Gottlieb Taschler

Gottlieb Taschler
Association	Italy
birthday	August 21, 1962
place of birth	Antholz, Italy
Career
society	Sports club Antholz
status	resigned
End of career	1992
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1988 Calgary Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1986 Oslo Season gold 1991 Lahti team
World Cup balance
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 1 0 Season 0 0 2 team 1 0 0

Gottlieb Taschler (born August 21, 1962 in Antholz ) is a former Italian biathlete and biathlon official. He participated in three Winter Olympics and nine Biathlon World Championships .

Life

Biathlon career

Gottlieb Taschler started for the Antholz sports club and was one of the best biathletes in Italy in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1983 he took part in the world championships for the first time in his hometown of Antholz, where he was 18th in the individual and tenth in the relay. In 1984 he first took part in the Olympic Games in Sarajevo . In the sprint he took 19th place and was fifth in the relay race with Adriano Darioli , Johann Passler and Andreas Zingerle . The following year the World Championships 1985 in Ruhpolding followed , at which Taschler finished fifth in the individual and eighth place in the relay. In 1986 he took part in all three possible competitions in Oslo for the first time. The Italian was sixth in the sprint, 29th in the individual and won the bronze medal in the relay race with Werner Kiem , Passler and Zingerle behind the Soviet Union and the GDR. In 1987 he started in Lake Placid only in singles and was 18th. 1988 he started in Calgary for the second time at the Olympic Games. In the individual race, Taschler was eleventh, in the relay race he won the bronze medal with Kiem, Passler and Zingerle behind the Soviet Union and the German Federal Republic. This was followed by participation in the Biathlon World Championships in 1989 in Feistritz an der Drau , where the Italian was 16th in the sprint and 23rd in the individual. In 1990 he reached the ranks 50 in the individual and nine with the team in Kontiolahti . Taschler last took part in a World Championship in Lahti in 1991 . With Hubert Leitgeb , Simon Demetz and Wilfried Pallhuber he became world champion in the team race. The last major event and at the same time the end of his career was the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , where the Italian was only used in singles and finished 44th.

In the Biathlon World Cup started Taschler since the first half of the 1980s and participated for about 15 years at this race. In 1986 he achieved his best result in an individual in Antholz behind Valeri Medwedzew in second place.

Biathlon official

After his active career, Taschler remained loyal to biathlon. Initially he worked as a trainer, and in 1997 he took over the chairmanship of the Antholz biathlon organizing committee. In this role, he greatly expanded the size of the annual World Cup events and was responsible for organizing the 2007 World Championships . In 2006 he was also elected to the board of the International Biathlon Union . As Vice President he was initially responsible for development and from 2010 for sports.

In 2016, he resigned from both offices due to the doping allegations and the legal proceedings against him. Today he runs an inn on the Staller Sattel above the Antholz Valley .

Doping allegations and acquittal

In December 2014, allegations became known that Taschler brought his son Daniel , who also became a biathlete, into contact with doping doctor Michele Ferrari in 2010 . It's about a secret meeting at the Ferrara Nord motorway exit. This meeting was bugged by the police. It was recorded how Ferrari gives Taschler tips on how to carry out and cover up his son's EPO doping. In April 2017, Taschler was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence of one year and a fine of 4,000 euros at the Bolzano regional court for aiding and abetting doping. In addition, he was no longer allowed to hold positions in the Italian winter sports association FISI and in the Italian Olympic Committee CONI.

He appealed against this judgment. After the Bolzano Court of Appeal confirmed the first instance judgment, Taschler and his son moved to the Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome . In November 2018, he doubted that the tapping protocols of the meetings could be used in the proceedings and ordered the process to be reopened. Finally, the Court of Appeal in Trento acquitted the three defendants of all allegations in June 2019 and also lifted Gottlieb Taschler's activity ban in the Italian sports associations.

The suspended Austrian cross-country skier Johannes Dürr is Taschler's son-in-law.

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	team	Season	total
1st place					1		1
2nd place	1						1
3rd place						2	2
Top 10	6th	1			2	5	14th
Scoring	16	7th			2	5	30th
Starts	25th	21st			2	5	53
Status : data not complete, with Olympic and World Cup results

Web links

• Gottlieb Taschler in the IBU database (English)
• Gottlieb Taschler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at the-sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ History on biathlon-antholz.it, accessed on October 3, 2019
2. ↑ Gottlieb Taschler does not want to go back to the biathlon on rainews.it, June 8, 2019, accessed on October 3, 2019
3. ↑ Has the IBU's vice president led his son to doping? It's unbelievable!
4. ↑ Mr. Biathlon and Doctor Epo on taz.net, March 17, 2017
5. ↑ Doping: Court condemns Gottlieb and Daniel Taschler ( Memento from April 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ The Taschler procedure must be re-opened on sportnews.bz, November 23, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2019
7. ↑ Doping: acquittal for Gottlieb Taschler, Daniel Taschler and Dr. Ferrari on sportnews.bz, June 7, 2019, accessed October 3, 2019