Gerald Kallan (born April 29, 1979 in Altenmarkt im Pongau ) is a former Austrian natural track tobogganist . He started in a single-seater, became world champion in 2000 , won another three bronze medals at world and European championships and two gold medals at junior championships. He won two races in the World Cup , made it onto the podium eight times and came third twice in the overall World Cup. His brother Roland was also a natural track tobogganist.
After Kallan had already achieved several top 10 results, he achieved his first podium in the World Cup at the beginning of the 1999/2000 season with third place in Oberperfuss . Five weeks later, the then 20-year-old celebrated his greatest success at the 2000 World Cup in Olang . Thanks to the best time in the first of the three races, he was only three hundredths of a second ahead of his compatriot Gerhard Pilz world champion in the single seater. In the World Cup, he managed another third place in the penultimate race of the season, making him fifth in the overall World Cup. He also achieved fifth place overall in the 2000/2001 season . His only podium this winter was second at the season finale on his home track in Hüttau. At the beginning of the next season he finished second in Olang, but did not make it to the podium during the rest of the winter and fell back to seventh place in the overall World Cup. At the 2001 World Championships in Stein an der Enns he was seventh and fifth at the 2002 European Championships in Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud .
Kallan celebrated his only two World Cup victories in the 2002/2003 season . He achieved the first at the start in Völs , when he beat his compatriot Robert Batkowski by three hundredths of a second in the final of the parallel competition . He celebrated his second victory four weeks later in Moscow . With a further two fourth and one fifth places, he reached third place in the overall World Cup, just like in the 2003/2004 season , in which he made it onto the podium twice but remained without a win. Kallan was also successful in the title fights in these two years. He won the bronze medal both at the 2003 World Championships in Železniki and at the 2004 European Championships in his home town of Hüttau. In his last World Cup season 2004/2005 , Kallan's best result was fifth place in the second World Cup race in Oberperfuss. He did not take part in the 2005 World Cup.
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