Fabian Bekelaer

Fabian Bekelaer
Association	Germany
birthday	June 1, 1990
Career
society	SV Bayerisch Eisenstein
Trainer	Andreas Stitzl
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2011
status	resigned
End of career	2016
World Cup balance
last change: January 12, 2012

Fabian Bekelaer (born June 1, 1990 ) is a former German biathlete .

Fabian Bekelaer lived in Ruhpolding and shared a flat with Johannes Kühn and Florian Graf . He started for SV Bayerisch Eisenstein and was trained by Andreas Stitzl .

At the German Championships in 2010 he was the best junior participant. A year later he was able to attract attention at the German championships. In the sprint as well as in the pursuit race, he finished fifth and was thus able to leave several World Cup experienced athletes behind. Bekelaer was able to contest his first international races at the start of the 2011/12 season in the IBU Cup . The first race was a sprint in Östersund , in which he fell far short of the points in 78th place. Also in the following sprint in the same place, he missed the points as the 54th sprint. He celebrated his first success at the side of Benedikt Doll , Matthias Bischl and Daniel Graf as the starting runner of a German relay that came third in Haute-Maurienne behind the representations from Norway and Ukraine. In the 2012/2013 season he won the men's cup of the DSV Youth Cup / Germany Biathlon Cup.

In January 2014, he took third place in the first sprint of the Alpencup am Notschrei (Black Forest) and won the second sprint. In February 2015, he won the biathlon sprint at the division ski championships on the Arber , here for his unit GebJgBtl 232 from Bad Reichenhall . In March he took second place in the men's individual race at the German Youth and Junior Championship in Notschrei. In the cup standings for the German Cup, he reached fourth place. At the 2015 German Biathlon Championship in the Hohenzollern Ski Stadium , he was able to improve from 13th place in the sprint to seventh place in the pursuit.

In January 2016 he took third place in the sprint at the German Cup in Martell (South Tyrol) and then won the pursuit ahead of Michael Willeitner . In February he achieved a double victory in the German Cup in Ruhpolding with victories in the sprint and the mass start. With another sprint victory in March at Notschrei, Bekelaer won the overall standings for the 2015/16 German Cup. He then ended his career as a biathlete.

Web links

• Fabian Bekelaer in the IBU database (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ The "Three" from Laubau
2. ↑ Interview from July 15, 2016 ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.