Peter Sendel

Peter Sendel
Association	Germany
birthday	March 6, 1972
place of birth	Ilmenau,  GDR
Career
job	Biathlon trainer (national trainer juniors)
Debut in the World Cup	1993
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 1998 Nagano Season silver 2002 Salt Lake City Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1994 Canmore team silver 1996 Ruhpolding Season gold 1997 Osrblie Season silver 1997 Osrblie team bronze 2000 Lahti Season gold 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk Season
World Cup balance
Individual World Cup	3rd ( 1999/2000 )

Peter Sendel (born March 6, 1972 in Ilmenau ) is a former German biathlete.

Career

Peter Sendel has dedicated himself to biathlon since 1978 . He was considered a sure shooter and was therefore often used in relay competitions. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , he won the gold medal with the relay, also with the relay he achieved a silver medal at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City .

For this he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on May 6, 2002 .

On December 26, 2004, he surprisingly announced his immediate retirement from competitive sport and two days later he was playing his last competition with Katrin Apel at the World Team Challenge . After his active career Sendel became a biathlon coach. He became national coach of the IBU men's squad.

Sendel is married and lives with his wife in Erfurt. He has 3 children.

He is an honorary citizen of Großbreitenbach and Jüchsen.

successes

• Olympic Games :
  • 1998: 1 × gold (relay)
  • 2002: 1 × silver (relay)
• World Championships:
  • 1994: 1 × bronze (team)
  • 1996: 1 × silver (relay)
  • 1997: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (team)
  • 2000: 1 × bronze (relay)
  • 2003: 1 × gold (relay)

Biathlon World Cup placements

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						13	13
2nd place			5		1	7th	13
3rd place	2					5	7th
Top 10	14th	17th	17th	7th	1	29	85
Scoring	32	48	36	18th	1	29	164
Starts	47	84	48	18th	1	30th	228
Status : data may not be complete

Web links

• Peter Sendel's website
• Peter Sendel in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of May 6, 2002 on the occasion of the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2002 Winter Olympics In: bundespraesident.de: Der Bundespräsident / Speeches / Greetings