Frank Ullrich

Frank Ullrich
Full name	Frank Ullrich
Association	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	January 24, 1958
place of birth	Truse Valley
Career
status	completed
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 9 × 4 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1976 Innsbruck Season gold 1980 Lake Placid sprint silver 1980 Lake Placid singles silver 1980 Lake Placid Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1977 Vingrom Season gold 1978 Hochfilzen sprint gold 1978 Hochfilzen Season silver 1978 Hochfilzen singles gold 1979 Ruhpolding sprint gold 1979 Ruhpolding Season gold 1981 Lahti sprint gold 1981 Lahti Season silver 1981 Lahti singles gold 1982 Minsk singles gold 1982 Minsk Season silver 1982 Minsk sprint gold 1983 Antholz singles silver 1983 Antholz Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1.   1977/78, 1979/80, 1980/81, 1981/82

Frank Ullrich (born January 24, 1958 in Trusetal , Schmalkalden district , GDR ) is a former biathlete and former national coach of the German men's national team in biathlon. From 2010 to 2012 he was head coach of the offspring, from 2012 to 2015 national coach for cross-country skiers . On March 15, 2015, he announced his resignation.

He is retired and has been working on a voluntary basis in the Technical Commission of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) since 2010. In addition, he ran as a candidate for the SPD Thuringia in the state election in 2019 .

Athletic career

Active biathlete

As early as 1967 he took part in the GDR children's championships. Wido Kühne was his coach at the time. In 1972 Ullrich won the relay and achieved second place over 5 km at the Spartakiade .

In 1975 he was junior world champion in the relay. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , he won bronze in the 4x7.5 km relay. In 1978 and 1979 he became world champion over the 10 km distance. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , he repeated the Olympic success and also won over the 20 km silver and a gold medal over 10 km. For these successes he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1984 at the opening ceremony of the Winter Games in Sarajevo , he was the flag bearer of the GDR Olympic delegation, but could not win another medal. At the end of his career in 1986 he was awarded the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver.

Trainer

Frank Ullrich in Ruhpolding 2005

After the active career, which he ended after the death of his wife, and a successful study at the DHfK , Frank Ullrich became coach of the GDR national team in 1987 and coached the German biathlon team since 1998.

After the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Ullrich succeeded Norbert Baier as the national coach of the men in a team with Fritz Fischer and has won 4 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals since the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . There are also a number of medals at world championships.

Ullrich ended his job as national coach for men after the 2010 season. Since the 2010/2011 season he has been the head coach for the next generation and is therefore also responsible for the “Course Group II” of the German national biathlon team. In April 2012 it was announced that Ullrich will be the head coach of the German cross-country skiers and will succeed Jochen Behle . He resigned from this office on March 15, 2015.

Ullrich was acquitted after several investigations into doping. In 2009 a commission of the German Ski Association confirmed that it had an "unconsciously controlled displacement mechanism" in the matter of doping.

politics

Ullrich ran for the state election in Thuringia 2019 in the constituency of Schmalkalden-Meiningen II and on state list position 15 of the SPD for the Thuringian state parliament .

Private life

Ullrich's father was a referee in biathlon. Frank Ullrich is an honorary citizen of his home town Trusetal .

literature

• Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann:  Ullrich, Frank . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Frank Ullrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Frank Ullrich in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 22, 1980, p. 2
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7
3. ^ "I recognized twelve people in my Stasi files" in the Hamburger Abendblatt of February 18, 2006
4. ↑ Focus-Online: Ullrich inherits Behle as national coach from April 19, 2012
5. ↑ The Munich 2018 Olympic bid and the dark shadows of the past Stasi and doping-polluted old cadre in German winter sports , Deutschlandfunk , January 30, 2011
6. ^ Serious allegations against Frank Ullrich. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed March 11, 2018 . 
7. ↑ State delegate conference decides on the SPD state list for state elections. In: spd-thueringen.de. June 15, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Frank Ullrich appointed honorary citizen of Trusetal. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 25, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.