Andreas Schopf

Andreas Schopf ( born April 9, 1984 in Jews castle ) is an Austrian natural track luge. Together with his cousin Wolfgang Schopf formed in the first half of the 2000s, one of the most successful doubles pairs. They were twice World Champion, European Champion and twice European Junior Champion. In addition, they won three World Cup races, once the World Cup and, in 2000 Austrian national champion. Since the season 2005/2006 Andreas Schopf starts with his brother Christian. With him he has so far won two World Cup races, two silver medals at the World Championships, the 2010 European Champion title in 2012 and two more European medals and three times the Austrian state championship in doubles.

  • 2.1 World Championships
  • 2.2 European Championships
  • 2.3 Junior World Championships
  • 2.4 European Junior Championships
  • 2.5 World Cup
  • 2.6 Austrian Championships

Career

In doubles with Wolfgang Schopf (until 2004 /2005)

Together with his cousin Wolfgang Andreas Schopf managed a first international success by winning the bronze medal at the Junior World Championship 1999 in Huttau. In the winter of 1999/2000 they won the overall title of the Intercontinental Cup, was European Junior Champion and Austrian national champion in doubles.

From the 2000/2001 season, the cropping Cousins ​​started in the World Cup. Already in the first race on the 4th of January in Obergurgl they reached the second place, followed by in Unterammergau and Lüsen but only two sixth places. A stir the then 16 and 17 year old cousins ​​attended in their first title fight in the General category of the 2001 World Championships in Stein an der Enns. With the fastest time in the second scoring run they left the defending champion Armin and David Mair from Italy by nine hundredths of a second behind and were for the first time world champion in doubles. A week later they were able to defend their European Junior Champion title successfully and then they won the two remaining World Cup races in Moscow and Huttau, making it the year's winner Armin and David Mair by 15 points in second place referenced in the final standings and the same in their first season won the overall World Cup.

The next two years were for Andreas and Wolfgang Schopf in the World Cup is not quite as successful. With two podium finishes, but no victory, they finished in the seasons 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 fifth overall. The medal decisions they were but still can not be beat: In the 2002 European Championships in Frantschach they were eleven hundredths of a second ahead of Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl European champion and the 2003 World Cup in Železniki they won 1.81 seconds ahead of the Russians Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lazarev their second world title. In addition, they won the silver medal at the European Junior Championship in 2003.

In the World Cup season 2003/2004 Andreas and Wolfgang Schopf reached with a third and three second places and one victory in Moscow on January 25, the same number of points as the Russians Porschnew and Lazarev. However, because this could show a better result string, the overall World Cup victory went to the Russians and the cropping Cousins ​​finished second. At the 2004 European Championships in Huttau they also had to the Russians Porschnew / Lazarev and their countrymen Denis Alimov and Roman Molwistow admit defeat and won the bronze medal.

The 2004/2005 season was Andreas ' last common with his cousin Wolfgang, who finished his career after this winter. The first three World Cup races of the season they were able to finish on the podium, after which they no longer went into the top three in the World Cup and they eventually finished fourth. At their last World Cup in Laces they stayed for the first time without a medal, because in the doubles they came only to tenth place in the team competition and finished sixth.

In doubles with Christian Schopf ( 2005/ 2006)

Since the retirement of his cousin Andreas Schopf starts with his four- years-younger brother Christian. In their first joint World Cup race on December 10, 2005, she arrived after a failure in the second race is not to the finish, then they could be in the 2005/2006 season but always between fourth and sixth place, which they reached fifth place in the overall World Cup. At the European Championships in 2006 in Obergurgl, they were sixth.

In the first two World Cup races of the season 2006/2007 the Schopf brothers were not at the start, as they were missing due to illness in the first and did not succeed due to the internal team qualifying for the second World Cup competition. At the other races they took part again, reached for Best Placements two fifth places in moss pass in eggs, but fell back in the overall standings to tenth place. At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie, they were fifth, coinciding with the Italian double Psenner Martin and John Hofer.

