Armin Mair

Armin Mair (* August 5, 1977 in Meran ) is a former Italian natural track luge. Around the turn of the century he scored with his brother David Mair best in the world in doubles. After they each once become Junior World and Junior European Champion, they were 2000 World Champion in doubles and 2001 World Champion in the team competition of the year and won in 1999 and in 2001 a further two medals at World and European Championships. In addition, they won seven World Cup races and the 1999/2000 season the two-seat World Cup. Because David Mair joined the Skeleton, launched Armin Mair from 2002 with John Hofer and won with him in 2005, two more world championship medals.

Career

From 1995 Armin Mair started together with his three years younger brother David in international junior championships. Immediately on her first appearance at the Junior European Championships in 1995 in Fénis the Mair brothers won the gold medal in doubles. A year later they arrived at the Junior European Championships in 1996 in Szczyrk second place behind their compatriots Gerd Mittermair and Werner Töchterle. In 1997, the Mair brothers first took part in a title fight in the general class and achieved at the European Championships 1997 in Moos in Passeier fifth place. A month later, they won the first Junior World Championship in Aosta again the gold medal. In the 1998 World Cup in Rautavaara they were sixth and at the European Championships 1999 in Szczyrk they won the third place their first medal in the general class.

From the 1998/1999 season the Mair brothers were also in the doubles World Cup successfully. At World Cup race in single-seater Armin Mair almost never participated. They reached in the 1998/1999 season first three fourth places and celebrated the season finale in Herzogenaurach her ​​first World Cup victory, which they were fourth in the overall World Cup. The 1999/2000 season was the most successful for the two brothers. After they each took second place in the first two World Cup races, they celebrated on 23 January 2000 Gummer their second World Cup victory. A week later they were world champions in doubles in Olang. After a third place in the fourth World Cup race of the season Armin and David Mair won the last two World Cup races in Železniki and Aosta and secured by 40 points ahead of the Austrians Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl the overall World Cup victory.

In the 2000/2001 season, the Mair brothers won the World Cup race in Lüsen and were more on the podium twice. In the overall World Cup they were, however, by the Austrians Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf, who won the last two races of the season, by 15 points in second place referred to. Also in the 2001 World Championships won in Stein an der Enns crested / crested before Mair / Mair, who still were after the first run in the lead in the second but scored only the fourth fastest time. In the inaugural team competition, however, Mair / Mair won by Sonja Steinacher and Anton Blasbichler in Italy I team the gold medal. In the 2001/2002 season, the Mair brothers won after a fifth place to kick off in Olang the second World Cup race in Olang, and then the parallel competition in Triesenberg, which they equal points led at halftime with the Poles Andrzej Laszczak and Damian Waniczek in the World Cup. In the last three World Cup races she was then washed twice and once third parties Fourth and finally fell in the final standings behind Laszczak / Waniczek and Beer / Kögl to third place back. At the 2002 European Championships at the end of the season in Frantschach - Sankt Gertraud David Mair did not participate, why Armin Mair along with Michael Graf launched in doubles. They occupied the seventh place.

David Mair moved to this winter for Skeleton and Armin Mair drove from then on with the six- years-younger Johannes Hofer in doubles, which until then had not yet started in the World Cup. In their first season together 2002/2003, they participated in only three of the six World Cup races, scoring placements between sixth and eighth. In the 2003 World Cup in Železniki they stayed because of a fall in the second passage without result. In the next two years Armin Mair and John Hofer participated in all World Cup races. You always reached placements between fourth and six and missed the podium several times just barely. The next they were such on 8 January 2005 in Unterammergau than they were just four hundredths of a second slower than the third placed Denis Alimov and Roman Molwistow. Both in the season 2003/2004 and in the 2004/2005 season as they reached each best Italian doubles pair of sixth place in the overall World Cup. At the 2004 European Championships in Huttau they stayed with a fifth place their World Cup results loyal, but at the 2005 World Championships in Laces won Armin Mair and John Hofer two medals. On the first day of competition they won with the two -seaters Renate Gietl and Anton Blasbichler the bronze medal in the team competition and the next day behind the Russians Porschnew / Lazarev and above the poles Laszczak / Waniczek the silver medal in the doubles. After the 2004/2005 season Armin Mair ended his career, while John Hofer attended two more years in competitions.

Successes in tobogganing

World Championships

  • Rautavaara 1998: 6 doubles ( with David Mair )
  • Olang 2000: 1st doubles ( with David Mair )
  • Stein an der Enns 2001: 2 doubles ( with David Mair ), 1st team
  • Laces 2005: 2 doubles ( with Johannes Hofer), 3rd team

European Championships

  • Moos in Passeier 1997: 5 doubles ( with David Mair )
  • Szczyrk 1999: 3 doubles ( with David Mair )
  • Frantschach 2002: 7 doubles ( with Michael Graf)
  • Huttau 2004: 5 doubles ( with Johannes Hofer)

Junior World Championships

  • Aosta 1997: 1st doubles ( with David Mair )

European Junior Championships

  • Fénis 1995: 1st doubles ( with David Mair )
  • Szczyrk 1996: 2 doubles ( with David Mair )

World Cup

  • Overall World Cup victory in the doubles in the season 1999/2000
  • 2nd place in doubles overall World Cup in the 2000/2001 season
  • 3rd place in doubles overall World Cup in the 2001/2002 season
  • 13 podiums, 7 Wins:

Italian Championships

  • Italian Champion in doubles in 2004 and 2005 ( with John Hofer)
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2000 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2005 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1999 Merano David Mair (natural track luger and skeleton racer) FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1997 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 1998 Wolfgang Schopf FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2002 Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2004 Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali Damiano Lugon Corrado Hérin Andi Ruetz Helmut Ruetz Patrick Pigneter Florian Clara Melanie Batkowski Robert Batkowski Gernot Schwab Christian Schatz
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