Wolfgang Perner

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Wolfgang Perner (born September 17, 1967 in Ramsau am Dachstein ; † October 1, 2019 ) was an Austrian biathlete .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a cook and waiter, Wolfgang Perner concentrated on the winter triathlon during his military service . He was a member of the ÖSV squad from 1990 and of the Austrian national biathlon team from 1992. Although he could not qualify for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , he made his international breakthrough immediately after the games with a third place at Holmenkollen and his first World Cup victory over 20 km in Novosibirsk . Overall, Wolfgang Perner (including the 2003/04 season) achieved nine titles in the military world championships and seven world cup victories, five of them in team competitions. His greatest success was in his third Olympic participation (after 1994 and 1998) the third place at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . This was the first Olympic medal in biathlon for Austria.

After a doping raid in the house of the Austrian biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Perner and his colleague Wolfgang Rottmann rushed away. Both were excluded from the Austrian Olympic team. However, doping could not be proven in the athletes. In March 2006 he announced his final retirement from competitive sports. In April 2007, Perner and Rottmann and four Austrian cross-country skiers were banned from the Olympic Games for life by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In the opinion of the IOC, all were considered convicted of having jointly used doping substances. Reason for the harsh sentence: "These cases go beyond the simple possession of prohibited substances and methods and are clear examples in which a network, including athletes, came together to manipulate blood and engage in doping practices." Their Turin results were deleted . Perner was accused of "blood doping". The independent disciplinary committee of the ÖSV came to the conclusion “that Mayer and Hoch have tolerated and actively supported doping in the form of prohibited methods.” On July 17, 2007, the Austrian Ski Association excluded Perner for life.

Wolfgang Perner died after a long illness at the age of 52. He was buried in Untertauern . He left a wife and two children.

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 1 1 1 2 5
2nd place 1 1
3rd place 2 1 3
Top 10 5 15th 5 4th 1 37 67
Scoring 21st 59 33 18th 2 43 176
Starts 58 110 59 18th 2 44 291
Status : after the end of your career

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ex-biathlete Perner has died. In: sport.orf.at . October 3, 2019, accessed October 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Torino 2006: Six Austrian Athletes Declared Permanently Ineligible. IOC press release, April 25, 2007, archived from the original on March 8, 2014 ; Retrieved on October 4, 2019 (English): "These cases go further than straightforward possession of prohibited substances and methods and are clear instances where a network, including athletes, colluded to manipulate blood and to engage into doping practices."
  3. ↑ Ex-biathlete Wolfgang Perner died at the age of 52. In: kurier.at . October 3, 2019, accessed October 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Perner. In: ramsau-evang.at. October 1, 2019, accessed August 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Olympic medalist Perner died at the age of 52. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . October 3, 2019, accessed October 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Perner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramsau am Dachstein , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 1st October 2019