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Place of Birth: Ruhpolding, Bavaria, Germany
About 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.
- After her retirement, Pichler coached the Swedish biathlon team, both men and women, guiding the likes of Helena Ekholm, Anna-Carin Olofsson and Björn Ferry to Olympic and World Championship medals.He coached Sweden at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin successfully.
- Olofsson won the silver medal in sprint behind Kati Wilhelm.
- She then won a gold medal in mass start, the first for Sweden since 1960.Pichler coached the Russian female biathlon team in the season 2011/2012.
- After acting as a consultant to the Swedish biathlon team in the 2014-15 season, in April 2015 the Swedish Biathlon Federation announced that Pichler had been re-appointed as the team's head coach.
- During this spell with the team he guided Hanna Öberg and Sebastian Samuelsson to Olympic and World Championship medals.
- In addition at this time he coached British biathlete Amanda Lightfoot.Wolfgang's brother, Claus Pichler, is a Social Democratic politician who was elected mayor of the brothers' home town of Ruhpolding.
- Walter Pichler, a fellow coach and former biathlete who took a bronze medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics, is a cousin of the brothers.In January 2019, he announced he would resign from the position as Swedish national team coach following the 2018–2019 season.
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