Franz Obrist
Franz Obrist ( born January 28, 1965) is a former Italian natural track luge. He started in the recliner, 1991 European champion and won four more medals at World and European Championships. With a total of five wins in World Cup races, he won the overall World Cup twice, in addition he also won the European Cup twice.
Career
Obrist achieved at the Junior European Championships 1983 in Montreux and the ninth at the Junior European Championships 1984 in Hol fourth place in the single-seater. In the general class he scored the first international successes in European competition with a second place in 1988 in Oberperfuss and the victory in 1989 also in Oberperfuss. In the same year he participated in Garmisch -Partenkirchen for the first time at a European Championship and finished fourth part. After he had only occupies the 23rd place in Gsies at the 1990 World Cup, he won the European Championship in 1991 in Fiè front of his countrymen Erhard miller's man and Harald Steinhauser gold medal in the single-seater. In 1992 the bronze medal at the World Championships in Bad Goisern.
As was held in the season 1992/1993 for the first time the World Cup, Obrist also included in this series from the beginning to the world's best. He drove this winter in all five World Cup races on the podium, scoring two third and two second places and one victory in Nova Levante, was so before Erhard Gerhard Pilz and miller's man 's first overall World Cup champion in the single-seater. In the 1993/1994 season he was able to repeat this success with three wins in Bad Goisern, Szczyrk and Nova Levante, but had to share the overall victory with Erhard miller's man. At the European Championships in 1993 in Stein an der Enns Obrist and won the bronze medal at the 1994 World Cup in Gsies behind Gerhard Pilz the silver medal in the single-seater, which he was for the fourth time in a row in title bouts on the podium.
The World Cup season 1994/1995 started Obrist with a victory in Negaunee, came in the other three races ( this winter were only four World Cup races take place ) once in second place and one third place and thus achieved the overall World Cup behind his compatriot Manfred graves the second Place. At the European Championships in 1995 in Kandalakscha he missed fifth place a medal, but he won in Olang the last discharged European Cup. In his last World Cup season 1995/1996 Obrist drove in three of six races on the podium. He scored two third places in Landskron and Laces and a second place finish in the second race of Landskron and finished in the overall World Cup fourth place. At the World Championships in 1996 in Oberperfuss he won the bronze medal.
Sporting successes
World Championships
- Gsies 1990: 23 seater
- Bad Goisern 1992 3 seater
- Gsies 1994: 2 seater
- Oberperfuss 1996: 3 seater
European Championships
- Garmisch -Partenkirchen 1989: 4 seater
- Fiè 1991: first single-seater
- Stein an der Enns: 3 seater
- Kandalakscha 1995: 5 seater
European Junior Championships
- Montreux 1983: 9 seater
- Get 1984: 4 seater
World Cup
- Victory in the single-seat World Cup in the seasons 1992/1993 and 1993/1994
- 2nd place in the single-seat World Cup in season 1994/1995
- 4th place in the single-seat World Cup in the 1995/1996 season
- 14 podiums, 5 wins: