Georg Maurer (natural track toboggan runner)

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Georg Maurer Luge
Georg Maurer at the EM 2010
Georg Maurer at the EM 2010
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday April 22, 1983
place of birth Bad Aibling
size 179 cm
Weight 70 kg
job Bank clerk
Career
discipline Single seater
society RC Kreuth
National squad since 2000
status active
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 16, 2000
 Overall World Cup ES 12. ( 2002/2003 , 2005/2006
2007/2008 )
last change: March 20, 2012

Georg Maurer (born April 22, 1983 in Bad Aibling ) is a German natural track luge . Like his sister Michaela , he starts for RC Kreuth and has been a member of the German national tobogganing squad since 2000. Georg Maurer is one of the most successful German athletes in the single-seater. So far, he has achieved two tenth places in world championships and a total of ten top 10 placings in world cup races , with which he already came twelfth in the overall World Cup three times. At the European Junior Championships in 2003 he reached fourth place and thus the best result so far for a German natural track luge at international junior championships. At national level he was German champion in 2008 and 2012 and German runner-up in single-seaters in 2004 and 2005.

Career

Georg Maurer took part in international junior championships from 2001. At the European Junior Championships in 2003 on his home track in Kreuth , he achieved fourth place in the single-seater and thus the best result that a German natural track tobogganist has ever achieved at the Junior World and European Championships. In the general class he took part in a world championship for the first time in January 2000 , but only finished 32nd in Olang . Two weeks earlier he had made his debut in the World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He finished this race in 19th position, which was his best World Cup result in the 1999/2000 season . The following winter , a 13th place at the season finale in Hüttau was his best result, and in the overall World Cup he reached 16th place. After Maurer did not finish at the 2001 World Championships in Stein an der Enns , he achieved 17th place as the best German at the 2002 European Championships in Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud and 17th place at the 2003 World Championships in Železniki , this time as the second best German immediately behind Marcus Grausam .

On January 13, 2002, Maurer finished tenth in the top 10 of a World Cup race for the first time in Umhausen and thus reached 14th place overall with Italian Martin Gruber in the 2001/2002 season . In the next winter he reached eighth place on January 12, 2003, again in Umhausen, the best World Cup result of his career up to then and improved to twelfth place in the overall World Cup. In the fourth World Cup race of the 2003/2004 season , Maurer achieved the next top 10 result. But because he did not take part in the last two World Cup races, he fell back to 16th place in the overall World Cup. At the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau , Maurer crossed the finish line in 24th place, at the 2005 World Championships in Latsch he was 18th and at the 2006 European Championships in Umhausen he was the best German, immediately ahead of Marcus Grausam, in 14th place.

In the World Cup in the 2004/2005 , 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 seasons, Maurer was among the top 15 in almost all races, but only once, in the opening race of the 2006/2007 season in Latsch , was he among the top ten. In the overall World Cup, a 12th place (2005/2006) was his best result in these three years. He achieved the same overall result in the 2007/2008 season with two tenth places in Umhausen and Latsch as the best racing results. In the winter of 2007/2008 he was the best German in the overall World Cup for the second time in a row, and he had already succeeded in this for the first time in the 2002/2003 season. Georg Maurer reached tenth place at the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie and 2009 in Moos in Passeier . This makes him one of the few German natural track tobogganers who have achieved top 10 results in single-seater at world or European championships. In 2009 he took part in the team competition together with his sister Michaela and the Ukrainians Vitaly Sakharov and Ihor Senjuk as part of the German / Ukrainian team and came in seventh. At the European Championships in 2008 in Olang he was 13th and was - as at the 2009 World Cup - the best German. In 2008 Georg Maurer became German single-seater champion, and in 2004 and 2005 he was runner-up.

In the 2008/2009 World Cup season , Maurer only took part in the first four races. His best result was a 13th place in Umhausen. Since he did not take part in the last two World Cup races in Novouralsk, Russia , he fell back to 18th place in the overall World Cup. At the beginning of the next season , Maurer did not start at the World Cup races in Nowouralsk, but only took part in a World Cup race in Umhausen on January 10, 2010. In this race he reached ninth place and thus the second best World Cup result of his career. At the end of winter, he achieved another top 10 result in tenth at the finals in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and reached 14th place in the overall World Cup, tied with Marcus Grausam. At the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian , however, he only finished 23rd. At the beginning of the 2010/2011 season , Maurer again did not take part in the two World Cup races in Nowouralsk. He then started in three of the four remaining races and equalized his previous best result with eighth place in Unterammergau on February 13th . In the overall World Cup he fell back to 22nd place. At the 2011 World Championships in Umhausen, he again finished twelfth in the single-seater as the best German; in the team competition he was sixth with the German team.

In the 2011/2012 season , in which Maurer took part in four of the six World Cup races, his best result was again eighth, achieved on January 29 in Nova Ponente . In the overall World Cup he finished 19th. In addition, he was German champion in single-seater for the second time. He did not take part in the 2012 European Championships in Novouralsk for personal reasons.

successes

World championships

European championships

Junior World Championships

Junior European Championships

World cup

  • 3 × 12th overall place in the single-seater World Cup in the seasons 2002/2003 , 2005/2006 and 2007/2008
  • 10 top 10 placements in world cup races

German championships

  • German champion in single seater 2008 and 2012

Web links

Commons : Georg Maurer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natural track: BSD duo Wichan / Kierspel narrowly missed the EM medal. 5th WÜRZ Energy World Cup & EM in Novouralsk. ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland, February 22, 2012, accessed on March 5, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bsd-portal.de
personal data
SURNAME Maurer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural track tobogganer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Aibling , Bavaria , Germany