Frank Rommel
Frank Rommel ( born July 30, 1984 in Suhl ) is a former German Skeleton driver. He is, in comparison with its previously 11 medals at World and European Championships and seven World Cup victories, the most successful male skeleton bob Germany.
Rommel is the son of wrestler Uwe Rommel and lives in Eisenach. He is married to Julia Winter Sportswoman drum and since 2012 working as a clerk in Eisenach. He put his Abitur in 2003 at the Heinrich -Ehrhardt High School Zella-Mehlis and finally completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk in Schmalkalden.
At the age of 21 years, Rommel was in 2006 in his discipline Vice-European Champion in St. Moritz, reaching it in parallel discharged World Cup third place his first podium finish. He participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in part, where he finished in 24th place. In the Skeleton World Cup in Altenberg 2008 he won the bronze medal. In the World Cup Rommel had his breakthrough in the 2008 /09 season. In Altenberg, Igls, Koenigssee and in St. Moritz, he won four World Cup races in a row. In St. Moritz, he also won the same title of European Champion. He was also in 2009 in Lake Placid World Champion in the team competition, together with the skeleton pilot Marion Trott and the two-man bob by Thomas Florschütz and Kiriasis. At the Olympic Games 2010 in Vancouver Rommel reached at the Whistler Sliding Centre with the seventh best ever Olympic result of the German Skeleton Men.
In the season 2010/11 Rommel was able to place only once on the podium, but finished third in the overall standings and thus stood for the third time in a row in the overall standings of the top three. At the European Championships, he finished fifth at the World Championships, he won the individual bronze and team silver competition. In the 2011/12 season drum secured his sixth World Cup victory in Koenigssee and two other podium finishes the wide place in the overall World Cup and thus placed the fourth year in a row denbesten Three of the world. The highlight of the season then formed the double winning the silver medal in both the individual and as a team at the World Championships in Lake Placid.
The pre-Olympic season 2012/13 closed Rommmel after a disqualification due to excess weight in the first World Cup in Lake Placid from in fifth place overall. Only two races after the disqualification Rommel learned the seventh World Cup victory of his career on the Olympic track in Vancouver and in turn broke the winning streak of the Latvian serial winner Dukurs. At the World Championships in St. Moritz Rommel won with absolute fastest time in its course the silver medal in the team. There was also a 5th place in the individual race, in which he affects health through strong back pain, left. The Olympia 2013/2014 season was difficult for the German Skeleton driver. Rommel could retract with third place in the final World Cup in Koenigssee, the first and only podium finish of the German Skeleton Men and ewinnen the bronze medal in the European Championships at the same time discharged. Since the 2008/2009 season, Rommel was able to place on the podium in all his races on the ice rink in Koenigssee.
Rommel denied in February 2014 in Sochi his third Olympic Winter Games. On March 25, 2014 he announced his retirement from professional sport.