Renate Gietl

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Renate Gietl Luge
Renate Gietl at the EM 2010
Renate Gietl at the EM 2010
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday January 10, 1982
place of birth Brixen
size 165 cm
Career
discipline Single seater
society SV Feldthurns
National squad since 1998
status resigned
End of career December 2012
Medal table
World championships 4 × gold 2 × silver 3 × bronze
European championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 3 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior European Championship 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIL Natural Track Luge World Championships
silver Stein an der Enns 2001 Single seater
bronze Stein an der Enns 2001 team
bronze Latsch 2005 Single seater
bronze Latsch 2005 team
silver Grande Prairie 2007 team
gold Moos in Passeier 2009 Single seater
gold Moos in Passeier 2009 team
gold Umhausen 2011 Single seater
gold Umhausen 2011 team
FIL European Natural Track Luge Championships
bronze Umhausen 2006 Single seater
bronze Olang 2008 Single seater
silver St. Sebastian 2010 team
bronze St. Sebastian 2010 Single seater
FIL Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships
bronze Casies 2002 Single seater
FIL Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
gold Umhausen 2000 Single seater
silver Tiers 2001 Single seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 19, 1999
 World Cup victories 15th
 Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 2004/2005 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 15th 19th 15th
 

Renate Gietl (born January 10, 1982 in Brixen ) is a former Italian natural track tobogganist . She was two times world champion in single-seater and in team competition and won the overall world cup in single-seater in the 2004/2005 season . Her older sister Christa was also a natural toboggan runner.

Career

Gietl launched from the 1999/2000 season in the World Cup . In her first season she was able to place herself in the top six in all races and achieved her first podium finish with second place in Stein an der Enns . In the overall World Cup this meant fourth place. In the same year she became Junior European Champion in Umhausen . In the 2000/2001 season , Gietl fell back to 13th place in the overall World Cup with only three top 10 placements. For this she won the silver medal behind her compatriot Sonja Steinacher at the 2001 World Championships in Stein an der Enns, where she also won bronze in the team competition, which was held for the first time, and the silver medal at the European Junior Championships in Tiers .

In the 2001/2002 season Gietl reached her second podium in Umhausen . A week later, on January 20, 2002, she celebrated her first World Cup victory in Hüttau . In the overall ranking she achieved fourth place again. At the junior world championship in Gsies in 2002 Gietl won the bronze medal, but at the European championships in Frantschach she only achieved eighth place. At the beginning of the 2002/2003 season , Gietl celebrated her second World Cup victory in the parallel competition in Völs . After that, however, she did not make it into the top three and she finished sixth in the overall standings, tied with Austrian Marlies Wagner . At the World Cup in 2003 in Železniki , she also only reached sixth place.

With two second places in Moscow and Aurach and three fourth places, Gietl achieved third place overall in the 2003/2004 World Cup season . At the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau , she was seventh behind her World Cup results and for the third time in a row in championships without a medal. Gietl achieved her greatest success in the World Cup in the 2004/2005 season . She won four of the six races of the season and thus for the first and only time in her career the overall World Cup. At the 2005 World Championships in Latsch , she won bronze twice in the singles and with the team.

In the following years Gietl only had to admit defeat to the Russian Ekaterina Lavrentjewa in the overall World Cup. In the 2005/2006 season she reached five podium places and thus behind Lavrentjewa, who won all six races of the season, the second place overall. Gietl achieved one victory each and another four podium places in the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 seasons, but the Russian woman again secured the overall World Cup. Gietl won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Umhausen in 2006 and in Olang in 2008 . At the 2007 World Cup in Grande Prairie , she was fourth in the singles, just behind the medal ranks, but together with Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara she won silver in the team competition.

In the 2008/2009 World Cup season , Gietl remained behind the Russian despite three wins, one more than Lavrentieva, and three third places in the overall World Cup. At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier , Gietl was three hundredths of a second faster than Lavrentieva, making it the single-seater world champion for the first time. Before that she had already won the gold medal in the team competition together with Anton Blasbichler , Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara.

In the 2009/2010 season , Gietl reached second place in the overall World Cup behind Lavrentieva for the fifth time in a row with two wins, two second and two third places. At the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian she won bronze in the singles and silver with the team. In the 2010/2011 season she was first three times third and once second before winning the last two races in front of Jekaterina Lavrentjewa. Since Lavrentjewa had won the first four races, Gietl was again second behind the Russian in the overall World Cup. At the 2011 World Cup in Umhausen , Gietl was able to repeat its double success from two years ago. For the second time she became world champion in singles ahead of Russian Ekaterina Lavrentjewa and for the second time she won the gold medal in the team competition with Anton Blasbichler, Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara as Team Italy I.

In the 2011/2012 season , Gietl finished second overall with four second and two third places, behind Lavrentieva, who won all six World Cup races of the winter. At the 2012 European Championships in Novouralsk , Gietl narrowly missed a medal in the singles and in the team competition as fourth. In December 2012, shortly before the start of the 2012/2013 World Cup season, Gietl announced her resignation.

successes

World championships

European championships

Junior World Championships

Junior European Championships

World cup

date place country discipline
January 20, 2002 Huettau Austria Single seater
December 22, 2002 Völs Italy Single seater
December 18, 2004 Campill Italy Single seater
January 9, 2005 Unterammergau Germany Single seater
January 14, 2005 Oberperfuss Austria Single seater
January 16, 2005 Oberperfuss Austria Single seater
February 11, 2007 Moos in Passeier Italy Single seater
December 23, 2007 Moos in Passeier Italy Single seater
January 11, 2009 St. Sebastian Austria Single seater
January 18, 2009 Umhausen Austria Single seater
January 25, 2009 Unterammergau Germany Single seater
January 24, 2010 Laces Italy Single seater
February 7, 2010 Latzfons Italy Single seater
February 13, 2011 Unterammergau Germany Single seater
February 26, 2011 Olang Italy Single seater

Italian championships

  • Five-time Italian single-seater champion (2006, 2008, 2010–2012)

Web links

Commons : Renate Gietl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World champion Renate Gietl ends her career surprisingly. www.sportnews.bz, December 26, 2012, accessed December 30, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Gietl, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian natural track tobogganist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Bressanone , Italy