Klaus Siebert
- Birth Date:
- 29.04.1955
- Death date:
- 24.04.2016
- Length of life:
- 60
- Days since birth:
- 25199
- Years since birth:
- 68
- Days since death:
- 2922
- Years since death:
- 7
- Extra names:
- Klaus Siebert
- Categories:
- Coach, Sportsman
- Nationality:
- german
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Klaus Siebert (29 April 1955 – 24 April 2016) was a German biathlete and biathlon coach who raced for East Germany.
Career
At the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, Siebert won a silver medal on the relay with the East German relay team. In the Biathlon World Championships, Siebert has two gold medals with the East German relay team in 1978 and 1979, and a bronze medal from 1977. He also has three individual medals gold medal from the 20 km in 1978 and two bronzes from the 10 km in 1975 and 1978.
After retiring from competition he became a coach. He has coached in Germany, China and Belarus. He returned to his coaching role with the Belarusian national biathlon team in January 2012 after spending much of the previous year ill with cancer. However, Siebert stepped down from this role ahead of the 2014-15 season due to health issues.
Siebert died on 24 April 2016.
Source: wikipedia.org, delfi.lv
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