Wolfgang Kindl

Wolfgang Kindl
nation	Austria
birthday	April 18, 1988 (age 33)
place of birth	Innsbruck , Austria
size	166 cm
Weight	78kg
job	army athlete
Career
discipline	single seater
society	SV Igls
status	active
medal table
Olympic medals 0× 1× 0× World Cup medals 2× 0× 3× EM medals 0× 3× 1× Tyrolean Championships 7× ? × ? ×
winter Olympics silver Beijing 2022 single seater  Luge World Championships bronze Sigulda 2015 single seater bronze Koenigssee 2016 single seater gold Igles 2017 sprint gold Igles 2017 single seater bronze Sochi 2020 single seater  European Luge Championships silver Sigulda 2010 single seater silver Sigulda 2010 series bronze Koenigssee 2017 single seater silver Koenigssee 2017 series
Placements in the Luge World Cup
World Cup debut 2006 (at Cesana )  World Cup victories 9 (without team relay)  Overall World Cup ES 2nd ( 2015/16 , 2017/18 )
podium finishes 1. 2. 3.  single seater 5 7 9  Sprint single seater 4 0 3  team relay 0 4 7
last modified: February 6, 2022

Wolfgang Kindl (born April 18, 1988 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian luger , two-time world champion and four-time Olympian (2010–2022).

Life

Wolfgang Kindl from Vill started tobogganing in 1999. The sports soldier has competed in the luge world cup since the 2006/07 season . His first race was at Cesana Pariol , where he finished 23rd. Kindl contested only one other race during the season and ended up 43rd overall. In his second season , the Austrian was able to steadily improve. After starting in almost every race, he finished 19th in the overall standings. An outstanding individual result was seventh place on his home track in Igls . At the same place, Kindl was able to improve again by one place at the beginning of the 2008/09 season .

In the 2013/14 World Cup season , Kindl achieved his first podium finish with a third place finish in Park City . Third place was also achieved with the team. In the 2014/15 season , Kindl took second place in Lake Placid . On February 1, 2015, Kindl won a World Cup race for the first time in Lillehammer .

Wolfgang Kindl at the Luge World Cup in Altenberg 2017

Kindl has also appeared at major international events several times. He finished 19th at the 2007 World Championships in Igls, and the following year in Oberhof he was 27th. Things went better at the 2008 European Championships in Cesana, where the Austrian finished twelfth. Kindl's victory at the 2008 Junior World Championships in Lake Placid was sensational , where he beat the high favorite and reigning senior world champion Felix Loch . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Kindl finished ninth. He celebrated his greatest success to date with the bronze medal at the Luge World Championships in Sigulda in 2015.

At the 2016 World Championships in Königssee , Wolfgang Kindl won the bronze medal in the men's singles. In the overall World Cup he finished second behind Felix Loch. At his home World Championships in Innsbruck-Igls in 2017, he became world champion in the sprint and in the singles.

He finished ninth in the single-seater at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on February 11, 2018 .

The 31-year-old won the bronze medal at the 2020 Luge World Championships in Sochi in February .

At the 2022 Winter Olympics , Kindl won the silver medal in the singles behind Germany's Johannes Ludwig and ahead of Italy's Dominik Fischnaller .

Kindl is an active athlete at the Army Sports Center of the Austrian Armed Forces . As an army athlete, he currently has the rank of platoon commander .

successes

winter Olympics

• Vancouver 2010 : 9th (single seater)
• Sochi 2014 : 9th (single seater), 7th (relay)
• Pyeongchang 2018 : 9th (single seater)

Overall World Cup

season	place	Points
2006/07	43	0034
2007/08	19	0190
2008/09	11.	0285
2009/10	14	0259
2010/11	14	0265
2011/12	15	0255
2012/13	11.	0269
2013/14	08th.	0339
2014/15	03.	0605
2015/16	02.	0795
2016/17	03.	0700
2017/18	02.	0838
2018/19	07.	0579
2019/20	11.	0417
2020/21	11.	0457

World Cup victories

single seater

No.	date	location	rail
1.	Feb 1, 2015	Lillehammer	Hunderfossen bobsleigh and luge track
2.	Dec 12, 2015	Park City (Sprint)	Utah Olympic Park
3.	16 Dec 2017	Lake Placid (Sprint)	Lake Placid Olympic Bobsleigh Track
4.	Jan 7, 2018	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
5.	Nov 25, 2018	Innsbruck (Sprint)	Artificial ice rink Bob-Toboggan Igls
6.	Dec 1, 2018	whistler	Whistler Sliding Centre
7.	Dec 7, 2018	Calgary	Bobsleigh and luge track at Canada Olympic Park
8th.	Dec 12, 2021	Altenberg *	Altenberg luge and bobsleigh track
9.	19 Dec 2021	Innsbruck (Sprint)	Artificial ice rink Bob-Toboggan Igls

^*At the same time as Max Langenhan

web links

Commons : Wolfgang Kindl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wolfgang Kindl in the database of the International Luge Federation
• Official website of the athlete

itemizations

1. ↑ tobogganing.at
2. ↑ Kurier: Kindl wins World Championship bronze in Koenigssee . Article of January 31, 2016, retrieved on January 31, 2016.
3. ↑ Müller and Kindl took silver and bronze at the Luge World Championships (February 16, 2020)
4. ↑ ORF at red: Tobogganing: Kindl wins silver in the men's singles. February 6, 2022, retrieved February 6, 2022 . 
5. ^ "Army competitive athletes. (PDF) In: Federal Army website. Austrian Armed Forces, December 1, 2020, p. 3 , retrieved March 4, 2021 .