Jürgen Wirth

Jürgen Wirth
Association	GDR
birthday	June 20, 1965
place of birth	Großbreitenbach
Career
society	ASK forward Oberhof
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	1984 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	1988 (?)
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × National medals 2 × 3 × 2 ×
Biathlon world championships silver 1986 Oslo Season gold 1987 Lake Placid Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 1983 Antholz Season silver 1983 Antholz singles GDR championships bronze 1985 Oberwiesenthal Season silver 1986 Oberhof Season bronze 1986 Oberhof sprint gold 1987 Oberhof Season silver 1987 Oberhof sprint gold 1988 Oberwiesenthal sprint silver 1988 Oberwiesenthal Season
World Cup balance
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Season 1 1 0

Jürgen Wirth (born June 20, 1965 in Großbreitenbach ) is a former German biathlete .

Jürgen Wirth started for the ASK Vorwärts Oberhof . In the second half of the 1980s he was one of the best East German biathletes. At first he was a successful junior athlete. In 1983 he won silver in the individual behind André Sehmisch and gold with Sehmisch and Maik Dietz in the relay competition of the Junior World Championships in Antholz . In the biathlon world cup , Wirth often achieved good results from 1984 onwards, including a fourth place in the Ruhpolding sprint in 1987 and a fifth place in the individual in Oberhof in 1985 . He took part in major international events several times. At the Biathlon World Championships in 1985 he was 55th in the sprint, in 1986 in Oslo 20th in the sprint and 18th in the individual. In the relay he won the silver medal behind the Soviet relay as a starting runner together with Frank-Peter Roetsch , Matthias Jacob and André Sehmisch. The 1987 Biathlon World Championships in Lake Placid brought, in addition to a 25th place in the individual, the win of the world title with the relay of the GDR in the occupation of the previous year before the relay of the USSR and the Federal Republic. The highlight of Wirth's career was his participation in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary . With Roetsch, Jacob and Sehmisch he finished fifth in the relay race, in the individual he was 16th. National Wirth celebrated notable successes, especially in the sprint. In 1986 he was third in the GDR championships, in 1987 he was only defeated by Frank-Peter Roetsch, in 1988 he won the title. In the relay competitions in 1985 he won bronze with the first season of Vorwärts Oberhof, in 1986 he was runner-up, in 1987 he won the title, in 1988 he was runner-up again. Wirth ended his career after the Olympic Games.

In 1986 Jürgen Wirth was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Doping in the GDR

According to his testimony, Wirth was instructed by his trainer Frank Ullrich to take doping substances as part of the state-decreed doping in GDR competitive sport, the intake was also checked by Ullrich and Wilfried Bock .

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place						1	1
2nd place						1	1
3rd place
Top 10	4th	7th				3	14th
Scoring	11	12				3	26th
Starts	16	17th				3	36
Status : end of career / dates not complete

Web links

• Jürgen Wirth in the IBU database (English)
• Jürgen Wirth in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
2. ↑ Ullrich defends himself against doping allegations , Hamburger Abendblatt , March 23, 2009