Johannes Dürr (cross-country skier)

Johannes Dürr
Johannes Dürr (2013)
nation	Austria
birthday	12th March 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Melk ,  Austria
size	177 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
society	SC Goestling-Hochkar
Trainer	Gerald Heigl
National squad	since 2007
status	blocked
Medal table
National championships 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup 0February 4, 2011  Overall World Cup 45th ( 2012/13 )  Distance World Cup 35th ( 2012/13 )
last change: April 3, 2020

Johannes Dürr (born March 12, 1987 in Melk ) is a former Austrian cross-country skier from Göstling ( Lower Austria ).

Career

From the 2007 Junior World Championships to the 2014 Olympics

Dürr was fourth at the Junior World Championships in 2007 , before he reached 16th place in the individual over 15 km and seventh place with the team at the 2007 Military World Ski Championships in Võru . After that, however, due to various illnesses (including Pfeifer's glandular fever ) , he was unable to achieve a result in the World Cup points until January 2013 . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , he reached 64th place in the individual over 50 km. At the Austrian championship in Bad Ischl in 2012 he won gold over 10 km classic and in the pursuit race over 10 km. As part of the Tour de Ski , he finished eighth in the 15 km classic competition in January 2013. In the 9 km mountain pursuit that followed, Dürr finished fourth and achieved his best World Cup result. In the overall ranking of the Tour de Ski, Dürr came in 24th. With an eighth place in the 15 km freestyle competition in Davos, he achieved his second top 10 result in the World Cup on February 17, 2013.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he reached eighth place in the skiathlon over 2 × 15 km. After the competition, he returned to Austria for ten days, where he wanted to prepare for the final competition in the 50 km mass start on the last day of the Games.

Doping Ineligibility and Revelations

On February 23, 2014, it became known that EPO was detected in a sample he had given during a doping control during this period . Dürr immediately confessed. The ÖOC immediately removed him from the Austrian Olympic team . On June 11, 2014, the FIS retroactively imposed a two-year ban on him. All of his results for the 2013/14 season were canceled, including third place in the Tour de Ski 2013/14 . The doping fraud proceedings were dealt with in various ways in 2015 . The trial period was two years.

Since his doping ban expired in 2018, Dürr has been active again - but not at the World Cup level. His aim was to take part in the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld 2019 as a career completion.

In January 2019, as part of the TV report Secret Doping on ARD , he publicly cleared up his own doping past and disclosed the conditions in the Austrian Ski Association , according to which ÖSV supervisors are also said to have been involved in doping practices.

In the course of a doping raid carried out by the Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office together with the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office as part of the Nordic World Ski Championships , five athletes and four other people were arrested in Seefeld and Erfurt in February 2019 . According to the Munich public prosecutor's office, Dürr's statements in the ARD documentation were the trigger for the doping investigations and these raids. A few days after the arrests in Seefeld and Erfurt, Dürr was also arrested in Innsbruck . According to statements from the previously arrested athletes Dominik Baldauf and Max Hauke , Dürr is said to have made contact with the accused doctor in Erfurt. Dürr now admitted that he had carried out blood doping until 2018. He was released a few days later. In September 2019, the Austrian federation banned the cross-country skier for life as a repeat offender for doping. The lifelong ban was confirmed by a final judgment by the Austrian Anti-Doping Law Commission (ÖADR) on October 10, 2019. On January 27, 2020 he was sentenced to 15 months probation by the Innsbruck Regional Court for doping.

Publications

• with Martin Prinz : The way back: A sports story. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-458-17801-9 .

Web links

Commons : Johannes Dürr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johannes Dürr in the database of the International Ski Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dürr: "I lost battle with myself". In: ORF Lower Austria. March 7, 2019.
2. ↑ The fifth doping case concerns ÖSV cross-country skier Johannes Dürr. In: derstandard.at , February 23, 2014.
3. ^ Doping offender Dürr banned from FIS for two years. In: tt.com , June 10, 2014.
4. ↑ Criminal proceedings against doping offender Dürr settled. In: diepresse.com , July 9, 2015.
5. ^ Duerr Johannes - Athlete Information. Retrieved January 18, 2019 . 
6. ^ Doping confession by Johannes Dürr - investigations and reactions. In: sportschau.de. January 18, 2019, accessed January 18, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Video in the ARD media library: "The secret thing about doping": Greed for gold - The path to the doping trap. In: daserste.de , accessed on January 17, 2019.
8. ↑ Doping scandal: Austrian World Cup cross-country skiers Hauke ​​and Baldauf arrested. Kleine Zeitung , February 27, 2019, accessed on February 27, 2019 . 
9. ^ Doping raid: Dominik Baldauf arrested. In: vol.at , February 27, 2019.
10. ^ Doping raid on ÖSV cross-country skiers: Dürr as a trigger. Retrieved March 10, 2019 . 
11. ^ World Cup in Seefeld - doping scandal: "Caught with a transfusion in my arm". In: krone.at , February 27, 2019.
12. ↑ A bang in the doping scandal: Johannes Dürr arrested. In: derStandard.at. Retrieved March 5, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Johannes Dürr, the persistent deceiver. In: n-tv.de , March 8, 2019.
14. ↑ Cross- country skiers Dürr will be banned for life spiegel.de, September 17, 2019.
15. ↑ Doping: Lifelong ban for ex-cross-country skiers Dürr orf.at, October 10, 2019, accessed October 10, 2019.
16. ↑ Dürr sentenced to 15 months probation. In: kicker.de . January 27, 2020, accessed April 3, 2020 .