Johannes Hofer (natural track toboggan runner)

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Johannes Hofer Luge
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 3rd August 1983
place of birth Meran
size 175 cm
Weight 64 kg
Career
discipline Two-seater, single-seater
society RV Passeier
National squad since 2002
status resigned
End of career 2007
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
FIL Natural Track Luge World Championships
silver Latsch 2005 Two-seater
bronze Latsch 2005 team
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 12, 2003
 Overall World Cup DS 5. ( 2006/2007 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Two-seater 0 0 2
 

Johannes Hofer (born August 3, 1983 in Merano ) is a former Italian natural track luge . He won the silver medal in the doubles as well as the bronze medal in the team competition at the 2005 World Cup and achieved two podium places in the World Cup .

Career

At international junior championships, Johannes Hofer only started in the single-seater. From 1999 to 2003 he took part in two Junior World Championships and two Junior European Championships . The best results he achieved was sixth in Gsies 2002 and eighth in Tiers 2001 . In the Intercontinental Cup, Hofer took part in both single and double races, while in the World Cup he started exclusively in double.

Hofer made his World Cup debut on January 12, 2003 in Umhausen with his six-year-old partner Armin Mair , who had previously competed with David Mair and won seven World Cup races and one world title with him. Armin Mair and Johannes Hofer remained a two-seater couple for three years. While they only took part in three of the six World Cup races in their first winter together and were classified between sixth and eighth, they competed in every race over the next two years and always achieved positions between fourth and sixth. They only narrowly missed a placement in the top three several times, the closest they came to a podium on January 8, 2005 in Unterammergau , when they were only four hundredths of a second slower than third-placed Denis Alimow and Roman Molwistow . In both the 2003/2004 season and the 2004/2005 season , they achieved sixth place in the overall World Cup as the best Italian two-seater pair.

After Johannes Hofer and Armin Mair had not achieved a result due to a fall in the second round at the 2003 World Championships in Železniki , they stayed true to their World Cup results at the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau and finished in fifth place. In 2005 they won two medals at the World Championships in Latsch . On the first day of the competition they won the bronze medal in the team competition with the two single-seaters Renate Gietl and Anton Blasbichler and the next day they achieved second place in the doubles behind the Russians Porschnew / Lasarew and ahead of the Poles Laszczak / Waniczek . In 2004 and 2005 Johannes Hofer and Armin Mair became Italian champions in the doubles.

After the 2004/2005 season, Armin Mair ended his career and Johannes Hofer drove with Günther Innerbichler in the winter of 2005/2006 . They took part in one race each in the World Cup (9th place in Olang) and in the Intercontinental Cup (6th place in Laas ) and started at the 2006 European Championship in Umhausen. There they achieved fifth place.

Because Günther Innerbichler also ended his career, Johannes Hofer changed his partner again and drove together with the seven years older Martin Psenner in the 2006/2007 season . Psenner had already won four World Cup races in a double-seater, but had only competed in the single-seater in the past six years. In their first joint World Cup race on January 14, 2007, they achieved fourth place. Then they reached two third places in Longiarü and Umhausen, but at the end of the season in Hofer's hometown Moos in Passeier only the ranks six and eight. In the overall World Cup they achieved fifth place as the best of the three Italian doubles. At the 2007 World Cup, which was held after the last World Cup race in the Canadian Grande Prairie , they took fifth place in the doubles with the Austrians Christian and Andreas Schopf and sixth in the team competition with Barbara Abart and Florian Breitenberger . At this world championship, Johannes Hofer also started in the single-seater competition, in which he placed 20th in the midfield. While Martin Psenner still took part in World Cup races the following winter, Johannes Hofer ended his career in 2007.

Sporting successes

World championships

European championships

Junior World Championships

Junior European Championships

World cup

  • 5th place in the overall double-seater World Cup in the 2006/2007 season
  • 6th place in the overall double-seater World Cup in the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons
  • 2 podium places and another 9 placements among the top five

Italian championships

  • Italian champion in doubles in 2004 and 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natural track tobogganing world championships in Zelezniki (SLO) - results 2nd day . International Luge Federation , February 8, 2003, accessed December 6, 2010
  2. ↑ FISI Press Office (ed.): FISI Media Guide 2006–2007 . Milan 2006, p. 316
personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian natural track toboggan runner
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Merano , Italy