Tina Unterberger

	Tina Unterberger
nation	Austria
birthday	April 13, 1986
place of birth	Bad Ischl
size	159 cm
Weight	47 kg
job	Sports scientist
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	ASKÖ Gmunden
National squad	since 2002
status	active
Medal table
Natural Track Luge World Championships
European Natural Track Luge Championships
	Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 30, 2003
World Cup victories	2
Overall World Cup ES	3. ( 2013/14 , 2016/17 , 2017/18 , 2019/20 )
	last change: May 2, 2020

Tina Unterberger (born April 13, 1986 in Bad Ischl ) is an Austrian natural track tobogganist . Born in Bad Goiser , she has been a member of the Austrian natural track toboggan team since 2002. At the 2017 World Championships in Vatra Dornei , the "Rodelfloh" won their first team championship and the bronze medal in the single-seater with their teammates Thomas Kammerlander and Rupert Brüggler / Tobias Angerer . The same team constellation also struck at the 2018 European Championships on the Winterleiten and crowned themselves European champions in the team competition, while Unterberger grabbed the bronze medal in the single-seater . In the World Cup they drove since 2003, almost eighty times into the top ten ladies and scored as the best World Cup result of third place in the 2013/2014 season , season 2016/17 , season 2017/2018 and season 2019/2020 . So far she has achieved 25 World Cup podiums, including two wins. Unterberger is also multiple Austrian national champion.

Career

Unterberger started tobogganing in 1996. In the same year, as in 1998, she reached third place at the FIL Youth Games. In 1998 and 1999 she was Austrian school and youth champion and in 2003 Austrian junior champion. After good results in the Intercontinental Cup, she came to her first World Cup appearance on January 30, 2003 in Kindberg , in which she finished tenth. A few days later she achieved seventh place at the 2003 European Junior Championships .

In the 2003/2004 season Unterberger reached sixth place at the junior world championship in Kindberg and twelfth place at the European championship in Hüttau , her first title fight in the general class. In the World Cup, she took part in three races this winter and finished 16th in the overall ranking. At the European Junior Championships in 2005 in Kandalakscha she was seventh and at the 2005 World Championships in Laces she was ninth in the single-seater. In addition, she came in sixth place in the team competition with Team Austria II at the World Cup.

In the 2004/2005 World Cup season , Unterberger was able to rank among the top ten in all five races in which she took part. On January 22, 2005, she achieved her best result in a World Cup race with fifth place in Latzfons . In the overall World Cup, she reached eighth place, as well as in the 2005/2006 season , in which she was four times among the top ten. In the title fights she did not achieve top 10 results in 2006: The Junior World Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen she finished in eleventh place and the European Championship in Umhausen in 14th. At the 2007 World Championship in Grande Prairie and at the 2008 European Championship in Olang she came as Tenth or ninth again in the top 10.

After she achieved only two top 10 results in the 2006/2007 World Cup season and dropped back to eleventh place in the overall standings , Unterberger was among the top ten in all six races in the 2007/2008 season , making her seventh in the final ranking best placement in the overall World Cup. In the 2008/2009 World Cup season , she finished eighth in the overall World Cup for the third time after 2005 and 2006 with a total of five top 10 places. At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier , she finished tenth in the single-seater and fifth in the team competition, and ninth in the single-seater at the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian . She finished the 2009/2010 World Cup season with three top 10 placements in tenth place overall. Also three top 10 placings, with two seventh places in Kindberg and Unterammergau being her best results, and again tenth place overall she achieved in the 2010/2011 season , in which she did not take part in the two opening races in Nowouralsk . At the 2011 World Championships in Umhausen, Unterberger finished in twelfth place.

In the 2011/2012 season , Unterberger managed for the second time to finish among the top ten in all six World Cup races of the winter. With fifth place in the opening race in Latzfons, she equalized her previous best result in a World Cup race and achieved her best overall result so far as fifth in the final ranking. At the 2012 European Championships in Nowouralsk, she won her first medal in international championships with second place in the team competition, as well as her first team World Cup championship at the World Cup race in Olang . In the single-seater, she achieved her best result so far at World and European Championships in seventh place.

