Klaus Höllrigl

Klaus Höllrigl
Association	Italy
birthday	January 31, 1980
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	CS Carabinieri
Trainer	Manuel Ilmer Moreno Montello Alexander Inderst
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2000
Debut in the World Cup	2003
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Italian championships gold 2004 Martell persecution bronze 2004 Martell Season
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Klaus Höllrigl (born January 31, 1980 ) is a former an Italian biathlete .

Klaus Höllrigl lives in Goldrain . The former sports soldier started for CS Carabinieri and was trained by Manuel Ilmer, Moreno Montello and Alexander Inderst . He made his international debut at the 1999 World Junior Championships in Pokljuka , where he was 35th in the individual, 29th in the sprint and 25th in the pursuit. A year later in Hochfilzen he was 33rd in the sprint, 43rd in the pursuit and with Christian De Lorenzi , Gianni Boninsegna and Yuri Bradanini eleventh in the relay race.

Since the 2000/01 season Höllrigl started with the men in the European Cup . He often reached the points, the best result was a third place in a sprint race in Forni Avoltri behind Tor Halvor Bjørnstad and Iwan Pesterew in the 2002/03 season . The first international championships were the 2002 European championships in Kontiolahti , where the South Tyrolean was 40th of the individual. A year later Höllrigl was in Forni Avoltri 21st of the sprint, 41st of the pursuit and with Paolo Longo , Devis Da Canal and Sergio Bonaldi 12th as the final runner of the relay race. This was followed by the first participation in the 2003 World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk , where Höllrigl was 71st in the sprint race. In 2004 he was 79th of the individual in Oberhof . This was followed by the third and final participation in the European Championships . In 2004 he was 42nd in the individual race in Minsk , 29th in the sprint, 23rd in the pursuit and with Patrick Favre , Markus Windisch and Simone Jeantet seventh in the relay race. At the beginning of the 2004/05 season , Höllrigl made his debut in the World Cup in Beitostølen and reached an 83rd place in his first sprint. A little later he reached his best result in the highest racing series as 62nd in an individual at Holmenkollen in Oslo . The South Tyrolean contested his last World Cup race in 2006 in Hochfilzen . After the 2006/07 season he ended his career. Höllrigl won the national pursuit title in 2004 and was third in the relay. Today he works as a trainer in Liechtenstein and South Tyrol.

Since 2018 he has been working with Nicola Pozzi under head coach Andreas Zingerle as the coach of the Italian A-team in biathlon.

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	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring
Starts	2	5				7th
Status: end of career

Web links

• Klaus Höllrigl in the IBU database (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Success for Martell Valley
2. ↑ biathlonpower.li ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Final Spin on the Coaching Carousel Part 3: Norway, Italy, and Russia on biathlonworld.com, accessed on October 23, 2018