Maria-Luise Rainer

Maria-Luise Rainer as sports director at the Oberhof World Cup 2017

Maria-Luise Rainer (born April 23, 1959 in Telfes , South Tyrol ) is a former Italian luge athlete and today's luge trainer.

Career

Already in 1976, at the age of 16, Rainer took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck and came in 16th. In 1979 she won a bronze medal in the single seater at the World Championships. In 1980 in Lake Placid , she started her second Olympic Games, but did not reach the goal. In addition, she won the silver medal at the European Championship behind Melitta Sollmann . In the following season she came third in the overall World Cup. In the 1981/82 season Rainer came in second behind Vera Zozuļa , in 1984/85 in third. Rainer celebrated her greatest sporting success in the 1985/86 season, when she won the overall women's luge world cup. In 1986/87 she came in behind Cerstin Schmidt , in 1987/88 behind Julija Antipowa again in second place in the overall World Cup. In 1988 the South Tyrolean won the team bronze medal at the European Championships.

After her active career, she became a toboggan trainer for the Italian Association and coached the Canadian national team. She acts as race director at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and also at all World Cup races. Rainer has been the technical delegate of the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course at the Junior World Cup for several years .

successes

World Cup victories

Single seater

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan. 21, 1979	Imst	Imst toboggan run
2.	0Dec 8, 1981	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
3.	Jan. 17, 1982	Imst	Imst toboggan run
4th	Dec 15, 1985	Sarajevo	Trebevic - bobsleigh and sled run
5.	Dec 22, 1985	Olang	Olang bobsleigh run
6th	Jan. 11, 1987	Olang	Olang bobsleigh run

Web links

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• Maria-Luise Rainer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )