David Lingmann began skeleton in 2003 and was a member of the German national team from 2005. He started for the BSR Oberhof until 2008 , since then for the RT Suhl and was a member of the sports promotion group of the Thuringian police . In 2004 he took part in the German championships and reached 25th place in the junior championships he was 12th in 2005 he reached seventh place in the junior championships, in the championships he was eighth, in 2006 he won the juniors behind Matthias Biedermann and Patrick Schürer bronze, in the men he was 12.
In February 2006 he made his international debut in the Skeleton European Cup 2005/06 and was 20th in Winterberg . In his second race in Igls , he was sixth in the top ten. In the 2007/08 season he competed in the newly created Skeleton Intercontinental Cup . The best results were fourth places in Winterberg and Lake Placid . He finished fourth in the overall standings. He finished fourth in the DM 2008 and barely missed a medal. All four runs were so balanced that they were within four hundredths of a second. In 2009 he won the bronze medal at the DM behind Mirsad Halilovic and Florian Grassl . At the Junior World Championship in 2009 he won silver behind his compatriot Sandro Stielicke and ahead of Alexander Gassner . Internationally, Lingmann had again qualified for the Intercontinental Cup. In Igls and at Königssee he was able to finish third towards the end of the season. In the overall standings, he was fifth.
The 2009/10 season began Lingmann successful in the Intercontinental Cup. He finished second in three of the first four races of the season. At the 2010 Junior World Championships in St. Moritz , he finished third behind Gassner and Alexander Kröckel . He was also German champion in Altenberg ahead of Axel Jungk and Christian Baude . He made his final international breakthrough in the following season . In La Plagne he won two of the eight races of the season, was second in two other races and third once. In the overall standings, he took first place. The 2011/12 season Lingmann played in the European Cup. With three wins and three further podium finishes, he was also able to decide this racing series for himself. At the end of the season he won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Igls. In the 2012/13 season, Lingmann had to take a break due to injury and gained his first experience as a coach. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he again won bronze at the German championship . He started again in the Intercontinental Cup, where he achieved three seventh places as the best placements and sixth overall. After the season he ended his active career. Since then, Lingmann has been working as a youth skeleton coach at the Berchtesgaden base .
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