Sandra Mariner

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Sandra Mariner Luge
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday May 13, 1974
place of birth innsbruck
Career
discipline Single seater
society Sports Union Inzing
status resigned
End of career 2006
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
Junior European Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
FIL Natural Track Luge World Championships
bronze Oberperfuss 1996 Single seater
bronze Stein an der Enns 2001 Single seater
FIL Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
bronze Rautavaara 1993 Single seater
silver Längenfeld 1994 Single seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 24, 1993
 World Cup victories 4th
 Overall World Cup ES 2. ( 1995/1996 , 1997/1998 ,
2001/2002 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 4th 10 13
 

Sandra Mariner (born May 13, 1974 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian natural track luge in a single seater. In her career she won four world cup races , was Austrian national champion four times, came second three times and third twice in the overall world cup and won bronze medals at the 1996 and 2001 world championships . Her mother Hannelore Mariner was already known as an excellent toboggan runner - in 1970 she became the European single-seater champion.

Career

Mariner contested her first races on the natural toboggan run in January 1986. In 1998 she became Austrian runner-up in the youth class and in 1991 she came third in the general class. In February 1990, she took part in Železniki for the first time in a Junior European Championship and finished eleventh. In the next two years she was fifth and seventh at the Junior European Championships.

In January 1993, the then 18-year-old was able to qualify for a race in the newly introduced World Cup for the first time . In Oberperfuss , she achieved fifth place in her first World Cup race. A week later she was twelfth at her first European championship in Stein an der Enns . In February she won the bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in Rautavaara in 1993 and in the same year she was accepted into the Austrian national natural track toboggan team. In the winter of 1993/1994, Mariner became Austrian Junior Champion, after having finished second twice in previous years. At the end of January 1994 she achieved seventh place at her first world championship in Gsies and in February she won the silver medal at the European Junior Championship in Längenfeld behind the one year younger Italian Sonja Steinacher .

At the World Cup final of the 1994/1995 season in Stein an der Enns, the then 20-year-old achieved the first podium of her career in a World Cup race with third place. She also came third in the last European Cup in Olang . At the European Championships in 1995 in Kandalaksha , she was fourth just behind the medal ranks. At the start of the 1995/1996 World Cup season , she took second place on the podium in Rautavaara, Finland, and with another four top 3 results, she came second in the overall World Cup behind her teammate Irene Zechner . At the 1996 World Cup in Oberperfuss , she won the bronze medal. In the winter of 1996/1997 Mariner was fourth in the overall World Cup and in the 1997/1998 season she achieved second place in the overall classification for the second time with four podium places, this time behind her compatriot Elvira Holzknecht . At the European Championships in 1997 in Moos in Passeier , she finished seventh and at the 1998 World Championships in Rautavaara, she just missed a medal in fourth. The 1998/1999 season was not quite as successful as the previous year . She remained without a podium and fell back to sixth place in the overall World Cup. In the 1999/2000 season , Mariner reached the podium again in the first three races and in February she celebrated her first World Cup victory at the finals in Aosta , at the same time as Sonja Steinacher, which brought her to third place overall. She had already won a parallel competition in Völs in January, but it was not part of the World Cup. At the 2000 World Cup in Olang, she finished fourth, just like two years earlier.

Mariner wanted to end her career in 2000, but initially decided to take part in national competitions next winter. After her teammate Elvira Holzknecht was seriously injured at the end of December and was out for the rest of the season, Mariner was asked by the Austrian Luge Association to continue to compete in the World Cup instead of Holzknecht as the workhorse for the younger runners. She took on this role and celebrated her second victory in the first World Cup race this winter in Umhausen . With another two podium places, she finally reached third place in the overall World Cup, as in the previous year, and at the 2001 World Championships in Stein an der Enns, she was also third, just like five years earlier. In addition, this year she became Austrian state champion in single-seater for the first time.

Even after this winter, Mariner remained active in natural track tobogganing. In the 2001/2002 season she was among the fastest three in five of the six World Cup races and at the finals in Železniki she achieved her third victory at the same time as Sonja Steinacher. It was the third time in her career that she came second in the overall World Cup, behind Steinacher, who scored the maximum of 500 points. At the European Championships in 2002 in Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud , however, she fell short of her expectations with fifth place. In the winter of 2002/2003 , Mariner did not match the previous year's performance due to health problems and, with a fifth place as the best race result, fell back to tenth place in the overall World Cup. At the World Championships in 2003 in Železniki, she again narrowly missed a medal in fourth place. In 2003 she became Austrian State Champion for the second time and was able to successfully defend this title over the next two years. At the beginning of the 2003/2004 World Cup season , Mariner was third again on the podium in Olang and in the fifth race of the season, a parallel competition in Triesenberg , she celebrated her fourth and last World Cup victory. In the overall standings she came fourth with a total of four top 5 results. Her worst season result she achieved at the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau , where she was only tenth.

The World Cup season 2004/2005 began with Mariner second place in Campill . In the third race of the season in Oberperfuss , however, she suffered her first serious injury when she tore an inner ligament and tore the outer ligament in her right ankle . Nevertheless, she was able to start two weeks later at the 2005 World Cup in Latsch , where she finished seventh. In the World Cup, she did not take part in any more races this winter due to the injury. At the beginning of the 2005/2006 season , Mariner competed in her last World Cup race, which she finished in ninth place, before ending her career at the age of 32 after twenty active years and after 14 years in the World Cup and in the national team.

Sporting successes

World championships

European championships

Junior European Championships

World cup
date place country discipline
February 27, 2000 Aosta Italy Single seater *
January 4, 2001 Umhausen Austria Single seater
January 26, 2002 Železniki Slovenia Single seater *
February 13, 2004 Triesenberg Liechtenstein Single seater

* at the same time as Sonja Steinacher

Austrian championships

  • Austrian national champion in singles in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005

Awards (excerpt)

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personal data
SURNAME Mariner, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian natural toboggan runner
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria