David Mair (natural track toboggan runner)

David Mair
David Mair (back) at the Natural Track Luge European Championship 2010
nation	Italy
birthday	July 26, 1980
place of birth	Meran
size	167 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	Natural luge skeleton
society	SV Völlan
status	not active
Medal table
Natural Track Luge World Championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Natural track tobogganing championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Natural track toboggan JWM 1 × 2 × 0 × Natural track toboggan JEM 2 × 2 × 0 ×
Natural Track Luge World Championships gold Olang 2000 Two-seater gold Stein an der Enns 2001 team silver Stein an der Enns 2001 Two-seater  European Natural Track Luge Championships bronze Szczyrk 1999 Two-seater  Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships gold Aosta 1997 Two-seater silver Hüttau 1999 Two-seater silver Hüttau 1999 Single seater  Natural track toboggan junior European Championship gold Fénis 1995 Two-seater silver Szczyrk 1996 Two-seater gold Feld am See 1998 Two-seater silver Umhausen 2000 Single seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup World Cup victories 7th Overall World Cup ES 7th ( 1999/2000 ) Overall World Cup DS 1st (1999/2000)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-seater 7th 3 3
last change: March 5, 2012

David Mair (born July 26, 1980 in Meran ) is an Italian natural track toboggan runner and former skeleton pilot from Völlan (municipality of Lana , South Tyrol ) . At the turn of the millennium, he was one of the world's best two-seater natural track tobogganing. Together with his brother Armin he became world champion and overall world cup winner in 2000 and world champion in team competition in 2001. From 2002 to 2007 he took part in skeleton competitions, but did not achieve any great success. From the 2009/2010 season he was active again as a natural toboggan run.

Career

Natural track tobogganing

David Mair began his athletic career in natural track tobogganing. With his brother Armin , who was three years older than him, he started at international junior championships in 1995, when he had reached the age limit. The Mair brothers won the gold medal in doubles when they first competed at the European Junior Championships in Fénis in 1995 . A year later they achieved second place at the European Junior Championships in Szczyrk in 1996, behind their compatriots Gerd Mittermair and Werner Töchterle . In 1997 they took part for the first time in a championship in the general class and achieved fifth place at the 1997 European championship in Moos in Passeier . A month later they won the gold medal again at the first Junior World Championship in Aosta . This is where David Mair started in a single-seater for the first time and finished in fifth place. At the 1998 World Cup in Rautavaara , the Mair brothers were sixth in the doubles. Because his brother Armin had already passed the age limit for juniors, David Mair started at the junior championships with Rainer Jud in 1998 and 1999 . You became Junior European Champion in doubles in Feld am See in 1998 . In the single-seater, Mair again achieved fifth place. At the Junior World Championships in 1999 in Hüttau , Mair and Jud won the silver medal in the two-seater and in the single-seater Mair also came second. At the European Championships in Szczyrk in 1999 , David and Armin Mair won the bronze medal in the doubles.

From the 1998/1999 season , the Mair brothers were also successful in the World Cup . They initially achieved three fourth places and celebrated their first World Cup victory at the season finale in Aurach , placing them fourth in the overall World Cup. David Mair also competed in a World Cup race with Rainer Jud this winter. They finished third in the fourth of the six races of the season in Canale d'Agordo . Mair also competed in three single-seater races and was once among the top ten. The 1999/2000 season was the most successful for the brothers David and Armin Mair. After they finished second in the first two World Cup races, they celebrated their second World Cup victory on January 23, 2000 in Gummer . A week later they became world champions in doubles in Olang . In the single seater, David Mair achieved 14th place. At the Junior European Championship at the beginning of February, he won the silver medal in the single seater, as in the previous year at the Junior World Championship. After a third place in the fourth World Cup race of the season, David and Armin Mair won the last two World Cup races in Železniki and Aosta and thus secured the overall World Cup victory in the doubles with 40 points ahead of the Austrians Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl . David Mair also competed in all World Cup races this winter in a single-seater. He drove four times under the top ten and achieved the best result in sixth place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , which he was seventh in the overall single-seater World Cup.

In the 2000/2001 season , the Mair brothers won the World Cup race in Lüsen and stood on the podium twice more. In the overall World Cup, however, they were relegated to second place by 15 points by the Austrians Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf , who won the last two races of the season. Also at the 2001 World Championships in Stein an der Enns Schopf / Schopf won ahead of Mair / Mair, who were still in the lead after the first run, but only achieved the fourth fastest time in the second. In the team competition held for the first time, however, Mair / Mair won the gold medal with Sonja Steinacher and Anton Blasbichler in Team Italy I. In the single seater David Mair only took part in one World Cup race, which he finished in eighth position, and then did not contest any World Cup races in the single seater. In the 2001/2002 season , after finishing fifth in Olang , the Mair brothers won the second World Cup race in Olang and then the parallel competition in Triesenberg , leading them to the overall World Cup tied with Poland's Andrzej Laszczak and Damian Waniczek at halftime . In the last three World Cup races she came fourth twice and third once and finally fell back to third place in the final ranking behind Laszczak / Waniczek and Beer / Kögl. At the European Championship 2002 at the end of the season, David Mair was no longer at the start.

