Peter Zelinka (1 May 1957 – 27 October 2021) was a Slovak

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...

. He competed at the

1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected ...

and the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...

. Zelinka died on 27 October 2021, at the age of 64.Vo veku 64 rokov zomrel bývalý popredný biatlonista a neskôr reprezentačný tréner mužov i žien SR Peter Zelinka, na ZOH 1980 šiesty na 10 km
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* 1957 births 2021 deaths Slovak male biathletes Olympic biathletes for Czechoslovakia Biathletes at the 1980 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 1984 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Bratislava {{Slovakia-biathlon-bio-stub