Marlies Wagner

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Marlies Wagner Luge
Marlies Wagner at the EM 2010
Marlies Wagner at the EM 2010
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday May 25, 1983
place of birth Neunkirchen
size 175 cm
Career
discipline Single seater
society Toboggan club Pinguin
Sparkasse Payerbach
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIL Natural Track Luge World Championships
silver Stein an der Enns 2001 team
bronze Grande Prairie 2007 team
FIL European Natural Track Luge Championships
bronze St. Sebastian 2010 team
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 16, 2000
 Overall World Cup ES 5. ( 2000/2001 , 2005/2006 ,
2009/2010 , 2010/2011 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 0 1 3
last change: March 5, 2012

Marlies Wagner (born May 25, 1983 in Neunkirchen ) is an Austrian natural track tobogganist . The sports scientist has won one silver and two bronze medals in team competitions at world and European championships, and fourth place is her best result so far in the single-seater. In the World Cup they reached the previous four podiums and since the 2000/2001 season, she was able to four times in the top five in single-seater World Cup classified.

Career

Wagner took part in the Junior World and European Championships from 1998 to 2003 and narrowly missed the medal ranks twice as fourth at the 1999 Junior World Championships in Hüttau and at the 2003 Junior European Championships in Kreuth . In the 1999/2000 season she competed in her first three World Cup races , achieved eighth place in Stein an der Enns as the best result and was twelfth in the overall standings. In the same winter, she also took part in a world championship in the general class for the first time in Olang , finishing seventh in the single-seater.

At the beginning of the 2000/2001 World Cup season , the then 17-year-old achieved second place in Umhausen , her first podium and at the same time her best result in a World Cup race to date. In the overall World Cup, she achieved fifth place with another three top 5 results. At the 2001 World Championships in Stein an der Enns, she won the silver medal in the team competition held for the first time in the team Austria II together with Gerhard Pilz , Peter Lechner and Peter Braunegger .

In the 2001/2002 season she could not quite match the previous year's results in the World Cup and fell back to eighth place overall, tied with Russian Julija Wetlowa . Her greatest success this winter was at the Austrian Championships in 2002, when she became Austrian state champion in single-seater for the first time. In the 2002/2003 season she achieved her second podium finish in third place in the fifth World Cup race in Kindberg and she reached sixth place in the overall single-seater World Cup , tied with Italian Renate Gietl . At the World Cup in 2003 in Železniki , she was ninth.

In the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons Wagner achieved a top 10 result in almost every race, with her best result being fifth in the last race of the season. In both years she was seventh in the overall World Cup. At the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau , she just missed a medal in single-seater as fourth , but she was only tenth at the 2005 World Championships in Latsch . In the 2005/2006 World Cup season, Wagner was third again on the podium in Grande Prairie and, with a further three fifth places, achieved fifth place in the overall World Cup, for the second time after the 2000/2001 season. In addition, she was Austrian state champion in single-seater for the second time. At the 2006 European Championships in Umhausen , she finished eighth.

While Wagner was without a podium in the 2006/2007 World Cup season, achieved fifth place in Umhausen in January as the best result and thus fell back to eighth place in the overall standings, she achieved a podium again in the 2007/2008 season with third place in Umhausen , with which she reached the sixth place overall. In February 2007 Wagner won the bronze medal in the team competition at the World Championships in Grande Prairie in Team Austria II together with Gerald Kammerlander , Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl , and she also achieved fifth place in the single-seater. At the European Championships in 2008 she was seventh.

In the 2008/2009 World Cup season , fourth place at the season opener in St. Sebastian was her best result and she finished seventh in the overall ranking. Also in the 2009/2010 season two fourth places in Novouralsk and Umhausen were her best results. In the overall standings she was able to improve by two places to fifth. At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier , Wagner was eighth and seventh in the singles at the 2010 European Championships . In the team competition held for the first time at a European championship in 2010, she won the bronze medal in Team Austria II together with Gerald Kammerlander, Christian Schatz and Gerhard Mühlbacher . At the beginning of the 2010/2011 season Wagner achieved two fifth places in Nowouralsk, which also remained their best World Cup results this winter. In the overall World Cup she came fifth for the fourth time. At the 2011 World Championships in Umhausen she was ninth in the singles and together with Thomas Kammerlander , Christian Schopf and Andreas Schopf in Team Austria II fourth in the team competition.

Although Wagner was Austrian national champion in singles for the third time at the beginning of 2012, she was unable to match the results of previous years internationally in the 2011/2012 season . A seventh place in the opening race in Latzfons was her best World Cup result, which is why she fell back to ninth place in the overall World Cup - her worst overall result since her first World Cup season twelve years ago. At the 2012 European Championships in Novouralsk, she did not make it into the top 10 for the first time in international championships with eleventh place.

In addition to natural track luge, Wagner also takes part in roller luge competitions in summer . She won the Austrian Championships and the overall ranking of the Austrian Roller Luge Cup several times .

successes

World championships

European championships

Junior World Championships

Junior European Championships

World cup

Austrian championships

  • Austrian state champion in single-seater 2002, 2006 and 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Marlies
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian natural toboggan runner
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Lower Austria) , Austria