Marcus Cruel

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Marcus Cruel Luge
Marcus Grausam at the EM 2010
Marcus Grausam at the EM 2010
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday November 21, 1976
place of birth Kemnath
size 182 cm
Weight 72 kg
job Carpenter, toboggan maker
Career
discipline Single seater, double seater
society RC Kreuth
National squad since 1992
status active
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 World Cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup ES 7. ( 2003/2004 )
 Overall World Cup DS 16. ( 2011/2012 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 1 1 0
last change: March 20, 2012

Marcus Grausam (born November 21, 1976 in Kemnath ) is a German natural track luge . He has been part of the German national natural track tobogganing squad since 1992, competes for RC Kreuth and is one of the most successful German single-seater athletes. As one of the few German natural track tobogganers, Marcus Grausam was able to place himself in the top ten several times in World Cup races as well as in the overall World Cup. As the only German so far, he won a World Cup race in the single-seater in Triesenberg on February 14, 2004 and achieved seventh overall place in the 2003/2004 season, the best result ever for a German in the overall single-seater World Cup. His best result at world and European championships he achieved in 1999 with seventh place at the European championships in Szczyrk . At national level, he won the German championships in single-seater seven times from 1998 to 2006 and in 2012 for the first time in double-seater, and in the summer he also successfully took part in roller luge competitions.

Career

Grausam took part in five Junior European Championships from 1992 to 1996 and achieved ninth place in 1994 in Längenfeld and fifth place in 1995 in Saint-Marcel / Fénis, the best results to date for a German at the Junior European Championships that have been held since 1974. Since 1994 he has also participated in international championships in the general class. At the 1994 World Cup in Casies , he was 19th in the single seater. At the 1995 European Championships in Kandalakscha , Grausam was the only German athlete and finished 21st. At the 1996 World Championships in Oberperfuss , he reached 14th place, but at the 1997 European Championships in Moos in Passeier and the 1998 World Championships in Rautavaara , he was only 24th. or 23rd place.

In the World Cup scoring Cruel in the 1996/1997 season with tenth place in shelter his first top-10 finish and came in the World Cup in tenth place. In 1998 he became German single-seater champion for the first time, and by 2006 he won this title six more times. In the 1998/1999 season , Grausam already achieved top 10 placings in five of six World Cup races. As in the 1999/2000 season , in which he was among the top ten three times, he achieved ninth place in the overall World Cup as the best German. At the European Championships in Szczyrk in 1999 , Grausam was the only German starter, as in 1995. With his seventh place, he not only achieved his personal best result in international championships, but also the best result so far that a German has ever achieved in the single-seater European natural track luge championships . Prior to the eighth rank of was Josef Spindler in 1973 , the best finish was a German in World Cups had Hans Noll in 1990 also reached a seventh place. Grausam has not yet achieved another top 10 result at major events in a single seater, but during the following years he was often the best German in title fights, including the 2000 World Championships in Olang and 2001 in Stein an der Enns , where he was 15th . and took 20th place.

In the World Cup too, Grausam remained the most successful of the German team. In the 2000/2001 season he narrowly missed his first podium finish with fourth place in Moscow. After the first of two races, Grausam was still in third place, but lost a lot of time in the important first corner in the second run, and finally finished fourth, 24 hundredths of a second behind third-placed Anton Blasbichler . In the overall World Cup he achieved eighth place this winter with another two top 10 placements. Although Grausam only finished once in the top ten next winter , with twelfth place overall he was again the best German. In the 2002/2003 season , however, he was beaten for the first time in the overall World Cup by Georg Maurer , who was seven years his junior , who achieved twelfth overall place, while Grausam was not better than 13th in any World Cup race and was 14th overall. A year earlier, Maurer was faster than Grausam at the 2002 European Championships in Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud . Maurer was 17th and Grausam 21. During the next three years, Marcus Grausam was again the best German at major events. At the 2003 World Championships in Železniki he was 16th, at the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau 15th and at the 2005 World Championships in Latsch 16. Here he also started in the team competition for the first time and achieved eighth place together with Michaela Maurer , Björn Kierspel and Martin Nachmann of ten teams.

After Grausam was twice in the top ten in the first four World Cup races of the 2003/2004 season , he celebrated his first World Cup victory on February 14, 2004 in the parallel competition in Triesenberg . Cruel defeated the Austrian Gernot Schwab by 26 hundredths of a second on the technically demanding course that was convenient for him, after he had already defeated the Austrian Robert Batkowski in the semifinals and the Italian Andreas Gruber in the quarterfinals . This victory was at the same time the first and so far the only one of a German tobogganist in the Natural Track Luge World Cup. In the overall World Cup, Marcus Grausam achieved seventh place and thus not only his best overall result, but the best so far that a German natural track tobogganist has ever achieved in the overall single-seater World Cup. For the time being, however, this World Cup victory remained an outstanding individual result, because in the 2004/2005 season Grausam was only once among the top ten, but was again the best German with eleventh place overall, just as in the 2005/2006 season , in which he was three top -10 placements, including a fifth place at the season finale in Oberperfuss , achieved ninth place overall. At the 2006 European Championships in Umhausen , Grausam took 15th place and at the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie, 13th place in the single-seater as well as seventh and penultimate place in the team competition with Michaela Maurer, Björn Kierspel and Christian Wichan . In 2008 he was 17th at the European Championships in Olang.

In the World Cup seasons 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 Grausam remained without a top 10 result. His best positions of the season were twelfth and in the overall World Cup he was 15th and 13th respectively. It was not until the fifth World Cup race of the 2008/2009 season that he finished ninth in Novouralsk again among the top ten. As in the previous year, he finished 13th in the overall World Cup, but was the best German again for the first time in three years. At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier , Grausam came 14th and at the 2010 European Championships in Sankt Sebastian 18th in the singles and seventh in the team competition together with Michaela Maurer, Björn Kierspel and Christian Wichan. In the 2009/2010 season , Grausam only took part in three World Cup races. After he had only achieved 16th place in Umhausen and Latzfons , he surprisingly achieved second place at the World Cup final in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Because of the warm weather, the race was decided in just one race and only the overall World Cup winner from Italy, Patrick Pigneter , was able to beat Grausams Zeit. Marcus Grausam was on the podium of a World Cup race for the second time in his career and for the first time in six years. In the overall World Cup, he finished 14th, tied with Georg Maurer.

At the beginning of the 2010/2011 season , as in the previous year, Grausam did not start in the two World Cup races in Novouralsk. In the remaining four races his best result was twelfth place in Unterammergau ; in the overall World Cup he was ranked 20th . He did not take part in the 2011 World Cup in Umhausen . In the 2011/2012 season , Grausam took part in all six World Cup races for the first time in three years, mostly placing just under the top 20 and finishing 17th in the overall World Cup. For the first time this winter he took part in a World Cup race in a two-seater together with his club colleague Veronika Nachmann , which he finished in eleventh and penultimate place. With Nachmann he also became German champion in the two-seater in 2012. At the European Championships in 2012 in Novouralsk, Grausam was 18th in the singles and together with Kaufmann and the doubles Kierspel / Wichan seventh in the team competition.

In the summer, Marcus Grausam also successfully took part in roller luge competitions. In international races he achieved several victories and podiums.

successes

World championships

European championships

Junior European Championships

World cup

  • 7th place in the overall single-seater World Cup in the 2003/2004 season
  • Another four times among the top ten in the overall single-seater World Cup
  • A victory (parallel competition in Triesenberg on February 14, 2004) and a second place

German championships

  • Nine times German single-seater champion in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010
  • German champion in doubles 2012

Web links

Commons : Marcus Grausam  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 5th RED BULL World Cup on natural track in Moscow (February 10-11, 2001). International Luge Federation, February 19, 2001, accessed June 22, 2010.
  2. ↑ Natural track: RED BULL World Cup / February 12 - February 14, 2004 in Triesenberg (LIE). International Luge Federation, February 14, 2004, accessed June 22, 2010.
  3. ↑ Official result list World Cup parallel competition Triesenberg 2004. (PDF, 136 kB)
  4. ↑ aqotec World Cup Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER). International Luge Federation, February 27, 2010, accessed on June 22, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Cruel, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural track tobogganer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemnath , Bavaria , Germany