Thomas Kammerlander

Thomas Chamber Lander ( born February 13, 1990) is an Austrian natural track luge. He comes from Umhausen in Tyrol and starts since the 2006/2007 season in the World Cup. Among his biggest successes in addition to a World Cup victory composed of one junior world and European titles in doubles, a European champion in the team competition and the silver medal in the single-seater at World and European Championships. His older brother Gerald Kammerlander is also natural track luge.

Career

Chamber lander took off in 2005 participated in the Junior World and European Championships and was able to classify 2005 to 2007 three times in the top ten in the single-seater. In 2006 he started for the first time at a European Championship in the general class, finishing in 17th place. After several victories and podium finishes he reached the Intercontinental Cup in winter 2005/2006 and Austrian Junior Champion was, it starts since the 2006/2007 season in the World Cup. In the fourth race him at the same time the Italians Patrick Pigneter succeeded in his hometown Umhausen the first win and five top -10 results, he finished sixth in the overall World Cup single-seater. At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie, he reached the sixth place in the European Junior Championships 2007 in St. Sebastian fifth in single-seaters.

In 2008 Lander Chamber drove to sixth place in the single-seater at the Junior World Championships in Laces. He also started the first time with the three- years-younger Christoph Regensburg in doubles and also finished sixth. A week later he drove in the 2008 European Championships in Olang ranked 16th in the single-seater. After his first World Cup victory podiums were made ​​in the seasons 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 and Kammerlander finished with three top-10 results twice eleventh place in the single-seat World Cup. Since the winter of 2008/2009 he started together with Christoph Regensburg also in the doubles World Cup. Your first season, the team could end up with five top -10 places to eighth in the overall standings.

The first international title Kammerlander won at the Junior European Championship 2009 in Longiaru, where he won the gold medal in doubles and also bronze in the single-seater. A week later, the just 19 years old has become Kammerlander Einsitzerbewerb in the 2009 World Cup had to give in moss in pass eggs only Patrick Pigneter beaten for scarce four hundredths of a second. Together with the team Austria II he was in the team competition in fifth place. He was also 2009 Austrian National Champion in doubles.

In the World Cup season 2009/2010 were Kammerlander best results in the single-seater two third places in Novouralsk and in Obergurgl. In the World Cup he achieved his best ever placing fifth. In doubles, he scored with Christoph Regensburg four top-10 results and so as the year eighth overall. My best result was fifth place early in the season in Novouralsk. At the Junior World Cup 2010 Chamber Lander won like last year at the Junior World Championship gold in doubles and bronze in the single-seater. Also at the European Championship 2010, he was like last year at the World Championships runner-up in single-seater behind Patrick Pigneter. He also finished fifth in doubles and was with the team Austria I together with Melanie Batkowski, Christian Schopf and Andreas Schopf team European champion. 2010 and 2011 Lander Chamber assured the Austrian National Champion title in the single-seater.

Since the season 2010/2011 Thomas Kammerlander starts only in the single-seater. After two ninth places start of the season in Novouralsk he reached his second-best World Cup result in second in Gsies. At the World Cup 2011 in Obergurgl, he came fourth in the single-seater and in the team competition. On 6 February, Kammerlander badly injured in a practice crash in Olang. In addition to a concussion he suffered a shoulder and broken nose, which is why he had to end the season prematurely. In the 2011/2012 season he drove in four of the six World Cup races into the top ten, with a sixth place in German Oven his best result was. In the World Cup he finished ninth. At the European Championships 2012 in Novouralsk he took the 16th place in the single-seater.

Achievements

World Championships

  • Grande Prairie 2007: 6 seater
  • Moos in Passeier 2009: 2 seater, 5 team
  • Umhausen 2011: 4 seater, 4 crew

European Championships

  • Umhausen 2006: 17 seater
  • Olang 2008: 16 seater
  • St. Sebastian, 2010: 2 -seater, 5 doubles, 1 team
  • Novouralsk 2012: 16 seater

Junior World Championships

  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2006: 8 seater
  • Laces 2008: 6 seater, 6 two-seater
  • German stove 2010: 1 double seater, 3 seater

European Junior Championships

  • Kandalakscha 2005: 9 seater
  • St. Sebastian 2007: 5 seater
  • Longiaru 2009: 1 double seater, 3 seater

World Cup

  • 5th place in the single-seat World Cup in the 2009/2010 season
  • 8th place in the doubles World Cup in the seasons 2008/2009 and 2009/2010
  • 4 podiums, including one victory:

Austrian Championships

  • Austrian champion in single-seaters in 2010 and 2011
  • Austrian Champion in doubles in 2009

Awards (excerpt)

  • 2009: Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2009 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2006 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2007 Sankt Sebastian, Styria FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2008 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2011 Deutschnofen
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