Mark Kirchner (biathlete)

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Mark Kirchner
Association	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	April 4th 1970
place of birth	Neuhaus am Rennweg,  GDR
Career
job	Biathlon national coach
Debut in the World Cup	1989
World Cup victories	8th
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 7 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 1992 Albertville sprint silver 1992 Albertville singles gold 1992 Albertville Season gold 1994 Lillehammer Season  Biathlon world championships gold 1990 Oslo sprint bronze 1990 Kontiolahti Season gold 1990 Oslo team gold 1991 Lahti singles gold 1991 Lahti sprint gold 1991 Lahti Season gold 1993 Borovets sprint bronze 1993 Borovets Season gold 1995 Antholz Season silver 1997 Osrblie team
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2. ( 1990/91 , 1992/93 )
Individual World Cup	3. ( 1996/97 )

Mark Kirchner (born April 4, 1970 in Neuhaus am Rennweg ) is a former German biathlete and today's biathlon trainer.

At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville Kirchner won medals in all three competitions, two years later he was at the Winter Games in Lillehammer standard-bearer of the German delegation at the opening ceremony and won gold in the biathlon - Season . Mark Kirchner was world champion seven times between 1990 and 1995 , three of them in the sprint. Because of his great dominance at that time, he was also called the alien. After his dominance phase, Kirchner's performance began to decline rapidly and massively, especially when shooting. Therefore, Kirchner switched to cross-country skiing in 1999, but without achieving any major success.

For his Olympic medals in 1992 he received the Silver Laurel Leaf from Federal President von Weizsäcker .

After his active career, Kirchner is a biathlon trainer. For the 2007/08 season Kirchner became the assistant national coach of Frank Ullrich and took care of the youth work at the Oberhof base . Before that, he headed course group 1b of the men's biathlon for two years. For the 2010/11 season he took over the position of senior discipline trainer for Frank Ullrich's men's team. After the 2018 Winter Olympics , he was appointed biathlon head coach, making him responsible for both men and women.

successes

• Winter Olympics:
  • 1992: 2 × gold (sprint, relay), 1 × silver (individual)
  • 1994: 1 × gold (relay)

• World Championships:
  • 1990: 2 × gold (sprint, team), 1 × bronze (relay)
  • 1991: 3 × gold (individual, sprint, relay)
  • 1993: 1 × gold (sprint), 1 × bronze (relay)
  • 1995: 1 × gold (relay)
  • 1997: 1 × silver (team)

• Overall World Cup:
  • 2 × 2nd place (1990/91, 1992/93)

• World Cup victories:
  • 8th

• Results in the World Cup

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	3	5			1	6th	15th
2nd place	2				1		3
3rd place		1				2	3
Top 10	11	15th	2		3	9	40
Scoring	27	37	6th	1	3	9	83
Starts	39	46	6th	1	3	9	104
Status : end of career

literature

• Volker Kluge:  Kirchner, Mark . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Mark Kirchner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mark Kirchner in the database of the IBU (English)
• Mark Kirchner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: “... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf. ... "
2. ↑ Biathlon - New jobs for Kirchner and Hönig. Sportschau , April 10, 2018, accessed on April 11, 2018 .