Christian Hoffmann

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Christian Hoffmann Cross-country skiing
Full name Christian Hoffmann
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 22nd December 1974 (age 45)
place of birth Aigen im Mühlkreis , Austria
Career
society SU Bohemian Forest
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 1998 Nagano 50 km freestyle
gold 2002 Salt Lake City 30 km freestyle
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
gold 1999 Ramsau 4 × 10 km relay
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup 12/14/1994
 World Cup victories in individual 2 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 15th ( 1998/99 )
 Sprint World Cup 6. (1998/99)
 Distance World Cup 12. ( 2004/05 )
 Tour de Ski 17th ( 2007/08 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Sprint races 0 1 2
 Distance races 2 5 9
last change: March 24, 2013
Christian Hoffmann at an event in the Tenne Schladming, 2012

Christian Hoffmann (born December 22, 1974 in Aigen im Mühlkreis , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian cross-country skier .

Career

In his youth, Hoffmann attended the Nordic Training Center Eisenerz in Styria , where he completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic. He starts for the Ski-Union Böhmerwald and competed in his first race in 1988, joining the ÖSV team in 1992.

After several notable results, his sporting career reached his first, small climax with third place in the 1997 World Cup sprint in Milan . In 1998 he won his first World Cup race in Nové Město na Moravě with the Austrian 4 × 10 km relay, took several top 3 places and reached fourth place in the overall sprint World Cup ranking. At the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, he surprisingly won the bronze medal in the 50 km run and thus won only the second Olympic medal for Austria in cross-country skiing. In this race he managed to run up to Bjørn Dæhlie, who started half a minute earlier, and keep up with his pace for almost 40 km.

At the 1999 home world championship in Ramsau am Dachstein , he won the gold medal with the Austrian 4 × 10 km relay, which started as an outsider, as the final runner in the sprint to the finish against the Norwegian Thomas Alsgaard .

In addition, he finished seventh in the 30 km run ( freestyle ) at the world championship and reached two third places in world cup races. In the 1999/2000 season he won a World Cup race with the relay and achieved several top 3 placements in individual and relay races. The 2001 World Championships were not quite as successful, but with two fifth places in the 50 km run (freestyle) and in the relay he was able to confirm his affiliation with the world elite.

Christian Hoffmann celebrated his greatest success at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City . Over 30 km (freestyle) he won the gold medal ahead of his teammate Michail Botwinow and thus became the first Austrian Olympic champion in cross-country skiing. However, he had to wait a long time for this gold medal. The original winner, the German Johann Mühlegg starting for Spain, was convicted of doping with Darbepoetin and excluded from the games. The International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS) ruled that Johann Mühlegg had to return all of the Olympic medals he had won in Salt Lake City because of his offense. The International Olympic Committee implemented this decision on March 15, 2004, making the second-placed Austrian two years late become Olympic champion.

In 2003 Christian Hoffmann won his first World Cup victory in an individual competition over 10 km freestyle in Ramsau am Dachstein and took second place over 15 km freestyle at the World Cup in Nové Město na Moravě . At the 2003 World Championships in Val di Fiemme , he did not get beyond tenth place in the 50 km competition. His last World Cup victory was in Pragelato in 2004. In the same year he also achieved third place in the 15 km freestyle at the World Cup in La Clusaz, France . In 2005, after several top placements in the World Cup, he came to the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf as a favorite . However, there he fell ill with the flu virus and was unable to take part in any race in the first week. In his only appearance shortly before the end of the world championship, he helped the Austrian 4 × 10 km relay with the second-best running time of all participants to a fifth place. Only one week later he showed that he could have won a medal at this world championship at the World Cup run in Lahti , where he finished second in the 15 km freestyle race. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 he ran for more than 50 km in a top group of around 20 people, but fell back in the last kilometers and ended up in 25th place.

Doping ban

After Hoffmann was suspended by NADA on December 31, 2009 , he announced his retirement on the same day. As early as March 2009, Hoffmann had been blocked by the FIS for two weeks because of excessive blood values ; now he was accused of participating in the ownership and operation of a blood centrifuge.

In June 2010 the Vienna Public Prosecutor announced that the criminal proceedings against Hoffmann would be discontinued. The prosecution did not question that Hoffmann, together with the cyclists Bernhard Kohl and Michael Rasmussen, had participated in the purchase of a blood centrifuge by Kohl's manager Stefan Matschiner , but after the Austrian anti-doping law came into force in August 2008, the three athletes “did not make any contribution “To prove blood doping .