In the 2012/2013 season she placed fourth twice in the double world cup in Romania and reached sixth place in the overall world cup. The World Cup 2013 ended in German oven / Italy Unterberger in sixth.

With the change of coach to Robert Batkowski , Unterberger was able to show the 2013/2014 season with her first World Cup podium in Nowouralsk right at the start of the season . She repeated this second place at the parallel World Cup on the Alpe di Siusi and briefly took over the World Cup lead. The “Rodelfloh” won its first single-seater medal at major events at the 2014 European Championships in Umhausen , while Thomas Kammerlander and Christian Schopf / Andreas Schopf secured bronze in the team competition . Unterberger finished the overall World Cup of the 2013/2014 season in third place and thus won her first crystal ball .

In her most successful season to date, 2016/2017 , Unterberger made it onto the podium five times. She won the World Cup opener in Kühtai , fought for second place in Latsch , Moscow and Umhausen , as well as third place in Moscow in the pursuit competition. This secured her third place in the overall World Cup in the single-seater in the 16/17 season . At the 2017 World Championship in Vatra Dornei , Unterberger and her teammates Thomas Kammerlander and Brüggler / Angerer won their first world championship title in the team competition, as well as the bronze medal in the single-seater.

The 2017/2018 season started promisingly for the "Rodelfloh" with a second place at the World Cup opener in Kühtai , but had to be content with fourth and fifth place in the subsequent World Cup competitions in Latzfons , Moos, Mariazell and Deutscheofen . At the 2018 European Championship on the Winterleiten, Unterberger managed to move up from 8th to third place with a brilliant catch-up and grabbed her second bronze medal in the single-seater. In the team competition she repeated the feat from the previous year with her teammates Thomas Kammerlander and Brüggler / Angerer and secured her first European title. With a third place in Umhausen , Unterberger finished the overall World Cup season 17/18 in third place and got her third crystal ball.

In addition to natural track tobogganing, Unterberger also takes part in roller- sledging competitions in summer , both in single-seater and in double-seater together with Michael Scheikl . In doubles they are reigning world champions (Grindelwald, 2017 & Gmunden, 2015) and European champions (Feldthurns, 2016 & Bühl, 2014), they have won the overall ranking of the Austrian Roller Luge Cup several times and are multiple Austrian champions. She also achieved several victories and championship titles in the single-seater. In 2013 Unterberger won the overall ranking of the Austrian Roller Luge Cup . She is vice world champion (Gmunden, 2015) and won bronze medals twice at European championships (Grindelwald, 2015 & Bühl, 2014).

Private

Unterberger graduated from the Federal Commercial Academy in Bad Ischl in 2006 and completed a bachelor's degree in sports management at the University of Innsbruck in 2014 and a master's degree in training and sports at the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences in 2016 .

successes

World championships

Latsch 2005 : 9th singles, 6th team
Grande Prairie 2007 : 10th singles
Moos in Passeier 2009 : 10th singles, 5th team
Umhausen 2011 : 6th single-seater, 12th single-seater
Deutscheofen 2013 : 6th single-seater, dnf team
St. Sebastian 2015 : 5th single seater
Vatra Dornei 2017 : 3rd singles, 1st team
Latzfons 2019 : 3rd singles, 2nd team

European championships

Hüttau 2004 : 12th single-seater
Umhausen 2006 : 14th single-seater
Olang 2008 : 9th single seater
St. Sebastian 2010 : 9th single seater
Nowouralsk 2012 : 7th singles, 2nd team
Umhausen 2014 : 3rd singles, 3rd team
Moos in Passeier 2016 : 7th singles, 2nd team
Winterleiten 2018 : 3rd singles, 1st team
Moscow 2020 : 2nd team, 3rd singles

Junior World Championships

Kindberg 2004 : 6th single seater
Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2006 : 11th single-seater

Junior European Championships

Kreuth 2003 : 7th single seater
Kandalaksha 2005 : 7th single seater

World cup

3rd overall place in the single-seater season 2013/2014 , 2016/2017 , 2017/2018 and 2019/2020
4th overall place in single-seater in the 2014/2015 , 2015/2016 and 2018/2019 seasons
5th overall place in the single seater in the 2011/2012 season
25 podium places, including two World Cup victories