Uschi Disl

Uschi Disl
Full name	Ursula Disl
Association	Germany
birthday	15th November 1970 (age 49)
place of birth	Bad Toelz , Germany
Career
job	Federal Police Officer a. D.
society	SC Moosham
Debut in the World Cup	1989
World Cup victories	50 (30 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 4 × 3 × World Cup medals 8 × 8 × 3 ×
winter Olympics silver 1992 Albertville Season bronze 1994 Lillehammer singles silver 1994 Lillehammer Season bronze 1998 Nagano singles silver 1998 Nagano sprint gold 1998 Nagano Season silver 2002 Salt Lake City sprint gold 2002 Salt Lake City Season bronze 2006 Turin Mass start  Biathlon world championships bronze 1991 Lahti Season gold 1992 Novosibirsk team silver 1995 Antholz singles silver 1995 Antholz sprint gold 1995 Antholz Season silver 1995 Antholz team gold 1996 Ruhpolding Season gold 1996 Ruhpolding team gold 1997 Osrblie Season gold 1999 Kontiolahti Season silver 2000 Oslo persecution silver 2000 Oslo Season silver 2001 Pokljuka sprint silver 2001 Pokljuka Season bronze 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk Season gold 2005 Hochfilzen sprint gold 2005 Hochfilzen persecution silver 2005 Hochfilzen Season bronze 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2. ( 1995/96 , 1996/97 , 1997/98 ) 3. ( 1994/95 , 1998/99 , 2001/02 )
Individual World Cup	1.  ( 1996/97 , 1998/99 ) 2. ( 1997/98 )
Sprint World Cup	1.  ( 1996/97 ) 2. ( 1997/98 ) 3. ( 2001/02 )
Pursuit World Cup	2. ( 1997/98 ) 3. ( 1998/99 , 2001/2002 )
Mass start world cup	2. ( 1998/99 , 2003/04 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 8th 5 5 sprint 13 13 7th persecution 7th 1 8th Mass start 2 0 5 Season 17th 20th 5 team 2 2 0

Ursula "Uschi" Disl (born November 15, 1970 in Bad Tölz ) is a former German biathlete . She was one of the first internationally successful German biathletes and made a significant contribution to the increasing popularity of this sport. After the end of her career and a year of maternity leave, Disl worked as a TV expert at ARD during the 2007/08 and 2008/09 biathlon world cup seasons .

Private life

Disl lives in Mora ( Sweden ), together with Thomas Söderberg, a ski technician from Sweden who works for the Norwegian team and with whom she has a daughter and a son. In addition to the biathlon activity, she was an officer at the Federal Border Police , today's Federal Police , which gave her the opportunity to train for her sport.

Biathlon career

Beginnings

Uschi Disl switched from cross-country skiing to biathlon in the winter of 1986/87. Just three years later, she became Junior World Champion with the team in Finland. She competed in her first race at the World Cup in Ruhpolding in the 1988/89 season . Almost two years later - in the winter of 1990/91 - she was a permanent member of the German World Cup team. At the first World Cup in Les Saisies , she won the sprint in her fourth appearance in the World Cup and thus her first World Cup race, and she finished fourth in the overall World Cup. At the 1991 World Championships in Lahti , she won her first World Championship medal with a bronze medal in the relay race, and at the German Championships she won the individual competition over 15 km.

Successful years

At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , women's biathlon was an Olympic discipline for the first time. Uschi Disl won the silver medal with the German relay and thus her first Olympic medal.

Olympic Games in Nagano

After two silver medals and one bronze medal at the 1992 and 1994 Olympic Games, Uschi Disl's goal was to win a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan . In the individual race on February 9, 1998, Disl was on course for victory with three faultless shots, fell back due to a mistake in the last shooting and finally achieved the bronze medal. In the sprint race that took place six days later, Disl was second behind the Russian Galina Kuklewa, 0.7 seconds behind . Uschi Disl was able to complete her set of medals with the gold medal in the final relay race, which she won together with Martina Zellner , Katrin Apel and Petra Behle .

Uschi Disl was able to end the 1997/98 season with two wins in Hochfilzen, Austria, so she was second in the overall World Cup again behind Magdalena Forsberg.

Single triumph in Hochfilzen

At the 2005 World Championships in Hochfilzen, she achieved two individual titles. In the sprint race, Disl achieved the first individual success of her career with a faultless shooting performance and a lead of 3.5 seconds over Russian Olga Saizewa . In the pursuit race, she fought a duel with the Chinese Liu Xianying until the end , which she won with a 17.9 second lead. Uschi Disl was able to conclude the last regular world championships of her career 14 years after winning her first world championship medal in addition to the long-awaited two individual gold medals with a silver medal in the relay race. This made her the most successful athlete at these world championships.