In winter 2007/2008 Andreas Schopf had to pause because he had too little time for training due to his studies. Since the 2008/2009 season, he is active again with his brother and compared to previous years, they were able to significantly increase this winter. In third World Cup race of the season on 25 January in Unterammergau they reached with second place their first podium result and a further three third places, they reached also in the World Cup third place. At the 2009 World Championships in moss in pass eggs they won behind the Italians Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara the silver medal in the doubles and also in the team competition they reached in Austria Team I together with Melanie Batkowski and her cousin Thomas Schopf second place.

The World Cup season 2009/2010 started the Schopf brothers with three fourth places. This was followed by two podiums in Laces and Latzfons before they celebrated their first joint World Cup victory in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, at the end of the season. For Andrew, this was the fourth overall World Cup victory and first in six years. Thus they reached as last year to third place in the World Cup. In early January they were Austrian State Champion in Doubles. At the European Championships 2010 in St. Sebastian, they won together with Melanie Batkowski and Thomas Kammerlander the gold medal in for the first time as part of an EM discharged team competition. In the doubles they missed in fourth but a medal. As last season began crested / crested the 2010/2011 season with two fourth places in Novouralsk. Your state championship they could successfully defend the beginning of January 2011, on the natural toboggan run Grantau. On 16 January 2011 they celebrated in Gsies the second joint World Cup victory; a week later they were in Kindberg third parties. In the overall World Cup they finished fourth. At the World Cup 2011 in Obergurgl, they achieved but only sixth place, while II Fourth were in the team competition with Marlies Wagner and Thomas Chamber Lander as Team Austria.

At the beginning of 2012, Christian and Andreas Schopf for the third consecutive time state champion in doubles. In the World Cup they could in the season 2011/2012 in four of the six races in the top five place. In contrast to the previous two years, but they succeeded this time no win and only one podium finish with second place in Novouralsk. In the overall World Cup, they were still as in the previous fourth. The greatest success of the winter, they celebrated at the European Championships 2012 in Novouralsk: Three days after the World Cup race behind the local hero Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lazarev Been Second, they arrived on the same train also at the European Championships behind the two Russians to second place. In addition, they won with the two -seaters Melanie Batkowski and Michael Scheikl the bronze medal in the team competition.

In the summer of Andreas Schopf also participates in competitions in the role sledding, both in single-seaters and the doubles with his brother. In doubles, the two already came several times in the top three in the overall standings of the Austrian role toboggan Cups, in 2006, they could win this.

Achievements

World Championships

  • Stein an der Enns 2001: 1st doubles
  • Železniki 2003: 1 double seater
  • Laces 2005: 10 doubles, 6 team
  • Grande Prairie 2007: 5 doubles
  • Moos in Passeier 2009: 2 doubles, 2nd team
  • Umhausen 2011: 6 doubles, 4 crew

European Championships

  • Frantschach 2002: 1 double seater
  • Huttau 2004: 3 doubles
  • Umhausen 2006: 6 two-seater
  • St. Sebastian 2010: 4 doubles, 1 team
  • Novouralsk 2012: 2 doubles, 3rd team

Junior World Championships

  • Huttau 1999: 3 doubles

European Junior Championships

  • Umhausen 2000: 1 double seater
  • Tiers 2001: 1st doubles
  • Kreuth 2003: 2 doubles

World Cup

  • Overall victory in the doubles in the 2000/2001 season
  • 2nd place overall in doubles in the season 2003/2004
  • 3rd place overall in doubles in the seasons 2008/2009 and 2009/2010
  • 25 podiums, 5 wins:

Austrian Championships

  • Austrian Champion in doubles in 2000, 2010, 2011 and 2012

Awards (excerpt)

  • 2001: Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2009 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2002 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2004 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010 Judenburg FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships Armin Mair David Mair (natural track luger and skeleton racer) Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2005 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2006 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2007 Martin Psenner Sankt Sebastian, Styria FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2011 Damiano Lugon Corrado Hérin Andi Ruetz Helmut Ruetz Andrzej Laszczak Damian Waniczek Christian Schatz
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