Andrea Tagwerker

Andrea Tagwerker
nation	Austria
birthday	23rd October 1970 (age 49)
place of birth	Bludenz , Vorarlberg , Austria
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	WSV Bludenz
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 3 × 3 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1994 Lillehammer Single seater  Luge World Championships silver 1991 Winterberg Team competition gold 1996 Altenberg Team competition gold 1997 Igls Team competition gold 1999 Königssee Team competition  European Luge Championships silver 1992 Winterberg Team competition bronze 1994 Königssee Team competition bronze 1996 Sigulda Single seater silver 1996 Sigulda Team competition silver 1998 Oberhof Single seater bronze 1998 Oberhof Team competition
Placements in the Luge World Cup
World Cup victories 2  Overall World Cup ES 1. (1996/97), 3. (1992/93, 1993/94)
last change: March 4, 2015

Andrea Tagwerker (born October 23, 1970 in Bludenz ) is a former Austrian luge athlete and a four-time starter at the Olympic Winter Games (1988, 1992, 1994, 1998).

Career

Andrea Tagwerker grew up in Bludenz and had the toboggan run in Hinterplärsch right on her doorstep.

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , she was twelfth in the singles.

In 1992 she reached seventh place at her second Olympic Games in La Plagne as the third best Austrian behind the two Tyrolean sisters Doris Neuner (winner) and Angelika Neuner (runner-up).

1994 Winter Olympics

She won the bronze medal at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer on the Hunderfossen Olympic track . She was trained by her father Helmut Tagwerker , who was President of the Vorarlberg Toboggan Association for many years .

In 1996 she was third in the women's singles at the European Championships. At the 1997 Luge World Championships in Innsbruck she won gold in the team competition and at the 1998 European Championships in Oberhof she was second.

Overall Luge World Cup winner 1997

Tagwerker celebrated the greatest success of her career in 1997 when she won the overall World Cup. She was the last athlete who could achieve a victory against the German athletes who had been unbeaten since 1997 in the World Cup (as of January 2018).

At the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano , she reached fifth place on February 11. In autumn 1999, the then 29-year-old declared her active time over.

In 1994 and again in 2002 (three years after the end of her international career) she was Austrian champion.

successes

World Cup victories

singles

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan. 26, 1997	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
2.	Nov. 30, 1997	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee

Private

She lives in Bludenz with her husband Hans and their two sons.

Awards (excerpt)

• 1994: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
• 1999: Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

• Andrea Tagwerker in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What is Andrea Tagwerker actually doing? ( Memento from December 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )