Patrick Pigneter

Patrick Pigneter
Patrick Pigneter at the EM 2010
nation	Italy
birthday	July 19, 1987
place of birth	Bolzano
size	187 cm
Weight	77 kg
Career
discipline	Single seater, double seater
society	SV Völs am Schlern
National squad	since 2004
status	active
Medal table
World championships 11 × 4 × 3 × European championships 10 × 4 × 4 × Junior World Championship 2 × 1 × 0 × Junior European Championship 2 × 1 × 1 ×
Natural Track Luge World Championships bronze Latsch 2005 Single seater silver Grande Prairie 2007 team bronze Grande Prairie 2007 Single seater gold Moos in Passeier 2009 Single seater gold Moos in Passeier 2009 Two-seater gold Moos in Passerer 2009 team gold Umhausen 2011 team silver Umhausen 2011 Two-seater bronze Umhausen 2011 Single seater gold Deutschnofen 2013 Single seater gold Deutschnofen 2013 Two-seater gold Deutschnofen 2013 team gold Saint Sebastian 2015 Single seater gold Saint Sebastian 2015 Two-seater silver Vatra Dornei 2017 Two-seater silver Vatra Dornei 2017 team gold Latzfons 2019 Two-seater gold Latzfons 2019 team  European Natural Track Luge Championships bronze Umhausen 2006 Single seater silver Olang 2008 Two-seater bronze Olang 2008 Single seater gold St. Sebastian 2010 Single seater gold St. Sebastian 2010 Two-seater silver St. Sebastian 2010 team gold Novouralsk 2012 Single seater gold Umhausen 2014 Single seater gold Umhausen 2014 Two-seater gold Umhausen 2014 team gold Passeier 2016 Two-seater gold Passeier 2016 team silver Passeier 2016 Single seater gold Shelter 2018 Two-seater silver Shelter 2018 team bronze Shelter 2018 Single seater gold Moscow 2020 team bronze Moscow 2020 Two-seater  Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships silver Kindberg 2004 Single seater gold Garmisch-Partenk. 2006 Single seater gold Garmisch-Partenk. 2006 Two-seater  Natural track toboggan junior European Championship silver Kandalaksha 2005 Single seater bronze Kandalaksha 2005 Two-seater gold St. Sebastian 2007 Single seater gold St. Sebastian 2007 Two-seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup February 14, 2004  World Cup victories 104  Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 2005/2006 , 2006/2007 , 2007/2008 , 2008/2009 , 2009/2010 , 2010/2011 , 2011/2012 , 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 )  Overall World Cup DS 1. ( 2007/2008 , 2008/2009 , 2009/2010 , 2010/2011 , 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2017/18 , 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 48 23 14th  Two-seater 56 15th 9
last change: February 17, 2015

Patrick Pigneter (born July 19, 1987 in Bozen ) is an Italian natural track toboggan runner . With nine world championship titles , five European championships , four titles in junior world and European championships, a total of 104 world cup victories , of which 48 in single and 56 in double, 11 overall World Cup victories in single and 11 overall World Cup victories in doubles, he is the most successful natural track tobogganer today. Pigneter lives in Fiè allo Sciliar .

Career

Patrick Pigneter competed in his first race at the age of nine. His father Raimund Pigneter was a successful natural track tobogganist. In 1980 he was world champion and in 1985 European champion in the doubles. Patrick Pigneter achieved his first international successes in the 2003/2004 season when he won the single-seater overall ranking of the Intercontinental Cup and came second in the single-seater at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Kindberg . One week after the Junior World Championships, he also took part in the general class for the first time. At the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau , he was sixth in the singles. He then competed in his first two World Cup races in February 2004 , each of which he finished in seventh position.