The last season

Uschi Disl (left) with Andrea Henkel (2006)

The 2005-06 season was Uschi Disl's final season. As in the previous year, she won the sprint race in Östersund at the start of the season, which was also the last World Cup victory of her career. Up to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , the fifth of her career, she impressed with consistent performance in the World Cup. The first Olympic races were less successful for Disl: In individual, sprint and pursuit races, she finished 12th, 34th and 10th. One of the consequences of this was that Disl was not used in an Olympic relay for the first time. So she was not involved in winning the silver medal. In the final mass start race on February 25, 2006 Disl was 6th after the last shooting; with the fastest final lap of all athletes, she was able to fight her way forward and won her ninth Olympic medal with the bronze medal.

On March 23, 2006 Disl announced her withdrawal from the Biathlon World Cup. The mass start race on March 26th at Holmenkollen in Oslo was her last World Cup start, she finished her career in fifth place in the overall World Cup. In 2008 doping allegations were made against Disl and other biathletes in the form of an anonymous complaint.

Balance sheet

Uschi Disl is one of the most successful biathletes at the Olympic Winter Games. She qualified a total of five times and won nine Olympic medals (2 × gold, 4 × silver, 3 × bronze), with at least one medal jumping out for her at every Olympic tournament. At world championships she won a total of 19 medals, two of which were individual gold medals at the Biathlon World Championships in 2005 in Hochfilzen and a total of 6 gold medals with relays or the team.

With fourth place in the overall World Cup 2003/04, after three second (1996, 1997, 1998) and three third places (1995, 1999, 2002), she was the best German biathlete over the entire season. Her total of 30 individual victories in the World Cup have so far only been exceeded in the women's biathlon by the Swede Magdalena Forsberg (42 individual victories), Magdalena Neuner (34 individual victories) and the Belarusian Darja Domratschawa (31 individual victories).

TV engagement

Uschi Disl (2015)

In the Biathlon World Cup seasons 2007/08 and 2008/09 Uschi Disl worked as an expert commentator for ARD . She mainly accompanied the women's races there, while Ricco Groß was responsible for the men's competitions. In this function, Disl and Groß replaced the former biathlete Magdalena Forsberg .

In February / March 2016 she took part in the VOX show Ewige Helden . On April 16, 2016, she took part in the ProSieben Völkerball Championship 2016 at ProSieben . On August 28, 2016, she was a participant in the VOX show The Super Olympian , where she competed and won against Panagiota Petridou in weightlifting.

In 2018 she took part in the RTL Ninja Warrior Germany celebrity special for the RTL donation marathon among a total of 26 participants .

successes

Winter Olympics:

• 1992: 1 × silver (relay)
• 1994: 1 × silver (relay), 1 × bronze (individual)
• 1998: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (sprint), 1 × bronze (individual)
• 2002: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (sprint)
• 2006: 1 × bronze (mass start)

World Championships:

• 1991: 1 × bronze (relay)
• 1992: 1 × gold (team)
• 1995: 1 × gold (relay), 3 × silver (individual, sprint, team)
• 1996: 2 × gold (relay, team)
• 1997: 1 × gold (relay)
• 1999: 1 × gold (relay)
• 2000: 2 × silver (pursuit, relay)
• 2001: 2 × silver (sprint, relay)
• 2003: 1 × bronze (relay)
• 2005: 2 × gold (sprint, pursuit), 1 × silver (relay), 1 × bronze (mixed relay)

Overall World Cup:

• 3 × 2nd place (1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98)
• 3 × 3rd place (1994/95, 1998/99, 2001/02)

Discipline World Cup:

• 2 × winner of the individual World Cup (1996/97, 1998/99)
• 1 × winner of the Sprint World Cup (1996/97)

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. Dec 15, 1990  Albertville sprint 2. Jan. 16, 1992  Ruhpolding singles 3. 17th Mar 1994  Canmore singles 4th Jan. 19, 1995  Oberhof singles 5. 0Dec 7, 1995  Ostersund singles 6th Dec 16, 1995  Oslo sprint 7th Jan. 11, 1996  Antholz singles 8th. Jan. 13, 1996  Antholz sprint 9. Dec 12, 1996  Oslo sprint 10. Dec 14, 1996  Oslo persecution 11. Jan. 18, 1997  Antholz sprint 12. Dec 18, 1997  Kontiolahti sprint 13. March 12 1998  Hochfilzen singles 14th 14 Mar 1998  Hochfilzen sprint 15th Dec 13, 1998  Hochfilzen singles 16. Dec 16, 1998  Osrblie singles 17th Dec 20, 1998  Osrblie persecution 18th Jan. 13, 1999  Ruhpolding Mass start 19th Dec 16, 1999  Osrblie singles 20th 02nd Mar 2001  Salt Lake City sprint 21st Jan. 12, 2003  Oberhof Mass start 22nd 0Jan. 9, 2004  Pokljuka persecution 23. 03rd Mar 2004  Fort Kent sprint 24. 05th Mar 2004  Fort Kent persecution 25th 0Dec 2, 2004  Beitostølen sprint 26th 0Dec 4, 2004  Beitostølen persecution 27. 0Jan. 9, 2005  Oberhof persecution 28. 05th Mar 2005  Hochfilzen (WM) sprint 29 06th Mar 2005  Hochfilzen (WM) persecution 30th Nov 26, 2005  Ostersund sprint

