Dominik Holzknecht

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Dominik Holzknecht Luge
Dominik Holzknecht at the Austrian Championships 2010
Dominik Holzknecht at the Austrian championships 2010
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday May 21, 1993
Career
discipline Two-seater, single-seater
society SV Umhausen
status resigned
Medal table
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior European Championship 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIL Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships
gold Latsch 2012 Two-seater
silver Latsch 2012 Single seater
FIL Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
silver Laas 2011 Two-seater
gold Novouralsk 2013 Two-seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup February 25, 2011
 Overall World Cup DS 2. ( 2015/16 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Two-seater 0 3 5
last change: May 5, 2020

Dominik Holzknecht (born May 21, 1993 ) is an Austrian natural track luge . He achieved his greatest successes to date with Christoph Regensburger in a two-seater. They were 2012 junior world champion , 2013 European Junior champion and 2011 overall winner of the Intercontinental Cup.

Career

Dominik Holzknecht has been competing in single-seater intercontinental cup races since the 2007/2008 season and achieved top 10 placements for the first time in the 2008/2009 season. At the Junior World Championship in Latsch in 2008 , however, he started in the doubles together with Rupert Brüggler . They finished fourth, missing the medal ranks by nine tenths of a second. At the Junior European Championships 2009 in Longiarü and the Junior World Championships 2010 in Deutschnofen , Holzknecht started in the single-seater and finished tenth.

Since the end of the 2009/2010 season, Dominik Holzknecht has formed a two-seater pair with Christoph Regensburger , who is the same age and also belongs to SV Umhausen . In their first joint Intercontinental Cup race in February 2010, they already achieved second place. In the 2010/2011 season, they finished second in all IC Cup races and thus won the overall standings. On February 25, 2011, Regensburger / Holzknecht contested their first joint World Cup race at the finals of the 2010/2011 season in Olang , which they finished eighth. Christoph Regensburger had already competed in the World Cup with Thomas Kammerlander for the past two years . At the European Junior Championships 2011 in Laas , the Regensburger / Holzknecht duo won the silver medal behind the Russians Maxim Zwetkow and Denis Moissejew ; Holzknecht took 13th place in the single-seater.

At the Junior World Championship 2012 in Latsch , Regensburger / Holzknecht secured the gold medal in the doubles. In addition, Dominik Holzknecht came second in the single-seater. In the Intercontinental Cup in the 2011/2012 season, Holzknecht achieved second place overall with Regensburger in both single and double-seater positions, while in the World Cup in winter 2011/2012 the only result of the Regensburger / Holzknecht duo was ninth place in Olang.

successes

World championships

European championships

Junior World Championships

Junior European Championships

World cup

Intercontinental Cup

  • Overall victory in the doubles in the 2010/2011 season

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