Erhard Mahlknecht

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Erhard Mahlknecht Luge
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday February 20, 1966
place of birth Fiè allo Sciliar
Career
discipline Single seater, double seater
status resigned
End of career 1994
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior European Championship 4 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIL Natural Track Luge World Championships
bronze Casies 1994 Single seater
FIL European Natural Track Luge Championships
bronze Jesenice 1987 Single seater
silver Fiè allo Sciliar 1991 Single seater
FIL Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
bronze Montreux 1983 Two-seater
gold Hol 1984 Single seater
gold Hol 1984 Two-seater
gold Oberperfuss 1985 Single seater
gold Oberperfuss 1985 Two-seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 1992/1993
 World Cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 1993/1994 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 2 3 0
 

Erhard Mahlknecht (born February 20, 1966 in Völs am Schlern ) is a former Italian natural track tobogganist . In the 1993/1994 season he was the overall World Cup winner in the single-seater, won a total of three medals at world and European championships and was two times junior European champion in the single-seater and two-seater. Mahlknecht lives in Völs am Schlern.

Career

Mahlknecht celebrated his first major successes at the Junior European Championships from 1983 to 1985. He started in the single-seater and together with Erwin Antholzer also in the double-seater. In 1983 he won bronze in the doubles in Montreux , but remained just behind the medal ranks in the single-seater as fourth. In 1984 in Hol and 1985 in Oberperfuss , he won the gold medal both times in the single-seater as well as in the double-seater and was thus four times Junior European Champion.

In the general class, Mahlknecht only started in the single-seater. His first title fight was the 1987 European Championship in Jesenice , where he came third behind his compatriots Manfred Gräber and Harald Steinhauser . Two years later, however, he had to be content with eleventh place at the 1989 European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . At the European Championships in 1991 in Fiè allo Sciliar , Mahlknecht was only beaten by his teammate Franz Obrist and won the silver medal. In the next winter, however, he only finished twelfth in his first World Championship in Bad Goisern in 1992 and he did not finish at the 1993 European Championship in Stein an der Enns . In 1994 he made it onto the podium again at the World Championships in Casies when he won the bronze medal behind Gerhard Pilz and Franz Obrist.

In the World Cup , Mahlknecht achieved third place in the overall single-seater World Cup with a victory in the last race in Bruck an der Großglocknerstrasse in the first season in 1992/1993 . The next winter he won the season opener in Völs, achieved three second places in the other four races and was therefore tied with Franz Obrist overall World Cup winner in the single-seater. Mahlknecht ended his career with this success.

Sporting successes

World championships

European championships

Junior European Championships

(Two-seater with Erwin Antholzer)

World cup

  • Victory in the overall single-seater World Cup in the 1993/1994 season
  • 3rd place in the overall single-seater World Cup in the 1992/1993 season
  • 5 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
February 21, 1993 Bruck ad Gr. Austria Single seater
January 16, 1994 Fiè allo Sciliar Italy Single seater

literature

  • Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years FIL 1957 - 2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tape II . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p. 285-397 .


personal data
SURNAME Mahlknecht, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian natural track toboggan runner
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Fiè allo Sciliar , Italy