In the following winter Pigneter managed to catch up with the absolute top of the world. In December 2004 he celebrated his first victory in his third World Cup race, at the same time as his compatriot Anton Blasbichler , and with another podium in Latzfons he reached fourth place overall in the single-seater World Cup in the 2004/2005 season . At the 2005 World Championships in Latsch , he won the bronze medal in single-seater and at the 2005 European Junior Championships the silver medal in single-seater and with Alexander Pamer the bronze medal in doubles.

At the beginning of the 2005/2006 season , Pigneter won his second World Cup race. He then achieved second place in all other races, with which the then 18-year-old won the overall World Cup in the single-seater for the first time with a lead of 20 points over the Austrian Gernot Schwab . In January 2006, Pigneter competed with Florian Clara , who was a year younger than him , his first World Cup race in a two-seater, which they finished in sixth place. At the European Championships in 2006 Pigneter won bronze in the single seater and at the Junior World Championships in 2006 he won gold in the single seater and together with Clara also gold in the doubles.

In the 2006/2007 season , Pigneter won five of six World Cup races in a single-seater, successfully defending his overall victory from the previous year. Pigneter / Clara contested three World Cup races in the doubles this winter. They achieved their first victory at the very first start of the season in Longiarü and at the end of the season a second place followed in Moos in Passeier . At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie , Pigneter won bronze in the single-seater and, together with Renate Gietl and Florian Clara, silver in the team competition. In the two-seater race, however, the Pigneter / Clara duo was disqualified because the rails of their toboggan, like three other couples, exceeded the maximum permissible temperature. In the junior class, Pigneter was unbeatable again this winter. At the Junior European Championships 2007 in St. Sebastian he won, as in the previous year at the Junior World Championships, both in single and doubles. In 2007 he also won his first of nine Italian championship titles.

The two-seater couple Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara achieved a special achievement in winter 2007/2008 . In their first full World Cup season, they won all six competitions and thus won the overall World Cup for the first time. Even in the single-seater, Pigneter was still the measure of all things. He won four World Cup races and achieved two second places, making him the overall winner of the single-seater World Cup for the third time in a row. At the European Championships in 2008 in Olang Pigneter remained without a win. In the single-seater he finished third behind Robert Batkowski and Anton Blasbichler and in the doubles, the unbeaten World Cup doubles Pigneter / Clara remained in second place behind the Russians Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lasarew .

The 2008/2009 season brought Pigneter again great success. In the single seater he won the overall World Cup for the fourth time with four race wins and in the doubles he also achieved four victories with Florian Clara, with which he was able to repeat the overall victory in the doubles World Cup. This time he was unbeatable at the highlight of winter, the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier . Pigneter won all three gold medals in the singles, doubles and team competitions. This makes him the only one so far who has become world champion in both single and double-seater.

At the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian, Pigneter was able to almost repeat this triple triumph. He won the singles and doubles competitions, but was only runner-up with Team Italy I in the team competition. In the 2009/2010 World Cup season , Pigneter secured overall victory in the single-seater World Cup for the fifth time in a row with three wins, two second places and one third place. He is now ahead of Anton Blasbichler, who won the overall World Cup four times from 1996 to 2005, the one with the most overall World Cup victories in single-seater. In the doubles, Pigneter / Clara won four of six races of the season and thus the overall World Cup for the third time in a row, something that no one before them had managed in the doubles.

In the 2010/2011 season , Pigneter won four of the six season races in a single-seater and thus the overall World Cup for the sixth time. In the doubles, the duo Pigneter / Clara achieved three wins and thus the fourth overall World Cup victory in a row. At the end of the season, Pigneter held a total of 22 World Cup wins in the single seater , overtaking the previous record winner Anton Blasbichler , who won 20 races. At the 2011 World Championships in Umhausen , Pigneter had to admit defeat in the single seater to the Austrians Gerald Kammerlander and Robert Batkowski . In the two-seater, he and Florian Clara won the silver medal behind the Russians Porschnew / Lasarew. Pigneter and Clara started as a doubles in the team competition and won the gold medal together with Renate Gietl and Anton Blasbichler.

