Johannes Wipplinger
Johannes Wipplinger (born August 1, 1978 in Wels ) is an Austrian athlete and bobsleigh athlete .
Hannes Wipplinger has been involved in bobsleigh since 2004 and has been a member of the Austrian national team since then. The student starts for the Teigl team . He started out in international competitions in Jürgen Loacker's bobsleigh since 2004 . It was not until the 2006 four-man bobsleigh race in Park City that Wipplinger achieved eighth place for the first time and was among the top ten. He caused a sensation in the media at the European Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo in January 2007, where he had problems getting into the four-man bobsleigh and backed to the finish in third position. For the 2007/08 season , Wipplinger moved to Wolfgang Stampfer's team , with whom he achieved his best result to date in the two-man bobsleigh World Cup in Park City in December 2007 as third-placed.
As a track and field athlete, Wipplinger competes as a decathlete and was fifth in the Austrian championships in 2005. Here he starts for the ATSV Linz .
Web links
- Wipplinger on the website of the Austrian Association
- Athletics results Wipplingers
- Interview with Wipplinger about his botched bobsleigh start in Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Berliner Zeitung
- Johannes Wipplinger in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wipplinger, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wipplinger, Hannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian athlete and bobsleigh athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | catfish |