Mario Denoth

Mario Denoth
Association	Switzerland
birthday	April 2, 1980
Career
society	SC Bual Lantsch
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	1999 (cross-country skiing) 2002 (biathlon)
Debut in the World Cup	2000 (cross-country skiing) 2004 (biathlon)
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Swiss championships gold Lantsch 2006 sprint
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Mario Denoth (born April 2, 1980 ) is a former Swiss cross-country skier and biathlete .

Mario Denoth started for SC Bual Lantsch . He was initially active as a cross-country skier. The first international championship was the Nordic Junior World Championships in 1999 in Saalfelden , where he was 63rd over 30-kilometer freestyle. Towards the end of the year he competed in his first FIS races and in the cross-country skiing Continental Cup . This was followed by the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Štrbské Pleso . There he was 42nd in the freestyle sprint and 51st in the 10-kilometer freestyle. Towards the end of 2000 Denoth played his first World Cup in a classic sprint in Engelberg and was 59. A day later he was 62nd in a freestyle sprint. Only one more World Cup appearance followed. In Nové Město na Moravě he missed the point placements by just one place as 31st in a freestyle sprint. Up until 2003 there were only subclass races.

Since there were no notable successes, Denoth switched to biathlon in 2002 and made his debut in Obertilliach in the Biathlon European Cup . In the individual he was 39th, in the sprint he won first points in his second race 22nd. In 2006 , he achieved his best result in the second highest racing series by finishing fourth in an individual in Martell . He achieved top ten results six times, two of them with the Swiss relay. The first international championship in biathlon was the 2003 European biathlon championships in Forni Avoltri , in which Denoth was 46th in the individual, 49th in the sprint and 36th in the pursuit and with Simon Hallenbarter , Dani Niederberger and Jürg Kunz 14th in the relay. At the beginning of the 2004/2005 season he made his debut in the biathlon world cup in Beitostølen . With Simon Hallenbarter, Matthias Simmen and Roland Zwahlen he achieved a top ten placement in the relay race in ninth place and was 93 in the sprint. The high point of his biathlon career was the Biathlon World Championships 2005 in Hochfilzen . Denoth was 61st of the sprint and missed the pursuit race by one place, with Hallenbarter, Simmen and Zwahlen he finished 18th in the relay race. At the beginning of the 2005/2006 season he achieved his best result in the World Cup by finishing 38th in a sprint in Östersund . The next international championships were the 2006 European biathlon championships in Langdorf . He was only used in the individual, in which he was 55th. At the Swiss championships in 2006 Denoth won the sprint title. He contested his last international race in the context of the 2007 Military World Ski Championships in Võru , but did not finish his sprint race.

After his active career, Denoth became a ski technician and looked after Dario Cologna as a serviceman until 2011 , who won the overall World Cup in cross-country skiing in 2011. In succession to Adriano Iseppi, he then became a cross-country and biathlon trainer at the Ftan High Alpine Institute .

World Cup statistics

The table shows all placements (including the Olympic Games and World Championships, depending on the year of the event).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements among 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					1	1
Scoring					8th	8th
Starts	2	10	2		8th	22nd
Status: end of career

Web links

• Mario Denoth in the database of the IBU (English)
• Mario Denoth in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ The service man of the World Cup winner Cologna is a guest