Sandra Robatscher

Sandra Robatscher
nation	Italy
birthday	13th December 1995 (age 24)
place of birth	Bolzano
size	171 cm
job	Student
Career
society	Völser sports club
status	active
Medal table
Junior World Championships 1 × 1 × 1 × Junior European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Junior Luge World Championships gold 2013 Park City Team relay silver 2014 Igls singles bronze 2015 Lillehammer singles  European Junior Luge Championships silver 2013 Oberhof Team relay  European Luge Championships bronze 2018 Sigulda Single seater
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2012  World Cup victories 1 (without relay)  Overall World Cup ES 9. ( 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 1 0 1  Team relay 0 1 2
last change: February 10, 2019

Sandra Robatscher (born December 13, 1995 in Bolzano ) is an Italian luge athlete .

life and career

Sandra Robatscher's parents are the hosts of the Pattissenhof in St. Zyprian , where she grew up. She is the niece of Armin Zöggeler , cousin of Nina Zöggeler and starts for the Völser sports club. The student, who lives in Tiers, started luge sport in 2010.

Robatscher achieved his first successes as a junior, for example winning junior world cup races in Igls in 2013 and in Lillehammer in 2014 . At the Junior World Championships 2013 in Park City she finished seventh, with the team relay she won the title alongside Dominik Fischnaller and the doubles Florian Gruber / Simon Kainzwaldner . The 2013 Junior European Championships in Oberhof again brought good results with fifth place in the individual race and the silver medal with Emanuel Rieder as well as Gruber and Kainzwaldner in the team relay race. The 2014 Junior World Championships in Igls were also successful , where she won the Vice World Championship title behind her compatriot Andrea Vötter . Robatscher also achieved renewed success at the 2015 Junior World Championships in Lillehammer, where she was beaten only by Jessica Tiebel and Wiktorija Demtschenko in the individual race and won the bronze medal. The 2015 U23 Junior World Championships in Sigulda , where Robatscher did not finish, were less successful .

Robatscher (left) at the award ceremony as the runner-up of the Nations Cup 2015 in Altenberg

At the start of the 2012/13 season , Robatscher made his debut in Igls as part of the Luge World Cup . In the Nations Cup, through which the unsettled starters have to qualify for the actual World Cup race, she finished eleventh and thus qualified for the main race, in which she was 12th. In spite of the early success, it remained with this one mission in the season and Robatscher finished in the end of the 46th place in the overall ranking. Since the 2013/14 season , she has been a permanent member of the Italian national team for the Luge World Cup. Mostly she managed to qualify through the Nations Cup for the actual World Cup race, the best place at the start of the season was a 17th place in Igls. The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where she finished 22nd , became the first career highlight. The European Championships 2014 in Sigulda she finished in 13th place in the overall standings of the Nations Cup was Robatscher 2014/15 sixth. Qualification for the main race was now the rule, only at Königssee did she miss the main race. The best result was 10th place in Lake Placid, the first top ten finish of his career. As the best Italian she qualified for the relay race, in which she only had to admit defeat to the German team alongside Dominik Fischnaller, Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber . With 260 points she reached 17th place in the overall ranking of the World Cup. The 2015 World Championships in Sigulda were less successful, when Robatscher did not finish.

Robatscher at the Nations Cup race in Altenberg in December 2017

In the 2015/16 season Robatscher came third in the overall ranking of the Nations Cup behind Julia Taubitz and Miriam Kastlunger . Apart from the race in Oberhof , she was able to qualify for all World Cup races again. The best result of the season was an eleventh place in Sochi. With 228 points she finished 16th in the overall ranking. At the start of the season, she achieved another podium finish in the team relay race with Dominik Fischnaller and the doubles Ludwig Rieder and Patrick Rastner . At the 2016 World Championships at Königssee, Robatscher started in the U-23 class and finished fifth. As the best Italian she qualified for the team relay race of the World Cup and came in seventh with Dominik Fischnaller and Oberstolz / Gruber. The European Championships 2016 in Altenberg as part of the World Cup race she finished in ninth on a top ten placement. With her partners from the World Cup team relay, she missed winning a medal by just one place in fourth place. The 2016/17 season was very mixed . On the one hand Robatscher achieved good results with eleventh place in the individual and tenth in the sprint of Park City, on the other hand she missed the qualification for the World Cup races in Sigulda, Oberhof and Pyeongchang , in Lake Placid she was disqualified due to incorrect runners temperature. At the end of the season there was a 20th place with 217 points in the overall standings. At the European Championships 2017 at Königssee she came in 15th place, at the World Championships 2017 in Igls on 17th place.

The 2017/18 season began with a noticeable increase in performance. At the second race of the season in Winterberg , Robatscher came in ninth place for the first time on a single-digit place. In Altenberg she was able to improve her best result to eighth place. In addition, she was third in the team relay with Emanuel Rieder and the World Cup debutants Ivan Nagler and Fabian Malleier in the doubles. It wasn't until Calgary that the good trend was interrupted by a fall. After she achieved two seventh places in sprint and individual in Lake Placid , a slight downward trend followed: 10th place at Königssee, 11th place in Oberhof, 12th place in the individual and 15th place in the sprint in Lillehammer. At the last World Cup race of the season in Sigulda, Latvia, which as a race-in-race race was also classified as the European championship , she finished third. For the first time in her career she reached the podium in the World Cup and won her first medal in the adult category. With the good results in the season finale, Robatscher was able to outstrip Kimberley McRae and Emily Sweeney and for the first time achieve a single-digit position in the overall standings of the season with ninth place (464 points).

She celebrated her first World Cup victory at the 2018/19 World Cup in Altenberg. She benefited from the fact that the 2nd run was not held due to adverse conditions. It saved a season that until then had been rather moderate for Robatscher.

statistics

Placements in the overall World Cup

season	space	Points
2012/13	46.	0
2014/15	17th	0260
2015/16	16.	0228
2016/17	20th	0217
2017/18	9.	0464
2018/19	14th	0345

• World Cup victories:

singles

No.	date	place	train
1.	03rd Feb 2019	Altenberg	ENSO ice channel

literature

• Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course : FIL Luge Media Guide 2017/2018. FIL, Berchtesgaden 2017, p. 175.

Web links

Commons : Sandra Robatscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sandra Robatscher in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Sandra Robatscher in the database of the International Luge Federation

Single receipts

1. ↑ Pattissenhof
2. ↑ Sandra Robatscher in World Cup debut on rank 12
3. ↑ Trouble with German female tobogganists . Deutschlandfunk. February 3, 2019. Retrieved February 10, 2019.