Barbara Abart

	Barbara Abart
nation	Italy
birthday	August 18, 1985
place of birth	Schlanders
size	160 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	SV Arunda Schleis
National squad	since 2001
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Natural Track Luge World Championships
European Natural Track Luge Championships
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 21, 2002
Overall World Cup ES	5. ( 2004/2005 , 2006/2007 )

Barbara Abart (born August 18, 1985 in Schlanders ) is a former Italian natural track tobogganist . She became vice world champion in 2005 , won the bronze medal at the 2004 European championships and a total of three medals at the junior world and European championships. In the World Cup , she twice achieved fifth place overall with six podiums, and she was twice Italian champion.

Career

Abart took part in international junior championships from 2001 and drove in the 2001 European junior championship and in the 2002 junior world championship in the top five. In 2001 and 2003 she became Italian champion.

The 2002 European Championship in Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud was Abart's first international championship in the general class. She prevailed against Irene Mitterstieler in the team's internal qualification and took fourth place in the competition. From the 2002/2003 season , Abart started in the World Cup . In her first World Cup race, the parallel competition in Völs on December 21, 2002, the then 17-year-old was the youngest member of the field and only had to admit defeat to her compatriot Renate Gietl in the final. Also in her second World Cup race on January 11, 2003 in Umhausen , she reached second place, with which she briefly took over the World Cup lead. In the further course of the season, however, they could no longer follow these results. She only contested two World Cup races and finished eighth in the overall World Cup, tied with Austrian Sabine Kogler . At the European Junior Championships in Kreuth she won the silver medal, but only came in tenth at the 2003 World Championships in Železniki .

In the 2003/2004 season , Abart only contested three World Cup races. With a second place in the parallel competition in Triesenberg and another two top 10 results, she finished ninth overall with the German Michaela Maurer . At the 2004 Junior World Championships in Kindberg , she won the silver medal just a hundredth of a second behind Sandra Lanthaler and at the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau , she came third. After Abart had narrowly missed the podium in the first three World Cup races of the 2004/2005 season , she achieved two third places in Oberperfuss and at the finals in Olang , which brought her to fifth place in the overall World Cup. She celebrated the greatest success of her career at the 2005 World Championships in Laces , when she was runner- up behind the Russian Ekaterina Lavrentjewa . At the end of the season she achieved third place at the European Junior Championships 2005 in Kandalakscha .

After that winter, Abart took a year off to find new motivation. In the 2006/2007 season she returned to the competition and was among the top five in five of six World Cup races, but only once as third in the penultimate race in Moos in Passeier on the podium. Like two years before, she reached fifth place in the overall World Cup. At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie , she did not come close to her World Cup results and was only ninth. In addition, she took sixth place in the team competition together with Florian Breitenberger , Martin Psenner and Johannes Hofer . After the season, Abart finally ended her career.