Dajana Eitberger

Dajana Eitberger
nation	Germany
birthday	7th January 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Ilmenau , Germany
size	180 cm
Weight	78 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	RC Ilmenau
Trainer	Norbert Hahn Jan Eichhorn
status	not active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 2 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 0 × JEM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × DM medals 0 × 0 × 4 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang singles  Luge World Championships bronze 2016 Königssee sprint bronze 2019 Winterberg sprint  European Luge Championships bronze 2014 Sigulda Single seater gold 2015 Sochi Single seater gold 2015 Sochi team bronze 2019 Oberhof Single seater  Junior Luge World Championships gold 2011 Oberhof Single seater gold 2011 Oberhof Season European Junior Luge Championships silver 2011 Lasa Single seater German championships bronze 2012 Altenberg Single seater bronze 2014 Oberhof Single seater bronze 2015 Oberhof Single seater bronze 2017 Altenberg Single seater
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup January 12, 2013  World Cup victories 6 (without relay)  Overall World Cup ES 2. ( 2014/15 , 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 4th 2 8th  Sprint single seater 2 4th 2  Team relay 3 0 0
last change: end of season 2018/2019

Dajana Eitberger (* 7. January 1991 in Ilmenau ) is a German luger .

Career

Dajana Eitberger starts for RC Ilmenau and belongs to the training group of Norbert Hahn and Jan Eichhorn, formerly André Florschütz , in Oberhof . The sport soldier had her international breakthrough when she narrowly missed a medal in fourth place at the 2010 Junior World Championships in Igls . A year later she won the title in Oberhof both individually and alongside Julian von Schleinitz , Nico Grüßner and Toni Förtsch in Germany's team relay . She finished the European Junior Championships in Laas in second place behind Mona Wabnigg . The 2012/13 season saw her international debut among women in the Luge World Cup . In Oberhof she was fourth behind Natalie Geisenberger , Tatjana Hüfner and Anke Wischnewski in a four-fold German victory. It was also the 2013 European Luge Championships . In the following season , Eitberger was a permanent member of the German World Cup team. In eight races she consistently achieved single-digit placings, only at the season opener in Lillehammer she could not qualify for the World Cup race because of a fall. In Oberhof, she finished third on the podium for the first time. After missing a medal in fourth place last year, she won the bronze medal behind Natalja Khorjowa and Tatiana Iwanowa at the 2014 European Luge Championships in Sigulda in the absence of the German Olympic drivers . In the overall World Cup ranking, she finished fifth at the end of her first full season.

In 2005 and 2006 Eitberger won the junior women ranking of the FIL Summer Luge Cup , then from 2007 to 2013, interrupted only by a victory by Ewelina Staszulonek in 2010, six times in a row among women. This makes her, alongside Silke Kraushaar-Pielach , the most successful participant in the competition with eight wins. At the national championships in Altenberg in 2012 she won the bronze medals at the German championships behind Tatjana Hüfner and Carina Schwab , in 2014 behind Hüfner and Anke Wischnewski .

At the European Championships in 2015 , Eitberger was European champion both in the single-seater and in the relay. The victory in the single seater was also her first victory in the World Cup and crowned a season in which she was second three times and third four times and came second in the overall standings behind Natalie Geisenberger and in front of Tatjana Hüfner.

At the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang , Eitberger won the silver medal behind teammate Natalie Geisenberger . In the last run she was able to move from fourth to second place. For this success she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on June 7, 2018 .

In the 2019/20 season, she paused due to pregnancy. She gave birth to her son in February 2020.

statistics

World Cup victories in individual races

No.	date	place	train
1.	Feb 28, 2015	Sochi	Sliding Center Sanki
2.	Nov 28, 2015	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
3.	Nov 27, 2016	Winterberg (Sprint)	Winterberg bobsleigh run
4th	16 Dec 2017	Lake Placid (Sprint)	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
5.	Jan. 13, 2018	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
6th	16 Dec 2018	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid

World Cup victories with the team relay

No.	date	place	train
8th.	0Feb. 1, 2015	Lillehammer	Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run
2.	Nov 29, 2015	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
3.	Jan. 14, 2018	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track

Web links

Commons : Dajana Eitberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dajana Eitberger. Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany , accessed on February 13, 2018 . 
• Dajana Eitberger. Website of the Thuringian Toboggan and Bobsleigh Association (TSBV), archived from the original on October 26, 2016 ; accessed on February 13, 2018 . 
• Portrait of Dajana Eitberger. In: sportschau.de . November 23, 2013, archived from the original on February 10, 2014 ; accessed on February 13, 2018 . 
• Werner Bache: Dajana Eitberger sled to the top of the world. In: inSüdthüringen.de . November 27, 2013, archived from the original on January 26, 2014 ; accessed on February 13, 2018 . 
• Sebastian Bangert: First World Cup podium for Dajana Eitberger. Force Base January 15, 2014, archived from original on February 20, 2014 ; accessed on February 13, 2018 . 

Single receipts

1. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of June 7, 2018: ... On June 7, 2018, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will award the German medal winners of the 2018 Winter Olympics ... with the Silver Laurel Leaf ...
2. ↑ A season break. In: dajana-eitberger.de. August 12, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 . 
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