Frank Rommel

Frank Rommel
nation	Germany
birthday	July 30, 1984
place of birth	Suhl,  GDR
size	181 cm
job	commercial clerk
Career
society	ThSV Eisenach
Trainer	Andy Böhme Lars Lienhard Frank Schwarz Jens Müller
National squad	since 2002
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 4 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 2 × 1 ×
Skeleton World Championships bronze 2008 Altenberg singles gold 2009 Lake Placid team bronze 2011 Königssee singles silver 2011 Königssee team silver 2012 Lake Placid singles silver 2012 Lake Placid team silver 2013 St. Moritz team  European Skeleton Championships silver 2006 St. Moritz singles gold 2009 St. Moritz singles silver 2010 Igls singles bronze 2014 Königssee singles
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Debut in the World Cup January 2005 World Cup victories 7th Overall World Cup 2. ( 09/10 ), ( 11/12 ), 3. ( 08/09 ), ( 10/11 ) Debut in the European Cup December 2003 European Cup victories 1 Debut North American Cup April 2008 North America Cup victories 1
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  World cup 7th 6th 9

Frank Rommel (born July 30, 1984 in Suhl ) is a former German skeleton driver . Measured by his eleven medals at World and European Championships and seven World Cup victories, he is the most successful male skeleton rider in Germany.

Rommel is the son of the wrestler Uwe Rommel and lives in Eisenach . He is married to the skeleton pilot Julia Rommel and has worked as a commercial clerk in Eisenach since 2012. He passed his Abitur in 2003 at Heinrich-Ehrhardt-Gymnasium Zella-Mehlis and completed an apprenticeship as a banker in Schmalkalden.

At the age of 21, Rommel became vice European champion in his discipline in St. Moritz in 2006 and achieved his first podium finish with third place in the parallel World Cup. He took part in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , where he finished 24th. At the Skeleton World Championship in Altenberg in 2008 , he won the bronze medal. In the World Cup, Rommel had his final breakthrough in the 2008/09 season . In Altenberg , Igls , Königssee and St. Moritz, he won four World Cup races in a row. In St. Moritz he also won the title of European Champion. He was also world champion in the team competition in Lake Placid in 2009 together with the skeleton pilot Marion Trott and the two-man bobsleighs by Thomas Florschütz and Sandra Kiriasis . At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , Rommel achieved seventh place in the Whistler Sliding Center , the best ever Olympic result for the German men's skeleton.

In the 2010/11 season , Rommel was only able to place on the podium once, but was third in the overall standings and was thus among the top three in the overall standings for the third time in a row. At the European Championships he was fifth, at the World Championships he won bronze in the individual and silver in the team competition. In the 2011/12 season , Rommel secured his sixth World Cup victory at Königssee and, with two further podium finishes, second place in the overall World Cup, placing himself in the top three in the world for the fourth year in a row. The highlight of the season was then the double win of the silver medal both individually and in the team at the World Championships in Lake Placid.

The pre-Olympic season 2012/13 concluded Rommel after a disqualification due to obesity in the first World Cup in Lake Placid in fifth place overall. Only two races after the disqualification, Rommel experienced the seventh World Cup victory of his career on the Olympic track in Vancouver and broke through the winning streak of the Latvian serial winner Dukurs. At the World Championships in St. Moritz , Rommel achieved the silver medal in the team with an absolute best time in his run. There was also a 5th place in the individual race, in which his health was impaired by severe back pain. The 2013/2014 Olympic season was difficult for the German skeleton riders. With third place in the final World Cup at Königssee, Rommel was able to achieve the first and only podium place for the German skeleton men and win the bronze medal in the European championship that was held at the same time . Since the 2008/2009 season, Rommel has placed himself on the podium in all of his races on the artificial ice rink at Königssee .

Rommel played his third Winter Olympics in Sochi in February 2014 . On March 25, 2014, he announced his retirement from professional sport.

Web links

Commons : Frank Rommel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile on skeletonsport.com ( Memento from October 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ spiegel.de of February 22, 2009: Wintersport Kompakt - Florschütz takes silver in the two-man bobsleigh
2. ↑ Skeleton ace Rommel stops . In: Sportschau.de . ARD. March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.