Anton Blasbichler

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Anton Blasbichler Luge
Anton Blasbichler at the EM 2010
Anton Blasbichler at the EM 2010
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday February 18, 1972
place of birth Brixen
size 176 cm
Weight 78 kg
job Sports soldier
Career
discipline Single seater, double seater
society CS Esercito
National squad since 1989
status active
Medal table
World championships 5 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
European championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior European Championship 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
FIL Natural Track Luge World Championships
silver Oberperfuss 1996 Single seater
silver Rautavaara 1998 Single seater
bronze Olang 2000 Single seater
gold Stein an der Enns 2001 Single seater
gold Stein an der Enns 2001 team
gold Latsch 2005 Single seater
bronze Latsch 2005 team
gold Moos in Passeier 2009 team
gold Umhausen 2011 team
FIL European Natural Track Luge Championships
gold Stein an der Enns 1993 Single seater
gold Szczyrk 1999 Single seater
silver Olang 2008 Single seater
bronze St. Sebastian 2010 Single seater
FIL Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
silver Železniki 1990 Two-seater
gold Kandalaksha 1991 Single seater
silver Kandalaksha 1991 Two-seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 1992/1993
 World Cup victories 20th
 Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 1995/1996 , 1996/1997 ,
2003/2004 , 2004/2005 )
 Overall World Cup DS ? (> 6.)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 20th 13 18th
 Two-seater 0 1 1
last change: May 6, 2020

Anton Blasbichler (born February 18, 1972 in Brixen ) is an Italian natural track luge . He was twice world champion in single-seater, three times world champion in team competition and twice European champion in single-seater. With 20 victories in world cup races , he has so far won the overall world cup in single-seater four times . In the first 19 World Cup seasons from 1992/1993 to 2010/2011 he was always among the top eight in the overall single-seater World Cup and was only not among the top five three times.

Career

Blasbichler belongs to the sports group of the Italian Army ( Corpo Sportivo dell'Esercito Italiano ) and has been a member of the Italian natural track tobogganing team since 1989. He celebrated his first international successes at the Junior European Championships in 1990 and 1991 , when he and his brother Christian won two silver medals in the doubles and in 1991 also won gold in the singles.

In the general class, Blasbichler starts almost exclusively in the single-seater. After he was sixth at the 1991 European Championships and fourth at the 1992 World Championships without a medal, he became European Champion in Stein an der Enns in 1993 . In the same winter , with a second place in Welschnofen as the best race result, he finished fifth overall in the first World Cup . Blasbichler celebrated his first World Cup victory on February 27, 1994 in Moscow , with which he reached third place in the overall World Cup for the 1993/1994 season . The season 1994/1995 he also ended with a victory at the fourth position. In the title fights in 1994 and 1995, however, he did not reach any top placings: he finished eighth at the 1994 World Cup in Casies and tenth at the 1995 European Championships in Kandalakscha . In the 1995/1996 season , Blasbichler secured the overall World Cup victory for the first time with three race wins and another two podium places, ahead of the Austrian Gerhard Pilz , who also won three races. In the 1996/1997 season , Blasbichler again won three races and thus the overall World Cup for the second time, this time ahead of his compatriot Martin Gruber . This winter he also competed in several World Cup races with Martin Psenner in doubles and achieved two podium places with him. At the 1996 World Championships in Oberperfuss and at the 1998 World Championships in Rautavaara , he won the silver medal, in 1998 at the same time as Martin Gruber. At the European Championships in 1997 , he was fourth.

In the 1997/1998 World Cup season , Blasbichler remained without a win for the first time in five years and fell back to fourth place overall. In the 1998/1999 season he again achieved two wins in Canale d'Agordo and Aurach and thus second place in the overall World Cup. The World Cup winner Reinhard Gruber had the same number of points as Blasbichler, but won the overall ranking because of the better result. In February 1999 Blasbichler became European champion for the second time in Szczyrk and in January 2000 he won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Olang . In the following year the Italian won his first world title. He won the 2001 World Cup in Stein an der Enns both in the singles and in the team competition, which was held for the first time. In the World Cup, Blasbichler achieved third and second place overall in the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 seasons with one victory and another three podium places. In the next two years he remained without a win and took third place overall with four podium places in the 2001/2002 season and fourth place overall with two podium places in the 2002/2003 season . At the European Championship in 2002 , he finished sixth and in the 2003 World Cup in fourth.

