Andreas Zingerle

Andreas Zingerle
Association	Italy
birthday	November 25, 1961
place of birth	Antholz
Career
job	Carabinieri
society	Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
World Cup victories	6 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 4 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1988 Calgary Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1986 Oslo Season gold 1990 Kontiolahti Season gold 1993 Borovets singles gold 1993 Borovets Season gold 1994 Canmore team
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	3. (1990/91)
last change: January 30, 2009

Andreas Zingerle (born November 25, 1961 in Antholz ) is a former Italian biathlete . The South Tyrolean took part in four Olympic Winter Games and several Biathlon World Championships . During his active time he was one of the best and most successful biathletes in his country and was at times among the world's best.

Andreas Zingerle lives in Antholz, works as a police officer and started for Centro Sportivo Carabinieri . He started biathlon in 1979 and has been active in the biathlon world cup since the mid-1980s . The first career highlight was the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , in the sprint he was 29th and achieved a first good placement with ninth place in the individual. He achieved the same placement a year later in the sprint race of the 1985 biathlon world championships in Ruhpolding . He also ran to 27th place in the individual. Also at the following World Championships in Oslo , Zingerle finished ninth in the individual and reached thirteenth place in the sprint. 1987 came eleventh in the individual and fourteen in the sprint of Lake Placid . The second Olympic Winter Games in 1988 for the Italian in Calgary were successful . Although he was disqualified in the individual competition, he was 15th in the sprint and won the bronze medal alongside Werner Kiem , Gottlieb Taschler and Johann Passler as the final runner of the relay.

The Biathlon World Championships in 1989 in Feistritz an der Drau were also successful for Zingerle , where the Italian was fifth in the individual and tenth in the sprint. At the 1990 World Championships , Zingerle won the gold medal with Pieralberto Carrara , Wilfried Pallhuber and Passler in the relay and achieved further good results in the sprint as fifth and in the individual as seventh. The 1991 World Championships in Lahti brought a mixture of unfortunate but nevertheless very good results . As fourth in the sprint and with the relay, he missed medals and was also eighth in the individual. In the overall ranking of the World Cup, Zingerle achieved third place. Also at his third Olympic Games in 1992 in Albertville , Zingerle just missed a medal with the relay as fourth. At the competitions in Les Saisies , the Italian was also 17th in the individual and seventh in the sprint.

Zingerle's greatest successes followed in the 1992/93 season . He not only won an individual World Cup race in Oberhof , but also the individual title at the 1993 Biathlon World Championships in Borovets . By winning the title with the relay to Pallhuber, Passler and Carrara, Zingerle became the most successful athlete of these world championships. The last Olympic Winter Games for the Italian in 1994 in Lillehammer brought another good result with sixth place in the individual. In the sprint he reached the 44th place, with the relay he came in sixth place. In Canmore he then won the world championship title in the non-Olympic team competition with Carrara, Pallhuber and Hubert Leitgeb . In 1995 , Zingerle ran in Antholz at his last world championships. At the end of his career he reached the 64th place in the individual. After the season he ended his career.

After having worked there since 2010, Zingerle was appointed sole head coach of the Italian national biathlon team in 2018 when Patrick Favre and Patrick Oberegger moved to France and Norway.

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	2				1	2	5
2nd place	2						2
3rd place	3	3				2	8th
Top 10	22nd	21st			1	8th	52
Scoring	37	37			1	8th	83
Starts	52	53			1	8th	114
Status : data not complete

Web links

• Andreas Zingerle in the IBU database (English)
• Andreas Zingerle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Final Spin on the Coaching Carousel Part 3: Norway, Italy, and Russia on biathlonworld.com, accessed on October 23, 2018