Andrea Voetter

Andrea Voetter
nation	Italy
birthday	3rd April 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Bressanone, Italy
size	168 cm
job	Student
Career
society	ASV Vols Am Schlern
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × Luge Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European Luge Championships gold 2019 Oberhof team  Junior Luge World Championships gold 2014 Igls singles  Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships bronze 2010 Deutschnofen singles
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2012  World Cup victories 2 (including 2 in team relay)  Overall World Cup ES 16. ( 2016/17 , 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Team relay 2 0 0
last change: February 10, 2019

Andrea Vötter (born April 3, 1995 in Brixen ) is an Italian luge athlete .

Career

Andrea Vötter starts for ASV Vols Am Schlern and attended the sports school in Mals . The student, who lives in Fiè allo Sciliar, started luge sport in 2010. She achieved her first international success in the course of the Natural Track Luge Junior World Championships 2010 in Deutschnofen , where she won the bronze medal among the juniors behind her compatriots Evelin Lanthaler and Alexandra Obrist . In the following years she concentrated on the artificial track toboggan sport. Here she was sixth in the individual race at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck and fifth alongside Daniel Gatterer and the doubles Florian Gruber / Simon Kainzwaldner . She finished the 2013 Junior Luge World Championships in seventh place and the 2013 Junior Luge World Championships in eighth place. At the 2014 Junior Luge World Championships in Igls , she won the junior single-seater title, and in 2015 she finished fifth. In addition, he came sixth in the individual race at the U23 World Championships in 2015 , in the team competition in 2016 and fourth in the individual race in 2017 .

Vötter during training at the 2015 World Cup in Altenberg

At the start of the 2012/13 season , Vötter made his debut in Igls as part of the Luge World Cup . In the Nations Cup, via which the unsettled starters have to qualify for the actual World Cup race, she finished 18th and thus missed her first main race by two places. The points achieved reached 48th place in the overall ranking of the World Cup season. At the second station of the following season , she was able to qualify for the first time in Igls as 14th of the Nations Cup for the main race of the World Cup, which she finished in 21st. At the season finale in Sigulda she reached the first top 20 position with rank 20 and reached place 28 in the overall ranking with 120 points. At the highlight of the season, the Winter Olympics in Sochi , Vötter finished 19th. There was another leap in performance in the 2014/15 season . As in the previous season, Vötter was a regular member of the World Cup squad again, and qualification for the main race was meanwhile normal. In Calgary , as eleventh, she missed a first top ten placement by one place, which she achieved for the first time in the following sprint race as tenth. With 255 points, she was 19th for the first time among the top 20 in the overall World Cup ranking. At the 2015 Luge World Championships in Sigulda, she achieved the best position of the Italian starters in 18th place and thus qualified for the relay race, in which she just missed a medal with Dominik Fischnaller and Christian Oberstolz / Patrick Gruber in fourth place. She finished sixth in the U-23 World Championships.

The 2015/16 season brought health-related stagnation in performance after Vötter injured himself at the start of the second run after the first run in a promising position in 13th place. Until Oberhof she started with a damaged shoulder and also reached top 20 placements. In Sigulda, she finally decided not to start and ended the season prematurely. After the season, she was operated on on the shoulder. Before that, she was 17th at the Luge World Championships 2016 at Königssee and again sixth at the U-23 World Championships.

Vötter at the World Cup race in Altenberg in February 2017

In 2016/17 Vötter won the overall ranking of the Nations Cup. Although she was never better than 12th, she still reached 16th place in the overall standings with 289 points. At the 2017 European Luge Championships at Königssee, Vötter finished ninth in the individual and once again missed a medal with Dominik Fischnaller as well as Ludwig Rieder and Patrick Rastner as fourth in the team relay. She finished the 2017 Luge World Championships on her favorite track in Igls as 14th in both the individual and sprint races. In the team relay she again achieved the thankless fourth place with Dominik Fischnaller and Rieder / Rastner. In the first race of the 2017/18 season , Vötter came in sixth and thus the best position of her career to date. In Altenberg she won the Nations Cup for the first time. At Königssee she won the relay race together with Dominik Fischnaller and Ivan Nagler / Fabian Malleier . She thus achieved her first World Cup victory with the team relay.

In the 2018/19 season , Vötter was able to improve again and achieved the best World Cup results of her career at the World Cups in Calgary , Sigulda and Oberhof with fourth place each. In the team relay she was able to celebrate another success when the Italian team won the World Cup in Oberhof and thus the European championship title.

successes

World Cup victories

Team relay

No.	date	place	train
1.	0Jan. 7, 2018	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
2.	Feb 10, 2019	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track

literature

• Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course : FIL Luge Media Guide 2017/2018. FIL, Berchtesgaden 2017, p. 176.

Web links

Commons : Andrea Vötter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andrea Vötter in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Andrea Vötter in the database of the International Luge Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrea Vötter wants to get started again
2. ↑ Italy's team relay European champions for the first time . FIL. February 10, 2019. Retrieved February 10, 2019.