Johannes Kühn (biathlete)

Johannes Kühn
Association	Germany
birthday	19th November 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Passau , Germany
size	187 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
job	Customs officer
society	WSV Reit im Winkl
Trainer	Remo Krug, Isidor Scheurl
Admission to the national team	2011
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
Debut in the World Cup	2012
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 4 × 2 × 0 × EYOF medals 1 × 0 × 0 × DM medals 3 × 6 × 5 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2012 Osrblie Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2010 Torsby sprint gold 2010 Torsby Season silver 2010 Torsby persecution gold 2011 Nové Město persecution gold 2011 Nové Město Season silver 2011 Nové Město sprint  European Youth Olympic Festival gold 2009 Silesia Mixed relay  German championships bronze 2010 Willingen Season silver 2013 Langdorf Season silver 2013 Ruhpolding singles bronze 2014 Oberhof Season gold 2015 Ruhpolding Season gold 2016 Oberhof Season bronze 2017 Ruhpolding Mass start gold 2018 Altenberg sprint bronze 2018 Altenberg persecution silver 2018 Oberhof Season silver 2019 Arber sprint silver 2019 Arber persecution silver 2019 Ruhpolding Season bronze 2019 Ruhpolding Mass start
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	13. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	13. ( 2018/19 )
Sprint World Cup	10. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	16. (2019/20)
Mass start world cup	13. (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 1 0 sprint 0 0 1 Season 0 2 2
Continental Cup balance
Overall IBU Cup	03. ( 2014/15 )
last change: March 15, 2020

Johannes Kühn (born November 19, 1991 in Passau ) is a German biathlete and cross-country skier .

Career

Kühn comes from Tüßling . At the age of twelve he came with his family to cross-country skiing in Reit im Winkl and expressed the desire to learn biathlon. He then did that at the Ruhpolding base, but joined the WSV Reit im Winkl . He has been practicing biathlon since 2002 and was previously active in cross-country skiing, which he continues to do on the side. He works as a customs officer and is trained by Fritz Fischer and Andreas Stitzl . Kühn lives in Ruhpolding in a shared flat with Fabian Bekelaer and Florian Graf .

Between 2006 and 2009 Kühn won the overall ranking of the German Cup three times in a row in his age group. He made his international debut at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2009 in Silesia , where he won the mixed relay title and finished fourth in the sprint and seventh in the pursuit. He started with great success at the 2010 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Torsby , where he won the title in the sprint and with Tom Barth , Benedikt Doll and Manuel Müller in the relay race. In the pursuit race, he only had to admit defeat to Alexander Pechonkin , in the individual he was sixth. A year later he was able to repeat these successes at the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2011 in Nové Město na Moravě . In the sprint race, he missed victory behind Tom Barth, then won the pursuit race and with Steffen Bartscher , Benedikt Doll and Tom Barth the title in the relay competition again.

Kühn achieved his first national success at the German Championships in 2010 when he won the bronze medal in the relay race with Toni Lang and Daniel Graf as Bayern II representatives . In 2011 he achieved further good results with ninth place in the singles, seven in the mass start and four with the relay and the mixed relay. In 2009 he was Bavarian mass start cross-country skiing champion. At the Austrian Championships over 30-kilometer freestyle mass start, he came fourth as a guest starter.

At the start of the 2011/12 season , Kühn started in the IBU Cup for the first time and immediately won points as the 31st of a sprint in Östersund . In the further course of the season he improved to fifth in a sprint in Obertilliach . The first international men 's championships were the 2012 European Biathlon Championships in Osrblie . In Slovakia, the Bavarian came seventh in the sprint as a junior, dropped nine places in the pursuit race based on it to 16th place and won the European championship title in the relay race with Daniel Böhm , Matthias Bischl and Erik Lesser . At the third station of the 2012/2013 World Cup season in Pokljuka , Johannes Kühn started the Biathlon World Cup for the first time. In his first race, a sprint, he finished 17th. He won his first World Cup points and qualified for the pursuit race.

At the Biathlon World Cup in Antholz, Johannes Kühn reached 5th place in the mass start in January 2018. He qualified in the last possible race for the 2018 Winter Olympics . There he was used in the individual race over 20 km after Benedikt Doll had paused and Roman Rees, who was supposed to replace Dolls, fell ill. With six shooting errors, Kühn placed 58th.

At the first race of the 2018/19 World Cup on the Pokljuka , Kühn stood on the World Cup podium for the first time. Thanks to a race with no shooting errors, he finished second in the individual.

statistics

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place	1					1
3rd place
Top 10		2		2	3	7th
Scoring	3	9	7th	5	3	27
Starts	4th	16	12	5	3	40
As of December 6, 2018

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	-	-	58.	-	-	-

Web links

Commons : Johannes Kühn (biathlete)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Johannes Kühn
• Johannes Kühn in the IBU database (English)
• Johannes Kühn in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Portrait on the customs website
• Interview with Johannes Kühn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Kühn. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The "Three" from Laubau