Elmar Lichtenegger

Elmar light Egger ( born May 25, 1974 in Klagenfurt ) is a former Austrian hurdler and member of the Austrian Parliament for the Freedom Party and the AAF.

Life

In 1992, light Egger graduated from high school in the Alps-Adriatic peoples market and began to study computer science and media communication. Until 2004 he was a competitive athlete in the Army Sports Centre.

It was in March 2003 - with interruptions - Member of Parliament for the Freedom Party and on 28 April 2006 to 29 October 2006 for the AAF. In Parliament he served on the committees Sport, national defense and health. In September 2005 he took over the Austrian Athletics Federation the field of event marketing. Today he is account manager at an IT service provider.

Competitive sports

1995 yielded Lichtenegger the quality fiction standards for the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Late 1996 moved Lichtenegger to Berlin, where he trained with the German national team Uwe Haku. In 1998 he received training in England the offer with the world record holder Colin Jackson. Over four years has been a training partnership with the Welsh.

The coached by his father Ewald light Egger multiple Austrian champions competed for the Dr. Auer AC peoples market. At the European Indoor Championships in Vienna in 2002 he won the silver medal in the 60m hurdles.

Lichtenegger sat 2003/ 04, a fifteen- month ban for a positive drug test from. He himself is contaminated dietary supplement to blame. One of the World Athletics Federation ( IAAF) imposed two -year ban was reduced by a judgment of the International Court of Justice Sport CAS in Lausanne. After another crossing as a doping sinner he gave on 13 December 2007 his resignation from the sport known. In August 2008, the Austrian Association of Athletics Federations ( ÖLV ) imposed on him for violating the anti - doping rule violations because of the repetition case a lifetime ban for all national and international competitions as well as for all sports. Although he finished his career in 2007, light Egger called the Independent Arbitration Commission for alleged irregularities in the controls. The Commission confirmed the lifetime doping suspension in November 2008.

Achievements

  • 7th European Indoor Championships 1996 Stockholm
  • 5th Universiade 1997
  • 7th place World Indoor Championships in 1999 Maebashi
  • Semi-finalist 1999 World Championships Sevilla
  • 3rd GP I Meeting Cologne 1999
  • 5th Place GOLDEN LEAGUE Monte Carlo 1999
  • Winners Cup 1st Division Athens 1999
  • 4th European Indoor Championships 2000 Gent
  • Winners Cup 1st Division Bydgoszcz 2000
  • Semifinals Olympic Games Sydney 2000
  • 6th World Indoor Championships 2001 Lisbon ( Portugal)
  • European Cup winner in 2001 Nicosia ( Cyprus)
  • Military World Champion 2001 Beirut ( Lebanon)
  • Semi-final 2001 World Championships Edmonton
  • Silver medal in 2001 Universiade Beijing (PR China)
  • Victory over Colin Jackson in Erfurt 2002
  • 2nd place European Indoor Championships in 2002 Vienna
  • Victory Chemnitz 2005
  • Final European Indoor Championships 2005 Madrid
  • Semi-final 2005 World Championships Helsinki

Multiple national champion over 60m hurdles, 60 m, 110 m hurdles, 100 m

Bests

  • 60m hurdles: 7.44 s ( 2002) ( Austrian record )
  • 110m hurdles: 13.33 s ( 1999)
  • 60 m: 6.73 s (1998, 2005)
  • 100 m: 10.41 s ( 1998)
  • 200 m: 21.61 s ( 2005)
  • Decathlon: 6111 Points ( 1994)
Maebashi, Gunma 2001 World Championships in Athletics 2005 World Championships in Athletics
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