Gernot Schwab
Gernot Schwab 
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| birthday | January 10, 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Bad Ischl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 186 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| job | Teacher and social worker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Single seater | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| society | ATV Irdning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gernot Schwab (born January 10, 1979 in Bad Ischl ) is an Austrian natural track tobogganist . In 2006 he was European champion in singles and in 2007 double world champion in singles and team competitions. In the World Cup he has twice achieved second place overall and four race victories, and has also been five times Austrian national champion in the single seater.
Career
Schwab started tobogganing on natural track at the age of six. At the end of the 1990s he achieved his first major international successes when he won the silver medal at the 1998 European Junior Championship in Feld am See and the bronze medal in the singles at the 1999 World Junior Championship in Hüttau . In 1999 he was also able to win the overall ranking of the Intercontinental Cup as well as the Austrian Junior Championship, whereupon he was accepted into the Austrian national team.
Schwab has been competing in the World Cup since the 1999/2000 season . In his first winter he competed in four World Cup races, achieved fifth place at the end of the season in Aosta as his best result and came eighth in the overall standings. The next winter he only took part in three races and fell back to 15th place in the overall standings. At his first world championship in 2000 in Olang he finished eighth and at the 2001 world championship in Stein an der Enns he was tenth in the single-seater. At the beginning of the 2001/2002 season , the then 22-year-old achieved his first podium in the World Cup in Olang. In the other races, however, he mostly only achieved placements around tenth and thus eighth place in the overall standings. At the 2002 European Championships in Frantschach , he won his first medal in the general class with third place in the single-seater.
His career suffered a major setback in 2003 when he was sidelined for several months after a training crash. He made a successful comeback in the 2003/2004 season . He finished five of the six World Cup races in the top three, with three second places in Grande Prairie , Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Triesenberg , thus finishing second in the overall World Cup behind Italian Anton Blasbichler . In the same year he became Austrian national champion in single-seater for the first time. He won this title four times from 2006 to 2012. At the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau , however, with eleventh place, he was well behind his World Cup results.
The 2004/2005 season did not go as planned. He only finished on the podium in the last World Cup race, which is why he fell back to seventh place in the overall standings. At the 2005 World Championships in Latsch , he was only tenth. In the next winter, Schwab was able to improve significantly again. In the second World Cup race of the 2005/2006 season he celebrated his first victory in Kindberg and with two more victories in Grande Prairie and a third place in Oberperfuss he only had to admit defeat to the Italian Patrick Pigneter in the overall World Cup , who won only one race but all another finished in second place. At the 2006 European Championships in Umhausen , Schwab won the gold medal ahead of his compatriot Thomas Schopf and Patrick Pigneter. The following winter he won the gold medal in singles at the 2007 World Championships in Grande Praire and, together with Melanie Batkowski , Christian Schatz and Gerhard Mühlbacher, also won the gold medal in the team competition.
In the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 seasons, Schwab took fourth place in the overall World Cup with two podium places each, including a win on January 20, 2008 in Umhausen. At the European Championships in 2008 in Olang , he only managed tenth place. In the 2008/2009 season , Schwab achieved three podium positions, which means he has moved up one place to third in the overall World Cup compared to previous years. At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier , the defending champion took fifth place. In the 2009/2010 World Cup season , two third places in Novouralsk and Latzfons were his best results. At the end of December, he injured his left knee in a training fall, which is why he had to take a three and a half week break and missed the 2010 European Championship in St. Sebastian . As in the previous year, he finished third in the overall World Cup.
In the 2010/2011 season , Schwab achieved two podium positions in four races, making him sixth in the overall World Cup. For two of the six World Cup races he could not qualify within the Austrian team. At the 2011 World Cup in Umhausen, he was eleventh. At the beginning of 2012 Schwab was Austrian national champion in single-seater for the fifth time, but in the 2011/2012 season he lagged behind the previous year's results in the World Cup . For the first time in eleven years, he did not finish in the top five in a World Cup race, which is why he achieved his worst result in nine years in eighth place in the overall World Cup. At the 2012 European Championships in Novouralsk, he was tenth in the singles.
successes
World championships
- Olang 2000 : 8th single-seater
- Stein an der Enns 2001 : 10th single-seater
- Latsch 2005 : 10th single seater
- Grande Prairie 2007 : 1st singles, 1st team
- Moos in Passeier 2009 : 5th single seater
- Umhausen 2011 : 11th single-seater
European championships
- Frantschach 2002 : 3rd single seater
- Hüttau 2004 : 11th single-seater
- Umhausen 2006 : 1st single-seater
- Olang 2008 : 10th single-seater
- Novouralsk 2012 : 10th single-seater
Junior World Championships
- Aosta 1997 : 6th single seater
- Hüttau 1999 : 3rd single-seater
Junior European Championships
- Szczyrk 1996 : 9th single seater
- Feld am See 1998 : 2nd single-seater
World cup
- 2nd overall place in the single seater in the seasons 2003/2004 and 2005/2006
- 3rd overall place in the single seater in the seasons 2008/2009 and 2009/2010
- 22 podium places, including 4 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 15, 2006 | Kindberg | Austria | Single seater |
| March 3, 2006 | Grande Prairie | Canada | Single seater |
| March 5, 2006 | Grande Prairie | Canada | Single seater |
| January 20, 2008 | Umhausen | Austria | Single seater |
Austrian championships
- Austrian national champion in single seater 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2012
Awards (excerpt)
Web links
- Website by Gernot Schwab
- Gernot Schwab in the database of the International Luge Federation
- Gernot Schwab at the Austrian Toboggan Association
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schwab, Gernot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian natural track toboggan runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Ischl , Austria |