The 2011/2012 season began Pigneter in Latzfons with victories in one and two-seater. Since then, the duo Pigneter / Clara holds the sole record of World Cup victories in doubles, ahead of the Austrians Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl . In the single-seater, Pigneter also won the other five World Cup races of the year, which is the first time that a natural track toboggan runner in the men's single-seater managed to win all the World Cup races of a season. In the doubles, Pigneter / Clara only managed one more victory, which meant they were pushed to second place in the overall World Cup by the Russians Porschnew / Lasarew. At the 2012 European Championships in Nowouralsk, Pigneter won the single-seater title for the second time in a row, while Pigneter / Clara in the two-seater gave up the race after a race due to a defect in the sled. In the team competition he and his teammates took fourth place.

successes

(Two-seater with Florian Clara)

World championships

• Latsch 2005 : 3rd single seater
• Grande Prairie 2007 : 3rd singles, 2nd team
• Moos in Passeier 2009 : 1st singles, 1st doubles, 1st team
• Umhausen 2011 : 3rd singles, 2nd doubles, 1st team
• Deutschnofen 2013 : 1st singles, 1st doubles, 1st team
• Sankt Sebastian 2015 : 1st singles, 1st doubles
• Vatra Dornei 2017 : 2nd doubles, 2nd team, 4th singles
• Latzfons 2019 : 1st doubles, 1st team

European championships

• Hüttau 2004 : 6th single seater
• Umhausen 2006 : 3rd single seater
• Olang 2008 : 2nd two-seater, 3rd single-seater
• St. Sebastian 2010 : 1st singles, 1st doubles, 2nd team
• Nowouralsk 2012 : 1st singles, 4th team
• Umhausen 2014 : 1st singles, 1st doubles, 1st team
• Passeier 2016 : 1st doubles, 1st team, 2nd singles
• Obdach 2018 : 1st doubles, 2nd team, 3rd singles
• Moscow 2020 : 1st team, 3rd doubles, 8th singles

Junior World Championships

• Kindberg 2004 : 2nd single seater
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2006 : 1st single-seater, 1st double-seater

Junior European Championships

• Kreuth 2003 : 10th single seater
• Kandalakscha 2005 : 2nd single, 3rd double (with Alexander Pamer)
• St. Sebastian 2007 : 1st single-seater, 1st double-seater

World cup

• 11 × overall World Cup victory in the single seater in the seasons 2005/06 , 2006/07 , 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 and 2015 / 16
• 11 × overall World Cup victory in doubles in the seasons 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2010/11 , 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2017/18 , 2018/19 and 2019 / 20th
• 165 podium places, including 104 wins:

48x single seater date place country December 18, 2004 1 Campill Italy December 11, 2005 Longiarü Italy January 4, 2007 Laces Italy January 14, 2007 Umhausen Austria February 4, 2007 2 Umhausen Austria February 9, 2007 Moos in Passeier Italy February 11, 2007 Moos in Passeier Italy December 23, 2007 Moos in Passeier Italy January 27, 2008 Laces Italy February 23, 2008 Železniki Slovenia February 24, 2008 Železniki Slovenia January 25, 2009 Unterammergau Germany January 31, 2009 Deutschnofen Italy February 25, 2009 Novouralsk Russia February 27, 2009 Novouralsk Russia January 10, 2010 Umhausen Austria February 7, 2010 Latzfons Italy February 27, 2010 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany December 11, 2010 Novouralsk Russia December 12, 2010 Novouralsk Russia January 16, 2011 Casies Italy February 26, 2011 Olang Italy January 8, 2012 Latzfons Italy January 15, 2012 Olang Italy January 22, 2012 Železniki Slovenia January 29, 2012 Deutschnofen Italy February 16, 2012 Novouralsk Russia March 3, 2012 Umhausen Austria December 30, 2012 Lasa Italy 19th January 2013 Umhausen Austria February 24, 2013 Vatra Dornei Romania February 27, 2013 Vatra Dornei Romania December 22, 2013 Novouralsk Russia January 12, 2014 Moos in Passeier Italy January 18, 2014 Umhausen Austria January 26, 2014 Olang Italy December 14, 2014 Kühtai Austria 4th January 2015 Lasa Italy February 1, 2015 Vatra Dornei Romania February 14, 2015 Umhausen Austria December 14, 2015 Kühtai Austria January 10, 2016 Laces Italy 17th January 2016 Vatra Dornei Romania December 11, 2016 Kühtai Austria January 8, 2017 Laces Italy 22nd January 2017 Železniki Slovenia January 7, 2018 Latzfons Italy 16th February 2019 Umhausen Austria 1 at the same time as Anton Blasbichler 2 at the same time as Thomas Kammerlander

