Kilian von Schleinitz

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Kilian von Schleinitz skeleton
Kilian von Schleinitz (2018)
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 25th July 1994 (age 26)
size 183 cm
Weight 80 kg
job police officer
Career
discipline skeleton
society WSV Königssee
Trainer Dirk Matschenz
status active
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
DM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IBSF Skeleton Junior World Championships
gold 2014 Winterberg singles
silver 2016 Winterberg singles
German championships
silver 2014 Königssee singles
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 12. ( 14/15 )
Debut in the World Cup December 2014
Overall World Cup 13. ( 14/15 )
Debut in the European Cup November 2012
European Cup victories 3
Debut in the Interconti-Cup January 2013
Interconti victories 1
last change: January 23, 2016

Kilian Freiherr von Schleinitz (born July 25, 1994 ) is a German skeleton pilot .

Career

Kilian von Schleinitz at the German Skeleton Championships 2018/19 in Altenberg

Kilian von Schleinitz lives in Berchtesgaden and is the middle of three children of former volleyball -Nationalspielerin Ute Hankers and Hans Wolf von Schleinitz, head of the Christian Youth Village plant in Germany . He comes from the Schleinitz family . His siblings Julian and Carolin are luge riders . He himself first played ice hockey and switched to skeleton at the age of 14.

Kilian von Schleinitz made his international debut in the 2012/13 European Cup and already won the first race of the season on his home track, the Königssee artificial ice rink . After two more victories this season and two second places, he won the overall standings in front of Alexander Mutowin and Ruslan Sabitow . At the 2013 German Championship , he finished eighth.

In the 2013/14 season Kilian von Schleinitz won silver at the German Championships behind Frank Rommel and ahead of David Lingmann . He then started in the Intercontinental Cup and won the first race of the season again, in this case in Igls . After three more podium places, he finished fourth in the overall standings. At the end of the season he was Junior World Champion in Winterberg ahead of Christopher Grotheer and Raphael Maier . For the following winter he was able to qualify for the World Cup, where he made his debut in December 2014. In his third race in Altenberg , he finished ninth for the first time in the top ten. In the overall standings he was 13th, although he was not at the start in the last race of the season, but instead contested the Junior World Championships in Altenberg, where he was fourth and missed a medal by just a hundredth of a second. He finished ninth at the 2015 Skeleton World Championship . In the 2015/16 season, von Schleinitz started in all eight races of the season in the Intercontinental Cup and came third in the overall standings, having consistently achieved positions between 3rd and 6th. At the Junior World Championships 2016 in Winterberg, he won the silver medal behind Nikita Tregubow .

Web links

Commons : Kilian von Schleinitz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Christian Wechslinger: The goal is Pyeongchang 2018. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , January 29, 2014, accessed on October 28, 2014 .