André Sehmisch

André Sehmisch
Association	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	September 27, 1964
place of birth	Steinheidel-Erlabrunn,  GDR
Career
job	Ski instructor federal police officer
Admission to the national team	1984
Debut in the World Cup	1984
World Cup victories	1
status	resigned
End of career	1993
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 3 × 4 × JWM medals 3 × 2 × 0 × National medals 5 × 3 × 1 ×
Biathlon world championships silver 1985 Ruhpolding Season silver 1986 Oslo singles bronze 1986 Oslo sprint silver 1986 Oslo Season bronze 1987 Lake Placid sprint gold 1987 Lake Placid Season gold 1989 Feistritz an der Drau Season bronze 1989 Feistritz an der Drau team bronze 1990 Kontiolahti Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 1983 Antholz Single (15 km) silver 1983 Antholz Sprint (10 km) gold 1983 Antholz Season gold 1984 Chamonix Single (15 km) silver 1984 Chamonix Sprint (10 km)
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1.  ( 1985/86 )
last change: March 31, 2008

André Sehmisch (born September 27, 1964 in Steinheidel-Erlabrunn ) is a former German biathlete . He was one of the world's best biathletes in the 1980s.

André Sehmisch grew up in the Ore Mountains and began his first attempts on skis in 1967. Around the same time he started school, he joined the SG Dynamo Schwarzenberg in 1971 and started biathlon here . The first trainers were Werner Siegel, Wido Kühne and Jörg Deckert. Two years later he won his first medals in cross-country skiing as well as in biathlon and athletics. In 1977 he was delegated to the children's and youth sports school in Altenberg and switched to SG Dynamo Zinnwald , where he was initially trained by Wolfgang Sturm. Since 1982 he was part of the GDR junior national team in biathlon, where he was trained by Helmut Klöpsch, Kurt Hinze and Wilfried Bock. In 1983 he won the gold medals in the individual and with the relay as well as the silver medal in the sprint at the Junior World Championships in Antholz . A year later he repeated these successes in Chamonix , apart from a medal with the relay.

A year later he moved up to the GDR national team. Klöpsch, Harald Böse , Frank Ullrich and Steffen Thierfelder were his trainers here. He contested his first biathlon world cup race in Falun and was initially 21st in an individual. In the second race he was seventh and thus achieved his first top ten placement. These good results should become common for Sehmisch for the next few years. In Ruhpolding he ran his first world championship with the biathlon world championships in 1985 , where he finished eleventh in the individual and 15th in the sprint competition. With Frank-Peter Roetsch , Matthias Jacob and Ralf Göthel he won the silver medal as the starting runner of the relay behind the Soviet Union. Then Sehmisch had his most successful season. He won the overall ranking of the 1985/86 World Cup , as well as silver in the individual behind the three-time gold winner of the World Cup Valery Medwedzew , bronze in the sprint and, together with Jürgen Wirth , Roetsch and Jacob, again as the final runner, the silver medal with the relay at the Biathlon World Championships 1986 in Oslo . In 1986 he also passed his Abitur and joined the German People's Police as a sports instructor . A year later, Sehmisch began studying economics for domestic trade in Dresden . In the same year he married and had their first son with his wife. Sehmisch also achieved successes again at the 1987 Biathlon World Championships in Lake Placid . In the sprint he won the bronze medal in a triple success of the GDR men and together with Wirth, Roetsch and Jacob gold with the relay.

In 1988 Sehmisch started in Calgary at his only Winter Olympics . Although he did not win any medals, he achieved very good results in all three races. In the sprint and with the relay he was fifth and seventh in the individual. The 1989 World Championships in Feistritz an der Drau did not bring an outstanding individual result with 15th place in the sprint, but Sehmisch won the title with the GDR relay, which now also included Frank Luck and Birk Anders with Andreas Heymann , Raik Dittrich and Steffen Hoos bronze in the team competition. The only appearance at the Biathlon World Championships in 1990 was the relay race in Kontiolahti , where he again won a bronze medal at the World Championships with Luck, Mark Kirchner and Anders.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Sehmisch resigned from the People's Police in 1991 and switched to the Federal Border Police . He went to the BGS Sportschule Bad Endorf , switched to SC Ruhpolding and moved from Altenberg to Ruhpolding. Now Roland Biermeier and Engelbert Sklorz were his trainers. Between 1991 and 1993 he was part of the German national team, where Kurt Hinze, Norbert Baier and Frank Ullrich were his coaches. The missions for Sehmisch became rarer now, however, as the reunited German association mainly planned with younger athletes. The last world championship of Sehmisch was the world title fights in 1991 in Lahti . There he competed in the individual for the injured Frank Luck and placed in the top 10 in the last shooting, in the team race he narrowly missed a final medal in fourth place. In the 1992/93 season , the Biathlon European Cup became his new main field of activity. Behind René König , he finished second in the overall standings. In 1993 he ended his active biathlon career.

Nevertheless, Sehmisch continued his sporting career in a different way and now mainly competed in ski marathons, such as the Vasaloppet , the Engadine ski marathon , the Tyrolean ski marathon , the Pustertal ski marathon and the Koasa run . After completing his training at BGS, Sehmisch moved to the Rosenheim department at BGS. He became a cross-country skiing instructor for the Chiemgau Ski Association and was sporadically responsible for Tobias Angerer and Bernd Eisenbichler , among others . Four years later he moved back to his home in Saxony and went to BGSI Zinnwald. Sehmisch has lived in Bärenstein since 1999 . He has been running a ski school since 2000. Since 2001 he has worked for the DSV as a Ski Nordic instructor and since 2004 as a Nordic Walking trainer . André Sehmisch is also a member of the SMC team, which has set itself the goal of leading people to success.

Sehmisch now works as an officer in the federal police .

In 1986 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver for his sporting successes .

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place		2				3	5
2nd place	3	1				2	6th
3rd place	3	3			1	1	8th
Top 10	11	14th			2	7th	34
Scoring	17th	19th			2	7th	45
Starts	17th	19th			2	7th	45
Status : data not complete

Web links

• Sehmisch's ski school in the East Ore Mountains
• ( http://www.andresehmisch.de )
• André Sehmisch in the IBU database (English)
• André Sehmisch in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Single receipts

1. ↑ Biathlon national coach Ullrich wants to defend himself
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7