Johann Passler

Johann Passler
Association	Italy
birthday	August 18, 1961
place of birth	Antholz
Career
job	Carabinieri
society	Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
World Cup victories	3 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	1996
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1988 Calgary singles bronze 1988 Calgary Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1985 Ruhpolding sprint bronze 1986 Oslo Season gold 1990 Kontiolahti Season gold 1993 Borovets Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	3. ( 1987/88 )
last change: January 30, 2009

Johann Passler (born August 18, 1961 in Antholz , South Tyrol ) is a former Italian biathlete . The South Tyrolean took part in four Olympic Winter Games and several Biathlon World Championships . During his active time he was one of the best and most successful biathletes in his country and was at times among the world's best.

Johann Passler lives in Antholz , is a police officer and started for the Centro Sportivo Carabinieri . Since the first half of the 1980s he competed in the biathlon world cup . He regularly achieved placements in the points. Already at the biathlon world championships in 1983 in Antholz, he finished sixth in the individual. A year later he ran at his first Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and finished 35th in the sprint and five in the relay. The 1985 biathlon world championships in Ruhpolding were very successful for Passler, he won the bronze medal in the sprint. In 1986 the Italian missed another medal in the sprint at Holmenkollen in Oslo , finishing fourth and was also seventh in the individual. He won a medal together with Werner Kiem , Gottlieb Taschler and Andreas Zingerle as third place in the relay race. Passler was not able to build on the successes of previous years in Lake Placid in 1987 , where he was 31st in the sprint and 19th in the individual. The South Tyrolean experienced his most successful year in biathlon in 1988 when he won the bronze medal in the Olympic Games in Calgary with the Italian relay over 4 × 7.5 kilometers in the previous year's World Cup line-up and bronze in the individual over 20 kilometers. In the sprint, he was eighth. In the same year he took third place in the overall ranking of the Biathlon World Cup. He won one race this season, an individual in Antholz.

Passler's career continued at a high level for some time after the games. At the World Championships in 1989 in Feistritz an der Drau , he reached twelfth place in the individual and once again just barely missed a medal in fourth in the sprint. In 1990 Passler won the relay world title with Pieralberto Carrara , Wilfried Pallhuber and Andreas Zingerle. A year later , the Italian relay missed a podium finish with Passler in Lahti as fourth. The South Tyrolean competed in the Olympic Games for the third time in Albertville . In the sprint he was 15th, in the individual he was seventh and with the relay he again reached fourth place. In the overall World Cup ranking he finished fourth. Passler won the last title in 1993 in Borovets on the side of Pallhubers, Carraras and Zingerles with the relay of Italy. He was eleventh in the sprint and seventeenth in the individual. For the whole season he achieved another outstanding result as fifth overall. The last major event for the Italian was the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer . With 13th place in the individual and sixth place in the relay race, he achieved good results again. He continued his career until 1996 and achieved several results among the top ten. At the end of his career, Passler won the overall ranking of the 1995/96 European Biathlon Cup .

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	1	2				2	5
2nd place		2					2
3rd place	3	1				1	5
Top 10	12	15th				7th	34
Scoring	24	34				7th	65
Starts	39	40				7th	86
Status : data not complete

Web links

• Johann Passler in the IBU database (English)
• Johann Passler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )