Daniel Mesotitsch

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Daniel Mesotitsch biathlon
Daniel Mesotitsch
Full name Daniel Mesotitsch
Association AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 22nd May 1976 (age 44)
place of birth Villach , Austria
size 181 cm
Weight 78 kg
Career
society Union Rosenbach
Debut in the World Cup 2002
World Cup victories 8 (3 individual wins)
status resigned
End of career March 26, 2019
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver 2010 Vancouver Season
bronze 2014 Sochi Season
IBU Biathlon world championships
bronze Hochfilzen 2005 Season
silver Pyeongchang 2009 Season
bronze Hochfilzen 2017 Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 12. ( 2009/10 )
Individual World Cup 3rd ( 2009/10 )
Sprint World Cup 13th ( 2008/09 )
Pursuit World Cup 12. ( 2009/10 )
Mass start world cup 13. ( 2008/09 ), ( 2009/10 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
singles 2 1 1
persecution 1 0 2
Season 5 5 10
last change: January 4th, 2019

Daniel Mesotitsch (born May 22, 1976 in Villach ) is a former Austrian biathlete .

life and career

Zöllner has been running biathlon since 1997 and became a member of the Austrian national team in 2002. Mesotitsch is trained by Reinhard Gösweiner . He lives in Hochfilzen and starts for Union Rosenbach. In 2002 he won his first individual world cup race over 20 km in Antholz . 8 years later he achieved his second World Cup victory, also in Antholz, in the 12.5 km pursuit. There are also 4 World Cup victories with the Austrian relay.

At the Biathlon World Championships in 2005 in Hochfilzen , he won the bronze medal in the 4 × 7.5 km relay competition together with Friedrich Pinter , Wolfgang Rottmann and Christoph Sumann . At the 2009 World Cup in Pyeongchang , Daniel Mesotitsch, as the starting runner of the Austrian relay team, won the silver medal with Simon Eder , Dominik Landertinger and Christoph Sumann. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games , he won the silver medal in the relay - again with Eder, Landertinger and Sumann. Four years later, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he won the bronze medal with the relay, again with the same line-up.

In 2005 he received the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria .

On March 26, 2019, Mesotitsch ended his career at the Austrian State Championships in Obertilliach .

World Cup victories

Individual world cup victories

date place country discipline
January 24, 2002 Antholz Italy Single (20 km)
January 24, 2010 Antholz Italy 12.5 km pursuit
December 16, 2010 Pokljuka Slovenia Single (20 km)

Relay World Cup victories

date place country discipline
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

Biathlon 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
placement singles sprint persecution Mass start Season total
1st place 2 1 5 8th
2nd place 1 5 6th
3rd place 1 2 10 13
Top 10 12 12 10 8th 65 107
Scoring 31 71 64 39 73 278
Starts 54 135 90 39 73 391
As of January 4, 2019

Web links

Commons : Daniel Mesotitsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • From Grossglockner to Klammer stitch. 100 years of skiing in Carinthia. Pages 74-77, Daniel Mesotitsch: Mesotitsch forbids the body to breathe, Carinthia Verlag, Vienna a. a. 2007, published by Landesschiverband and Kleine Zeitung, ISBN 978-3-85378-622-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. Daniel Mesotitsch. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .
  2. Mesotitsch ends his career at the state championship. In: sport.ORF.at. March 22, 2019, accessed March 22, 2019 .