Peter Namberger
Peter Namberger 
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 Germany
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| birthday | March 24, 1963 | ||||||||
| place of birth | Burghausen | ||||||||
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Slalom giant slalom Super-G |
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| society | SC Bad Reichenhall TSV Trostberg SC Ruhpolding |
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| status | resigned | ||||||||
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Peter Namberger (born March 24, 1963 in Burghausen ) is a former German ski racer .
Career
Namberger was born as the son of a precision mechanic, who at the time was already a Chiemgau master as a downhill skier and who also did ski jumping, motorsport and football. He attended high school in Berchtesgaden . After graduating from high school, he signed up for the Federal Border Police and studied at the BGS sports school in Endorf . After practicing alpine skiing as a child with SC Bad Reichenhall and TSV Trostberg, he became a member of SC Ruhpolding in 1975 . There he trained in particular the slalom and the giant slalom with Horst Kaluza . In the same year he became German student master in both disciplines. Two years later he finished ninth at the 1977 European Schools Championships in Italy .
After he switched to the seniors shortly afterwards, he reached eighth place in the German championship in 1982 in giant slalom. On January 6, 1985 Namberger finally made his debut in the Alpine Ski World Cup . In La Mongie he immediately managed to get into the points with a 13th place in the slalom. In Schladming he also won world cup points in the giant slalom with 12th place. After these results he was nominated for the 1985 Alpine World Ski Championships in Bormio . There he was able to qualify for the slalom, but retired like his teammate Frank Wörndl in the second round. In the giant slalom he was only a substitute driver. At the end of the season in Heavenly Valley , Namberger once again achieved a place in the points with a 15th place. At the end of the season he finished 42nd overall in the slalom ranking of the World Cup. In the overall World Cup he was 82nd.
In the following season Namberger started exclusively in Adelboden , where he was able to achieve the best individual result in a World Cup race with seventh place in the giant slalom. A year later he was again in the squad for the 1987 Alpine World Ski Championships in Crans-Montana , Switzerland , where he reached 15th place in the giant slalom. At the German championships in 1987 Namberger won the silver medal behind Armin Bittner in the slalom . A year later he won bronze in the giant slalom and in the Super-G . In the following years Namberger competed in the Alpine Skiing European Cup and in the 1989/90 season again achieved second place in the overall giant slalom ranking. At the German championships in 1990 he won the bronze medal behind Armin Bittner and Peter Roth in the slalom. He also won bronze in the giant slalom.
After his active career, he became a youth coach with the German Ski Association .
Web links
- Peter Namberger in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Peter Namberger in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Peter Namberger , Internationales Sportarchiv 10/1985 from February 25, 1985, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Alpine Skiing - German Championships (men) . www.sport-komplett.de. Retrieved November 22, 2010.
- ↑ Max Stockkamp at his best . www.suedkurier.de. Retrieved November 22, 2010.
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| SURNAME | Namberger, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burghausen , Germany |