Robert Batkowski

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Robert Batkowski Luge
Robert Batkowski at the Austrian Championships 2010
Robert Batkowski at the Austrian Championships 2010
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday May 16, 1978
place of birth innsbruck
size 190 cm
Weight 90 kg
job technician
Career
discipline Single seater
society SV Raika Schönberg
National squad since 1998
status active
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior European Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIL Natural Track Luge World Championships
gold Železniki 2003 Single seater
gold Latsch 2005 team
silver Umhausen 2011 Single seater
FIL European Natural Track Luge Championships
silver Szczyrk 1999 Single seater
silver Frantschach 2002 Single seater
gold Olang 2008 Single seater
FIL Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
gold Szczyrk 1996 Single seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 3, 1998
 World Cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 2002/2003 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 2 8th 9
last change: March 5, 2012

Robert Batkowski (born May 16, 1978 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian natural track tobogganist and has been a member of the Austrian natural track tobogganing team since 1998. His greatest successes to date are two world championship titles in single-seater in 2003 and in team competition in 2005 , a European title in 2008 in single-seater and winning the overall World Cup in the 2002/2003 season . His younger siblings Florian and Melanie are also natural track sledders.

Career

Batkowski took part in his first race in the winter of 1984. After several successes in the youth field at national level, he qualified for the Austrian junior national team in 1996 and achieved his first major international success in the same year when he won the gold medal at the 1996 European Junior Championships in Szczyrk . From 1996 to 1998 he was Austrian junior champion in single-seater three times in a row.

Batkowski has been competing in the World Cup since winter 1998/1999 . Already in his first race in December 1998 in Sölden he reached third place and with a further three top 5 placements came fifth in the overall single-seater World Cup. In the same winter he started in Szczyrk for the first time at a European Championship and achieved second place. In June 1999 he completed his school education at the HTL in Fulpmes . In the 1999/2000 , 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 World Cup seasons , Batkowski always achieved fourth place in the overall single-seater World Cup with two podium positions, and won his first World Cup race in Umhausen in the 2001/2002 season . At the World Championships in 2000 and 2001 he stayed with a fifth and a 13th place without a medal, but at the European Championships in 2002 in Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud , he again achieved second place in the single-seater.

The 2002/2003 season was Batkowski's most successful so far: He again celebrated his second World Cup victory in Umhausen, made it onto the podium in five of the six races of the season and won the overall single-seater World Cup ahead of his teammates Gerhard Pilz and Gerald Kallan . The second big success of this winter he achieved at the 2003 World Championships in Železniki , when he was also world champion in single-seater ahead of Pilz and Kallan. In addition, he became Austrian national champion in single-seater for the first time in 2003. In the next few years Batkowski was mostly unable to repeat these achievements. In the 2003/2004 World Cup season , he was among the top three only once and fell back to sixth in the overall ranking. In the next three seasons he stayed without a podium at all and took tenth place in the overall single-seater World Cup. At the European Championships in 2004 in Hüttau and 2006 in Umhausen , he finished twelfth in the single-seater. His greatest success in these years was at the 2005 World Cup in Latsch , where he finished sixth in the single-seater without a medal, but became world champion in the team competition together with his sister Melanie and the two-seater pair Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl . At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie , he was 14th in the singles.

In the 2007/2008 World Cup season , Batkowski achieved two podium places for the first time in four years (3rd place in Latsch and Železniki) and thus fifth place in the overall World Cup. The highlight of winter was the 2008 European Championship in Olang , where he was able to prevail against the favored Italians Anton Blasbichler and Patrick Pigneter and five years after his world championship title he also became European single-seater champion. In the 2008/2009 World Cup season , Batkowski achieved third place in Umhausen and another four top 10 results, placing him seventh in the overall ranking. In January 2009 he became Austrian national champion in single-seater for the second time, after becoming runner- up behind Gernot Schwab in 2006, 2007 and 2008 . At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier , he finished 14th and at the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian he was eighth in the single-seater. In the 2009/2010 World Cup season , three eighth places were his best results, making him tenth in the overall World Cup.

At the beginning of the 2010/2011 season Batkowski reached two second places in Novouralsk and a third place in Casies . Although he did not make it to the podium in the second half of the season, he achieved second place in the overall World Cup and thus his best overall ranking since the overall victory eight years ago. At the 2011 World Championships in Umhausen, he won the silver medal in the single-seater four hundredths of a second behind his compatriot Gerald Kammerlander . In the 2011/2012 season Batkowski reached a podium in no World Cup races. His best result was fifth at the final in Umhausen, and sixth in the overall World Cup. At the European Championships in 2012 in Novouralsk, he was the third-best Austrian and finished seventh in the single-seater.

successes

World championships

European championships

Junior European Championships

Junior World Championships

World cup

  • 19 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
January 13, 2002 Umhausen Austria Single seater
January 12, 2003 Umhausen Austria Single seater

Austrian championships

  • Austrian national champion in single seater 2003 and 2009

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Batkowski, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian natural track toboggan runner
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria