- Christian Hoffmann
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Medal record Men's cross country skiing Olympic Games Gold 2002 Salt Lake City 30 km Bronze 1998 Nagano 50 km World Championships Gold 1999 Ramsau 4 x 10 km Christian Hoffmann (born December 22, 1974 in Aigen) is a former Austrian cross country skier who competed since 1994. He won the bronze medal in the 50km at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Four years later at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Hoffmann finished 2nd in the 30 km freestyle mass start event to Spain's Johann Mühlegg, but was awarded the gold medal in 2004 upon Mühlegg's blood-doping disqualification of darbepoetin.
Hoffmann's best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was a 5th in the 50 km in 2001. He also won gold in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1999 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau.
Hoffman also won two World Cup events in his career (10 km: 2003, 30 km: 2004). He and fellow skier Mikhail Botvinov also encountered controversy regarding blood doping in 2002, though both were cleared by the IOC on April 9, 2002.
External links
- Christian Hoffmann at the International Ski Federation
- Official website (German)
- skifaster.net April 9, 2002 article clearing Botvinov and Hoffman.
Olympic champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing 1956: Veikko Hakulinen (FIN) * 1960 Sixten Jernberg (SWE) * 1964: Eero Mäntyranta (FRA) * 1968: Franco Nones (ITA) * 1972: Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS) * 1976: Sergey Savelyev (URS) * 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov (URS) * 1984: Nikolay Zimyatov (URS) * 1988: Alexey Prokurorov (URS) * 1992: Vegard Ulvang (NOR) * 1994: Thomas Alsgaard (NOR) * 1998: Mika Myllylä (FIN) * 2002: Christian Hoffmann (AUT)
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