Florian Batkowski
Florian Batkowski | |||||
Florian Batkowski at the EM 2010 |
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nation | Austria | ||||
birthday | 2nd July 1984 | ||||
place of birth | innsbruck | ||||
size | 185 cm | ||||
Weight | 85 kg | ||||
job | technician | ||||
Career | |||||
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discipline | Single seater | ||||
society | SV Raika Schönberg | ||||
National squad | since 2000 | ||||
status | active | ||||
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup | |||||
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last change: March 5, 2012 |
Florian Batkowski (born July 2, 1984 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian natural track tobogganist and has been a member of the Austrian natural track toboggan team since 2000. His best results so far at world championships are a sixth place in the team competition and two ninth places in the singles. A ninth place in the single-seater is also his best result at European championships . In the World Cup , Batkowski achieved the best results so far with two top 5 placements and eighth place overall in the 2005/2006 season . His siblings Robert and Melanie are also natural track tobogganists.
Career
Batkowski began tobogganing on natural track in 1992. In 2000 he was able to qualify for the Austrian junior national team and take part in the European junior championship in Umhausen , where he finished 16th in the single-seater. At the European Junior Championships 2001 in Tiers he reached fifth place as well as at the 2002 Junior World Championships in Casies . At the Junior European Championships 2003 in Kreuth , however, he only finished 28th after a botched second race, at the Junior World Championships 2004 he finished sixth again. From 2002 to 2004 he was Austrian Junior Champion three times in a row and in the Intercontinental Cup he reached second place overall in 2003 and 2004. In June 2004 he completed his school education at the HTL in Fulpmes .
In the 2004/2005 season Batkowski competed in his first three World Cup races and achieved a sixth place in Latzfons as the best result , making him 17th in the overall single-seater World Cup. In the same winter he also took part in a world championship for the first time in Latsch and finished ninth in the singles and sixth in the team competition with Team Austria II. In winter 2005/2006 he was among the top ten in all six world cup races and achieved in Grande Prairie with places four and five his best results so far in World Cup races, with which he also achieved his best result in eighth place in the single-seater overall World Cup. He finished tenth in the single seater at the 2006 European Championship in Umhausen .
In the next two World Cup seasons ( 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 ) Batkowski was able to classify himself for tenth place in most of the races and was once twelfth and once tenth in the overall World Cup. In the 2008/2009 season he failed several times to qualify for the World Cup races within the Austrian team, which is why he only took part in two competitions and fell back to 30th place in the overall World Cup. Also in the 2009/2010 season he only contested two World Cup races and came in 26th overall. At the 2007 and 2009 World Championships he was 15th in the single-seater. He achieved slightly better results at the European Championships with a ninth place in 2008 and an eleventh place in 2010 .
In the 2010/2011 season , Florian Batkowski took part in all World Cup races with the exception of the two opening races in Nowouralsk . He drove twice under the top ten and finished 15th in the overall World Cup. At the 2011 World Cup in Umhausen, he finished ninth in the single-seater. In the following winter of 2011/2012 Batkowski remained without World Cup points. He could not qualify for the World Cup at the opening race in Latzfons and at the final in Umhausen and had to compete in the Nations Cup, which was held for the first time in these two races. He did not take part in the four World Cup races in between and at the 2012 European Championship .
successes
World championships
- Latsch 2005 : 9th singles, 6th team
- Grande Prairie 2007 : 15th single seater
- Moos in Passeier 2009 : 15th single-seater
- Umhausen 2011 : 9th single seater
European championships
- Umhausen 2006 : 10th single seater
- Olang 2008 : 9th single seater
- St. Sebastian 2010 : 11th single-seater
Junior World Championships
- Casies 2002 : 5th single seater
- Kindberg 2004 : 6th single seater
Junior European Championships
- Umhausen 2000 : 16th single-seater
- Tiers 2001 : 5th single seater
- Kreuth 2003 : 28th single seater
World cup
- 2005/2006 season : 8th single-seater
- 2007/2008 season : 10th single-seater
- A total of 17 top 10 placements in world cup races, including two in the top five
Web links
- Batkowski Racing Team
- Florian Batkowski in the database of the International Luge Federation
- Florian Batkowski at the Austrian Luge Association
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Batkowski, Florian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian natural track toboggan runner |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd July 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Innsbruck , Austria |