Christian Schatz

Christian Schatz ( born October 7, 1975 in Wolfsberg, Carinthia ) is an Austrian natural track luge. It starts in the World Cup together with Gerhard Muhlbacher in doubles and won five World Cup races so far with him and twice the overall World Cup. At the 2007 World Championships she won the World Cup in the team competition and third in doubles; In 2011 she finished second in the team competition. In European Championships she previously won two silver and two bronze medals.

Career

Treasure began in 1983 with the sport of luge, take part in competitions since 1984 and is a member since 2000 of the Austrian national team. In 1995 he competed in the Junior European Championships in Saint-Marcel/Fénis and achieved the 21th Place and in the single-seater with Christian Rumpf sixth place in the doubles. Two years later he took part in the European Championship 1997 in Moss pass in eggs, where he was together with Stefan Karner ninth in doubles. Five years later, he took the next time you participate in a major international event. At the European Championships 2002 in Frantschach - Sankt Gertraud where treasure belongs to the local sports club, he was ranked 13 in the single-seater. Only to number 21 in the single-seater he came in the 2004 European Championship in Huttau.

From then launched treasure at the international level only in the doubles. At the end of the 2004/2005 season he played with Gerhard Muhlbacher, of the doubles was previously with Harald Kleinhofer active and had already achieved several podium finishes in the World Cup, the first World Cup race. They were fifth. The big breakthrough came as early as next winter. In the second race of the season in Kindberg, they celebrated their first victory, and after a third and two second places, they also won the season finale in Oberperfuss, bringing them to the Russians Pavel and Ivan Lazarev Porschnew overall World Cup winners were 15 points ahead. The European Championship 2006 in Obergurgl, however, won Porschnew / Lazarev, treasure / Muhlbacher were 1.46 seconds behind in second.

In the season 2006/2007 reached treasure and Muhlbacher in the first three World Cup races two third places. The other three races in Obergurgl and moss in pass eggs they won and thus secured for the second time before Porschnew and Lazarev victory in doubles overall World Cup, this time by a margin of 30 points. At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie, they won behind Porschnew / Lazarev and another Russian doubles pair, Alexander Yegorov and Pyotr Popov, the bronze medal. The day before they were together with Melanie Batkowski and Gernot Schwab World Champion in the team competition.

The World Cup season 2007/2008 began Schatz / Muhlbacher with three third places, but no more after that came to the podium and fell back in the overall standings to fourth place. At the 2008 European Championships in Olang she missed a medal in fourth relatively clear with a gap of 1.89 seconds for third place Yegorov / Popov. With a third place in Unterammergau as the best World Cup result occupied treasure / Mühlbach in the 2008/2009 season in sixth place overall. The following winter they could be improved with a seventh, four fifth and a third place at the World Cup finals in Garmisch -Partenkirchen in the World Cup for a place to fifth. At the 2009 World Championships in moss in pass eggs they were seventh in doubles and fifth with the team. At the European Championships 2010 in St. Sebastian, they won with Marlies Wagner and Gerald Kammerlander the bronze medal in the team competition and were eighth in doubles.

The 2010/2011 season began Schatz / Muhlbacher with a third place in Novouralsk, the other three top 5 results followed, before they as Second stood on the podium again in the last two races in Unterammergau and Olang, making it the third overall reached. At the World Cup in 2011 failed in Obergurgl treasure / Muhlbacher in fourth barely a medal in doubles. They were only four hundredths of a second slower than the third placed Andrzej Laszczak and Damian Waniczek. In the team competition, the duo won the silver medal together with the single seaters Melanie Batkowski and Gerald Kammerlander. In the season 2011/2012 reached treasure / Muhlbacher with four third places and a fourth and a seventh place again third overall in doubles World Cup. Third, they were also at the European Championships 2012 in Novouralsk, where she also won the silver medal in the team competition with Tina Unterberger and Thomas Schopf.

Achievements

( unless otherwise stated, two-seater with Gerhard Muhlbacher )

World Championships

  • Grande Prairie 2007: 3 doubles, 1 team
  • Moos in Passeier 2009: 7 doubles, 5 team
  • Umhausen 2011: 4 doubles, 2nd team

European Championships

  • Moos in Passeier 1997: 9 doubles ( with Stefan Karner )
  • Frantschach 2002: 13 seater
  • Huttau 2004: 21 seater
  • Umhausen 2006: 2 doubles
  • Olang 2008: 4 doubles
  • St. Sebastian, 2010: 8 doubles, 3 crew
  • Novouralsk 2012: 3 doubles, 2nd team

European Junior Championships

  • Saint-Marcel/Fénis 1995: 6 doubles ( with Christian Rumpf ), 21 seater

World Cup

  • 2x Overall World Cup victory in the doubles in the seasons 2005/2006 and 2006/2007
  • 2x 3rd place in doubles overall World Cup in the seasons 2010/2011 and natural track luge World Cup 2011/2012
  • 22 podiums, 5 wins:
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2007 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2011 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2006 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1997 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2002 Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2004 Aleksandr Yegorov (luger) FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2008 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2009 Sankt Sebastian, Styria Italy Sonja Steinacher Anton Blasbichler Armin Mair David Mair (natural track luger and skeleton racer) Robert Batkowski Reinhard Beer Renate Gietl Patrick Pigneter Florian Clara Corrado Hérin Helmut Ruetz Andi Ruetz Wolfgang Schopf Andreas Schopf
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