Dominik Landertinger

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Dominik Landertinger biathlon
Dominik Landertinger (2019)
Association AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 13th March 1988 (age 32)
place of birth Braunau am Inn , Austria
size 190 cm
Weight 80 kg
Career
job soldier
society HSV Hochfilzen
Admission to the
national team 		2003
Debut in the World Cup 2007
World Cup victories 5 (2 individual wins)
status resigned
End of career April 19, 2020
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
JEM medals 2 × gold 3 × silver 0 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver 2010 Vancouver Season
silver 2014 Sochi sprint
bronze 2014 Sochi Season
bronze 2018 Pyeongchang singles
IBU Biathlon world championships
gold 2009 Pyeongchang Mass start
silver 2009 Pyeongchang Season
silver 2016 Oslo singles
bronze 2017 Hochfilzen Season
bronze 2020 Antholz singles
IBU Biathlon Junior World Championships
silver 2006 Presque Isle Youth relay
bronze 2006 Presque Isle Youth singles
gold 2007 Martell Youth relay
silver 2007 Martell Youth sprint
IBU Biathlon Junior European Championships
gold 2007 Bansko sprint
gold 2007 Bansko persecution
silver 2007 Bansko Season
silver 2008 Nove Mesto persecution
silver 2008 Nove Mesto Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 3rd ( 2012/13 )
Individual World Cup 3. ( 2015/16 )
Sprint World Cup 5. ( 2009/10 , 2013/14 )
Pursuit World Cup 5th (2009/10)
Mass start world cup 1. ( 2008/09 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
singles 0 2 2
sprint 0 4th 0
persecution 0 0 2
Mass start 2 4th 0
Season 3 7th 11
 

Dominik Landertinger (born March 13, 1988 in Braunau am Inn ) is a former Austrian biathlete . Early in his career, he achieved one of his greatest successes by winning the gold medal in the mass start at the 2009 World Championships . In the following years his performance fluctuated due to health problems and he did not win another international title, but placed himself on the podium several times. With a total of nine medals at the Winter Olympics and World Championships - five of them in individual races - by the end of his career in 2020, he is one of the most successful biathletes in Austria.

Athletic career

Successes in the youth field and world championship title (until 2009)

Landertinger attended the secondary ski school in Saalfelden and began biathlon at the age of ten. At the Nordic Training Center in Eisenerz , the young trainer Reinhard Gösweiner took care of him, who worked with Landertinger over various stages of his career - from 2010 as Austrian biathlon head trainer - and whom the athlete described as comparable to a family member. From 2003 on, Landertinger was a member of the national team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) and celebrated several successes in the youth and junior division: in 2004 he made his debut in Haute-Maurienne at the youth world championships with a ninth place in the individual; two or three years later, he won two medals in each of the world championships in his age group, including the 2007 gold with the relay. In the same year he also won both the sprint and the pursuit within the framework of the European Junior Championships.

At the third stop of the 2007/08 season in Pokljuka , Landertinger was first considered in the Austrian team for the Biathlon World Cup . Already in his first race, an individual, he reached the top 40 points with 18th place. In the following sprint he was twelfth, in the relay he was at the side of Daniel Mesotitsch , Friedrich Pinter and Simon Eder in third place Podium. From the following winter he was a member of the core World Cup team and achieved his first podium places in the individual disciplines on January 17 and 18, 2009 in Ruhpolding as second in the sprint and third in the pursuit. Landertinger had already celebrated his first World Cup victory with the relay in Oberhof . At his World Cup premiere in Pyeongchang , after 17th and 34th places in the sprint and pursuit, he first took sixth place in the 20-kilometer individual race and won the mass start race: After three penalties, he went with his teammate Christoph Sumann as well as the Russian Iwan Tscheresow and Ole Einar Bjørndalen from Norway on the final round. In the last three kilometers, the 20-year-old from Landertinger set himself apart from his more experienced competitors and led an Austrian one-two with a lead of 8.9 seconds over Sumann. At the end of the World Cup, he won the silver medal in the relay race with Mesotitsch, Eder and Sumann, where he was in the lead to final runner Sumann, who had to admit defeat Bjørndalen. Landertinger finished the season in eleventh place (thus behind Sumann as the second best Austrian) of the overall World Cup and with a second place at the season finale in Chanty-Mansijsk decided the discipline classification in the mass start before Bjørndalen for himself.

