Alexander Wolf (biathlete)

Alexander Wolf
Full name	Alexander Wolf
Association	Germany
birthday	December 21, 1978
place of birth	Schmalkalden,  GDR
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	WSV Oberhof 05
Trainer	Mark Kirchner
Debut in the World Cup	1998
World Cup victories	8 (3 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	March 14, 2013
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × EM medals 3 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × SWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 2008 Östersund persecution bronze 2008 Östersund Season  European biathlon championships gold 1999 Izhevsk sprint gold 1999 Izhevsk Season gold 2001 Maurienne Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 1997 Forni Avoltri Season  Summer biathlon world championships bronze 2009 Oberhof persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	12. ( 2005/06 )
Individual World Cup	08. (2005/06)
Sprint World Cup	11. (2005/06)
Pursuit World Cup	11th ( 2007/08 )
Mass start world cup	08. (2007/08)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 1 1 sprint 3 1 2 persecution 0 2 2 Mass start 0 1 0 Season 5 5 5

Alexander "Ali" Wolf (born December 21, 1978 in Schmalkalden ) is a former German biathlete . He has been training the Swiss men's biathlon team since 2020.

Career

Alexander Wolf started biathlon in January 1986 when he was 7 years old. He trains at WSV Oberhof 05 and immediately competed in his first official competition in Trusetal . From 1991 he attended the Oberhof ski school, where he graduated from high school in 1997. Then he began his training with the Federal Border Guard . In 1997 and 1998 he took part in the Junior World Championships in Forni Avoltri and Valcartier . There he won the gold medal and the silver medal in the team competition with the relays. As a junior he won the gold medal with the relay at the Junior European Championships in 1997 in Forni Avoltri.

In the 1998/99 season he competed in his first World Cup race in Hochfilzen . In his first year in the World Cup, his best result was a 10th place in the sprint in Osrblie. In February 1999 he won two gold medals in sprint and relay at the European Championships in Izhevsk, Russia. A year later, after good results in the World Cup, he competed in a World Championship for the first time. He finished the individual race over 20 km in 8th place. In the 2000/01 season he did not manage to qualify for the World Cup. With good results in the World Cup, he qualified for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City / USA in 2002. In the 2002/03 season, he won his first World Cup victory in Lahti . In 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 he took part in the world championships. In the 2005/06 season he achieved another World Cup victory and several podium places, which meanwhile brought him the lead in the overall World Cup. He competed in three races at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin / ITA. His best placement there was 8th in the mass start. With good results and podium finishes, the 2007/08 season was his most successful so far, especially thanks to the 2008 Biathlon World Cup . In Östersund, Sweden, he won bronze in the pursuit and with the relay. Wolf also took part in the Winter Games in Vancouver and finished 24th in the individual. His last podium place in the World Cup so far was in Oslo in March 2011.

Since Wolf sustained an injury to his tarsal bone in the summer of 2011, he had to undergo an operation. This caused a training absence of several months, so that he did not start in the World Cup in the 2011/12 season. In the following season, Wolf did not fully recover from the consequences of his injury and could not fight his way back into the team. He then ended his career in March 2013.

After the end of his career, Wolf completed training as a coach in Cologne and worked in the junior division in Oberhof. For the 2020/21 season he was appointed national coach for men at Swiss-Ski as the successor to Jörn Wollschläger .

Since completing his training in 2002, he has been employed by the Federal Police as Chief Police Officer. Since 2014 he has been on leave for his training or his coaching activity.

Wolf's father Karl-Heinz was also a biathlete and an official of the International Biathlon Union .

Sporting successes

Olympic games

• 2002: 34th place (individual)
• 2006: 14th (sprint), 19th (pursuit), 8th (mass start)
• 2010: 24th place (individual)

World championships

• 2008: 2 × bronze (pursuit, relay)

European championships

• 1999: 2 × gold (sprint, relay)
• 2001: 1 × gold (relay)

World cup

• eight wins, including three individual wins
• five second places
• five third places
• 12th place overall ranking 2005/2006
• 14th place overall ranking 2007/2008
• 19th place overall ranking 2008/2009

Junior World Championships

• 1997: 1 × gold (relay)
• 1998: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (team)

Junior European Championships

• 1997: 1 × gold (relay)

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place		3			5	8th
2nd place	1	1	2	1	5	10
3rd place	1	2	2		5	10
Top 10	6th	13	11	6th	19th	55
Scoring	22nd	49	51	24	25th	171
Starts	37	107	77	24	25th	270

Others

Alexander Wolf advised the writer Ina May , who wrote a detective novel entitled The 6th Mistake , the plot of which is set in the milieu of the top biathlon.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Wolf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexander Wolf's website
• Alexander Wolf (biathlete) in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viktoria Franke: Alexander Wolf says goodbye to biathlon. Biathlon-online.de, March 14, 2013, accessed on March 14, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Ilka Schweikl: Alexander Wolf is the new head coach of the Swiss biathletes. xc-ski.de, April 16, 2020, accessed on April 16, 2020 .