Career
Hoffmann"s best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was a 5th in the 50 km in 2001. He and fellow skier Mikhail Botvinov also encountered controversy regarding blood doping in 2002, though both were cleared by the International Olympic Committee on April 9, 2002. In December 2011 the Austrian Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) gave Hoffman a six-year ban for blood doping done from 2003 to 2006.