Fluctuating performance (2009 to 2016)

Landertinger (right, start number 3) at the 2016 World Cup mass start alongside Martin Fourcade (left)

Looking back on his career, Landertinger stated that he "[a] ls younger athlete [...] ran his head against the wall" and "didn't pay attention to his body", to which he attributed both his early successes and lengthy periods of weakness . In the 2009/10 World Cup season he reached sixth place overall and was the second (and last) winner of an individual race at the season finale in Khanty-Mansiysk ahead of Arnd Peiffer . In the next winter he had to skip several competitions due to illness, did not qualify for the World Cup title defense in the mass start and was 34th in the overall World Cup, far behind his previous year's results. The 2011/12 season was similar . Then in 2013 and 2014 , behind Martin Fourcade and Emil Hegle Svendsen , he finished third and fourth in the overall World Cup ranking. Landertinger only rarely finished on the podium - two second places in the 2012/13 season, one second place in 2013/14 - but continuously achieved top results and was among the top ten in seven consecutive World Cup races in January 2014. Due to bronchitis , he again missed several competitions in the winter of 2014/15 , returned weakened to the World Cup and ultimately ended the season prematurely. The following World Cup winter he finished ninth in the overall standings. He achieved his best result at the World Championships at Oslo Holmenkollen , where he won the silver medal 5.1 seconds behind Martin Fourcade.

During these years Landertinger was one of the strongest biathletes in his country and had a permanent place in the Austrian relay. There he took the position of the final runner with increasing frequency, for example at the Ruhpolding race in January 2014, when he beat the German Simon Schempp by 0.1 seconds in the finish sprint. Landertinger also took part in every relay race at major events and won a medal both at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (silver) and four years later in Sochi (bronze), together with Simon Eder, Daniel Mesotitsch and Christoph Sumann. In addition, Landertinger secured another medal in the sprint in his second Olympic participation in 2014: In second, he did not miss a shot and was 1.3 seconds behind Ole Einar Bjørndalen.

Career completion with health problems and further medals (2016 to 2020)

In September 2016, the ÖSV team doctor diagnosed Landertinger with a herniated disc on the lower lumbar spine. The 28-year-old competed in the 2016/17 season , which he finished 16th in the overall World Cup, with recurring back problems, for which he underwent intervertebral disc surgery in September 2017. As a result, he was no longer able to build on the achievements of his early and middle career in the long term: In the overall World Cup rankings between 2018 and 2020, he was ranked 41, 34 and 45. In retrospect, he spoke of "difficult years [n ] ", He could no longer cope with the high volume of training and lost" three to four percent of performance "as a result of the intervertebral disc problems.

Despite the health problems, Landertinger won two more individual medals, which he owed primarily to good shooting performance. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he was one of three athletes with 20 goals in the 20-kilometer competition and secured the bronze medal 14.2 seconds behind winner Johannes Thingnes Bø . Two years later he was also third at the Antholz World Championships over the same distance . With one mistake, he also had one of the best shooting results in the field and described the bronze medal won as “the most difficult and at the same time most beautiful” his career beyond 2020 would have been “greedy for a body and a health”. With the Antholz medal, he had the feeling of "leaving the field as a winner".

Personal

Landertinger grew up with two sisters and spent the first years of his life in Weng im Innkreis before the family moved to Tyrol . He completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer at the Nordic Training Center in Eisenerz and then joined the armed forces . He trained at the Heeressportverein Hochfilzen (HSV Hochfilzen) and lives with his partner and a son in neighboring Fieberbrunn .

Assessments

After his early successes, especially after the world championship title in 2009, Landertinger was considered the “shooting star of the scene”. Ole Einar Bjørndalen , who won the overall World Cup six times between 1998 and 2009, certified him as an exceptional talent and saw him as a potential successor. Volker Kreisl from the Süddeutsche Zeitung viewed Landertinger's spending running as characteristic. At the beginning of his career he was a “prime example of the bulky runner” and, due to the resulting overuse of his body, he risked ending up as “Björndalen's empty promise”. ÖSV sports director Toni Giger highlighted Landertinger's strength in the final rounds as particularly memorable. Landertinger's long-time trainer Reinhard Gössweiner emphasized the nerve strength of his athlete at major events.

Against the background of the doping raid during the 2006 Winter Olympics against Austrian cross-country skiers and the biathletes Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottmann , Landertinger, who was not involved, was credited with his successes for a "new [...] generation in Austria's biathlon" to have. In the election for climber of the year as part of the Austrian athlete election 2009, he came in second behind sport climber Johanna Ernst . In the same year he was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

statistics

World Cup victories

All victories at biathlon world cups, listed separately according to individual and relay races. The columns can be sorted by clicking the symbol in the table header.

