Andreas Head

	Andreas Head
nation	Italy
birthday	July 25, 1988
place of birth	Meran
size	170 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Two-seater, single-seater
society	ASI St. Pankraz
National squad	since 2005
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships
Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
	Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	December 11, 2005
Overall World Cup DS	5. ( 2008/2009 )

Andreas Leiter (born July 25, 1988 in Merano ) is a former Italian natural track tobogganist . With his doubles partner Thomas Weiss he was Italian champion in 2006 and junior world champion in 2008. In the World Cup , the duo finished eight times in the top five.

Career

In winter 2004/2005 Andreas Leiter and his two years younger partner Thomas Weiss started in the Intercontinental Cup. They achieved two podium places and fifth place in the overall standings. In the single-seater, Leiter did not come close to these results, here he was only once among the top 15. Later, Andreas Leiter only started in the two-seater. At the European Junior Championships 2005 in Kandalakscha , Weiss / Head finished fifth in the doubles.

From the 2005/2006 season the duo Weiss / Leiter started in the World Cup . In the first half of the season they stayed behind the world elite with an eighth and two seventh places, but at the end of January 2006 European Championship in Umhausen they reached fourth place. Things went even better three weeks later at the Junior World Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where they were only beaten by their compatriots Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara and won the silver medal. In the last three World Cup races of the season, they came in fourth, fifth and sixth and were sixth in the overall World Cup. In the same year they also became Italian champions in doubles.

The World Cup season 2006/2007 began Andreas conductor and Thomas Weiss with a fourth place in Latsch , but in the other five races they only came not to the places eight and nine, which they also fell back in the World Cup to eighth place. At the 2007 World Championships they did not participate, but at the European Junior Championships in St. Sebastian , they won just like last year at the Junior World Championships silver medal.

In November 2007, Andreas Leiter suffered an ankle fracture during training , which is why he had to take a three-month break at the beginning of the 2007/2008 season . In February the duo Weiss / Leiter started together again. At the Junior World Championship in Laces in 2008 , the first competition after the leader's injury break, they won the gold medal with the fastest time in both rounds. At the European Championship 2008 in Olang , which took place a week later , they only came in tenth place. In the two remaining World Cup races of the winter, the duo achieved positions seven and four.

In the 2008/2009 season , Andreas Leiter and Thomas Weiss showed fairly consistent performances. They came fourth twice and fifth twice, as well as sixth and seventh each time. They achieved fifth place in the overall World Cup. They achieved the worst result of the season at the 2009 World Cup in Moos in Passeier , where they only came eighth. In the team competition, they achieved fourth place together with Hannes Clara and Evelin Lanthaler in Team Italy II. After the 2008/2009 season, Andreas Leiter and Thomas Weiss did not take part in any more competitions.