Günter Bartnik

Günter Bartnik
Association	German Democratic Republic
birthday	February 20, 1949
Career
society	SG Dynamo Zinnwald
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 2 × DDRM medals 2 × 1 × 5 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 1973 Lake Placid Season silver 1974 Minsk sprint  Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 1968 Season bronze 1969 Season GDR championships gold 1971 Season bronze 1972 Season silver 1972 singles bronze 1974 singles bronze 1974 sprint bronze 1974 Season gold 1975 Season bronze 1976 Season
World Cup balance
last change: February 23, 2009

Günter Bartnik (born February 20, 1949 ) is a former German biathlete .

Günter Bartnik won the bronze medals at the Junior World Championships in 1968 and 1969 with the East German relay team. In 1971 he won the GDR championship title with the relay of his club SG Dynamo Zinnwald . In 1972 he was runner- up behind Herbert Wiegand in the individual and won bronze in the relay competition. The highlight of the season was participation in the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , where he was 15th of the individual. At the 1973 Biathlon World Championships in Lake Placid , Bartnik and Dieter Speer , Manfred Geyer and Herbert Wiegand won the bronze medal as the final runners in the GDR relay behind the teams from the Soviet Union and Norway. In 1974 he won the first sprint competition behind the Finn Juhani Suutarinen and ahead of the Swede Torsten Wadman the silver medal. In 1974 bronze in individual, sprint and relay were added at national level, in 1975 a second title with relay and in 1976 again a third place. At the international championships in Italy, Bartnik was able to prevail against international competition from six countries.

Web links

• Günter Bartnik in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )