Tatjana Huefner
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nation | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 30th April 1983 (age 37) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Neuruppin , GDR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 178 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Single seater | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | BRC 05 Friedrichroda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National squad | since 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: end of season 2018/19 |
Tatjana Hüfner (born April 30, 1983 in Neuruppin ) is a former German luge athlete and Olympic single-seater champion. She was the first woman who managed to win five overall World Cup victories in a row. After Natalie Geisenberger, she achieved the most victories in the World Cup with 38 successes in individual races . With five individual world championship titles, she is the most successful luge athlete at world championships.
Career
Beginnings
In 1988, Hüfner moved to the Harz Mountains with her parents and brother from Fehrbellin . Her brother often took her to training in Blankenburg . In 1992 she started for RC Blankenburg and was looked after by trainers Helmut Zimmermann and Hans-Werner Stollberg. In 1997 she went to the sports school in Oberwiesenthal and was accepted into the WSC Erzgebirge association . Until 1997, Hüfner was four times the Harz youth champion and state champion of Saxony-Anhalt and she finished 13th in the German youth championship. She was making good progress in the junior division. At the national championships in 2000, she was fifth. At the Junior World Championships in Altenberg in 2000, she reached eighth place and won the gold medal with the German team.
In the 2000/01 season she finished third in the Junior World Cup. In the national junior title fight, she came in third place and was only twelfth in Lillehammer at the junior world championships. A season later, she won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Innsbruck-Igls and the gold medal with the German team. In 2002, after graduating from high school, she was accepted into the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Frankenberg. In the 2002/03 season she competed in the Junior World Cup for the last time and came third in the overall Junior World Cup rankings as in the 2000/01 season and came second at the 2003 Junior World Championships at Königssee. She finished in eighth place at the 2003 German championships in Winterberg.
2004 to 2008
After successful years in the junior division, she made the leap into the women's national team in the 2003/04 season . At the World Cup station in Innsbruck-Igls she was sensationally second and in the overall World Cup she came in 19th place. At the second German championships in 2004 in Oberhof, she won the silver medal. She was eighth at the 2004 World Championships in Nagano and the silver medal at the 2004 European Championships in Oberhof . In the 2004/05 season she only started at the World Cup in Oberhof, finished fourth and finished 35th in the overall World Cup. At her third German championships in 2005 at Königssee she was fourth. A season later , she won her first race in Altenberg and thanks to top placings in the World Cup races , she qualified early for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . In the overall ranking she came in a good third place. At her fourth German championships in 2006 in Oberhof, she was only seventh. In the Challenge Cup 2005/06 she was tenth in only two starts. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, she finished third. At the 2006 European Championships in Winterberg , she was second like two years earlier. Since the last season in the World Cup, Hüfner has been able to compete for victories with the best female tobogganists. The 2006/07 season was even more successful for her as she won two World Cups. Once in Calgary and once in Winterberg and took second place overall. In the Challenge Cup 2006/07 she finished fourth in only three starts. At her fifth German championships in Altenberg in 2007, she came second. At the 2007 World Championships in Igls , she won a world championship for the first time. In the 2007/08 season she was crowned overall World Cup winner for the first time with seven wins this season. In the Challenge Cup 2007/08, she finished third with a win. At her sixth German championships in Oberhof in 2008, she was third ahead of Silke Kraushaar-Pielach . At her second World Championships in Oberhof in 2008 she won the gold medal again and with the German team. At the European Championships in Cesana in 2008 , she narrowly missed bronze and finished fourth.
2009 to 2012
In the 2008/09 season she won six World Cup races and took the overall World Cup victory for the second time in a row. With three wins in the 2008/09 Challenge Cup, she was crowned Challenge Cup winner. At the German championships in 2009 at Königssee she won the gold medal. At the 2009 World Championships in Lake Placid , she was only sixth. With five wins in the 2009/10 World Cup season , she was able to win the overall World Cup for the third time in a row. Again with three wins in the Challenge Cup 2009/10 she won the Challenge Cup for the second time in a row. At the German championships in 2010 in Winterberg, she was third. On February 16, 2010, Hüfner became the single-seater Olympic champion at the Olympic Games in Vancouver . In 2010, Hüfner, as a member of the Blankenburg toboggan club, was elected Sportswoman of the Year for the state by the sports journalists of Saxony-Anhalt . In the 2010/11 season she won seven World Cup races and was able to achieve the overall standings for the fourth time in a row. At the German championships in Oberhof in 2011 , she was second ahead of Natalie Geisenberger . The 2011 World Championships in Cesana were very successful for her, as she won the first and second runs and became world champion. In 2011, Hüfner started for the BRC 05 Friedrichroda association. Also in the 2011/12 season she won three races and several second places and for the fifth time in a row the overall World Cup. At the German championships in Altenberg in 2012, she became German champion and won the silver medal with the Thuringia team. At the 2012 World Championships in Altenberg, she was able to defend her world title. At the European Championships in 2012 in Paramonowo , she won the silver medal behind Russian Tatyana Iwanowa . With the German team, it was also enough to win second place.
2013 to 2019
At the beginning of the 2012/13 season , Hüfner was handicapped by a back injury, so that she could not quite build on her usual top performances and had to take a break from the World Cup at times. In addition, her trainer André Florschütz was dismissed from the German Luge Association in the summer . At the European Championships in Oberhof in 2013 , she took second place. On February 11, 2014, Hüfner won silver in the single-seater at the Olympic Games in Sochi behind Natalie Geisenberger . Like them, she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Joachim Gauck on May 8, 2014 . After the 2018/19 season Tatjana Hüfner ended her luge career.
Private
In addition to tobogganing, Tatjana Hüfner did a distance learning course in practical psychology at the Hamburg Academy for Distance Learning (HAF) between 2003 and 2006 and then completed a distance learning course to become a psychological consultant. In the club RC Blankenburg she also got the C license as a trainer.
successes
- Olympic games:
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World Championships:
- 2004 : 8th place single seater
- 2007 : in a single seater
- 2008 : in the single seater and in the team relay
- 2009 : 6th place single-seater
- 2011 : in a single-seater
- 2012 : in the single-seater and in the team relay
- 2013 : in a single seater
- 2015 : in a single seater
- 2016 : 4th place single-seater, 5th place in sprint
- 2017 : in the single seater and in the team relay in the sprint
- 2019 : 5th place in the sprint, 10th place single-seater
- Overall World Cup:
season | space | Points |
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2003/04 | 19th | 159 |
2004/05 | 35. | 60 |
2005/06 | 3. | 496 |
2006/07 | 2. | 685 |
2007/08 | 1. | 736 |
2008/09 | 1. | 855 |
2009/10 | 1. | 755 |
2010/11 | 1. | 845 |
2011/12 | 1. | 761 |
2012/13 | 3. | 561 |
2013/14 | 3. | 551 |
2014/15 | 3. | 727 |
2015/16 | 3. | 769 |
2016/17 | 2. | 865 |
2017/18 | 5. | 726 |
2018/19 | 6th | 572 |
- World Cup victories:
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Web links
- Tatjana Hüfner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Tatjana Hüfner's website
- Statistics and profile on fil-luge.org
- Profile on rennrodeln.info
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Tatjana Huefner . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 37/2011 Munzinger Archive, September 13, 2011. Accessed on May 21, 2012.
- ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
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SURNAME | Hüfner, Tatjana |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German luge athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuruppin , German Democratic Republic |