Klaus Siebert

Klaus Siebert
Association	German Democratic Republic
birthday	April 29, 1955
place of birth	Schlettau ,  GDR
date of death	April 24, 2016
Place of death	Altenberg (Ore Mountains) ,  FRG
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	SG Dynamo Zinnwald
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 3 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1980 Lake Placid Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1975 Antholz sprint bronze 1977 Vingrom Season bronze 1978 Hochfilzen sprint gold 1978 Hochfilzen Season gold 1979 Ruhpolding singles gold 1979 Ruhpolding Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 1976 Minsk sprint gold 1976 Minsk Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1.  ( 1978/79 )

Klaus Siebert (born April 29, 1955 in Schlettau , † April 24, 2016 in Altenberg (Erzgebirge) ) was a German biathlete and biathlon trainer.

Career

Siebert, who came from the Ore Mountains , was one of the outstanding biathletes in the late 1970s. At the Biathlon World Championships in Ruhpolding in 1979 , he was world champion over 20 kilometers. With the GDR relay he was able to achieve the world championship title in 1978 and 1979. In 1980 in Lake Placid , he won silver with the relay at the Olympic Games , for which he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In 1979 he won the overall world cup in biathlon. In 1978 and 1980 he was able to take second place in the World Cup behind Frank Ullrich .

After his playing days Siebert became a trainer. As a selection trainer for the juniors in the GDR (1984–1990), he looked after the former Altenberg athlete Ricco Groß for a long time , whom he looked after as a private trainer from 1988 to 2002 parallel to other engagements. From 1994 to 1998 he trained among others Katja Beer , Carsten Pump and Carsten Heymann at the Altenberg Olympic Training Center. He then acted as assistant coach of the German national team until 2002.

From 2002 to 2005 Siebert was the national coach of the Austrian team, where he focused on shooting training. In July 2006 he signed a two-year contract with the Chinese Biathlon Association, where he acted as head coach. Through his work, the achievements of almost all Chinese biathletes have become more consistent. Many made a big leap in performance, and above all improved their shooting performance. In 2008, his contract was not renewed because of disputes over the athletes' stakes in the Asian Cup.

Shortly before the start of the 2008/09 season , Siebert announced that he had signed a contract with the Association of Belarus . However, due to health problems, he was only able to start work shortly before the first World Cup station in Östersund . Then Siebert was able to lead the Belarusian biathletes to remarkable international successes in the World Cup and at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He led Darja Domratschawa to the top of the world, which culminated in the bronze medal in singles in Vancouver and the Olympic victories in pursuit, singles and mass start in Sochi .

After the 2013/14 season , Siebert ended his successful collaboration with the Belarusian association for health reasons. His post there was not, as announced, taken over by the Austrian Alfred Eder , but by the Belarusian Fjodar Swobada . Further operations followed in 2014. As a freelance trainer for the Ski Association of Saxony , he primarily looked after young athletes. Due to an illness he had to withdraw from the sport. He died on April 24, 2016 at the age of 60.

Web links

Commons : Klaus Siebert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Klaus Siebert in the IBU database (English)
• Klaus Siebert in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tina Hofmann: Biathlon trainer Siebert dead. (No longer available online.) In: MOPO24 . April 25, 2016, archived from the original on April 28, 2016 ; Retrieved April 28, 2016 . 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.  
2. ↑ New Germany . April 22, 1980, p. 2.
3. ↑ Darya Domracheva: "No matter what I do, I do it for Klaus Siebert".
4. ^ Fyodor Svoboda replaces Klaus Siebert in the Belarusian women's team. (English)
5. ↑ Старшым трэнерам жаночай зборнай Беларусі па біятлоне стаў Фёдар Свобада. ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 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. (Belarus., translation: 'Fjodar Swobada became the head coach of the Belarusian women's biathlon team') 
6. ↑ Klaus Siebert is dead. In: biathlon-online.de. April 25, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016 . 
7. ^ Biathlon: Former world champion Siebert has died. (Not available online.) In: mdr.de . April 26, 2016, archived from the original on April 26, 2016 ; Retrieved April 26, 2016 . 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.