With speed and precision, Arnd Peiffer was able to achieve several successes alone and with the team.
Arnd Peiffer
was born on March 18, 1987 in Wolfenbüttel
born.
His home club is the
WSV-Clausthal-Zellerfeld.
The greatest successes are the
medals
at the
2018
Olympic Games
.
Arnd Peiffer comes from Clausthal-Zellerfeld in the Harz region.
He was born on March 18, 1987 in Wolfenbüttel.
The
biathlete
from Lower Saxony made
his first international appearance
in December 2007 in the
European
Junior
Cup
.
In the 2009/10 season he started with the German
biathlon team
in the world championship and has been a permanently nominated team member ever since.
After graduating from high school in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Arnd Peiffer attended the federal police sports school.
Here he completed his training and then became a
police officer
.
Peiffer now lives in Holzkirchen in Upper Bavaria.
As a
biathlete
, he achieved
several great successes
in several
World Cups
and the Olympic Games.
In the
individual
and in the
relay
he made it to the podium again and again.
His
gold medals
:
World Championship Russia Khanty-Mansiysk 2010: Mixed relay
World Championship
Russia Khanty-Mansiysk 2011
: Sprint
World Championship Finland Kontiolahti 2015: Relay
World Championship Austria Hochfilzen 2017: Mixed relay
Olympic Games 2018: Sprint
World Championship
Sweden Östersund 2019: Individual
Arnd Peiffer - successful biathlete in the German team and at the Olympics since 2009/10
In the 2009/10 season Peiffer started at the
Biathlon World Cup
in Pyeongchang and finished third in the relay and mixed relay.
The following year he confirmed his talent and was
fourth
in the
overall World Cup
.
A difficult time followed after a fall in Presque Isle in 2017/16.
At the beginning of 2017, he did not make it into the top ten.
With the victory of the
Olympic gold medal in 2018
in the sprint and the bronze medal in the relay, he reached fourth place in the world rankings as the best German.
Due to an illness, he had to cancel his participation in the mixed relay and in the sprint for the 2019/20 season.
At the
2020/21 World Cup
in Kontiolahti in Finland, Peiffer
finished second and seventh
in the
sprints
.
With the
season he
came in third place.
In his career to date, the
biathlete
Arnd Peiffer
has received the
DSV Golden Ski
award several times
and has been repeatedly voted Sportsman of the Year in Lower Saxony.
In April 2018 he also received the honorary citizenship of Clausthal-Zellerfeld.
Peiffer and the German biathlon team - successes and problems
After the mixed relay and the sprint were canceled due to illness in the 2019/20 season, Arnd Peiffer started
singles
.
However, there was a
fall
that left a laceration.
In Hochfilzen he came first on the 24th place.
In the
pursuit
, he managed to reach the 13th place.
In the following World Championship in Annecy, he reached ninth place in the sprint after the pursuit.
In the
mass start
, he came in seventh place.
In
Antholz
, the German
relay team
won the
bronze medal
with Peiffer
.
In December 2020, the
biathlete came
in second place in the Finnish World Cup sprint, but slipped to 18th place in the pursuit due to a total of five
shooting errors
.
He left Hochfilzen for personal reasons before the start of the sprint.
The relay with
Benedikt Doll
, Erik Lesser, Philipp Horn and Johannes Kühn made it to
third place
with the support of trainer
Mark Kirchner
.
After his return, Arnd Peiffer and his teammates could not achieve any success in the sprint.
In the mass start, however, Peiffer achieved the first German biathlon victory in the
2020/21 season
.