Michaela Maurer

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Michaela Maurer Luge
Michaela Maurer at the EM 2010
Michaela Maurer at the EM 2010
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday November 6, 1981
place of birth Bad Aibling ,  Germany
size 168 cm
Weight 60 kg
job Student
Career
discipline Single seater
society RC Kreuth
National squad since 2000
status active
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 16, 2000
 Overall World Cup ES 7. ( 2005/2006 , 2006/2007 )
last change: March 20, 2012

Michaela Maurer (born November 6, 1981 in Bad Aibling ) is a German natural track tobogganist . Like her brother Georg , she starts for RC Kreuth , has been a member of the German national team since 2000 and is the most successful German natural track toboggan runner of the 2000s. As one of the few German natural track tobogganers, Maurer achieved top 10 placements at world and European championships ; her best result so far is a seventh place at the 2011 World Cup . In the World Cup , with two seventh places in the 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 seasons, she achieved the best overall placements by a German natural toboggan runner. In addition, she has been German champion ten times so far.

Career

Michaela Maurer's international career began on January 16, 2000 when she competed in her first World Cup race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . She finished this race in 12th position, was used again in the 1999/2000 season in the World Cup (15th place in Železniki ) and was 20th and penultimate in the overall World Cup. At the 2000 World Cup in Olang , she came in 17th place, also only on the penultimate place. In 2000 Maurer became German champion for the first time. She was able to defend this title six times in a row until 2006. In 2008, 2011 and 2012 she was again German champion. Maurer was also able to implement her national successes in international competitions in the following years. Due to the dominance of the Austrians, Italians and Russians, she never reached the top positions, but she remained the best German in the overall World Cup until 2007 and is still the most successful German at World and European Championships to this day (2011). However, she was often the only participant from Germany at these major events.

In the third World Cup race of the 2000/2001 season , Maurer achieved her first top 10 placement in the World Cup with tenth place in Lüsen . Shortly afterwards, she also reached tenth place at the 2001 World Championships in Stein an der Enns and also tenth at the 2001 European Junior Championships in Tiers . In the overall World Cup, as in the 2001/2002 season , in which she was once tenth and five times eleventh, she achieved 12th place. In the 2002/2003 season she only took part in three World Cup races, reached two twelfth places and was 17th in the overall World Cup. At the European Championships in Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud in 2002 and in Hüttau in 2004 , Maurer achieved 14th and 15th place respectively, and she was twelfth at the 2003 World Championships in Železniki. In the 2003/2004 season , Michaela Maurer achieved eighth and seventh place in the first two World Cup races, after which she did not make it into the top ten, but nevertheless finished ninth in the overall World Cup, tied with the Italian Barbara Abart . In the next winter , an eighth place in Oberperfuss and two ninth places were her best results and she was tenth overall. At the 2005 World Championships in Latsch , she achieved twelfth place in the single seater and, together with Marcus Grausam , Björn Kierspel and Martin Nachmann, eighth place in the team competition.

The 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 seasons were Maurer's most successful so far. In both years she drove in five of the six World Cup races in the top ten. She always achieved her best results at the end of the season. She achieved fourth place in the 2005/2006 World Cup finals in Oberperfuss and thus her best result so far in a World Cup race and fifth in the 2006/2007 season finale in Moos in Passeier . In both seasons she achieved seventh place in the overall World Cup and thus the best overall World Cup placements ever achieved by a German natural track tobogganist. At the 2006 European Championships in Umhausen , Maurer finished ninth. Before that, for 28 years no German had managed to achieve a top 10 placement at European championships. The last to succeed was Cordula Knapp , who finished seventh at the 1978 European Championship . At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie , Maurer came in eighth. Already at the world championships in 1984 , 1986 and 1990 had Christine Zobel , Ursula Nöhmeier and Monika Lewanskowski also achieved an eighth place, but better was previously no German at a World Cup. In the team competition in 2007, Maurer finished seventh together with Marcus Grausam, Björn Kierspel and Christian Wichan.

In the 2007/2008 season , Maurer only competed in two World Cup races. She took eleventh place twice and was third from last in the overall World Cup. For the first time in her career, she was no longer the best German in the overall World Cup, Veronika Nachmann scored more World Cup points as in the next two years. In the 2008/2009 season , Maurer only competed in three World Cup races; she did not take part in the first and the last two in Novouralsk , Russia . She achieved an eighth and two tenth places and was 15th in the overall standings. Even at the beginning of the 2009/2010 season , Maurer did not compete in the races in Novouralsk. Then she came in at least the top nine in all races and was twelfth in the overall standings. In contrast to the overall World Cup, Michaela Maurer remained the best German at major events. At the 2008 European Championships in Olang, she was tenth; At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier she was ninth in the singles and together with her brother Georg and the Ukrainians Vitaly Sakharov and Ihor Senjuk in the German / Ukrainian team seventh in the team competition. At the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian she was twelfth in the singles and again seventh in the team competition, this time again with Marcus Grausam, Björn Kierspel and Christian Wichan.

At the 2011 World Championships in Umhausen , Michaela Maurer achieved seventh place in the single-seater and thus the best result that a German natural track tobogganist has ever achieved in the single-seater world championships. In the team competition she also achieved the best result of a German team so far in sixth place together with her brother and doubles Kierspel / Wichan. In the 2010/2011 season , Maurer took part in three of the six races of the World Cup. In all three races she was among the fastest eight, which made her eleventh overall. In the 2011/2012 season , in which Maurer took part in four of the six World Cup races, she achieved her best World Cup result in five years with fifth place in Olang. She also achieved her best result since the 2006/2007 season in tenth place in the overall World Cup. However , she did not take part in the 2012 European Championships in Novouralsk.

successes

World championships

European championships

Junior European Championships

World cup

  • 2 × 7th overall place in the single-seater World Cup in the 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 seasons
  • Another three times among the top ten in the overall World Cup
  • 3 top 5 placements in world cup races

German championships

  • Ten-time German single-seater champion (2000 to 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2012)

Web links

Commons : Michaela Maurer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natural track: BSD duo Wichan / Kierspel narrowly missed the EM medal. 5th WÜRZ Energy World Cup & EM in Novouralsk. ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland, February 22, 2012, accessed on March 5, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bsd-portal.de
personal data
SURNAME Maurer, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural track tobogganist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Aibling , Bavaria , Germany