Frank Höfle

Frank Höfle
Full name	Jochen Frank Höfle
nation	Germany
birthday	November 22, 1967
place of birth	Brackenheim
size	181 cm
Weight	67 kg
job	Controller, graduate in business administration (FH)
Career
discipline	Cross-country skiing biathlon road cycling
society	WSV Isny
Trainer	Werner Nauber
National squad	since 1984
Companion runner	Johannes Wachlin
disability	visually impaired
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
Paralympic Medals 14 × 5 × 5 × Nordic World Ski Championships for the disabled 12 × 9 × 2 ×
Winter Paralympics silver 2006 Turin Cross-country skiing 5 km gold 2002 Salt Lake City Cross-country skiing 5 km gold 2002 Salt Lake City Cross-country skiing 10 km bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Cross-country skiing 20 km bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Biathlon 7.5 km gold 1998 Nagano Cross-country skiing 5 km gold 1998 Nagano Biathlon 7.5 km silver 1998 Nagano Cross-country skiing 10 km silver 1998 Nagano Cross-country relay 4 × 5 km bronze 1998 Nagano Cross-country skiing 20 km gold 1994 Lillehammer Cross-country skiing 5 km gold 1994 Lillehammer Cross-country skiing 10 km gold 1994 Lillehammer Cross-country skiing 20 km gold 1994 Lillehammer Biathlon 7.5 km silver 1994 Lillehammer Cross-country relay 4 × 5 km gold 1992 Albertville Cross-country skiing 5 km gold 1992 Albertville Cross-country skiing 20 km gold 1992 Albertville Biathlon 7.5 km silver 1992 Albertville Cross-country relay 3 × 5 km gold 1988 Innsbruck Cross-country skiing 10 km gold 1988 Innsbruck Cross-country skiing 20 km Paralympic Summer Games bronze 1996 Atlanta 120 km of road gold 1992 Barcelona 120 km of road bronze 1992 Barcelona 50 km time trial Nordic World Ski Championships for the disabled bronze 2009 Vuokatti Cross-country skiing 20 km silver 2005 Fort Kent Cross-country skiing 20 km silver 2005 Fort Kent Cross-country skiing 10 km silver 2005 Fort Kent Cross-country skiing 5 km silver 2005 Fort Kent Cross-country relay 4 × 5 km silver 2003 Baiersbronn Cross-country skiing 20 km silver 2003 Baiersbronn Cross-country skiing 10 km silver 2003 Baiersbronn Cross-country skiing 5 km silver 2003 Baiersbronn Cross-country relay 4 × 5 km gold 2000 Sion Cross-country skiing 20 km gold 2000 Sion Cross-country skiing 10 km gold 2000 Sion Cross-country skiing 5 km gold 2000 Sion Cross-country relay 4 × 5 km gold 1996 Sunne Cross-country skiing 20 km gold 1996 Sunne Cross-country skiing 10 km gold 1996 Sunne Cross-country skiing 5 km silver 1996 Sunne Cross-country relay 4 × 5 km bronze 1996 Sunne Biathlon 7.5 km gold 1990 Jakson Cross-country skiing 20 km gold 1990 Jakson Cross-country skiing 10 km gold 1990 Jakson Cross-country skiing 5 km bronze 1990 Jakson Cross-country relay 4 × 5 km gold 1986 halls Cross country 30 km gold 1986 halls Cross-country skiing 15 km
World Cup of the Disabled Cross-country World Cup 1. (1997/1998), (1998/1999), (1999/2000), (2000/2001), (2004/2005), (2006/2007), (2007/2008) 2. (2001/2002), (2003/2004), (2005/2006) 3. (2002/2003) Biathlon World Cup 1. (2001/2002)
last change: February 3, 2010

Frank Höfle (born November 22, 1967 in Brackenheim ) is the most successful German disabled athlete in Nordic skiing . Höfle, who has been visually impaired in an accident since he was four, lives and trains in Isny in the Allgäu . He is married and has three daughters.

Höfle first took part in the Paralympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1984 . From 1988 to 1991 he attended the ski boarding school in Furtwangen .

So far he has won 13 gold medals in biathlon and cross-country skiing at Paralympic Games and twelve at world championships. In addition, he won many other silver and bronze medals. He also won the gold medal in cycling at the 1992 Summer Paralympic Games in Barcelona . As of 2006, Höfle was together with the Norwegian Knut Lundström, each with a total of 21 medals, the most successful participant in the Paralympic Winter Games.

Frank Höfle is the holder of the Silver Laurel Leaf and the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

His current companion is Johannes Wachlin.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robin Johnson: Paralympic Sports Events - Winter Olympic Sports. Crabtree Publishing Company, 2009, p. 15. ISBN 9780778740254

Web links

• Frank Höfle on the website of the German Disabled Sports Association
• Press report, Frank Höfle 3. At the World Ski Championships in Vuokatti