Natalie Obkircher from Centro Sportivo Forestale was one of the most successful luge athletes who did not come from Germany in the 1990s. Obkircher won her first international medal at the European Championships in 1990 in Igls together with Norbert Huber , Arnold Huber , Gerda Weißensteiner and Hansjörg Raffl in the team competition behind the teams from Germany and Austria. The following year she won bronze in the team competition at the 1991 Luge World Championships in Winterberg . In the following years she regularly won international medals in this competition. EM bronze was added in 1992 , 1996 and 2000 , silver in 1998 . With Armin Zöggeler , Norbert Huber, Gerda Weißensteiner, Kurt Brugger and Wilfried Huber , she won the title in front of the German team in 1994 . Bronze was added to the World Championships in 1993 , 1996 and 1997, and in 1995 she won silver with the Italian team behind the Germans. In individual competitions Obkircher was never able to win an international medal, but always placed in the front field. At the 1999 World Championships in Königssee she was sixth in the individual and fourth in the team, and in 2000 in St. Moritz she was seventh in the individual and fifth with the team. In 2001 , when she finished fourth, she just missed another medal win with the team. In 2003 , towards the end of his career, he was again eleven in the individual and five with the team.
Obkircher competed four times at the Winter Olympics . In 1992 she finished 19th in Albertville , in 1994 she came in fifth in Lillehammer near the medal, but missed a better placement due to a bad last round. Also in 1998 with 12th place in Nagano and 2002 with 17th place in Salt Lake City brought no Olympic successes. In the Luge World Cup Obkircher was at the top for years, but she never won against the mostly German competition. But she mostly achieved results in the top ten.
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