Günther Beck (biathlete)

Günther Beck
Association	Austria
birthday	December 31, 1976
place of birth	innsbruck
Career
job	Human medicine
society	SC Höhnhart
Debut in the World Cup	1997
World Cup victories	1
status	resigned
End of career	2003
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2001 Haute Maurienne singles
World Cup balance

Günther Beck (born December 31, 1976 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian biathlete .

Günther Beck, who grew up in Höhnhart , devoted himself entirely to biathlon after graduating from high school . In 1997 he made his debut in Östersund in the biathlon world cup . Together with Wolfgang Perner , Ludwig Gredler and Wolfgang Rottmann , he won the relay race in Hochfilzen in December 1999 . This was his only victory in a World Cup race. His greatest individual success was winning the European Championship in singles in Haute-Maurienne in 2001 ahead of the German Andreas Stitzl . In 2003 he reached second place at the Austrian individual championships in Obertilliach before ending his sporting career that same year.

From 2003 to 2009 he studied medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck and graduated with a doctorate on October 10, 2009 . He has been married to the former German biathlete Martina Beck since July 24, 2008 .

Since the 2010 Winter Olympics he has been working for ORF as a co-commentator on biathlon broadcasts.

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					1	1
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10					5	5
Scoring	1				8th	9
Starts	12	20th	6th		8th	46
Status: after the end of your career

Web links

Commons : Günther Beck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Günther Beck (biathlete) in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gaudeamus igitur. (No longer available online.) In: biathlon2b.com. XNX GmbH, October 13, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 13, 2010 .  ( 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.