Armin Zöggeler

Armin Zöggeler
nation	Italy
birthday	4th January 1974
place of birth	Meran , South Tyrol ,  Italy
size	181 cm
Weight	84 kg
job	Carabiniere
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	CS Carabinieri
National squad	since 1991
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 3 × World Cup medals 6 × 5 × 5 × EM medals 4 × 6 × 8 × JWM medals 2 × 1 × 0 × IM medals 13 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1994 Lillehammer Single seater silver 1998 Nagano Single seater gold 2002 Salt Lake City Single seater gold 2006 Turin Single seater bronze 2010 Vancouver Single seater bronze 2014 Sochi Single seater  Luge World Championships gold 1995 Lillehammer Single seater silver 1995 Lillehammer team bronze 1996 Altenberg team bronze 1997 Igls team gold 1999 Königssee Single seater silver 2000 St. Moritz Single seater gold 2001 Calgary Single seater gold 2003 Sigulda Single seater bronze 2004 Nagano team gold 2005 Park City Single seater bronze 2005 Park City team silver 2007 Igls Single seater silver 2007 Igls team silver 2009 Lake Placid Single seater gold 2011 Cesana Single seater bronze 2012 Altenberg Single seater  European Luge Championships bronze 1994 Königssee Single seater gold 1994 Königssee team bronze 1996 Sigulda team silver 1998 Oberhof team bronze 2000 Winterberg Single seater bronze 2000 Winterberg team bronze 2002 Altenberg Single seater gold 2004 Oberhof Single seater silver 2004 Oberhof team silver 2006 Winterberg Single seater silver 2006 Winterberg team gold 2008 Cesana Single seater bronze 2008 Cesana team silver 2012 Paramonowo singles bronze 2012 Paramonowo team silver 2013 Oberhof team gold 2014 Sigulda Single seater bronze 2014 Sigulda Season Luge Junior World Championships silver 1992 Sapporo Single seater gold 1993 Sigulda Single seater gold 1994 Igls Single seater
Placements in the Luge World Cup
World Cup victories 57 (without relay)  Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 1997/98 , 1999/2000 , 2000/01 , 2003/04 , 2005/06 , 2006/07 , 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2010/11 )  Challenge Cup ES 1. ( 1999/2000 , 2000/01 , 2006/07 , 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2009/10 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 57 26th 20th  Challenge Cup singles 12 9 11  Team relay 2 7th 8th
last change: February 9, 2014

Armin Zöggeler (born January 4, 1974 in Merano ) is a former Italian luge rider from South Tyrol . He is a two-time Olympic champion and six-time world champion in single-seater.

career

Zöggeler started tobogganing as a young boy and became Junior World Champion at the age of 14. Although there was no homologated bobsleigh and toboggan run in Italy until the 2006 Winter Olympics , he was gradually able to work his way up to the top of the world. He was Olympic champion in his discipline at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and 2006 in Turin .

He is the only athlete in the world (including the Summer Games) to have won a medal in a single discipline at six consecutive Olympic Games, gold ( 2002 , 2006 ), silver ( 1998 ), bronze ( 1994 , 2010 , 2014 ).

Zöggeler won a total of ten medals in the single-seater at the Luge World Championships : six gold, three silver and one bronze. There are also one silver and two bronze medals in the team competition. He was world champion in 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2011. He is also three-time European champion (2004, 2008 and 2014) in the single-seater, he also won gold with the team in 1994 and won the overall World Cup ten times: 1998, 2000, 2001 , 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Together with the Austrian toboggan runner Markus Prock, he is the record holder for overall World Cup victories.

On November 30, 2013, Zöggeler took the 100th podium of his career with a second place at the race in Winterberg , after he first stood on the podium in 1992 in Sigulda as third-placed. On January 26, 2014, he celebrated his 57th World Cup victory in a single-seater in Sigulda, another record. He won bronze at the Olympic Games in Sochi. He then ended his career as an active athlete. Since then he has been a member of the technical team at the Italian tobogganing association FISI.

Honors and private matters

In 2002 Zöggeler was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic . In 2010 he was voted South Tyrolean Sportsman of the Year for the eighth time. In 2011 he was appointed Maresciallo (Sergeant Major) of the Carabinieri for his sporting achievements . On the fringes of the 2011 World Cup in Cesana , Zöggeler was made an honorary citizen of the place. 2011 was voted Italy's Sportsman of the Year by La Gazzetta dello Sport .