No. date place discipline 1. Dec 16, 1990  Albertville 3x7.5km relay 1 2. 0Feb 3, 1991  Oberhof 3x7.5km relay 2 3. 10 Mar 1991  Antholz 3x7.5km season 3 4th Jan. 19, 1992  Ruhpolding 3x7.5km season 3 5. 22 Mar 1992  Novosibirsk (World Cup) 15km team 4 6th Dec 20, 1992  Pokljuka 4x7.5km season 5 7th Jan. 24, 1993  Antholz 20km team 6 8th. Jan. 23, 1994  Antholz 4x7.5km season 7 9. 13 Mar 1994  Hinton 4x7.5km season 7 10. 20 Mar 1994  Canmore 4x7.5km season 7 11. Jan. 29, 1995  Ruhpolding 4x7.5km season 7 12. Feb 19, 1995  Antholz (WM) 4x7.5km season 7 13. March 12 1995  Lahti 4x7.5km season 7 14th Dec 10, 1995  Ostersund 4x7.5km season 8 15th Dec 17, 1995  Oslo 4x7.5km season 8 16. 0Feb 6, 1996  Ruhpolding (WM) 15km team 9 17th Feb 10, 1996  Ruhpolding (WM) 4x7.5km season 9 18th 0Feb 9, 1997  Osrblie (WM) 4x7.5km season 9 19th Feb 19, 1998  Nagano (OWS) 4x7.5km season 8 20th Jan. 10, 1999  Oberhof 4x7.5km relay 10 21st Feb 14, 1999  Kontiolahti (WM) 4x7.5km season 11 22nd Jan. 14, 2000  Ruhpolding 4x7.5km season 12 23. 10 Mar 2000  Lahti 4x7.5km season 12 24. Dec 10, 2000  Antholz 4x7.5km season 13 25th 0Dec 7, 2001  Hochfilzen 4x7.5km season 14 26th Jan. 17, 2002  Ruhpolding 4x7.5km season 15 27. Feb. 18, 2002  Salt Lake City (OWS) 4x7.5km season 13 28. 0Dec 6, 2002  Ostersund 4 × 6 km relay 16 29 Jan. 10, 2003  Oberhof 4 × 6 km relay 13 30th Jan. 14, 2004  Ruhpolding 4 × 6 km relay 16 31. 0Jan. 6, 2005  Oberhof 4 × 6 km relay 13 1with Kerstin Moring and Antje Harvey 2with Inga Kesper and Petra Schaaf 3 with Antje Harvey and Petra Schaaf 4thwith Petra Bauer , Petra Schaaf and Inga Kesper 5 with Antje Miserky, Inga Schneider and Petra Schaaf 6thwith Antje Miserky, Sylke Hummanik and Petra Schaaf 7thwith Petra Schaaf, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm and Antje Harvey 8thwith Katrin Apel , Martina Zellner and Petra Behle 9 with Katrin Apel, Petra Behle and Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm 10with Andrea Henkel , Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm and Martina Zellner 11 with Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Katrin Apel and Martina Zellner 12 with Katrin Apel, Andrea Henkel and Martina Zellner 13with Andrea Henkel, Kati Wilhelm and Katrin Apel 14thwith Katrin Apel, Martina Zellner and Martina Glagow 15th with Katrin Apel, Martina Zellner and Kati Wilhelm 16with Katrin Apel, Simone Denkinger and Kati Wilhelm

World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	8th	13	7th	2	2	17th	49
2nd place	5	13	1		1	20th	40
3rd place	5	7th	8th	5		4th	29
Top 10	37	74	47	21st	1	47	227
Scoring	55	102	66	30th	1	47	301
Starts	63	121	68	30th	1	47	330
Status : end of season 2005/06, career completion

Awards

• 2003
  • Bavarian Sports Prize in the "Ambassador of Bavarian Sports" category
• 2005
  • Bambi in the Sport category
  • Sportswoman of the year - 1st place
• 2006
  • Bavarian Order of Merit

Web links

Commons : Uschi Disl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Uschi Disl in the IBU database (English)
• Uschi Disl on facebook

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic Winter Games 1998 in Nagano: Individual result from February 9, 1998 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Olympic Winter Games 1998 in Nagano: Sprint result from February 15, 1998 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Olympic Winter Games 1998 in Nagano: Relay results from February 19, 1998 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ World Championships 2005 in Hochfilzen: Sprint result from March 5, 2005 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ World Championships 2005 in Hochfilzen: Result of tracking from March 6, 2005 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ "I am convinced that there is not very much doping" (March 9, 2019)
14. ^ Message from ARD about the commitment of Disl as TV experts ( Memento from June 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ News in brief: u. a. Disl ends the moderation job. September 1, 2009, accessed September 1, 2009 . 
16. ↑ http://www.vox.de/cms/ewige-helden-biathletin-uschi-disl-die-biografie-2630278.html