Josef Obererlacher

Josef Obererlacher
Association	Austria
birthday	January 15, 1964
Career
job	Biathlon coach
Debut in the World Cup	1992
status	resigned
End of career	1997
Medal table
ÖM medals 1 × 1 × 1 × WWMG medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Austrian championships gold 1992 Season bronze 1994 Season silver 1995 Season World Winter Games gold 2011 in Bled sprint
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Josef Obererlacher (born January 15, 1964 ) is an Austrian biathlon trainer and former biathlete .

Josef Obererlacher competed in several races in the biathlon world cup for the Austrian national team at the beginning of the 1990s . The best result was a 60th place at the beginning of the 1993/94 season in an individual in Bad Gastein . He won nationally in 1992 , together with Anton Lengauer-Stockner and Hannes Obererlacher, the title in the relay competition. A year later he was third in the championships alongside Reinhard Neuner and Gerhard Kitzbichler , and in 1994 he was runner- up with Anton Lengauer-Stockner and Martin Pfurtscheller . After ten years of inactivity, he resumed training and won the sprint race title in his age group at the 2011 World Winter Masters Games in Bled .

After his active career, Obererlacher became a state-certified cross-country skiing instructor in 2001. He then looked after various biathletes and was the technical ski supervisor for the Austrian national ski team. He then worked as a trainer and technical racing service manager for the Japanese national biathlon team and technical advisor to a development team for ski wax . This was followed by an activity as a freelance base trainer in the biathlon center Obertilliach . From 2010 Obererlacher was the head coach of the Finnish national biathlon team, where he was not only responsible for looking after the national team but also for training biathlon coaches. With Kaisa Mäkäräinen , for whom he was primarily responsible as shooting trainer, a Finnish biathlete won the overall World Cup for the first time under Obererlacher's aegis. After this success and only one year, he turned his back on Finland at the end of the 2010/11 World Cup season and has been a coach in the Slovak biathlon team ever since . In the 2017/18 season Obererlacher was the head coach of the Belgian national biathlon team and, in this role, also looked after the biathletes Michael Rösch and Florent Claude, who had moved to Belgium from Germany and France . Since the financial resources for the 2018/19 season were not sufficient to “guarantee a professional environment”, Obererlacher and the Belgian association decided not to extend his contract.

Biathlon 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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring
Starts	3	3					6th
Status : after the end of your career, data may not be complete

Web links

Commons : Josef Obererlacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Josef Obererlacher in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Belgium Biathlon and Joe Obererlacher go their separate ways on belgium-biathlon.be, accessed on March 30, 2018