Peter Angerer

Peter Angerer is a former West German biathlete, born on 14 July 1959. At the 1984 Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo he won the gold medal in the 20 km individual, silver in the 10 km sprint and bronze with the West German relay team, after a relay bronze at the 1980 Games in Lake Placid and before a relay silver at the 1988 Games in Calgary, five Olympic medals in all. He also won five World Championship medals and 24 individual World Cup races, and he won the overall World Cup in 1983. He won the 20 km individual at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1984 and 1985. At the 1986 World Championships he finished second in the individual and third with the relay team, but he then tested positive for a doping offence that turned out to be the result of a flu remedy. He retired after the 1987-88 season and now runs a skiing school in Ruhpolding.