Martina Kocher
Martina Kocher (born March 14, 1985 in Biel / Bienne ) is a Swiss luge athlete and athlete .
Martina Kocher came to luge in 1994 through her father Heinz Kocher , the former Swiss national coach bobsleigh and luge. Since 1998 she has been a member of the junior national team and since 2003 of the national team. She studies sport and English at the University and the University of Education in Bern and starts for the Bob Club Lake Zurich . In the 2003/04 season she first competed in the Luge World Cup . In Altenberg she took 16th place. Already in her second World Cup in Winterberg she finished seventh and thus achieved a place in the top ten for the first time. She was eleventh at the European Championships in Oberhof and won the title at the Swiss Championships. She also won this title the following season. From the 2005/06 season Kocher competed regularly in the World Cup. The best result was a fifth place in Königssee , in the overall World Cup she reached the 13th place. She again won the title of Swiss Champion and was eleventh at the European Championships. At the peak of the season, the Olympic Games of Turin it reached a ninth place.
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The 2006/07 season was a little more successful. In seven out of nine World Cup races she was among the top ten, in Oberhof she achieved her best individual result of the season in fifth. She finished the overall World Cup in eighth place. The 2006/07 Challenge Cup went even better , when she was only beaten by Silke Kraushaar-Pielach in the Altenberg final . In the overall ranking of the competition, she was sixth. At the world championships in Igls , Kocher finished twelfth, at the Swiss championships she won her fourth title in a row. As a track and field athlete, Kocher is a successful discus thrower . At the U23 championships in Switzerland she was third in 2007, with the SVM Bern Swiss champion.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she reached 7th place.
On January 29, 2016, she surprisingly became the first world champion in the toboggan sprint at the world championships on the combined artificial ice rink at Königssee . She is only the second Swiss world champion in luge after Elisabeth Nagele , who won the title in Girenbad in 1961 . A day later, she also won the silver medal as runner-up in the individual race. At the 2017 World Championships in Innsbruck-Igls, she was runner-up in the sprint world championship.
The Swiss is trained by Reto Gilly . Both are integrated into the German World Cup team during the season.
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| SURNAME | Kocher, Martina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss luge and athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biel / Bienne |