Olympia 2018: Ambitious biathletes: Five medals the goal for Olympia

High expectations for Laura Dahlmeier and Co.: The German biathletes are expected to attend the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang (9.till 25.February) in the coming year.

Ho” Five medals are the goal”, said sportive leader Björn Weisheit to the SID on Thursday in Ruhpolding and continued:”This has been agreed with the DOSB.We’re targeting three medals in the team competitions and two in the individual competitions.”

After the winter games in Sochi in 2014, in which German biathlon sport was “on the ground”not only because of the doping case of Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle according to the wisdom, hopes are resting on five-time world champion Dahlmeier (Partenkirchen), mass start world champion Simon Schempp (Uhingen) and sprint champion Benedikt Doll (B)

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The trio is for the World Cup season opener in Östersund/Sweden (26.November to 3.December) as well as the established Franziska Preuß (Haag), Franziska Hildebrand (Clausthal-Zellerfeld), Vanessa Hinz (Schliersee) and Maren Hammerschmidt Winterberg) with the women as well as Arnd Peiffer (Clausthal-Zellerfeld) and Erik Lesser (Frankenhain) with the men.

Two athletes and one athlete can also secure their ticket for the World Cup in Östersund at the IBU-Cup.The sporting director wants to observe the “second guard” closely, especially with men, in order to find a suitable fifth man for the Winter Games.

After the successful World Championships in Hochfilzen with eight medals, the ski hunters are going ambitiously into the Olympic winter “We want to be the number one biathlon nation.We are equipped for Pyeongchang,”said Wisdom.