56x two-seater date place country January 21, 2007 Longiarü Italy December 23, 2007 Laces Italy January 13, 2008 Umhausen Austria January 20, 2008 Umhausen Austria January 27, 2008 Laces Italy February 23, 2008 Železniki Slovenia February 24, 2008 Železniki Slovenia January 25, 2009 Unterammergau Germany January 31, 2009 Deutschnofen Italy February 25, 2009 Novouralsk Russia February 27, 2009 Novouralsk Russia December 17, 2009 Novouralsk Russia January 10, 2010 Umhausen Austria January 24, 2010 Laces Italy February 7, 2010 Latzfons Italy December 10, 2010 Novouralsk Russia January 23, 2011 Kindberg Austria February 25, 2011 Olang Italy January 7, 2012 Latzfons Italy January 28, 2012 Deutschnofen Italy December 29, 2012 Lasa Italy January 12, 2013 Moos in Passeier Italy February 2, 2013 Kindberg Austria February 23, 2013 Vatra Dornei Romania 5th January 2014 Seiser Alm Italy January 11, 2014 Moos in Passeier Italy 17th January 2014 Umhausen Austria January 25, 2014 Olang Italy February 18, 2014 Vatra Dornei Romania December 13, 2014 Kühtai Austria January 10, 2015 Deutschnofen Italy January 24, 2015 Winter shelter Austria January 31, 2015 Vatra Dornei Romania February 15, 2015 Umhausen Austria December 14, 2015 Kühtai Austria January 10, 2016 Laces Italy 17th January 2016 Vatra Dornei Romania January 25, 2016 Moscow Russia February 1, 2016 Deutschnofen Italy 20th February 2016 Umhausen Austria December 11, 2016 Kühtai Austria 22nd January 2017 Železniki Slovenia 3rd December 2017 Kühtai Austria January 7, 2018 Latzfons Italy January 14, 2018 Passeier Valley Italy January 21, 2018 Saint Sebastian Austria 17th February 2018 Umhausen Austria January 12, 2019 Winterleiten Austria 20th January 2019 Moscow Russia January 27, 2019 Deutschnofen Italy February 10, 2019 Vatra Dornei Romania January 10, 2020 Passeier Valley Italy January 12, 2020 Passeier Valley Italy 19th January 2020 Vatra Dornei Romania January 26, 2020 Deutschnofen Italy February 15, 2020 Umhausen Austria

Italian championships

• Six-time Italian single-seater champion (2007, 2009, 2011 to 2014)
• Seven times Italian champion in doubles (2008 to 2014)

Web links

Commons : Patrick Pigneter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Patrick Pigneter's website
• Patrick Pigneter in the database of the International Luge Federation
• Patrick Pigneter ( Memento from April 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at the Italian Winter Sports Association (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 16th FIL World Championships on Natural Track Grande Prairie CAN. International Luge Federation, February 18, 2007, accessed on February 23, 2010.
2. ↑ 24th FIL European Championships in Novouralsk (RUS) - Pavel Porshnev / Ivan Lazarev (RUS) European champions for the fourth time. International Luge Federation, February 18, 2012, accessed on March 4, 2012.