Matthias Ahrens

This article is about the biathlon trainer and former cross-country skier and biathlete Matthias Ahrens. For the hockey coach see Mathias Ahrens .

Matthias Ahrens
Association	Germany
birthday	May 26, 1961
place of birth	Ruhpolding
Career
job	Biathlon trainer
Admission to the national team	1978
status	resigned
End of career	1984
World Cup balance
last change: January 26, 2010

Matthias Ahrens (born May 26, 1961 in Ruhpolding ) is a former German cross-country skier and biathlete .

After his active career in biathlon and cross-country skiing, Ahrens became a coach from 1978 to 1984. He is now the holder of the highest Canadian trainer license in biathlon. He is also a state-certified mountain and ski guide and a state-certified cross-country skiing instructor. Since 2004 he has been a member of the coaching staff of the Canadian Biathlon Association and trains the national team of Canada at the biathlon base in Canmore . Ahrens has been the head coach of the Canadian national biathlon team since 2012. In 2005 he was named Canadian Biathlon Trainer of the Year. Under his leadership, both the men got and the women of Canada in greater numbers in the advanced world leaders, although Biathlon - as an example before the Olympic Games 2010 in Home Vancouver complains - the one with the least government-sponsored Olympic winter sports. With Jean-Philippe Leguellec in 2012 and Nathan Smith in 2015, Canadian biathlon men won world cup races for the first time under Ahren's leadership. In addition, Nathan Smith won the silver medal in the sprint race at the 2015 Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti and thus the first World Championship medal for the Canadian biathlon men. This was followed by winning the bronze medal at the Biathlon World Championships 2016 in Oslo in the men's relay with Christian Gow , Nathan Smith, Scott Gow and Brendan Green . In 2015 and 2016, Ahrens was awarded the Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Award .

After all the athletes who Ahrens had built up during his time as coach of the Canadian biathlon team ended their careers, Ahrens also ended his cooperation with the Canadian Federation at the end of the 2018/19 season and is now again training the youth and juniors as head coach in the Biathlon Alberta Training Center in Canmore

Web links

• Biathlon Canada 2012/2013 Media Guide Guide de Presses. (pdf, 1.5 MB) November 5, 2012, archived from the original on February 13, 2014 (English, French). 
• Biathlon World Cup 2015: Coach Ahrens makes Canada's biathletes afloat. dpa article on t-online.de , March 9, 2015. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthias Ahrens, CHPC - Biathlon: The Biathlon Cookbook. Coaching Association of Canada, accessed April 30, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Biathlon Canada announces staff changes at biathloncanada.ca, accessed April 5, 2019
3. ↑ [1]