Zöggeler lives in his home town of Völlan in the Burggrafenamt and has two children, including Nina Zöggeler , who is also a luge athlete . In addition, the toboggan runner Sandra Robatscher is his niece.

successes

• Olympic games:
  • 1994 : single
  • 1998 : single
  • 2002 : single
  • 2006 : single
  • 2010 : single
  • 2014 : single

• World Championships:
  • 1993 : 5th place individual
  • 1995 : single team
  • 1996 : 4th place individual team
  • 1997 : 5th place individual team
  • 1999 : Individual 8th place individual team
  • 2000 : Individual 5th place individual team
  • 2001 : Individual 4th place individual team
  • 2003 : Individual 5th place individual team relay
  • 2004 : 4th place individual team relay
  • 2005 : Individual team relay
  • 2007 : Individual and team relay
  • 2008 : 5th place single 6th place single team relay
  • 2009 : Individual 4th place individual team relay
  • 2011 : single
  • 2012 : Individual 5th place team relay

• Overall World Cup:

season	space	Points
1994/95	02.	0?
1995/96	02.	0?
1996/97	0?.	0?
1997/98	01.	0?
1998/99	07th	0315
1999/2000	01.	0589
2000/01	01.	0700
2001/02	02.	0449
2002/03	03.	0452
2003/04	01.	0686
2004/05	05.	0477
2005/06	01.	0544
2006/07	01.	0815
2007/08	01.	0725
2008/09	01.	0786
2009/10	01.	0705
2010/11	01.	0765
2011/12	04th	0548
2012/13	04th	0549
2013/14	02.	0595

• World Cup victories:

Single seater

Team relay

No. date place train 1. Jan 15, 1995  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 2. Jan. 22, 1995  Koenigssee Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee 3. Feb 12, 1995  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 4th Feb 19, 1995  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 5. Jan. 21, 1996  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 6th Nov 23, 1997  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 7th Nov. 30, 1997  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 8th. 0Dec 8, 1997  Lillehammer Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run 9. Dec 21, 1997  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 10. Nov 29, 1998  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 11. Dec 13, 1998  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 12. Nov 14, 1999  Lillehammer Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run 13. Nov 21, 1999  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 14th Nov 28, 1999  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 15th 0Dec 5, 1999  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 16. Dec 12, 1999  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 17th Nov 26, 2000  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 18th Dec 20, 2000  La Plagne La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run 19th Jan. 21, 2001  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 20th Feb 11, 2001  Park City Park City bobsleigh 21st Nov 25, 2001  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 22nd Nov 30, 2002  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 23. Nov 16, 2003  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 24. Nov 23, 2003  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 25th Dec 21, 2003  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 26th 0Feb. 1, 2004  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 27. Nov 20, 2005  Cesana Cesana Pariol 28. Dec 17, 2005  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 29 0Jan. 7, 2006  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 30th Jan 15, 2006  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 31. Nov 19, 2006  Cesana Cesana Pariol 32. 0Dec 2, 2006  Park City Park City bobsleigh 33. Dec 16, 2006  Nagano Bobsleigh track in Asakawa 34. Jan. 21, 2007  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 35. Feb 11, 2007  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 36. Feb. 18, 2007  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 37. Nov 17, 2007  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 38. Dec 16, 2007  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 39. 0Feb 3, 2008  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 40. Feb 15, 2008  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 41. Dec 14, 2008  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 42. 0Jan. 4, 2009  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 43. Jan. 11, 2009  Cesana Cesana Pariol 44. Jan 25, 2009  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 45. Feb 15, 2009  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 46. Nov 21, 2009  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 47. Nov 29, 2009  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 48. 0Jan. 9, 2010  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 49. Jan. 30, 2010  Cesana Cesana Pariol 50. 0Dec 4, 2010  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 51. Dec 11, 2010  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 52. Dec 18, 2010  Park City Park City bobsleigh 53. 0Jan. 6, 2011  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 54. Feb. 19, 2011  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 55. 0Feb 9, 2013  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 56. Dec 14, 2013  Park City Park City bobsleigh 57. Jan. 26, 2014  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track

No. date place train 1. Dec 17, 2005  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 2. 0Jan. 6, 2012  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track

Fonts

• Armin Zöggeler, Simone Battaggia, Karin Fleischanderl: My life in the ice channel . Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-99037-064-3 .

Web links

Commons : Armin Zöggeler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Armin Zöggeler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Armin Zöggeler - the book "Ghiaccio Acciaio Anima" (Italian)
• Armin Zöggeler - the book "My life in the ice channel" (German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Former Zöggeler gets 100th World Cup podium"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Thüringische Landeszeitung from November 30, 2013, accessed on December 3, 2013  
2. ↑ Luge legend: Zöggeler ends his career spiegel.de October 14, 2014