Manuel Pfister
Manuel Pfister 
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| birthday | 4th December 1988 | ||||||||
| job | roofer | ||||||||
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| discipline | Single seater | ||||||||
| society | TU Sparkasse Innsbruck | ||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||
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| last change: February 9, 2010 | |||||||||
Manuel Pfister (born December 4, 1988 ) is an Austrian luge rider .
Manuel Pfister, brother of Daniel Pfister , lives in Fügen and began tobogganing in 1999. The roofer from the TU Sparkasse Innsbruck association had his first notable successes in the junior sector. In Igls and Winterberg he reached third place in the 2003/04 season, first podium finishes in the Junior World Cup, was 13th overall and tenth in the Junior World Championships in Calgary . In 2005 Pfister finished second, in 2006 ninth at the Junior World Championships and Tyrolean and Austrian champions. The 2006/07 season brought the Austrian five podium finishes in the Junior World Cup, including a win in Winterberg and second place in the overall ranking of the racing series. At the junior WW in Cesana Pariol he won the silver medal like two years before. Pfister also came second in the Tyrolean and Austrian championships.
After Pfister had already started nationally in the men's division, he had also competed internationally in the men since the 2006/07 season . He made his debut in the Luge World Cup at the start of the season in Cesana Pariol, where he finished 28th. Further missions followed sporadically at first, including 20th places in Königssee and Winterberg. In the following season Pfister already contested half of the World Cup races and improved his best results in Winterberg to 15th and in Königssee to 13th place. In the overall ranking of the World Cup, he was 29. The European Luge Championships 2008 in Cesana, where the Austrian finished tenth, were even more successful . At the World Championships in Oberhof he came in 17th. In the 08/09 season Pfister was able to improve further. He contested the entire World Cup season and, apart from one race, placed in the top 20. In Calgary he finished ninth in the top ten for the first time, and he finished the overall standings as 18th . Pfister finished 25th at the World Championships in Lake Placid .
At the 2010 European Luge Championships in Sigulda , Pfister came 7th. A little later he reached a speed of 154 km / h while training on the luge track at the Whistler Sliding Center, surpassing the previous record by 0.02 km / h. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , he reached tenth place.
Web links
- Manuel Pfister in the database of the International Luge Federation
- Portrait on the website of the Austrian Toboggan Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ World speed record for Manuel Pfister . derstandard.at. February 11, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
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| SURNAME | Pfister, Manuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian luge rider |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1988 |