Single race Relay race
No. date place discipline
1. Feb 21, 2009 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang Mass start ( WM )
2. 27 Mar 2010 RussiaRussia Khanty-Mansiysk Mass start
No. date place discipline
1. 0Jan. 8, 2009 GermanyGermany Oberhof Season 1
2. Dec 13, 2009 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen Season 2
3. 0Jan. 9, 2014 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding Season 2
2with Simon Eder , Daniel Mesotitsch and Christoph Sumann

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
1st place 2 3 5
2nd place 2 4th 4th 7th 17th
3rd place 2 2 11 15th
Top 10 10 25th 23 13 55 126
Scoring 27 69 60 31 64 251
Starts 33 95 67 31 64 290

Biathlon world championships

Results at world championships:

World Championship Individual competitions Relay competitions
year place sprint persecution singles Mass start Men's relay Mixed relay S.-M.-Relay
2009 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang 17th 34. 6th gold 1. silver 2. -
2011 RussiaRussia Khanty-Mansiysk 49. 46. 16. - 9. 7th
2012 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding 28. 31. 15th 24. 5. -
2013 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město 15th 5. 14th 6th 5. 16.
2015 FinlandFinland Kontiolahti 39. 15th 28. 24. 5. -
2016 NorwayNorway Oslo 9. 14th silver 2. 15th 4th 5.
2017 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen 17th 21st 26th 7th bronze 3. 9.
2019 SwedenSweden Ostersund 21st 34. 48. - 8th. 17th -
2020 ItalyItaly Antholz 31. 40. bronze 3. 17th 6th 8th. -

winter Olympics

Individual competitions Relay competitions
sprint persecution singles Mass start Men's relay Mixed relay
2010 Winter Olympics winter Olympics | VancouverCanadaCanada  34. 14th 23. 7th silver 2.
Olympic Winter Games 2014 winter Olympics | SochiRussiaRussia  silver 2. 10. 5. 7th bronze 3. -
Olympic Winter Games 2018 winter Olympics | PyeongchangKorea SouthSouth Korea  25th 26th bronze 3. 12. 4th -

Web links

Commons : Dominik Landertinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Landertinger. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Viktoria Franke: WC Hochfilzen - Interview with Dominik Landertinger on biathlon-online.de. December 18, 2008, accessed May 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b With Gösweiner the success came on sportv1.orf.at. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b From Eisenerz to South Korea: Gösweiner as a "Landi" companion. In: Salzburger Nachrichten. 17th February 2018.
  5. ↑ APA : Biathlon World Cup: Austrian double victory in the mass start. In: The press. February 21, 2009.
  6. ↑ a b c APA: Ex-biathlon world champion Landertinger declares resignation. In: The Standard. April 19, 2020.
  7. ↑ No chance to defend the title on sportv2.orf.at. March 11, 2011.
  8. ↑ Volker Kreisl: Downward run. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 7, 2012, sports supplement, p. 31. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
  9. ↑ a b Volker Kreisl: Discovery of slowness. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 12, 2016, p. 44. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
  10. ↑ Dominik Landertinger's forced break after a herniated disc on biathlon-news.de. September 27, 2016, accessed May 15, 2020.
  11. ↑ APA: Two months break for Landertinger after surgery. In: The Standard. 15th September 2017.
  12. ↑ a b ptz / dpa / sid: Dominik Landertinger ends his career. In: Der Spiegel . April 19, 2020.
  13. ↑ Saskia Aleythe and Volker Kreisl: First crazy, then raptured. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 25, 2020. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
  14. ↑ a b Saskia Aleythe: No mistakes on the final round. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 21, 2020, p. 25. Munzinger Online .
  15. ↑ Dominik Landertinger . In: Internationales Sportarchiv , 41/2018, October 9, 2018 (os), supplemented by news from MA-Journal until week 16/2020; accessed on May 16, 2020 via Munzinger Online .
  16. ↑ Biathlon world champion has roots in Weng on nachrichten.at. February 26, 2009, accessed May 15, 2020.
  17. ↑ Volker circ: distress call from podium. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 27, 2009, p. 37. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
  18. ↑ Florian Madl: Landertinger: "I am two percent short of the world's best". In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. 18th October 2019.
  19. ↑ Landertinger says good bye! on oesv.at. April 17, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020.
  20. ↑ Wolfgang Loitzl and Mirna Jukic honored. In: The Standard. November 4, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Landertinger, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunau am Inn , Austria