Adolf Scherwitzl

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Adolf Scherwitzl biathlon
Association AustriaAustria Austria
birthday June 27, 1938
place of birth Feistritz on the Gail
Career
job police officer
society PSV Innsbruck
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup -
Debut in the World Cup -
status resigned
World Cup balance
 

Adolf Scherwitzl (born June 27, 1938 in Feistritz an der Gail ) is a former Austrian biathlete as well as biathlon trainer and functionary.

Scherwitzl grew up in Carinthia and started cross-country skiing at an early age . After he came to Tyrol as a police officer in the late 1950s , he began biathlon in the early 1960s. With a third place at the Austrian Championships he qualified for the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , in which he was 41st as the worst of the placed Austrians with the third worst running time and six shooting errors. In 1965 he became the European Police Champion in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the combination of giant slalom and cross-country skiing. Participation in the followedBiathlon World Championships 1966 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In the individual, he finished 47th and was eighth with Horst Schneider , Walter Müller and Paul Ernst in the relay competition, which was held for the first time as part of the official competition. At the Biathlon World Championships in 1967 in Altenberg , he achieved a place better in the individual. Scherwitzl's last major event as an active athlete was the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble . He finished the individual in 50th place and was 11th in the relay competition with Ernst, Schneider and Franz Vetter . After that he took part in competitions less and less.

In the 1970s, Scherwitzl began working as a functionary and trainer, and in these functions he was involved in the boom in Austrian biathlon sport from the second half of the 1970s. First, he was supposed to build a team for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. After the 1968 Olympic Games, for which an Austrian biathlon team could only be set up with difficulty, the Austrian biathlon sport was practically no longer represented internationally. Sometimes Scherwitzl also took part actively in competitions and in 1974 became Austrian national champion in biathlon over 20 kilometers. With the hosting of the biathlon world championships in Hochfilzen in 1978 , the Austrian biathlon sport received further impetus and on January 1, 1979 it finally received its own lecture in the Austrian Ski Association . In 1984 Scherwitzl ended his function as a functionary. He remained active in sports. He became Austrian champion in the police pentathlon and took part in Austrian shooting championships and the European police championship.

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  1. ↑ a b Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): 100 Years of the Austrian Ski Association , Ablinger & Garber Publishing House, Hall 2005, pp. 198f
personal data
SURNAME Scherwitzl, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Feistritz on the Gail