Christoph Bieler

Christoph Bieler
Christoph Bieler (2018)
nation	Austria
birthday	October 28, 1977
place of birth	Hall in Tirol
job	Regular soldier
Career
society	HSV Absam-Bergisel
status	resigned
End of career	2015
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × ÖM medals 5 × 6 × 10 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2002 Salt Lake City team gold 2006 Turin team bronze 2014 Sochi team  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2003 Val di Fiemme team bronze 2005 Oberstdorf team  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships bronze 1997 Canmore team
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 14, 1997
World Cup victories (individual)	6 ( details )
Overall World Cup	4th ( 2006/07 )
Sprint World Cup	4. ( 2006/07 , 2007/08 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 1 3 3  sprint 3 0 2  Mass start 2 0 3  team 1 0 2
last change: January 25, 2014

Christoph Bieler (born October 28, 1977 in Hall in Tirol ) is a former Austrian Nordic combined athlete .

Career

The Tyrolean starts for HSV Absam-Bergisel and is considered one of the best ski jumpers among the Nordic combined athletes. On January 25, 2004 he reached his first podium in the mass start competition in Sapporo with 3rd place and after ten years in the World Cup (and several podiums) he won his first World Cup race on December 3, 2006 in Lillehammer ahead of the Finn Anssi Koivuranta , who on December 16, 2006 with victory in the mass start competition in Ramsau, again ahead of Koivuranta, the second triumph followed. So far, the Tyrolean has six World Cup victories.

Christoph Bieler has celebrated his greatest successes with the Austrian team so far. He was crowned Olympic champion at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, together with Michael Gruber , Felix Gottwald and Mario Stecher, and was already world champion at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003  - in a season with Michael Gruber, Wilhelm Denifl and Felix Gottwald. An individual victory at major events has not yet been granted to the Tyrolean.

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On April 15, 2015 Bieler announced the end of his career at the age of 37. A few days later he was appointed jumping coach for the Austrian national team.

successes

Medals at Winter Olympics

• Salt Lake City 2002 : Bronze medal in team competition
• Turin 2006 : gold medal in team competition
• Sochi 2014 : bronze medal in team competition

Medals at world championships

• Val di Fiemme 2003 : gold medal in team competition
• Oberstdorf 2005 : bronze medal in team competition

Austrian championships

• Murau 1998 : 1st sprint
• Saalfelden 1999 : 2nd individual
• Andelsbuch 2000 : 2nd individual
• Stams 2001 : 2nd individual
• Stams 2002 : 3rd individual
• Ramsau, Innsbruck 2004 : 1st single NS; 3. Sprint GS
• Bischofshofen 2005 : 3rd single NS; 3. Sprint GS
• Stams, Innsbruck 2006 : 2nd single NS; 3. Sprint GS
• Ramsau, Bischofshofen 2007 : 1st single NS; 2. Sprint GS
• Oberstdorf 2008 : 2nd mass start; 3rd sprint
• Villach 2009 : 1st mass start
• Stams 2010 : 3rd single NS
• Hinzenbach, Bischofshofen 2011 : 3rd Rollerski / NS; 3. Rollerski / GS
• Stams, Innsbruck 2014 : 3rd single NS; 1. Single GS

World Cup victories

singles

date	place	country	discipline
December 3, 2006	Lillehammer	Norway	sprint
December 16, 2006	Ramsau am Dachstein	Austria	Mass start
January 13, 2007	Val di Fiemme	Italy	Mass start
December 9, 2007	Trondheim	Norway	sprint
January 26, 2008	Seefeld	Austria	sprint
February 10, 2013	Almaty	Kazakhstan	singles

team

date	place	country	discipline
March 16, 2000	Santa Caterina	Italy	Team mass start K90 / 3x5 km 1

¹With Michael Gruber and Felix Gottwald

statistics

Participation in Winter Olympics and World Championships

winter Olympics

Year and place	competition
	sprint	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	team
Nagano 1998	-	-	-	4th
Salt Lake City 2002	16.	15th	-	3.
Turin 2006	23.	13.	-	1.
Vancouver 2010	-	25th	10.	-
Sochi 2014	-	11.	17th	3.

Nordic World Ski Championships

Year and place	competition
	sprint	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	Mass start	Team NH	Team LH	Team sprint
2001 Lahti	-	26th	-	-	-	-	-
2003 Val di Fiemme	13.	6th	-	-	1.	-	-
2005 Oberstdorf	14th	11.	-	-	3.	-	-
2007 Sapporo	16.	4th	-	-	4th	-	-
2009 Liberec	-	8th.	47.	6th	-	5.	-
2013 Val di Fiemme	-	16.	8th.	-	-	-	-
2015 Falun	-	-	19th	-	-	-	-

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place	1	3	2	0	1	7th
2nd place	3	0	0	0	1	4th
3rd place	3	2	3	0	4th	12
Top 10	58	32	5	5	4th	104
Scoring	86	28	3	0	0	117
Starts	159	72	15th	5	10	261
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

World Cup overall placements

season	Rank overall	Points	Rank Sprint	Points	Rank WGP	Points
1996/97	24.	309	-	-	-	-
1997/98	36.	237	-	-	-	-
1998/99	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	26th	372	-	-	-	-
2000/01	09.	870	09.	485	-	-
2001/02	20th	400	13.	244	-	-
2002/03	13.	302	16.	169	14th	18th
2003/04	09.	549	10.	209	06th	118
2004/05	09.	454	07th	235	07th	84
2005/06	08th.	706	09.	279	05.	146
2006/07	04th	679	04th	287	06th	110
2007/08	06th	766	04th	468	-	-
2008/09	13.	424	-	-	-	-
2009/10	21st	258	-	-	-	-
2010/11	20th	128	-	-	-	-
2011/12	18th	419	-	-	-	-
2012/13	13.	327	-	-	-	-
2013/14	11.	349	-	-	-	-
2014/15	22nd	182	-	-	-	-

Awards (excerpt)

• 2002: Gold medal of merit for the Republic of Austria
• 2006: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

Commons : Christoph Bieler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website by Christoph Bieler
• Christoph Bieler in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Christoph Bieler on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} List of the bearers of the badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.