Willi Danklmaier

Willi Danklmaier
Full name	Wilhelm Danklmaier
nation	Austria
birthday
Career
discipline	Single seater, double seater
society	WSV Liezen
status	resigned
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × European championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Junior European Championship 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Natural Track Luge World Championships bronze Kreuth 1984 Single seater silver Bad Goisern 1992 Single seater  European Natural Track Luge Championships bronze Niedernsill 1981 Two-seater silver Stein an der Enns 1993 Single seater  Natural track toboggan junior European Championship silver Liezen 1979 Two-seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 1992/1993  Overall World Cup ES 5th ( 1993/1994 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 0 1 1

Willi Danklmaier (* July 1963 ) is a former Austrian natural track luge from Styria . He started in both the single and the doubles and won two medals each at world and European championships and one medal at junior European championships . In the World Cup he achieved two podium places.

Career

Danklmaier, who started for WSV Liezen, achieved several successes at major events from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. He won the first medal in 1979 with his brother Manfred at the European Junior Championships in Liezen . They took second place behind the Italian doubles Hellweger / Oberhammer .

In the general class, Danklmaier and his brother won the bronze medal in the doubles at the 1981 European Championships in Niedernsill , and two years later they just missed another medal in fourth at the 1983 European Championships in St. Konrad . At the 1984 World Cup in Kreuth , Danklmaier won the bronze medal in single-seater behind Alfred Kogler and Giuseppe Cerise , two years later he was eighth at the 1986 World Cup in Fénis and achieved third place in the single-seater at the European Cup in Inzing . During the next few years, Dankmaier only stayed just behind the medal ranks at the European Championships: in 1987 he was fourth in the single-seater in Jesenice , fifth in the single-seater in 1989 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and, together with Gerhard Hirzegger, also fifth in the double-seater and in 1991 in Völs am Schlern again fifth in the Single seater.

Danklmaier won the next medal at the 1992 World Championships in Bad Goisern when he finished second behind Gerhard Pilz in the single-seater. He achieved the same placement at the European Championships in 1993 in Stein an der Enns , this time behind the Italian Anton Blasbichler . At the 1994 World Championships in Gsies he was seventh and fourth in the singles at the 1995 European Championships in Kandalakscha . In the World Cup , which has been held since 1992/1993 , he achieved sixth overall place in this first winter and a year later with a second place in Fiè allo Sciliar and a third place in Szczyrk, fifth overall place in the single-seater.

Sporting successes

World championships

• Kreuth 1984 : 3rd single seater
• Fénis-Aosta 1986 : 8th single seater
• Bad Goisern 1992 : 2nd single seater
• Casies 1994 : 7th single seater

European championships

• Niedernsill 1981 : 3rd two-seater (with Manfred Danklmaier)
• St. Konrad 1983 : 4th two-seater (with Manfred Danklmaier)
• Jesenice 1987 : 4th single seater
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1989 : 5th single-seater, 5th double-seater (with Gerhard Hirzegger)
• Völs am Schlern 1991 : 5th single seater
• Stein an der Enns 1993 : 2nd single seater
• Kandalaksha 1995 : 4th single seater

Junior European Championships

• Liezen 1979 : 2nd two-seater (with Manfred Danklmaier)
• Stumm 1981 : 13th single-seater
• Fénis / Chambave 1982 : 7th single-seater, 9th double-seater (with Harald Rabitsch)

World cup

• 1992/1993 season : 6th place overall in single-seater
• 1993/1994 season : 5th overall in the single-seater
• 2 podium places

literature

• Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years FIL 1957 - 2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tape II . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p. 285-407 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liezen in retrospect City of Liezen, March 2010 issue, page 49 (PDF, 5.2 MB)
2. ^ A success story in Neues Land, February 4, 2005, page 27 (PDF, 142 kB)