Friedrich Pinter

Friedrich Pinter

Full name

Friedrich Pinter

Association

Austria

birthday

February 22, 1978

place of birth

Villach

Career

job

Sports soldier

society

Union Rosenbach

Admission to the
national team

2001

Debut in the World Cup

2000

status

resigned

End of career

2016

Medal table

World Cup medals

0 ×

1 ×

Biathlon world championships
bronze	2005 Hochfilzen	Season

World Cup balance

last change: May 4, 2016

Friedrich "Fritz" Pinter (born February 22, 1978 in Villach , Carinthia ) is a former Austrian biathlete .

The regular soldier of the Austrian Armed Forces starts for the Union Rosenbach cross-country club and is the brother of cross-country skier Jürgen Pinter . He started cross-country skiing at the age of 13 and attended the ski trade school in Schladming in Styria . In 1993 he was accepted into the squad of the Austrian Ski Association . In the 2000/01 season he switched from special cross-country skiing to biathlon.

The Carinthian celebrated his greatest success at the Biathlon World Championships 2005 in Hochfilzen . There he won the bronze medal in the relay competition together with Daniel Mesotitsch , Wolfgang Rottmann and Christoph Sumann . At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 , he finished 26th over 20 km, in the relay competition he came in 17th place with his teammates. His best World Cup placements reached Pinter in the 2007/08 season with second place in the pursuit in Oslo and third places in the sprints in Oslo and Pyeongchang .

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place					2	2
2nd place			1		1	2
3rd place		2			4th	6th
Top 10	6th	9	6th	1	19th	41
Scoring	11	30th	28	12	21st	102
Starts	20th	64	36	12	21st	153
Status: after the 2009/2010 season