Andreas Gruber (natural track toboggan runner)

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Andreas Gruber Luge
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday June 28, 1984
place of birth Brixen
size 182 cm
Weight 77 kg
Career
discipline Single seater
society RG Latzfons-Verdings
National squad since 2002
status resigned
End of career 2004
Medal table
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior European Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIL Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships
gold Kindberg 2004 Single seater
FIL Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
gold Kreuth 2003 Single seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 30, 2003
 Overall World Cup ES 19. ( 2003/2004 )
 

Andreas Gruber (born June 28, 1984 in Brixen ) is an architect and a former Italian natural track luge . He was European Junior Champion in 2003 and World Junior Champion in singles in 2004 . Andreas Gruber studied architecture in Innsbruck and Florence parallel to his sporting activity. Today he works as a freelance architect. In addition to property planning, also an expert in implementation planning (settlement planning), urban planning and ensemble protection. He leads seminars and works as a specialist jury member in planning competitions. For him, quality means innovative, progressive building culture that has its roots in tradition. An architecture of values ​​and the sustainable use of resources.

Career

Gruber celebrated his greatest successes at the 2003 Junior European Championships in Kreuth and at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Kindberg , where he won the gold medal in single-seater. Before that, he had already finished in the top ten three times at international junior championships. In the same years he also took part in the title fights in the general class and finished ninth at the 2003 World Championships in Železniki and seventh place in the single-seater at the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau .

In the 2002/2003 season Gruber contested his first World Cup race in Hüttau, which he finished in ninth place. In the 2003/2004 season he took part in three World Cup races, with his best result being seventh in the parallel competition in Triesenberg . In the overall World Cup he finished 19th. After this winter Gruber ended his international career, but in 2007 he was still at the start at the Italian championships.

Sporting successes

World championships

European championships

Junior World Championships

Junior European Championships

World cup

  • Three placements among the top ten

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