever world champion in the newly introduced mass start discipline.

World cup

Sven Fischer won the overall World Cup twice in 1997 and 1999 . In the 2004/05 season he had to surrender the overall World Cup to Ole Einar Bjørndalen without a fight , due to an illness in the last race of the season in Khanty-Mansiysk . But he won the overall Pursuit ranking. He was also able to win the overall sprint standings four times, and was two times the overall winner of the mass start standings.

End of career

Sven Fischer announced his retirement from active biathlon on May 7, 2007 and announced that he would work as a sports advisor and co-commentator at ZDF in the field of biathlon.

On September 15, 2007 he contested his farewell race as a 2-person relay race in the Oberhof Rennsteig arena with 43 colleagues (including classmates, teammates and international friends and supervisors). At this race, he was cheered on by more than 8,000 fans with the legendary battle cry “Hopp Fisch”.

One of Sven Fischer's trademarks was his equipment. He always ran without gloves, always used an old stick system and was the only biathlete to shoot with a Suhl underloader .

After the end of his career, Sven Fischer became an "honorary member for life" in the local shooting club, having repeatedly won the local shooting festivals and thus saved his club from financial collapse.

In 2009, Fischer was a member of the Federal Assembly for the CDU Thuringia and, according to his own statements, elected Horst Köhler as Federal President.

statistics

World Cup victories

Individual victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	20 Mar 1993	Kontiolahti	10 km sprint
2.	Jan. 20, 1994	Antholz	20 km individual
3.	March 12 1994	Hinton	10 km sprint
4th	Dec 14, 1995	Oslo	20 km individual
5.	Dec 16, 1995	Oslo	10 km sprint
6th	Nov. 30, 1996	Lillehammer	10 km sprint
7th	0Dec. 1, 1996	Lillehammer	12.5 km pursuit
8th.	0March 8 1997	Nagano	10 km sprint
9.	Dec 20, 1997	Kontiolahti	12.5 km pursuit
10.	Dec 19, 1998	Brezno-Osrblie	10 km sprint
11.	Dec 20, 1998	Brezno-Osrblie	12.5 km pursuit
12.	Feb. 26, 1999	Lake Placid	10 km sprint
13.	11th Mar 1999	Oslo ( World Cup )	20 km individual
14th	March 12 1999	Oslo	10 km sprint
15th	13 Mar 1999	Oslo ( World Cup )	15 km mass start
16.	March 12 2000	Lahti	12.5 km pursuit
17th	18 Mar 2000	Khanty-Mansiysk	12.5 km pursuit
18th	0Jan. 7, 2001	Oberhof	15 km mass start
19th	18 Mar 2001	Oslo	15 km mass start
20th	Jan. 20, 2002	Ruhpolding	12.5 km pursuit
21st	09 Mar 2002	Ostersund	10 km sprint
22nd	23 Mar 2002	Oslo	12.5 km pursuit
23.	Feb 20, 2003	Ostersund	10 km sprint
24.	Jan. 22, 2004	Antholz	20 km individual
25th	06th Mar 2004	Fort Kent	15 km mass start
26th	0Dec 4, 2004	Beitostølen	12.5 km pursuit
27.	0Dec 9, 2004	Oslo	20 km individual
28.	Dec 12, 2004	Oslo	12.5 km pursuit
29	0Jan. 7, 2005	Oberhof	10 km sprint
30th	16. Mar. 2005	Khanty-Mansiysk	10 km sprint
31.	Dec 15, 2005	Brezno-Osrblie	20 km individual
32.	Dec 18, 2005	Brezno-Osrblie	12.5 km pursuit
33.	Feb 14, 2006	Turin ( OS )	10 km sprint

Relay wins

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	14 Mar 1993	Ostersund	4 × 7.5 km relay 1
2.	Dec. 19, 1993	Pokljuka	4 × 7.5 km relay 2
3.	Jan. 22, 1995	Oberhof	20 km team 3
4th	Jan. 29, 1995	Ruhpolding	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
5.	Feb 19, 1995	Antholz ( WM )	4 × 7.5 km relay 5
6th	0Dec 8, 1996	Ostersund	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
7th	0Feb 9, 1997	Brezno-Osrblie ( WM )	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
8th.	Jan. 18, 1998	Antholz	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
9.	Feb 21, 1998	Nagano ( OS )	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
10.	Dec 18, 1998	Brezno-Osrblie	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
11.	Jan. 10, 1999	Oberhof	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
12.	Jan. 14, 1999	Ruhpolding	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
13.	Jan. 24, 1999	Antholz	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
14th	Jan. 13, 2000	Ruhpolding	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
15th	Jan. 20, 2001	Antholz	4 × 7.5 km relay 6
16.	Jan. 16, 2002	Ruhpolding	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
17th	16. Mar. 2002	Lahti	4 × 7.5 km relay 7
18th	21 Mar 2003	Khanty-Mansiysk ( WM )	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
19th	0Dec 6, 2003	Kontiolahti	4 × 7.5 km relay 4
20th	Feb 13, 2004	Oberhof ( WM )	4 × 7.5 km relay 7
21st	Dec 11, 2005	Hochfilzen	4 × 7.5 km relay 8
22nd	0Jan. 4, 2006	Oberhof	4 × 7.5 km relay 8
23.	Jan. 12, 2006	Ruhpolding	4 × 7.5 km relay 9
24.	Feb 21, 2006	Turin ( OS )	4 × 7.5 km relay 10

¹with Ricco Groß , Jens Steinigen and Mark Kirchner

²with Peter Sendel , Frank Luck and Mark Kirchner

³with Ricco Groß, Carsten Heymann and Frank Luck

^4th with Ricco Groß, Peter Sendel and Frank Luck

⁵ with Ricco Groß, Mark Kirchner and Frank Luck

^6thwith Marco Morgenstern , Frank Luck and Ricco Groß

^7thwith Ricco Groß, Michael Greis and Frank Luck

^8thwith Ricco Groß, Alexander Wolf and Michael Greis

⁹with Michael Rösch , Alexander Wolf and Michael Greis

¹⁰ with Ricco Groß, Michael Rösch and Michael Greis

Biathlon World Cup placements

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

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	6th	13	10	4th	1	23	57
2nd place	2	10	4th	4th	1	18th	39
3rd place	2	16	13	5		12	48
Top 10	27	73	50	23	2	66	241
Scoring	53	108	74	32	3	67	337
Starts	64	121	75	32	3	68	363
Status : end of career

winter Olympics

	Individual competitions				Season
	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start
1994 Winter Olympics | Lillehammer	3.	7th			1.
1998 Winter Olympics | Nagano	16.	29			1.
2002 Winter Olympics | Salt Lake City	29	2.	12.		2.
2006 Winter Olympics | Turin	17th	1.	3.	17th	1.

World championships

	Individual competitions				Team competitions
	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	Mixed relay
World Championships 1993  Borovets	-	20th			1.	3.
World Championships 1995 | Antholz	-	26th			14th	1.
World Championships 1996 | Ruhpolding	22nd	19th			6th	2.
World Championships 1997 | Brezno-Osrblie	5.	24.	23.		-	1.
World Championships 1998 | Pokljuka 1			4th		2.
World Championships 1999 | Kontiolahti	1.	7th	3.	1.		4th
World Championships 2000 | Oslo	19th	40.	13.	13.		3.
World Championships 2001 | Pokljuka	11.	5.	3.	3.		12.
World Championships 2002 | Oslo 1				2.
World Championships 2003 | Khanty-Mansiysk	22nd	12.	11.	2.		1.
World Championships 2004 | Oberhof	16.	8th.	23.	11.		1.
World Championships 2005 | Hochfilzen	4th	2.	3.	2.		6th	-
World Championships 2006 | Pokljuka 1							10.
World Championships 2007 | Antholz	20th	43.	17th	5.		3.	-

¹ Only the non-Olympic competitions were held

TV engagement

Since the 2007/08 season, Sven Fischer has been working as an expert at ZDF, succeeding Petra Behle . He made his debut at the microphone on August 12th at the City Biathlon in Püttlingen .

Awards

• Sportsman of the year 2006 3rd place team
• Vote for Winter Star 2006 in the Best Team category (with the biathlon relay) by the Bavarian radio audience and the readers of Bild
• The city of Schmalkalden made Fischer an honorary citizen.

Private life

Sven Fischer married his longtime partner Doreen Ehrle on September 21, 2007, with whom he has a daughter and a son. On May 24th, 2008, both of them gave each other the ecclesiastical yes-word in the town church St. Georg in Schmalkalden, combined with the baptism of their son Johann.

Fischer is fluent in Norwegian, which stems from his previous relationship with former Norwegian biathlete Annette Sikveland . In 2003 Sven Fischer received the "Golden Salmon" from the Norwegian embassy for his services to German-Norwegian friendship. He distributed the associated material prize of a ton of salmon to social institutions in Norway and Thuringia.

literature

• Short biography for:  Fischer, Sven . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Sven Fischer , in: Internationales Sportarchiv 08/2008 from February 19, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Sven Fischer  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Sven Fischer  - in the news

• Sven Fischer in the database of the IBU (English)
• sz-online to withdraw
• Sven Fischer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Sven Fischer homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Focus.de , last seen on October 2, 2009.
2. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/sport/biathlon-sven-fischer-geniesst-den-favoritdruck-1.1542180
3. ↑ Sven Fischer married in perfect secrecy ( memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )