Thierry Langer (biathlete)
Thierry Langer 
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 Belgium
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| birthday | 24th October 1991 (age 28) |
| place of birth | Malmedy , Belgium |
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| society | Ski Club Elsenborn |
| Trainer | Jean-Guillaume Béatrix |
| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2008 |
| Debut in the World Cup | 2009 |
| status | active |
| World Cup balance | |
| Overall World Cup | 60th ( 2019/20 ) |
| Individual World Cup | 62nd (2019/20) |
| Sprint World Cup | 54th (2019/20) |
| Pursuit World Cup | 51st (2019/20) |
| last change: end of season 2019/20 | |
Thierry Langer (born October 24, 1991 in Malmedy ) is a biathlete and cross-country skier from the German-speaking part of Belgium .
Athletic career
Langer comes from Elsenborn in the Belgian Eifel and came into contact with cross-country skiing at an early age . The Belgian Ski Association recruited him in the mid-2000s for the biathlon sport that was being developed, in 2006 he competed in his first international races in the Junior European Cup (later the IBU Cup) and was regularly used in youth and junior world championships in the years to come. Neither he nor the Belgian relay played a role in the fight for top positions, he achieved his best results in 2009 with a 21st place in the individual, 48th in the sprint and 45th in the pursuit. In the same year Langer took part in the junior races of the summer biathlon world championships in Oberhof and was there in the cross-country races 28th of the sprint and 27th of the pursuit as well as 35th of the sprint and 30th of the pursuer in the roller-ski competitions.
Langer competed in his first men's races in 2008 in the IBU Cup and was 143rd in a sprint in Obertilliach . In his second race, he finished 64th in the Altenberg sprint and thus achieved a double-digit placement for the first time. In 2010 he won points in the second highest racing series for the first time as the 37th of a sprint in Pokljuka . He was also the first Belgian ever to win points in the IBU Cup. At the start of the 2009/10 season , the Belgian competed in his first World Cup races in Östersund , in which he could not place in the top 100 athletes. The first international championship was the 2012 World Championships in Ruhpolding. Langer was 119th of the individual, 128th of the sprint and with Thorsten Langer and Pascal Langer, who were not related to him, and with Vincent Naveau 26th in the relay race. After being lapped by the leading relays, the Belgians had to end the competition early.
The Belgian biathlon only became more professional in the mid-2010s. Among other things, a wax team was working for the athletes for the first time - they had previously prepared their skis themselves. According to Langer, the naturalizations of the German Michael Rösch and the French Florent Claude , who had previously celebrated international successes for their respective home countries and were part of the Belgian squad from 2014 and 2017, respectively , contributed to the professionalization . At the 2015 World Championships in Kontiolahti, Langer achieved 98th place in the individual for the first time among the top 100 (with 125 starters and a 13th place for his new team-mate Rösch), a year later in Oslo there were two 84 at the end of the world title bouts. Places. From the winter of 2017/18 , Belgium was regularly represented with relays in the World Cup for the first time. Michael Rösch and Florent Claude opened the relay as first and second runners, Langer and Tom Lahaye-Goffart followed in third and fourth position respectively. In this line-up, the Belgians briefly came into focus when they were in the lead in the Oberhof relay in January 2018 - in thick fog - after two runners, so Langer started the race first. He fell back to fourth place, ultimately Belgium finished the relay in 13th place (out of 24 rated).
In summer 2018 Jean-Guillaume Béatrix took over the training of the Belgian biathletes. In the first season supervised by Béatrix, Langer initially reached the top 20 in several IBU Cup races and replaced Michael Rösch in the middle of the season after his career in the World Cup. In December 2019, Langer secured his first World Cup points with a 21st place in the Hochfilzen sprint, which he confirmed in the subsequent pursuit with a 23rd place. In the sprint he stayed without a miss. In total, he won World Cup points in four competitions (including a 38th place in an individual competition at the World Championships ) and finished 60th in the overall World Cup at the end of the season.
Parallel to his biathlon career, Langer also took part in cross-country skiing competitions. In this discipline, he initially represented Belgium at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2017 as 82nd in the sprint and qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where he was one of 22 Belgian athletes and finished 66th over 15 kilometers in free style .
Personal
Langer began studying chemistry at the Technical University of Clausthal in 2010 and took a semester off during the 2017/18 Olympic season. In his master's thesis in 2019, he dealt with the optimized waxing of skis under different surface conditions. Langer's Belgian hometown club is the Elsenborn Ski Club , but during his studies he also worked with the WSV Clausthal-Zellerfeld , which includes Franziska Hildebrand and Arnd Peiffer .
World Cup statistics
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
- Relay: including mixed relays
| placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | total |
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| Top 10 | ||||||
| Scoring | 1 | 2 | 1 | 17th | 21st | |
| Starts | 11 | 20th | 3 | 17th | 51 | |
| Status: end of season 2019/20 | ||||||
Web links
- Thierry Langer in the database of the IBU (English)
- Thierry Langer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Lisa Gerth: Interview with Thierry Langer on biathlon-news.de. Released May 27, 2018. Accessed April 2, 2020.
- ↑ Biathlete Thierry Langer gets Belgium's first points for IBU world rankings on brf.be. Released March 15, 2010. Accessed April 2, 2020.
- ↑ German relay shoots ten penalty loops on sueddeutsche.de in the fog . Released January 7, 2018. Accessed April 2, 2020.
- ↑ TU student Thierry Langer starts at Olympia on tu-clausthal.de. Released February 9, 2018. Accessed April 2, 2020.
- ↑ Sports engineering : New bachelor's degree starts on tu-clausthal.de. Released May 22, 2019. Accessed April 2, 2020.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Langer, Thierry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1991 |