Rudolf Horn (born 8 February 1954) is a former
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
n
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 ti ...
and
cross-country skier. He competed at the
1976 Winter Olympics
The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (, ) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 (), were a winter multi-sport event celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from February 4 to 15, 1976. The games were awarded to Inn ...
, the
1980 Winter Olympics
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Lake Placid was elected ...
and the
1984 Winter Olympics
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian language, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: ; ) and commonly known as Sarajevo '84 (Serbian Cy ...
.
Olympic results
Cross-country skiing
* 1976:
** 8th,
Winter Olympics
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4 × 10 kilometres relay (together with
Reinhold Feichter,
Werner Vogel and
Herbert Wachter)
** 42nd, Winter Olympics 15 kilometres
Biathlon
* 1980:
** 6th,
Winter Olympics
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4 × 7.5 kilometres relay (together with
Alfred Eder
Alfred Eder (born 28 December 1953) is an Austrian former biathlete.
Life and career
Eder was born in Piesendorf, and has been a soldier and thus competed as a member of the Heeressportverein (army sports club) Saalfelden. He competed in six W ...
,
Franz-Josef Weber and
Josef Koll)
** 26th, Winter Olympics 20 kilometres
** 28th, Winter Olympics 10 kilometres
* 1984:
** 8th,
Winter Olympics
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4 × 7.5 kilometres relay (together with Alfred Eder,
Walter Hörl and
Franz Schuler
Franz Schuler (born 3 October 1962) is a former Austrian biathlete and police officer, who competed as a member of the Polizeisportverein (police sports club) Innsbruck. He was born in Kufstein.
Selected results
* 1984:
** 8th, Winter Oly ...
)
** 36th, Winter Olympics 20 kilometres
** 36th, Winter Olympics 10 kilometres
References
1954 births
Living people
Austrian male cross-country skiers
Olympic biathletes for Austria
Olympic cross-country skiers for Austria
Austrian soldiers
Austrian male biathletes
Cross-country skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 1984 Winter Olympics
20th-century Austrian sportsmen
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