Michael Walter (Luge Rider)

Michael Walter
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	March 12, 1959
place of birth	Pirna , GDR
size	181 cm
Weight	81 kg
job	Building contractor
date of death	August 6, 2016
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	SC tractor Oberwiesenthal
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 1 × GDR championships 1 × 4 × 1 ×
Luge World Championships bronze 1981 Hammarstrand singles gold 1985 Oberhof singles  European Luge Championships bronze 1986 Hammarstrand singles silver 1988 Königssee team
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Overall World Cup ES 1. 1983/84

Michael Walter (born March 12, 1959 in Pirna ; † August 6, 2016 ) was a German luge athlete .

Michael Walter was discovered for tobogganing in Zwickau and in 1973 delegated to Oberwiesenthal , where he started for the SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal in the following years . In 1976 he made his debut at the European Junior Championships and achieved two fifth and one sixth place at the events until 1978. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid , he was still a substitute. In 1981 he was runner-up in Hammarstrand behind Sergei Danilin . At the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo , he reached the disappointing fourth place and thus the worst placement of the season. He won the World Cup of the year with ease. In 1985 the trained construction worker was able to become world champion on the home track in Oberhof . The 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary were again unsatisfactory with a fifth place. Walter became DDR champion in 1984.

The title winners of the GDR championship in luge 1984: Michael Walter, Bettina Schmidt , Jörg Hoffmann , Jochen Pietzsch

After his sports career, Walter studied construction and ran a construction company in Annaberg-Buchholz .

successes

World Cup victories

singles

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan. 31, 1982	Hammar Beach	Hammarstrand bobsleigh run
2.	Feb 21, 1982	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
3.	0Jan. 9, 1984	Hammar Beach	Hammarstrand bobsleigh run
4th	04th Mar 1984	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
5.	0Jan. 6, 1986	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track

Web links

Commons : Michael Walter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Michael Walter in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luge: The BSD mourns the loss of ex-world champion and world cup winner Michael Walter ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 13, 2016.