Manfred Beer

Manfred Beer
Full name	Manfred Beer
Association	German Democratic Republic
birthday	2nd December 1953
place of birth	Altenberg , GDR
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	SG Dynamo Zinnwald
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Innsbruck 1976 Season  Biathlon world championships bronze Vingrom 1977 Season gold Hochfilzen 1978 Season gold Ruhpolding 1979 Season
World Cup balance

Manfred Beer (born December 2, 1953 in Altenberg in the Ore Mountains ) is a former German biathlete .

Manfred Beer is married to the former GDR champion in sports acrobatics , Heidi Beer . He is the father of the biathletes Katja and Romy Beer, who have since also retired . The family runs a biathlon camp and a small restaurant, the Beerenbaude, in the Zinnwald district of Altenberg .

Beer won the bronze medal with the relay of the GDR at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck with the line-up of Karl-Heinz Menz , Frank Ullrich , Manfred Beer and Manfred Geyer . In addition, he won the world championship title with the GDR relay in Hochfilzen in 1978 and in Ruhpolding in 1979 , after finishing third in 1977 . In all seasons, Beer was the starting runner and his teammates were Frank Ullrich, Klaus Siebert and Eberhard Rösch (1978 and 1979) and Manfred Geyer in 1977.

Web links

• Website of the Beer family biathletes
• Biathlon Camp Beer
• Manfred Beer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )