Thomas Kammerlander

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Thomas Kammerlander Luge
Thomas Kammerlander 2018 at the World Cup in Kühtai
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday February 13, 1990
place of birth Innsbruck, Austria
size 183 cm
Weight 80 kg
job Master plumber
Career
discipline Single seater, double seater
society SV Umhausen
status active
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 4 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior European Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIL Natural Track Luge World Championships
silver Moos in Passeier 2009 Single seater
gold Vatra Dornei 2017 team
bronze Vatra Dornei 2017 Single seater
silver Latzfons 2019 Single seater
silver Latzfons 2019 team
FIL European Natural Track Luge Championships
gold St. Sebastian 2010 team
silver St. Sebastian 2010 Single seater
silver Umhausen 2014 Single seater
bronze Umhausen 2014 team
gold Moos in Passeier 2016 Single seater
silver Moos in Passeier 2016 team
gold Winterleiten 2018 Single seater
gold Winterleiten 2018 team
FIL Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships
gold Nova Ponente 2010 Two-seater
bronze Nova Ponente 2010 Single seater
FIL Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
gold Longiarü 2009 Two-seater
bronze Longiarü 2009 Single seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 4, 2007
 World Cup victories 17th
 Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 2016/17 , 2017/18 , 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
 Overall World Cup DS 8. ( 2008/09 , 2013/14 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 17th 13 16
last change: May 6, 2020

Thomas Kammerlander (born February 13, 1990 ) is an Austrian natural track tobogganist . He comes from Umhausen in Tyrol and has been competing in the World Cup since the 2006/2007 season . His greatest successes to date have been the European championship titles in 2016 and 2018 as well as 4 overall World Cup victories (2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20) in the men's singles. In addition to 17 World Cup victories, the other greatest successes include a junior world and European championship title in doubles, two European championships and a world championship title in team competition, a silver medal and bronze medal in singles at world and 2 silver medals at European championships. His older brother Gerald Kammerlander was also a natural track tobogganist.

Career

Kammerlander took part in junior world and European championships from 2005 and was able to classify three times among the top ten singles from 2005 to 2007. In 2006 he started for the first time at a European Championship in the general class and finished 17th. After he achieved several victories and podium places in the Intercontinental Cup in winter 2005/2006 and became Austrian Junior Champion, he started in the World Cup in the 2006/2007 season . In the fourth race in his hometown of Umhausen, at the same time as the Italian Patrick Pigneter, he achieved his first victory and with a total of five top 10 results he was sixth in the overall single-seater World Cup. At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie , he reached sixth place and at the 2007 European Junior Championships in St. Sebastian he was fifth in the singles.

In 2008, Kammerlander finished sixth in the single seater at the Junior World Championships in Latsch . Here he started for the first time with Christoph Regensburger, who was three years his junior, in a two-seater and also finished sixth. A week later he was 16th in the single-seater at the 2008 European Championships in Olang . After his first World Cup victory, there were no further podium places in the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 seasons and Kammerlander took eleventh place twice in the overall single-seater World Cup with three top 10 results each time. Since the winter of 2008/2009 he has been competing in the two-seater World Cup together with Christoph Regensburger. The team finished their first season with a total of five top 10 places in eighth place in the overall ranking.

Kammerlander won his first international title at the 2009 Junior European Championship in Longiarü , where he won the gold medal in the doubles and bronze in the singles. A week later, Kammerlander, who had just turned 19, had to admit defeat only Patrick Pigneter by almost four hundredths of a second in the single-seat competition of the 2009 World Cup in Moos in Passeier . Together with the Austria II team, he came fifth in the team competition. In addition, in 2009 he was Austrian state champion in doubles.

In the 2009/2010 World Cup season , Kammerlander's best results in single-seater were two third places in Novouralsk and Umhausen. In the overall World Cup, he achieved his best result to date in fifth. In the doubles, he and Christoph Regensburger achieved four top 10 results and thus, as in the previous year, eighth place overall. Her best race result was fifth place at the start of the season in Novouralsk. At the Junior World Championship in 2010 , Kammerlander won gold in the doubles and bronze in the singles at the Junior European Championships in 2010 . At the European Championships in 2010 , as in the previous year at the World Cup, he was second in the single-seater behind Patrick Pigneter. In addition, he took fifth place in the doubles and became team European champion with the Austria I team together with Melanie Batkowski , Christian Schopf and Andreas Schopf . In 2010 and 2011, Kammerlander secured the Austrian state championship in the single-seater.

Since the 2010/2011 season , Thomas Kammerlander has only started in a single-seater. After two ninth places at the start of the season in Nowouralsk , he achieved his second-best World Cup result in second in Casies . At the 2011 World Cup in Umhausen, he finished fourth in the singles and team competitions. On February 6th, Kammerlander was seriously injured in a training fall in Olang. In addition to a concussion, he suffered a broken shoulder and nose, which is why he had to end the season early. In the 2011/2012 season he was among the top ten in four of the six World Cup races, with a sixth place in Nova Ponente being his best result. In the overall World Cup he was ninth. At the 2012 European Championships in Novouralsk, he finished 16th in the single-seater.

In the 2012/2013 season , Kammerlander took third place in the overall World Cup as the best Austrian. He achieved his second World Cup victory at the World Cup in Passeier Valley. He was third in each of the World Cups in Umhausen, Kindberg and Vatra Dornei. In the World Cup, the 2013/2014 season was his most successful to date for Thomas. He was able to win both the parallel world cup on the Alpe di Siusi and the world cup final in Vatra Dornei. A second place at the races in Umhausen and Moos im Passeier, as well as a third place in Olang, also testified to a strong season. In the overall World Cup, he finished just behind Patrick Pigneter in second place.

The 2014/2015 season was below average for Thomas Kammerlander. Both at the World Cup races in Kühtai and at the World Cup races in Deutschnofen, he fell badly. The 2015/2016 season went much better again. The win of the gold medal in the men's singles at the 2016 European Championships in Moos im Passeier deserves special mention. In addition there was the silver medal in the team. He also won the World Cup finals in Umhausen. His fifth World Cup victory by now. Third places in each of the races in Deutschnofen , Kühtai and Vatra Dornei as well as sixth place in Moscow were enough for Thomas for third place in the overall World Cup.

In the 2016/2017 season the time had finally come for Thomas Kammerlander. With two World Cup victories in the Russian metropolis of Moscow, he took over the World Cup leadership for the first time, which he defended until the final in Umhausen, where he finally brought the overall World Cup victory back to Austria after 14 years. He was also able to crown himself the bronze medal at the world championship in singles in Vatra Dornei and team world champion in the team competition with Tina Unterberger and Brüggler / Angerer .

One of Thomas Kammerlander's most successful seasons was the 2017/2018 season . With an opening win in Kühtai and two more victories in Mariazell as well as the final in Umhausen , he was able to secure the overall World Cup 2017/2018 again. At the European Championships in Styria Winterleiten , he was able to defend the European Championship title from 2016 and thus crowned himself European Champion 2018 for the second time. In the team competition, he also won the gold medal for the second time after 2010 with Tina Unterberger and the two-seater Brüggler / Angerer Take home.

In the 2018/2019 season , Thomas Kammerlander managed the hat trick. With three wins this season, he won the overall World Cup for the third time in a row. At the 2019 World Championships in Latzfons , he won his two silver medals at the single-seater world championships and became vice world champion for the second time since 2009. In the team competition he was also able to win the silver medal together with Tina Unterberger and Michael Scheikl .

Thomas Kammerlander on his way to his third place in Kühtai, Austria in the Luge World Cup race on natural track
The later overall World Cup winner of the 2016/17 season Thomas Kammerlander at the World Cup opener in Kühtai (AUT)

successes

World championships

European championships

Junior World Championships

Junior European Championships

World cup
date place country
February 4, 2007 Umhausen Austria
January 13, 2013 Moos in Passeier Italy
5th January 2014 Seiser Alm Italy
19th February 2014 Vatra Dornei Romania
15th February 2016 Umhausen Austria
January 13, 2017 Moscow Russia
15th January 2017 Moscow Russia
18th February 2017 Umhausen Austria
3rd December 2017 Kühtai Austria
January 21, 2018 Saint Sebastian Austria
17th February 2018 Umhausen Austria
January 12, 2019 Winterleiten Austria
16th January 2019 Moscow Russia
February 10, 2019 Vatra Dornei Romania
January 12, 2020 Passeier Valley Italy
January 26, 2020 Deutschnofen Italy
February 15, 2020 Umhausen Austria

Austrian championships

  • Austrian national champion in single seater 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • Austrian national champion in doubles 2009

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

Commons : Thomas Kammerlander  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heavy fall from Thomas! ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Thomas and Gerald Kammerlander's website, February 7, 2011, accessed March 11, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kammis.at
  2. ↑ a b List of the bearers of the badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kammerlander, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian natural track toboggan runner
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1990