Christina Kollmann-Forstner

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Christina Kollmann-Forstner Road cycling
To person
Date of birth 14th March 1988 (age 32)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
discipline Mountain bike
doping
2017-2019 several
Most important successes
State Championships
MaillotAustria.PNG 2 × Austrian state champion mountain bike marathon (2013, 2015)
Last updated: May 29, 2019

Christina Kollmann-Forstner (born March 14, 1988 in Schladming ) is a former Austrian mountain biker . She is a two-time national champion (2013, 2015). She had won titles as European mountain bike marathon champion (2017) and mountain bike marathon runner-up world champion (2018) because of doping.

Career

Christina Kollmann, born in Schladming, began her sports career as an alpine ski racer. At 16, she switched to mountain biking after realizing that she was always the best in endurance tests. The 165 centimeter tall mountain bike climbing specialist then turned more towards road racing and, from 2009, drove for three years for the Italian women's team Chirio Forno d'Asolo.

In July 2012 she became Austrian Vice State Champion Cross Country. In the same year she was hit by a car during training and suffered a traumatic brain injury. In spring 2013, she took fourth place overall in the four-day Alpentour Trophy (cross-country stage race). At the mountain bike marathon world championships in 2015 she finished eighth and won the Bike Transalp .
In 2016 she took second place at the Austrian Cross Country Championships and from then on she devoted herself again to the off-road discipline, but with a focus on the marathon discipline. In 2017 she became European marathon champion and fifth at the 2017 Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships .

Vice-world champion mountain bike marathon 2018

At the 2018 Marathon World Championships in Auronzo di Cadore, the native of Styria came second behind the Danish winner Annika Langvad .

In April 2019, Kollmann-Forstner, who lives in Upper Austria, declared her active career over at the age of 31. In May, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) opened doping proceedings against them in connection with " Operation Aderlass ". At the end of July 2019, Kollmann-Forstner was retroactively banned for four years. The suspension will expire on May 27, 2023.

Banned for doping and convicted of fraud

On July 26, 2019, Kollmann-Forstner was banned from participating in sporting events of any kind for a period of four years until May 27, 2023. In addition, all results of races in which she took part after November 1, 2016 were deleted, and titles, medals, prizes and prize money were withdrawn. In addition, she was obliged to repay all entry fees and prize money received during this period. The reason for this was that at least from November 2016 to the end of 2018 she used the forbidden method “autologous blood doping” and also acquired, owned and used 2 pens of the growth hormone Norditropin in 2018 .

At the Regional Court Ried im Innkreis it was because of fraud not final to eight months in prison due to three years condemned because it obtained on sponsorship unfairly 42,000 euros.

Sporting successes

2012
  • Austrian Vice State Champion, Cross Country
2013
2015
2017
  • European champion European champion mountain bike marathon
2018

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Lakata, silver for Geismayr and Kollmann-Forstner (September 15, 2018)
  2. ↑ Christina Kollmann-Forstner: Fire no longer found (April 17, 2019)
  3. ↑ MTB World Championship second Kollmann-Forstner under suspicion of doping (May 29, 2019)
  4. ↑ UCI statement on Christina Kollmann-Forstner (May 29, 2019)
  5. ↑ Mountain biker Kollmann-Forstner banned for four years. ORF , July 26, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  6. ↑ decision. Austrian Anti-Doping Law Commission, July 26, 2019, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
  7. ^ "Operation Aderlass": Conditional prison sentence for a cyclist. ORF, August 3, 2019, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kollmann-Forstner, Christina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kollmann, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mountain biker
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Schladming