Batkowski began tobogganing on natural track in the winter of 1998/1999 after her brothers had been active for a long time. After her first victories at the Austrian Youth Championships and the FIL Youth Games, she competed in the World Cup for the first time in January 2004 . From 2004 to 2008 Batkowski won the Austrian Junior Championship five times in a row and also internationally she was one of the strongest tobogganers among the juniors with two world and European championship titles as well as a silver medal in the single-seater, which she won from 2005 to 2009.
In the general class, Batkowski won her first title at the 2005 World Championships in Latsch when she won the gold medal in the team competition together with her brother Robert and the two-seater couple Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl . In the single seater, she just missed a second medal in fourth. She was also fourth in the single seater at the 2006 European Championships in Umhausen . In the 2005/2006 season Batkowski achieved her first three podium places in the World Cup and thus reached third place in the overall World Cup. She also achieved three podium places in winter 2006/2007 , but in the overall World Cup she fell back to fourth place. At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie , she won the gold medal with the team for the second time, and this time she also made it onto the podium with third place in the single-seater. In the same year she became Austrian state champion in single-seater for the first time. So far, she has defended this title four times in a row.
In the 2007/2008 World Cup season , Batkowski reached third place overall with four podium places, but at the European Championships in Olang she was again just behind the medal ranks as fourth. Also at the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier , she missed a podium with fifth place in the single-seater, but won the silver medal in the team competition. At the end of the 2008/2009 season , Batkowski won her first World Cup race in Novouralsk near Yekaterinburg , after having previously been in the top three in four of the five races of the season. This was the third time in her career that she finished third in the overall World Cup. She celebrated her second World Cup victory on December 19, 2009 in Novouralsk. With another three podium places, she was also third in the overall World Cup in the 2009/2010 season . At the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian , she won the team competition, which was held for the first time at an EM, together with Thomas Kammerlander , Christian Schopf and Andreas Schopf , but in the single-seater she again just missed a medal in fourth place.
In the 2010/2011 season Batkowski achieved three second and two third places as well as a fifth place, making her third in the overall World Cup for the fourth time in a row behind Jekaterina Lavrentjewa and Renate Gietl . At the highlight of the season, the 2011 World Cup in Umhausen, she just missed the medal ranks as fourth in the single-seater, as so often before. In the team competition, she came in second with Gerald Kammerlander , Christian Schatz and Gerhard Mühlbacher . At the beginning of the 2011/2012 season , Batkowski could not take part in the first two World Cup races due to illness. After that she reached fourth place in the overall World Cup with three podium places in the last four races. At the 2012 European Championships in Novouralsk , she won her first European Championship medal in single-seater as second behind Jekaterina Lavrentjewa and also the bronze medal in the team competition with Michael Scheikl , Christian Schopf and Andreas Schopf.
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