Manfred Danklmaier

Manfred Danklmaier
nation	Austria
birthday
Career
discipline	Single seater, double seater
status	resigned
Medal table
European championships 1 × 0 × 1 × Junior European Championship 0 × 1 × 1 ×
European Natural Track Luge Championships bronze Niedernsill 1981 Two-seater gold Szczyrk 1985 Single seater  Natural track toboggan junior European Championship silver Liezen 1979 Two-seater bronze Liezen 1979 Single seater

Manfred Danklmaier is a former Austrian natural toboggan runner . He started in both single and doubles and was European champion in 1985 .

Career

Danklmaier achieved several successes at major events in the late 1970s and 1980s. He won his first medals at the Junior European Championships in Liezen in 1979 . He was third in the single-seater and, together with his brother Willi, second in the two-seater, behind the Italian duo Hellweger / Oberhammer . At the 1981 European Championships in Niedernsill , he and his brother won the bronze medal in the doubles, but only came in 24th in the singles. At the 1983 European Championships in St. Konrad , the brothers just missed a medal as fourth in the doubles. He finished eleventh in the single-seater.

Danklmaier celebrated his greatest success at the 1985 European Championships in Szczyrk , Poland , when he was European champion in single-seater ahead of second-placed Damiano Lugon and third-placed Robert Tomelitsch . In 1986 Danklmaier won the European Cup in Inzing in a single seater and was seventh at the World Championships in Fénis . At the European Championships in 1987 in Jesenice , the defending champion did not finish, two years later he achieved eighth place at the European Championships in 1989 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Danklmaier took part in world championships until 1994, but was no longer among the top ten.

Sporting successes

World championships

• Fénis-Aosta 1986 : 7th single seater
• Casies 1990 : 11th single-seater
• Bad Goisern 1992 : 13th single seater
• Casies 1994 : 16th single-seater

European championships

• Niedernsill 1981 : 3rd two-seater (with Willi Danklmaier), 24th single-seater
• St. Konrad 1983 : 4th two-seater (with Willi Danklmaier), 11th single-seater
• Szczyrk 1985 : 1st single-seater
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1989 : 8th single seater

Junior European Championships

• Davos 1978 : 9th two-seater (with Michael Olipitz), 15th single-seater
• Liezen 1979 : 2nd two-seater (with Willi Danklmaier), 3rd single-seater
• St. Lorenzen 1980 : 12th 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. 285-407 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A success story. Neues Land, February 4, 2005, page 27 (PDF, 142 kB)