Danklmaier achieved several successes at major events in the late 1970s and 1980s. He won his first medals at the Junior European Championships in Liezen in 1979 . He was third in the single-seater and, together with his brother Willi, second in the two-seater, behind the Italian duo Hellweger / Oberhammer . At the 1981 European Championships in Niedernsill , he and his brother won the bronze medal in the doubles, but only came in 24th in the singles. At the 1983 European Championships in St. Konrad , the brothers just missed a medal as fourth in the doubles. He finished eleventh in the single-seater.
Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years FIL 1957 - 2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tapeII . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p.285-407 .