Lydia Mayr was one of the best Austrian skeleton pilots in the first half of the first decade of the 2000s. She started playing in 1999 and has since been a member of the Austrian national team. In January 2000 she made her debut in Lillehammer in the Skeleton World Cup and was 22nd. In Winterberg she achieved her best World Cup result in the following season with 17th place. At the national championships in Igls in 2000 and 2001, she won the silver medals behind Astrid Ebner . At the beginning of 2002 Mayr won a race in the skeleton challenge cup in Altenberg and came second once. A third place came at the Tyrolean championships and she also won the Coppa Italia . In 2002, the Austrian won the title at the national championships for the first time and repeated this success the following year. At the 2003 European Skeleton Championships in St. Moritz , Mayr came eleventh. It was also a World Cup race in which she was 21st. It was Mayr's last World Cup race and at the same time the last important international race. She had her last assignment at the Italian Championships in 2004, where she competed in the guest class in February of that year and was sixth.
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