Christoph Sumann
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| birthday | January 19, 1976 (age 44) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Judenburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 181 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| job | Federal policeman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biathlon cross-country skiing |
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| society | Union SV Frojach Katsch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christoph Sumann (born January 19, 1976 in Judenburg ) is a former Austrian biathlete and cross-country skier .
Career
At the beginning of his sporting career, Sumann was a successful cross-country skier who joined Austria's junior team in the mid-1990s and was able to establish himself there. As a junior he was able to achieve overall victory in the Continental Cup in the 1995/96 winter sports season. He started in the World Cup , where his only two top 10 finishes remained two fourths in sprints in December 1998. In 1999 he therefore decided to take up biathlon .
His first biathlon season in 2000/01 was rather unspectacular in terms of sport. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 he reached a ninth place in the sprint. In the 2001/02 biathlon season he won the relay competition in Pokljuka in December and in the next competitions in Osrblie he achieved his first individual victory in the Biathlon World Cup on December 21, 2001 in the 10 km sprint . He finished the season with 18th place in the overall World Cup.
Subsequently, he achieved a few top 10 placements in the World Cup, but he did not make it to the podium again until January 2007 at the World Cup in Ruhpolding . On January 20, 2007 in Pokljuka, he won his second World Cup victory in the 12.5 km pursuit. A day later, he won the 15K mass start competition.
In December 2008, as a replacement for Andreas Birnbacher at the Biathlon World Team Challenge 2008 at Schalke, he and the German Martina Beck took second place behind Oksana Chwostenko and Andrij Derysemlja (Ukraine) and ahead of the Germans Kati Wilhelm and Michael Rösch . A year later he won with Kati Wilhelm.
With his 1st place in the Pokljuka singles in the 2009/2010 season , Sumann is one of the few biathletes to have achieved a World Cup victory in every discipline. The Styrian was also the first Austrian in biathlon history to wear the overall leader's jersey in the World Cup. After Dominik Landertinger (mass start World Cup 2008/09) Sumann was the second Austrian in the 2009/10 World Cup to win a special World Cup - the individual World Cup.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he won the silver medal behind Björn Ferry in the pursuit. In the previous sprint competition, he had finished 12th. He finished 4th in the 15K mass start after having technical problems with his rifle during the third shooting . In the final relay competition he won his second silver medal together with Daniel Mesotitsch , Simon Eder and Dominik Landertinger . Sumann won two bronze and two silver medals at biathlon world championships between 2005 and 2011.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he won - again with Mesotitsch, Eder and Landertinger - the bronze medal in the relay competition. He then announced that he would end his career after the current 2013/14 season.
Even after the end of his career, Christoph Sumann remained active in sports. He completed Ironman Austria in 2014 and took part in the Race Around Austria together with Andreas Goldberger , Benjamin Karl and Axel Naglich . The season took fourth place.
In the civilian profession, Sumann is an executive officer of the Federal Police . Since 2014 he has been one of the co-commentators of the ORF in the biathlon department .
Sporting successes
Olympic games
- 2002 in Salt Lake City: 6th place with the relay
- 2006 in Turin: 7th place in the pursuit, 9th place in the mass start
- 2010 in Vancouver: Silver in the pursuit and with the relay, 4th place in the mass start, 8th place in the individual
- 2014 in Sochi: 20th sprint, 12th pursuit, 24th individual, 27th mass start, bronze with the relay
World championships
Cross-country skiing
biathlon
- 2001 in Pokljuka : 8th place with the relay
- 2003 in Khanty-Mansiysk : 8th place in the relay and in the sprint, 10th place in the individual and in the pursuit
- 2004 in Oberhof : 9th place with the relay
- 2005 in Hochfilzen : bronze with the relay
- 2007 in Antholz : 6th place with the relay, 7th place in the mass start
- 2008 in Östersund : 4th place with the relay
- 2009 in Pyeongchang : Silver in the mass start and with the relay.
- 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk : bronze in singles, 7th place with the mixed relay, 9th place with the relay
- 2012 in Ruhpolding : 5th place with the relay
- 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě : 5th place with the relay
Biathlon world cup
- 1st place in the individual world cup, 2nd place overall world cup, 3rd place sprint world cup in the 2009/10 season
- 1st place in the relay world cup in the 2008/09 season
- 9th place in the overall World Cup and 2nd place in the 2006/07 Mass Start World Cup
- 6 World Cup victories in individual competitions
- 5 World Cup victories with the relay
Individual world cup victories
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| December 21, 2001 | Osrblie | Slovakia | 10 km sprint |
| January 20, 2007 | Pokljuka | Slovenia | 12.5 km pursuit |
| January 21, 2007 | Pokljuka | Slovenia | 15 km mass start |
| January 11, 2009 | Oberhof | Germany | 15 km mass start |
| December 17, 2009 | Pokljuka | Slovenia | 20 km individual |
| March 16, 2013 | Khanty-Mansiysk | Russia | 12.5 km pursuit |
Relay World Cup victories
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| December 15, 2001 | Pokljuka | Slovenia | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
| December 21, 2008 | Hochfilzen | Austria | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
| January 8, 2009 | Oberhof | Germany | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
| December 13, 2009 | Hochfilzen | Austria | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
| January 9, 2014 | Ruhpolding | Germany | 4 × 7.5 km relay |
Austrian championships
- 2001: 1st place in the sprint
- 2002: 1st place in sprint, 1st place in pursuit
- 2003: 1st place in the pursuit
- 2004: 1st place in the mass start
- 2005: 1st place in the sprint
- 2006: 1st place in individual, 1st place in sprint, 1st place in pursuit
- 2011: 1st place in the roller ski individual
Awards
Web links
- Website by Christoph Sumann
- Christoph Sumann in the IBU database (English)
- Christoph Sumann in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Sumann. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sumann, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian biathlete and cross-country skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th January 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Judenburg , Styria , Austria |