skeleton

In 2002, Mair switched to skeleton. He was a member of the B squad of the Italian national team and was used in the Skeleton European Cup from 2002/2003 . In 2004 he achieved his first top 20 result with 17th place in Winterberg . He achieved his best results in November 2006 with twelfth place in Igls and a month later with tenth place in Cesana Pariol . At the national level, third place at the 2004 Italian Championships was his best result. He finished fourth in each of the next two years. The highlight of Mair's skeleton career was the team competition at the 2007 Skeleton World Championship . There he finished on the side of Teresita Bramante and the bobsled teams of Jessica Gillarduzzi and Andreas Mayrl only the seventh and at the same time last place. This was his last international skeleton competition.

Return to natural tobogganing

In the 2009/2010 season , Mair made a comeback in natural tobogganing. He has since started together with Florian Breitenberger , who was previously only active in the single-seater. At the beginning of 2010 they became Italian runners-up in doubles. In mid-January they started at the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian and achieved seventh place in the doubles and fourth in the team competition together with Evelin Lanthaler and Stefan Gruber . Then they took part in the three remaining World Cup races and achieved fourth place in Latzfons as the best result . In the overall World Cup they finished ninth, tied with Russians Pawel Silin and Iwan Rodin .

In the 2010/2011 season , the best World Cup result for the Breitenberger / Mair duo was a sixth place in Kindberg . In total, they took part in three World Cup races and, as in the previous year, finished ninth overall. At the Italian championships in 2011 they again took second place. At the 2011 World Championships in Umhausen , the duo finished fifth in both the doubles and team competitions. In the 2011/2012 season, David Mair did not take part in any competitions.

Success in natural track tobogganing

World championships

• Rautavaara 1998 : 6th two-seater (with Armin Mair)
• Olang 2000 : 1st two-seater (with Armin Mair), 14th single-seater
• Stein an der Enns 2001 : 2nd doubles (with Armin Mair), 1st team
• Umhausen 2011 : 5th doubles (with Florian Breitenberger), 5th team

European championships

• Moos in Passeier 1997 : 5th two-seater (with Armin Mair)
• Szczyrk 1999 : 3rd two-seater (with Armin Mair)
• St. Sebastian 2010 : 7th doubles (with Florian Breitenberger), 4th team

Junior World Championships

• Aosta 1997 : 1st two-seater (with Armin Mair), 5th single-seater
• Hüttau 1999 : 2nd two-seater (with Rainer Jud), 2nd single-seater

Junior European Championships

• Fénis 1995 : 1st two-seater (with Armin Mair)
• Szczyrk 1996 : 2nd two-seater (with Armin Mair)
• Feld am See 1998 : 1st two-seater (with Rainer Jud), 5th single-seater
• Umhausen 2000 : 2nd single-seater

World cup

• Overall World Cup victory in doubles in the 1999/2000 season
• 2nd place in the overall double-seater World Cup in the 2000/2001 season
• 3rd place in the overall double-seater World Cup in the 2001/2002 season
• 7 victories in world cup races:

date	place	country	discipline
February 7, 1999	Aurach	Austria	Two-seater
January 23, 2000	Gummer	Italy	Two-seater
February 20, 2000	Železniki	Slovenia	Two-seater
February 27, 2000	Aosta	Italy	Two-seater
January 14, 2001	Lüsen	Italy	Two-seater
December 16, 2001	Olang	Italy	Two-seater
December 19, 2001	Triesenberg	Liechtenstein	Two-seater

Success in skeleton

World championships

• St. Moritz 2007 : 7th team

Web links

Commons : David Mair  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• David Mair in the database of the International Luge Federation (results from 2009)
• David Mair ( Memento from September 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at the Italian Winter Sports Association (Italian) (results from 2010)
• David Mair on the FIBT website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 3rd Red Bull World Cup on natural track in Triesenberg. International Luge Federation, January 11, 2002, accessed May 17, 2010.
2. ↑ Two-seater gold for Russia - Mair / Hofer surprise of the World Cup. International Luge Federation, January 29, 2005, accessed on May 17, 2010.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} FISI Press Office (Ed.): FISI Media Guide 2006–2007 . Milan 2006, p. 219.
4. ↑ Campionati Italiani di slittino naturale, Resch batte Pigneter. Gietl regina from le donne. ( Memento of August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Italian Winter Sports Association, January 4, 2010, accessed on May 17, 2010 (Italian).
5. ↑ Slittino naturale, quarto titolo nazionale per Pigneter e Gietl. ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Italian Winter Sports Association, January 11, 2011, accessed on January 23, 2011 (Italian).