Harald Wurm

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Harald Wurm Cross-country skiing
Harald Wurm (2012)

Harald Wurm (2012)

nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 8th September 1984 (age 35)
place of birth Schwaz , Austria
size 178 cm
Weight 72 kg
Career
job Customs officer
discipline sprint
society WSV Vomp
Trainer Gerald Heigl
National squad since 2002
status resigned
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
National medals 2 × gold 5 × silver 6 × bronze
FIS Cross-country skiing U23 world championships
gold 2006 Kranj sprint
Logo ÖSV Austrian championships
silver 2004 Vordernberg sprint
silver 2006 Munich Team sprint
bronze 2006 Munich sprint
silver 2007 Hochfilzen sprint
gold 2008 iron ore sprint
bronze 2010 Obertilliach sprint
bronze 2011 St. Jakob sprint
silver 2012 Sulzberg Season
bronze 2012 Salzburgring 50 km of roller skis
bronze 2013 Obertilliach Season
gold 2014 Salzburgring 50 km of roller skis
silver 2014 Saalfelden sprint
bronze 2015 Hochfilzen sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 19, 2002
 Overall World Cup 71st ( 2012/13 )
 Sprint World Cup 32nd ( 2005/06 , 2012/13 )
last change: September 1st, 2019

Harald Wurm (born September 8, 1984 in Schwaz ) is a former Austrian cross-country skier . He started for the WSV Vomp. Until December 13, 2019 he was banned for doping.

biography

Wurm, who is a customs officer by profession and lives in Vomp , made his international debut in the Cross-Country Continental Cup in February 2002 in Folgaria . He made his debut in the cross-country skiing world cup on December 19, 2002 . He landed on the 70th place in the sprint race in Linz . At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2003 in Sollefteå , Wurm was 15th in the sprint. A year later, after some mixed results in FIS races and in the Continental Cup , he started at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Stryn in 2004 and just missed a medal in the sprint as fifth. In March he again qualified for a World Cup in Pragelato , finishing well behind the points in 63rd place.

In January 2005 Wurm succeeded in Nové Město na Moravě for the first time in a sprint World Cup with eighth place in the points. Despite this success, he went back to the Alpine Cup for the next few months. It was not until March that he returned to the World Cup in Gothenburg , but missed the points in 34th place.

At the Austrian Championships in Bad Gastein in 2005 , he finished ninth in the sprint. At the beginning of the 2005/06 season , Wurm was again in the points in Düsseldorf . At the U23 World Cup in 2006 in Kranj , he won gold in the sprint. Only a few days after this success he was used again in the World Cup in Davos and clearly achieved the points in 17th place.

With the World Cup points won, Wurm qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . There he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the sprint competitions and in the end reached rank 24. In the following months he did not get any top placements. Nevertheless, he started in Sapporo at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2007 . However, he did not get beyond the preliminary heats again and finished 40th in the sprint.

At the Tour de Ski 2007/08 he was again unable to improve significantly and ended up only in 58th place overall. A little later he was able to celebrate another point success as 15th in Canmore . However, it was the only point win for Wurm until the beginning of the 2008/09 season , when he ran back into the points in Düsseldorf. The Tour de Ski 2008/09 he finished after a slight increase over the previous year to 54th the tour overall.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , he again clearly missed the final and was 54th in the sprint competition. In January 2010, after a mixed year in the Alpine Cup, Slavic Cup and FIS races, Wurm was 23rd in the sprint. World Cup in Oslo to celebrate another point success. A little later he won the bronze medal in the sprint at the Austrian Championships in Obertilliach in 2010. He finished ninth in the 30 km mass start.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season , Wurm narrowly missed his first podium finish as fourth in the Düsseldorf team sprint. Despite this success and a single point win in Davos, Wurm moved again to the Alpine Cup. At the 2011 World Championships in Oslo , Norway , he missed the finals as 53rd. At the Austrian Championships 2011 in Sankt Jakob im Rosental , he again won bronze in the sprint. As a result, he was only rarely able to qualify for the finals at World Cups. After two top 10 placements, eighth place at the Sprint World Cup in Canmore in December 2012 and a tenth place at the Sprint World Cup in Sochi in February 2013, he qualified for the 2013 Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme . There he achieved seventh place in the team sprint together with Bernhard Tritscher .

After he ran into the points again in Szklarska Poreba in January 2014 , he reached the qualification standard for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. There he retired in the individual sprint after good performance in the preliminary runs in the quarter-finals and ended up in 23rd place.

At the 2015 World Championships in Falun , Sweden , he was twelfth in the team sprint. In September 2015 there was a police investigation into Wurm on suspicion of doping . In November he was suspended from the ÖSV. Before the Innsbruck regional court in February 2016, he admitted the use of prohibited funds and was fined for sports fraud. The Austrian Anti-Doping Law Commission banned Wurm for four years with retroactive effect from December 13, 2015.

Wurm is married and has two sons.

successes

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

  • 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
  • Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
  • Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
  • Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
  • Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
placement Distance races a Skiathlon
pursuit 		sprint Stage
race b 		total Team c
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place  
2nd place  
3rd place  
Top 10 4th 4th 2
Scoring 17th 17th 10
Starts 48 2 50 11
Status: end of season 2014/15
a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification
bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale
c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

Web links

Commons : Harald Wurm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Accusation against ex-cross-country skier Wurm and ex-ÖSV trainer. In: vol.at. January 22, 2020, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ Raimonds Vējonis becomes a president again. In: lsm.lv. January 21, 2020, accessed January 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Harald Wurm in the database of the International Ski Association (English), accessed on February 16, 2014
  4. ↑ Harald Wurm in the database of the International Ski Association (English), accessed on February 16, 2014
  5. ↑ Harald Wurm in the database of the International Ski Association (English), accessed on February 16, 2014
  6. ↑ Harald Wurm in the database of the International Ski Association (English), accessed on February 16, 2014
  7. ↑ Harald Wurm in the database of the International Ski Association (English), accessed on February 16, 2014
  8. ↑ Harald Wurm in the database of the International Ski Association (English), accessed on February 16, 2014
  9. ↑ Tritscher and Wurm in the quarter-finals . In: Small newspaper . February 11, 2014. Archived from the original on September 17, 2014. Retrieved on February 16, 2014.
  10. ↑ The doping ghost is going around again. orf.at of September 21, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Cross-country skiing demands tougher sanctions" , derstandard.at of November 19, 2015, accessed on November 21, 2015
  12. ↑ Doping: Cross-country skier Harald Wurm confessed to derstandard.at 19 February 2016
  13. ↑ Four-year ban: Austrian cross-country skier Harald Wurm convicted eurosport.de of doping on March 24, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wurm, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwaz , Tyrol , Austria