Julia Eichhorn

Julia Eichhorn (born July 11, 1983 in Sonneberg ) is a former German skeleton pilot .

Julia Eichhorn began her sporting career like her brother Jan Eichhorn with luge . The sports soldier in the Bundeswehr from BSR Rennsteig Oberhof switched to skeleton in 1999. In 2003 she took part in the junior world championships for the first time and became world champion there. She even left the reigning Olympic champion Tristan Gale behind. In 2004 she was fifth, 2005 sixth and 2006 vice world champion. In 2005 she also became German Junior Champion. The following year she was fifth at the German Senior Championships.

In 2003 and 2004 Eichhorn won the all-European cup. Since then it has been used several times in the World Cup. She achieved her best placements in fourth place in 2004 and fifth in 2006, both in Altenberg . She finished the 2005/06 season as 10th in the overall World Cup. Eichhorn took part in the European Championships in 2006 and finished fifth. Eichhorn won her first medal in an international senior race in February 2007 at the European Championships in Königssee . In the following season , Eichhorn mostly started in the newly created Skeleton Intercontinental Cup . She won one of six races in Winterberg , came second once and third three times, and finished second in the overall standings behind Lindsay Alcock . She was also runner-up in a Skeleton America's Cup race in Calgary . Due to not achieved targets, which were set by the association, Eichhorn was eliminated from the national team before the 2008/09 season and then ended her career. She is married to the former skeleton rider Frank Rommel .

Web links

• Profile on skeletonsport.com ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )