David Mair (natural track luger and skeleton racer)

David Mair ( born July 26, 1980 in Meran ) is from Foiana (municipality Lana, South Tyrol) originating Italian natural track luge and skeleton former pilot. Around the turn of the century he scored in tobogganing best in the world in doubles. Together with his brother Armin he was in the 2000 World Champion and overall World Cup winner and 2001 World Champion in the team competition. From 2002 to 2007 he took part in competitions in skeleton, but not scoring great successes. From the season 2009/2010 he was active as a natural track luge again.

  • 2.1 World Championships
  • 2.2 European Championships
  • 2.3 Junior World Championships
  • 2.4 European Junior Championships
  • 2.5 World Cup
  • 3.1 World Championships

Career

Tobogganing

David Mair began his athletic career in tobogganing. With his three- year-older brother Armin he started in 1995, when he had reached the age limit, 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, she began participating in a championship 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. Here David Mair also launched for the first time in single-seaters and finished fifth. In the 1998 World Cup in Rautavaara the Mair brothers were sixth in doubles. Because his brother Armin had already crossed the age limit for juniors, David Mair started in 1998 and 1999 at the Junior Championships with Rainer Jud. They were 1998 field am See European Junior Champion in Doubles. In single-seater Mair scored again to fifth place. At the Junior World Championship 1999 in Huttau Mair and Jud won the silver medal in the doubles and single seater Mair was also runner-up. At the European Championships in 1999 and Armin Szczyrk David Mair won the bronze medal in the doubles.

From the 1998/1999 season the Mair brothers were also in the World Cup successfully. They first reached three fourth places and celebrated the season finale in Herzogenaurach her ​​first World Cup victory, which they were fourth in the overall World Cup. A World Cup races contested David Mair this winter with Rainer Jud. They reached the fourth of the six races of the season in Agordo third place. Mair was with three races in the single-seater at the start and drove it once in the top ten. The 1999/2000 season was for the brothers David and Armin Mair most successful. After they each placed second 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. In single-seater David Mair scored the 14th Place. At the Junior European Championships in early February, he won the silver medal in the single-seater like last year at the Junior World Cup. After a third place in the fourth World Cup race of the season and David Mair Armin 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 doubles. Even in single-seater David Mair was this winter in all World Cup races at the start. He ran four times into the top ten and reached best result sixth place in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, which he was in the single-seat World Cup Seventh.

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, referenced by 15 Punke in second place. 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 single-seater David Mair took only at a World Cup race in part, which he finished in eighth place, and then denied any World Cup race in single-seater more. 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 European Championships in 2002 at the end of the season David Mair was no longer at the start.

Skeleton

In 2002, Mair moved to the Skeleton. He belonged to the B- squad of the Italian national team and was from 2002/2003 in the European Cup skeleton used. In 2004 he achieved 17th place in Winterberg his first top -20 result. He reached his best results in November 2006 with twelfth place in Igls and a month later with tenth place in Cesana Pariol. At the national level the third place at the Italian Championships in 2004 was his best result. In the next two years, he came fourth. Peak in Mairs Skeleton career was the use in the team competition of the Skeleton World Cup in 2007., Where he finished on the side of Teresita Bramante and the bobsleigh team of Jessica Gillarduzzi and Andreas Mayrl but only the seventh and last place. This was his last international competition in the Skeleton.

Return to tobogganing

In the 2009/2010 season Mair was a comeback in tobogganing. Since then he has in common with Florian Breitenberger that was active only in the single-seater before. The beginning of 2010 they were Italian vice-champion in doubles. In mid-January, they launched at the European Championships 2010 in St. Sebastian, and achieved seventh place in doubles and together with Evelin Lanthaler and Stefan Gruber fourth place in the team competition. After that they took part in the three remaining World Cup races and achieved best result a fourth place in Latzfons. In the overall World Cup they were equal on points with the Russians Pawel Silin and Ivan Rodin ninth.

In the season 2010/2011 the best World Cup result of the duo Breitenberger / Mair was a sixth place in Kindberg. Overall, they participated in three World Cup races and occupied as in the previous ninth overall. In the Italian Championships in 2011 they finished again in second place. At the World Cup 2011 in Obergurgl, the duo drove to fifth place in the doubles and the team competition, respectively. In the season 2011/2012 David Mair participated in any competitions.

Successes in tobogganing

World Championships

  • Rautavaara 1998: 6 doubles ( with Armin Mair )
  • Olang 2000: 1st doubles ( with Armin Mair ), 14 seater
  • Stein an der Enns 2001: 2 doubles ( with Armin Mair ), 1st team
  • Umhausen 2011: 5 doubles ( with Florian Breitenberger ), 5 team

European Championships

  • Moos in Passeier 1997: 5 doubles ( with Armin Mair )
  • Szczyrk 1999: 3 doubles ( with Armin Mair )
  • St. Sebastian, 2010: 7 doubles ( with Florian Berger width ), 4th team

Junior World Championships

  • Aosta 1997: 1st doubles ( with Armin Mair ), 5 seater
  • Huttau 1999: 2 doubles ( with Rainer Jud ), 2 single seaters

European Junior Championships

  • Fénis 1995: 1st doubles ( with Armin Mair )
  • Szczyrk 1996: 2 doubles ( with Armin Mair )
  • Feld am See 1998: 1st doubles ( with Rainer Jud ), 5 seater
  • Umhausen 2000: 2 seater

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
  • 7 wins in World Cup races:

Successes in the Skeleton

World Championships

  • St. Moritz 2007: 7th team
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2000 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1999 Merano 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 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010 Sankt Sebastian, Styria FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2011 Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali Damiano Lugon Corrado Hérin Andi Ruetz Helmut Ruetz Patrick Pigneter Florian Clara Melanie Batkowski Robert Batkowski Gernot Schwab Christian Schatz Renate Gietl
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