Gerda Weissensteiner

Gerda Weißensteiner (born January 3, 1969 in Bozen ) is a former Italian luge and bobsleigh rider . The South Tyrolean won the gold medal for Italy in tobogganing at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . In 2006 she won the Olympic bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh in her home country with Jennifer Isacco.

Sports

Gerda Weißensteiner won the gold medal in tobogganing at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. By CONI was thus at the opening ceremony of the 1998 Olympics in Nagano awarded the honor of the flag bearer.

In 1998 Weißensteiner resigned from active tobogganing. In 2001 she started her second career in two-man bobsleigh with partner Antonella Bellutti (Olympic champion in cycling) . With Bellutti, Weißensteiner took seventh place at the 2002 Olympic Games . From the 2002/03 season, Jennifer Isacco was her pusher. With her she finally won a bronze medal again at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , before ending her successful career after the games in her own country.

She now trains the young tobogganers in her home country and is the press spokesperson for the toboggan association.

Weißensteiner lives in Steinegg in the municipality of Karneid .

Successes / results

Gerda Weißensteiner is one of the few athletes who have been able to celebrate World Cup victories in two different winter sports, as she won the World Cup in the two-man bobsleigh on November 22, 2002 after several World Cup victories in luge .

winter Olympics

Gerda Weißensteiner took part in a total of six Olympic Games .

• Calgary 1988 : 14th place in luge
• Albertville 1992 : 4th place in tobogganing
• Lillehammer 1994 : gold medal in sledding
• Nagano 1998 : 9th place in sledding
• Salt Lake City 2002 : 7th place in the two-man bobsleigh
• Turin 2006 : bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh

World Championships in Luge (Individual)

• Gold: 1993 in Calgary
• Silver: 1989 in Winterberg
• Bronze: 1995 in Lillehammer and 1996 in Altenberg

European championships in sledding

• Gold: 1994 at Königsee
• Silver: 1990 in Igls

Luge World Cup (individual)

• Overall winner in 1988, 1993 and 1998

singles

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan. 16, 1989	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
2.	Jan. 22, 1989	Hammar Beach	Hammarstrand bobsleigh run
3.	Jan. 21, 1990	Sarajevo	Trebevic - bobsleigh and sled run
4th	Jan. 27, 1990	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
5.	Dec 15, 1990	Sarajevo	Trebevic - bobsleigh and sled run
6th	Jan. 16, 1991	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
7th	Jan 25, 1992	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
8th.	Jan. 13, 1993	La Plagne	La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run
9.	Feb. 27, 1993	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
10.	0Dec. 1, 1993	Sigulda	Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track
11.	0Dec. 4, 1993	Sigulda	Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track
12.	Jan. 21, 1996	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
13.	Feb 11, 1996	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina

World Cup victories

Two-man bobsleigh women

No.	date	place	train
1.	Nov 23, 2002	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park

Web links

• Gerda Weißensteiner in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
• Gerda Weißensteiner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Focus
2. ↑ Result of the 1st Bobsleigh World Cup of the 2002/03 season ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2016 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.