Dominik Windisch

Dominik Windisch
Association	Italy
birthday	6th November 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Brunico , Italy
size	180 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
job	Sports soldier
society	CS Esercito
Trainer	Andreas Zingerle , Andrea Zattoni
Admission to the national team	2008
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2010
Debut in the World Cup	2011
World Cup victories	5 (2 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 3 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2014 Sochi Mixed relay bronze 2018 Pyeongchang sprint bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Mixed relay  Biathlon world championships gold 2019 Östersund Mass start bronze 2019 Östersund Mixed relay silver 2020 Antholz Mixed relay  Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2008 Ruhpolding Youth relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	14. ( 2016/17 )
Individual World Cup	15th ( 2012/13 )
Sprint World Cup	13. (2016/17)
Pursuit World Cup	09. (2016/17)
Mass start world cup	09. ( 2015/16 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 0 0 1 persecution 0 0 1 Mass start 2 0 0 Season 3 4th 4th
last change: June 4, 2020

Dominik Windisch (born November 6, 1989 in Bruneck , South Tyrol ) is an Italian biathlete . He made his debut in the 2011 Biathlon World Cup and won his first race there in 2016. At the 2019 Biathlon World Championships in Östersund, Windisch became world champion in the mass start. He also won a total of three Olympic bronze medals in 2014 and 2018, two of them with the mixed relay.

Athletic career

Beginnings and World Cup debut (until 2011)

Windisch comes from the South Tyrolean community of Rasen-Antholz , where the South Tyrol Arena is a regular venue for international biathlon events. Like his five years older brother Markus Windisch , who was part of the Italian Biathlon World Cup team from 2004 to 2014, Dominik Windisch attended the sports school in Mals . He is part of the sports group of the Italian Army ( Centro Sportivo Esercito ).

Since 2007, Windisch has been taking part in international competitions in the youth field. He later named the 2008 Youth World Championships in Ruhpolding as a key experience , at which he - after several top 30 results in individual competitions - won the bronze medal as the final runner of the relay together with Pietro Dutto and Lukas Hofer . This success led to his acceptance into the national team as well as into the army group and thus enabled him to pursue a professional career. In the following years, Windisch also ran in the next higher age group of juniors several times under the top ten at world championships. From 2010 he started in the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in the adult sector, in which he regularly achieved places among the top 20 athletes. His best result was a fifth place in the sprint on the Pokljuka in March 2010. At the 2011 World Championships , Windisch won a 20-kilometer individual race, which he finished 56th; shortly afterwards he found consideration in the Italian World Cup team for the season finale at Holmenkollen in Oslo , where he was 63rd of the sprint.

Promotion to the extended international top (2011 to 2016)

From the winter of 2011/12 , the then 22-year-old Windisch was part of the A-team of the Italian biathletes. Together with Lukas Hofer , who was about the same age and who had already established himself in the World Cup squad in the previous two seasons, Windisch was initially the youngest athlete in the five-man team. In January 2012, Windisch and Hofer - behind Christian De Lorenzi and Markus Windisch - took the two final positions of the Italian relay, which was the first to win a World Cup relay race since 1994. Dominik Windisch had taken over the relay from his brother in third place and handed it over to Hofer as second. In the same constellation, the team finished fourth at the 2012 World Championships in Ruhpolding. In the following years, too, Windisch ran with the relays several times in the top ten. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he started alongside Hofer, Dorothea Wierer and Karin Oberhofer in the mixed relay and won the bronze medal.

In the individual races of the World Cup, Windisch continuously improved his results. His first season in the A-squad he finished 78th in the overall World Cup, with his best result being 23rd in the Östersund sprint in December 2011, with which he had won his first World Cup points. Windisch reached the top ten in a race of the highest competition series for the first time as fifth in the Sochi sprint in March 2013: he was 8.9 seconds behind third-placed Norwegian Henrik L'Abée-Lund , after he failed for the first time in a World Cup competition stayed. In the overall ranking of the 2012/13 World Cup , he placed 39th and confirmed this result in the following two winters ( 2013/14 : 45th, 2014/15 : 39th) as the second best Italian in the ranking behind Lukas Hofer .

In February 2016, Windisch won his first individual World Cup race with the mass start in Canmore, Canada. After a total of four penalty loops in the competition, he went on to the final lap in third, overtaking Andrejs Rastorgujevs and Quentin Fillon Maillet and crossing the finish line 4.1 seconds ahead of Benedikt Doll . Over the entire 2015/16 season, Windisch placed in the top ten in six individual races and finished 22nd in the overall World Cup standings. At the 2016 World Championships on Holmenkollen, his best results were fifth in the sprint and fourth in the mass start.