With four wins in the first four races of the season, Blasbichler secured the overall World Cup victory for the third time and for the first time in seven years in winter 2003/2004 . At the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau , however, he was fifth without a medal. In the 2004/2005 season he also won the first four races and thus the overall World Cup for the fourth time. This time he also took the lead again at the highlight of the season, the World Championship in Latsch . He became world champion in single-seater and also won the bronze medal in the team competition. He was also Italian champion three times in a row from 2003 to 2005. After these two successful seasons, Blasbichler has not won any other World Cup races and he has only rarely achieved podium places. In winter 2005/2006 he finished on the podium only once, but came fourth three times and thus fifth in the overall World Cup. In the 2006/2007 season two fourth places were his best results. In the final ranking, he finished seventh and thus did not make it into the top five in the overall World Cup for the first time in the 15th World Cup season. He was also unsuccessful in the medal decisions during these years. At the 2006 European Championships , he finished ninth and only twelfth at the 2007 World Championships .

The 2007/2008 season started Blasbichler with a second place in Moos in Passeier . After that, however, he was only twice in the top ten and thus ranked sixth in the overall World Cup. However, he achieved great success at the 2008 European Championships in Olang, where he won the silver medal one day before his 36th birthday, just 18 hundredths of a second behind the Austrian Robert Batkowski . In the 2008/2009 World Cup season , Blasbichler fell back to eighth place overall with just one top 5 result, but in the 2009/2010 season he was able to improve to fourth place in the overall World Cup with four fourth and one fifth places, although he was only remained one point behind third-placed Gernot Schwab . At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier, Blasbichler only achieved eleventh place in the single-seater, but was team world champion for the second time in his career. At the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian , he won the bronze medal in the single-seater, 17 years after winning his first European Championship medal.

On January 23, 2011, Blasbichler stood on the podium in the fourth World Cup race of the 2010/2011 season in Kindberg as third for the first time in over three years. He was also among the top three in the last two World Cup races of the winter, with the now 39-year-old taking third place in the overall World Cup - his best overall ranking in six years. At the 2011 World Cup in Umhausen , he was team world champion for the third time; in the single seater he took eighth place. In the 2011/2012 season , Blasbichler fell back to 16th place in the overall World Cup, as he only competed in three of the six World Cup races this winter. For the first time since the World Cup first held in winter 1992/1993, he was not among the top eight in the overall ranking. At the 2012 European Championships in Novouralsk he was fifth in the singles and fourth in the team competition.

successes

World championships

European championships

Junior European Championships

World cup
date place country
February 27, 1994 Moscow Russia
February 12, 1995 Stein on the Enns Austria
January 19, 1996 Landskron Austria
January 21, 1996 Landskron Austria
4th February 1996 Laces Italy
January 24, 1997 Toblach Italy
February 9, 1997 shelter Austria
February 16, 1997 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
January 24, 1999 Canale d'Agordo Italy
February 7, 1999 Aurach Austria
date place country
February 20, 2000 Železniki Slovenia
January 7, 2001 Unterammergau Germany
December 14, 2003 Olang Italy
January 6, 2004 Grande Prairie Canada
January 18, 2004 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
January 25, 2004 Moscow Russia
December 18, 2004 * Campill Italy
January 9, 2005 Unterammergau Germany
January 14, 2005 Oberperfuss Austria
January 15, 2005 Oberperfuss Austria

* at the same time as Patrick Pigneter

Italian championships

  • Italian champion in single seater 2003, 2004 and 2005

literature

  • Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years FIL 1957 - 2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tape II . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p. 285-397 .

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personal data
SURNAME Blasbichler, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian natural track toboggan runner
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bressanone , Italy