Walter Georg Pichler (born 23 October 1959) is a former

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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 ...

from

Bad Reichenhall Bad Reichenhall ( Central Bavarian: ''Reichahoi'') is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgau Alps (including Mount Stau ...

, who represented

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. At 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 ...

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, Pichler won a bronze medal with the West German relay team consisting of

Peter Angerer Peter Angerer (born 14 July 1959) is a former West German biathlete. Career At the 1984 Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo he won the gold medal in the 20 km individual. In addition he won silver in the 10 km sprint and bronze with the ...

, Ernst Reiter and

Fritz Fischer Fritz Fischer (5 March 1908 – 1 December 1999) was a German historian best known for his analysis of the causes of World War I. In the early 1960s Fischer advanced the controversial thesis at the time that responsibility for the outbreak of the ...

. Walter Pichler is the cousin of biathlon coach

Wolfgang Pichler Wolfgang Pichler (born 23 January 1955 in Ruhpolding) is a German biathlon and cross-country skiing coach. Wolfgang Pichler formerly trained Magdalena Forsberg, and won with her six World Biathlon Championships and six Biathlon World Cup titles. ...

. He served as coach of the United States national biathlon team from 1989. He was appointed as head coach of the British biathlon team in May 2008.

References

* German male biathletes 1959 births Biathletes at the 1984 Winter Olympics Living people Olympic medalists in biathlon Olympic biathletes for West Germany West German male biathletes Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany Biathlon World Championships medalists Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics German cross-country skiing coaches People from Bad Reichenhall Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria {{Germany-biathlon-bio-stub