Olympic medals and world championship titles (since 2016)

Windisch at the World Cup in Oberhof (2020)

Windisch established himself in the international top and from 2016 to 2020 occupied one of the top 25 places in the overall ranking of the Biathlon World Cup. In January 2017 he took third place in the competitions in Oberhof, both in the sprint and in the pursuit. At the end of the 2016/17 season , he was in 14th place in the overall World Cup, making him the best-placed Italian. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , Windisch was also third in the sprint with a shooting error, 7.7 seconds behind the clear Olympic champion Arnd Peiffer from Germany and 0.7 seconds ahead of fourth-placed Julian Eberhard . With the Italian mixed relay around Lisa Vittozzi , Dorothea Wierer and Lukas Hofer, Windisch won another bronze medal. As the final runner, he prevailed against Peiffer in the final sprint. During this sprint to the finish, Windisch - already in the lead ahead of Peiffer - changed his lane, which the German team saw as a handicap. The corresponding protest was rejected by the jury. In the same constellation as at the Olympics, the Italian mixed relay also won two World Cup races (in Kontiolahti in March 2018 and in Östersund in November 2019) as well as a bronze and a silver medal at the 2019 and 2020 World Championships .

At the 2019 World Championships in Östersund, Windisch won not only the bronze medal with the mixed relay but also the gold medal in the mass start. After a shooting error in the first three appearances, he came in eleventh to the final fourth shooting. While all the athletes lying in front of him missed the target at least once in heavy snowfall, Windisch scored with all five shots and took the lead with a clear margin. At the finish he was 22.8 seconds ahead of Antonin Guigonnat .

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race	Relay race
No. date place discipline 1. 0Feb 6, 2016  Canmore Mass start 2. 17th Mar 2019  Östersund ( World Cup ) Mass start	No. date place discipline 1. 0Jan. 5, 2012  Oberhof Season 1 2. 10 Mar 2018  Kontiolahti Mixed season 2 3. Nov 30, 2019  Ostersund Mixed season 2 1With Christian De Lorenzi , Markus Windisch and Lukas Hofer . 2With Lisa Vittozzi , Dorothea Wierer and Lukas Hofer.

World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place				2	3	5
2nd place					4th	4th
3rd place		1	1		4th	6th
Top 10	1	12	1	8th	46	68
Scoring	12	48	39	22nd	62	183
Starts	25th	79	53	22nd	62	241
As of March 18, 2020

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2014	Sochi	64.	11.	25th	25th	5.	3.
2018	Pyeongchang	50.	3.	16.	17th	12.	3.

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	56.	-	-	-	-	-
2012	Ruhpolding	-	68.	-	-	4th	-
2013	Nové Město	18th	57.	33.	-	7th	4th
2015	Kontiolahti	91.	23.	35.	-	12.	7th
2016	Oslo	60.	5.	28.	4th	11.	8th.
2017	Hochfilzen	21st	18th	25th	24.	5.	4th
2019	Ostersund	29	27.	17th	1.	15th	3.	-
2020	Antholz	-	48.	51.			2.

Junior World Championships

Results at the Junior World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2008	Ruhpolding	16.	26th	28.	3.
2009	Canmore	-	16.	31.	7th
2010	Torsby	6th	23.	8th.	10.

Web links

Commons : Dominik Windisch  - Collection of Images

• Dominik Windisch in the IBU database (English)
• Dominik Windisch ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at the Italian Winter Sports Association (Italian)
• Website Dominik Windisch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dominik Windisch. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ "Winners never give up!" (Dominik Windisch, World Champion 2019 Biathlon, graduate of the Mals sports school) - The Mals sports school is celebrating. In: Vinschger Wind. May 28, 2019.
3. ↑ BIATHLON: ARGENTO MONDIALE PER WINDISCH on sportmilitarealpino.eu. February 13, 2020. As of 2020 Windisch had the rank of Caporal Maggiore Scelto .
4. ↑ Self-portrait on personal website. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
5. ↑ Stagione 2011-2012: Gruppo Biathlon Maschile on fisi.org ( Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali ). Archived version from August 2, 2012.
6. ↑ Biathlon, Italia vince STAFFETTA maschile Oberhof. Prima volta da 1994. on lapresse.it. January 5, 2012
7. ↑ sensational! Dominik Windisch celebrates first World Cup victory on sportnews.bz. February 6, 2016.
8. ↑ German biathletes miss the podium in the mixed relay. In: Spiegel Online . February 20, 2018, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
9. ↑ surprise! Outsider wins error festival on sport.de. 17th March 2019.