Thomas Oelsner
Thomas Oelsner  
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 Germany
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| birthday | June 19, 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| job | Advertising clerk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cross-country skiing biathlon |
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| society | WSV Oberhof 05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | Since 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | inactive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Oelsner (born June 19, 1970 ) is a German disabled athlete and one of the most successful biathletes and cross-country skiers at the Winter Paralympics . He starts in the handicapped class LW 6 . His club is WSV Oberhof 05 .
Career
Oelsner was seen as a promising young talent in German skiing and was a sports soldier in the sports promotion group for cross-country skiing. His left arm has been paralyzed since a motorcycle accident in 1991. It was only after about a year that he resumed skiing training. In 1993, through a chance encounter with the then escort runner Ulrich Zipfel in Oberhof, he was referred to the then national coach of the disabled national team, Rolf Hettich , who nominated him at short notice for the upcoming European championship. There Oelsner promptly won two gold medals.
At the 1994 Winter Paralympics , Oelsner competed in the Paralympic Games for the first time and won three gold and two silver medals. At the 1998 Winter Paralympics , gold twice and silver twice followed. He also won several world titles in 1996 in Sunne (Sweden) and in 2000 in Sion (Switzerland).
At the 2002 Winter Paralympics , there was a scandal when at Oelsner, after winning both cross-country and biathlon gold, the anabolic steroid methenolone has been demonstrated. Strange here, the doping test was positive on one day (cross-country skiing) and negative the next day (biathlon). It was the first doping case in the 26-year history of the Winter Paralympics. Oelsner had to surrender his two gold medals, was banned from the games and given a two-year ban from the IPC . The sports court of the German Disabled Sports Association decided in October 2002 to shorten his suspension at national level so that he could continue to participate in domestic German competitions until his international suspension expired on March 8, 2004. This was justified, among other things, by the fact that there had been no abnormalities in his urine values either before or after the games in Salt Lake City and that taking it so shortly before a race was implausible. The justification of the medical plausibility was proven before the sports court.
After the expiry of his IPC ban, he won a world championship title in biathlon and a silver medal in cross-country skiing at the World Championships in Fort Kent (USA). The following year he entered Turin at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in, but where there was only enough for a bronze medal in the long run. Also at the Winter Paralympics 2010 Oelsner, now 39 years old, competed again, but had no chance of a medal there. Oelsner caused a stir when the visor of his rifle was allegedly smeared with chocolate during the biathlon competition , whereupon he raised allegations of manipulation. Immediately after the games, he announced the end of his Paralympic career.
He was awarded the silver bay leaf for his athletic achievements .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Brian Maffly: skis Fails Drug Test ( Memento of 22 July 2011 at the Internet Archive ), paralympic.org
- ↑ Who sleeps with the ski: Thomas Oelsner. FAZ.net, March 11, 2002, accessed March 10, 2010 .
- ↑ Arno Schade: Thomas Oelsner continues his career: Paralympic winner returns to the competition route as an active participant. (No longer available online.) Press service of the 7th Nordic World Ski Championships for the disabled, February 12, 2003, archived from the original on November 13, 2008 ; Retrieved March 10, 2010 .
- ↑ Allegations incriminate biathletes. Berliner Morgenpost , March 17, 2010, accessed on March 24, 2010 .
- ↑ No nation more successful than Germany. Berliner Morgenpost , March 22, 2010, accessed on March 24, 2010 .
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| SURNAME | Oelsner, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oelse (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German disabled skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1970 |