Douglas Hoover from Williamsburg starts for the Pennsylvania Biathlon Club . He contested his first competition in the fall of 1992. In 1996 he achieved his first top ten result in national championships in the USA, which are also always elimination races for international assignments. This was followed by placements among the top ten at a further 12 national championships. In 2006 he won the sprint and mass start title, sprint, pursuit and mass start in 2007, and mass start and pursuit in 2008. Hoover took the first time in 2003 at Summer Biathlon World Championships in Forni Avoltri part and finished there, the seats 15 in the sprint, 21 in the pursuit race, 24 in the mass start and Russell Skelton , Logan Hammer and Marc Sheppard seventh place in the relay race. In 2006 he was 19th in the sprint and 23rd in the pursuit in Ufa . The mixed relay, which also included Deborah Nordyke , Erin Graham and Erich Wilbrecht , was lapped and did not finish. At the 2007 World Cup in Otepää , ranks 29th in the sprint and 28th in the mass start were added. The following year , the American finished 19th in the sprint and 20th in the pursuit race in Haute-Maurienne . In 2009 he played his fifth world championship in Oberhof . At the busy event, Hoover finished 50th in the sprint and 43rd in the pursuit.