Christian Hoffmann was banned for six years by the Legal Commission of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) on December 5, 2011. During the trial, he was charged with violating the anti-doping regulations, namely systematic blood doping from 2003 to 2006. Hoffmann was able to record the judges' discussions through a cell phone that was intentionally left in the room. This " tape affair " threw a crooked light on the members of the legal commission, both with regard to the decision-making process and because of derogatory conversations. On July 17, 2012, the ban was reduced to 2 years after a five-person committee of the Hoffmann Independent Arbitration Commission of the accusation of "(co) possession of equipment for the purpose of doping in sport" and of "dealing with or administering acquitted of prohibited methods by giving equipment for doping purposes in sport to other athletes ”.

Off the trail

On April 27, 2004 he published his autobiography with the author C. Diendorfer entitled “From prison brother to Olympic champion”. On his 30th birthday on December 19, 2004, a stamp from Christian Hoffmann was issued in Austria . The motif shows his sprint to the finish line at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games.

In August 2012, Christian Hoffmann announced that, after his reduced doping ban had expired, he would take part in the 2012 cross-country skiing championships with scooters over 50 km. In January 2013 he won the most famous ski touring piste race “Mountain Attack” in Saalbach-Hinterglemm with a clear lead of more than four minutes. He was able to repeat this success in 2014 and 2016.

successes

Olympic games

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Nagano 1998 50 km 3.  
Salt Lake City 2002 30 km 1.  
4 × 10 km relay 4th  

World championships

WM date discipline medal
Ramsau 1999 February 26, 1999 4 × 10 km relay gold

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. December 21, 2003 AustriaAustria Ramsau am Dachstein 10 km freestyle
2. March 14, 2004 ItalyItaly Pragelato 30 km freestyle

Medals at national championships

  • 1994 : Silver with the relay
  • 1995 : Silver over 10 km, bronze in the pursuit, bronze with the relay
  • 1996 : Bronze with the relay
  • 1997 : Silver over 10 km, silver over 50 km
  • 1998 : Gold in pursuit, silver with the relay, bronze over 50 km
  • 1999 : Silver over 30 km
  • 2001 : Gold over 50 km
  • 2005 : Silver over 30 km
  • 2006 : Gold over 30 km, silver in the pursuit
  • 2007 : Gold over 30 km
  • 2008 : Gold over 30 km
  • 2009 : Gold over 10 km, gold in pursuit

More Achievements

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
1995/96 26th 52. - - - -
1996/97 80 33. 26th 31 1 45 32.
1997/98 106 24. 10 48. 1 96 20th
1998/99 248 15th 114 14 1 287 6th
1999/2000 264 20th 15
205		 48. 1
7. 2 		44 34.
2000/01 253 19th - - 51 30th
2001/02 163 28. - - 10 63.
2002/03 148 33. - - - -
2003/04 260 24. 260 17th - -
2004/05 226 23. 226 12. - -
2005/06 99 56. 99 36. - -
2006/07 154 34. 154 18th - -
2007/08 236 32. 172 22nd 8th 96.
2008/09 67 77. 67 46. - -
1 Long distance world cup
2 Middle distance world cup

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The suspension follows the end of his career - Hoffmann quits . In: Der Standard , January 1, 2010
  2. ^ Criminal proceedings against Kohl and Hoffmann stopped . In: Der Standard , June 10, 2010
  3. ↑ Doping: Hoffmann suspended for 6 years (December 6, 2011)
  4. ^ Message from ESPN from December 6, 2011
  5. ↑ Doping: Hoffmann embarrasses NADA , courier from March 30, 2012, accessed on January 21, 2018
  6. ^ A cell phone and many allegations ( memento of March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Wiener Zeitung of March 21, 2012.
  7. ^ Case of Christian Hoffmann . ( Memento from April 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 153 kB) NADA press release, July 18, 2012
  8. ↑ Comeback . Orf.at, August 18, 2012
  9. ^ Sieg Mountain Attack Orf.at, January 12, 2013
  10. ↑ Parliamentary correspondence of the Austrian Parliament on the 15th sports report of October 1, 1999 (accessed on November 11, 2009)

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd December 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Aigen in the Mühlkreis