Christoph Stephan
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Full name | Christoph Stephan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Association | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | January 12, 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Rudolstadt (GDR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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job | Police officer ( Federal Police ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | WSV Oberhof 05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Mark Kirchner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
European Cup / IBU Cup victories | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debut in the World Cup | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup victories | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mass start world cup | 6th ( 2008/09 ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: January 9, 2014 |
Christoph Stephan (born January 12, 1986 in Rudolstadt ) is a former German biathlete .
Career
Christoph Stephan, who grew up in Rudolstadt and lives in Oberhof, starts for WSV Oberhof 05. He took his first steps on skis at SV 1883 Schwarza , before moving to the sports high school in Oberhof in 1996 and becoming a member of WSV Oberhof 05. He is trained by former biathlete Mark Kirchner . Stephan was able to achieve great success at the Junior World Championships 2007 in Martell . After finishing sixth in the singles, he won the sprint, the pursuit and the relay, becoming a three-time junior world champion.
He made his debut in the biathlon world cup in 2006 in Kontiolahti in the sprint, which he finished in 56th place. He achieved his first World Cup points in March 2007 when he finished 14th in an individual race in Lahti . A week later he finished 11th in an individual race at the World Cup in Oslo . He achieved his first top ten placement in 2008 on his birthday in Ruhpolding with an 8th place in the sprint. At the beginning of the 2008/09 season he was able to improve his hitherto best result by one place in the first pursuit race of the season in Östersund . He also achieved the best running time in the race. Just three days earlier, Stephan finished 95th in the first individual of the season, his worst result in the World Cup to date. He achieved the first podium of his career during his fourth World Cup relay operation in January 2009 in Ruhpolding, when the relay team, which was reformed due to Michael Greis ' injury and made up of Rösch , Stephan, Peiffer and Lang, surprisingly came in second. Stephan had shortened the gap to the later victorious Norwegians to 2.4 seconds after only one shooting error. His first World Cup victory came a short time later on January 25, 2009 in the mass start race in Antholz , after only one shooting error on the home straight he was able to prevail against Dominik Landertinger and Ivan Tscheresow . Stephan was nominated as one of six German starters for the world championship in Pyeongchang . His first competition ended with 22nd place in the quadruple triumph of the Norwegians in the sprint, in the subsequent pursuit race he fell back to 41st place with eight shooting errors. For the individual competition over 20 km, he therefore only moved up to the team because Andreas Birnbacher was originally supposed to be ill . Here he was much better at shooting when he hit 19 out of 20 targets. He finished second behind Ole Einar Bjørndalen and achieved the greatest success of his career to date. With this performance he qualified as 15th of the overall World Cup at this point, also for the final mass start race, in which he finished 21st. At the final competition in Pyeongchang, he won the bronze medal in the men's relay together with Michael Rösch, Arnd Peiffer and Michael Greis. At the 2009 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof, Christoph Stephan and Magdalena Neuner , Tina Bachmann and Michael Rösch won the gold medal in the mixed relay and the sprint title. He came in second in the pursuit. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, he reached 19th place in the sprint, 23rd place in the mass start, 29th place in the individual race and 30th place in the pursuit in the individual competitions.
In the 2011/12 season , Christoph Stephan voluntarily refrained from participating in the World Cup and the home World Cup in Ruhpolding due to health problems . In the long term, he wanted to prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .
For the Biathlon World Cup 2012/2013 Stephan was assigned to the promotional squad of the German national team. In the 2013/2014 Olympic season he was promoted to the World Cup team for the first races and qualified for participation in the Olympic Games.
Stephan is engaged to the former biathlete Sabrina Buchholz .
In April 2015 it was announced that Christoph Stephan had retired from his active career to concentrate on working for the Federal Police.
statistics
World Cup placements
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).
- 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
- Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
- Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
- Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
- Relay: including mixed relays
placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | total |
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1st place | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
2nd place | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
3rd place | 1 | 3 | 4th | |||
Top 10 | 2 | 6th | 4th | 3 | 14th | 29 |
Scoring | 9 | 33 | 18th | 16 | 14th | 90 |
Starts | 16 | 51 | 30th | 16 | 14th | 127 |
Status: after the end of your career |
winter Olympics
Results at Olympic Winter Games:
Individual competitions | Relay competitions | |||||
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sprint | persecution | singles | Mass start | Men's relay | Mixed relay | |
2010 Winter Olympics | Vancouver | 19th | 30th | 29 | 23. | - | |
Olympic Winter Games 2014 | Sochi | 57. | 43. | - | - | - | - |
Awards
- Golden Ski 2009
- Thuringian Sportsman of the Year 2009
Web links
- Christoph Stephan in the IBU database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ First Norwegian relay win of the season . biathlon-online.de. January 15, 2009. Accessed on January 26, 2009. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IBU WORLD CUP - Ruhpolding (GER) Men Relay . International Biathlon Union. January 15, 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
- ↑ IBU WORLD CUP - Anterselva (ITA) Men 15 km Mass Start . International Biathlon Union. January 25, 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
- ↑ Vancouver 2010 15 km mass start men ( Memento from February 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ mass starts at the Olympics - biathletes targeted by criticism
- ↑ Christoph Stephan: Different than planned . November 27, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
- ↑ Biathlon: Gone with the Wind. In: Badische Zeitung. November 25, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Christoph Stephan: “Just watching was hard” . biathlon-online.de. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
- ↑ Christoph Stephan ends biathlon career . biathlon-online.de. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stephan, Christoph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1986 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rudolstadt , German Democratic Republic |