Gerhard Winkler (biathlete)

Gerd Winkler
Full name	Gerhard Winkler
Association	BR Germany
birthday	17th January 1951
place of birth	Boredom
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × DM medals 1 × ? × ? ×
winter Olympics bronze 1980 Lake Placid Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1978 Hochfilzen Season  German championships gold 1977 sprint
World Cup balance

Gerhard "Gerd" Winkler (born January 17, 1951 in Langewiese ) is a former German biathlete . Winkler was one of the most successful German biathletes of the second half of the 1970s.

The Langewieser Winkler took part in two Olympic Winter Games. In 1976 he was only used in the relay race in Innsbruck and missed a medal together with his colleagues Heinrich Mehringer , Josef Keck and Claus Gehrke only 3.15 seconds behind the relay of the GDR. Things went better in Lake Placid in 1980 . At the games in the USA, Winkler was used in all three possible races. In the sprint he reached rank ten, in the individual he was 30. The greatest success in his career was winning the bronze medal, which he together with Franz Bernreiter , Hans Estner and Peter Angerer as the final runner of the German relay behind the representation from the Soviet Union and the GDR relay could win. Between the two games, the native of Wittgenstein won the bronze medal behind the East German and Norwegian relays at the 1978 biathlon world championships in Hochfilzen together with Andreas Schweiger , Mehringer and Estner. Nationally, winning the German championship title in 1977 in the sprint was the greatest success for Winkler.

Web links

• Gerhard Winkler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )