Gerald Kammerlander

Gerald chamber Lander ( born August 13, 1981 in Zams ) is an Austrian natural track luge. He is a member since 2000 of the Austrian natural track luge team. Among his biggest successes include the world title in 2011 single-seater, two World Cup victories in the 2008 /2009 season and second place in the single-seat World Cup in the 2007 /2008 season. He became Junior World Champion in doubles in 1999. His younger brother Thomas Lander Chamber is also natural track luge.

Career

The first major successes reach Kammerlander in winter 1997/98, when he was the overall winner in the Intercontinental Cup in the junior class and, together with Joachim Schopf won the silver medal in the doubles at the Junior European Championships 1998 in Feld am See. The next year he was in Huttau together with scoop junior world champion in doubles. Another medal in the junior class, he won third place in the single-seater in the European Junior Championship 2001 in animal and in the 2001/2002 season, he was the overall winner in the Intercontinental Cup.

In the World Cup Kammerlander is exclusively in the single-seater at the start. He played his first race on 19 December 1999 Oberperfuss, where he finished ninth. This winter, but this was his only World Cup races and also in the next season he came only once in the World Cup for use. Since the season 2002/2003 Chamber Lander starts regularly in the World Cup and since then he was able to classify always in the top ten in the single-seat World Cup. After he came to the tenth overall in the winter 2002/2003 and / 2005 each finished ninth in the seasons 2003/2004 and 2004, he reached in winter 2005/2006 with his first podium, a second place for the season opener in Longiaru, the seventh overall.

At the World Championships in 2003 and 2005 respectively chamber lander took eleventh place in the single-seater, at the 2004 European Championships he finished eighth and sixth at the European Championships in 2006. In addition, in 2005 he was Austrian Champion in the single-seater. In the World Cup season 2006/2007 Chamber Lander scored differently than in the previous winter, no podium and fell in the overall ranking by two places to ninth back. The greatest success of this winter was winning the bronze medal in the team Austria II together with Marlies Wagner, Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl the team competition of the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie. In the single-seater, he finished seventh place at this event.

In the next two years Kammerlander achieved its greatest successes so far in the World Cup: In the 2007/2008 season he reached with a third place in Obergurgl and two second places at the end of season in Železniki behind the superior winner Patrick Pigneter and with only one point ahead of the third-ranked Florian Breitenberger second place in the overall World Cup single-seater. At the beginning of the season 2008/2009 the 27 -year-old in St. Sebastian and Umhausen celebrated its first two World Cup victories, but could not get in the other four races of the season in the top ten and therefore reached the overall World Cup only fifth place.

At World and European Championships chamber Lander remained in single-seaters continue without a medal. At Euro 2008 he was eighth and seventh at the World Championships in 2009. At the European Championships in 2010, he scored the fifth place in single-seaters and won together with Marlies Wagner, Christian Schatz and Gerhard Muhlbacher as with the 2007 World Cup bronze medal in the team competition. In the World Cup Kammerlander remained in the 2009/2010 season without a top result. His best result was a sixth place in the overall World Cup Latzfons and he only reached the twelfth grade.

Also in the season 2010/2011 remained chamber Lander in the World Cup without a top result. His best result was fifth place in Kindberg; in the World Cup he finished eighth. Very successful, however, was the World Cup 2011 in Obergurgl, where he won the gold medal in the single-seater four hundredths of a second ahead of his compatriot Robert Batkowski. He also reached in the team competition with Melanie Batkowski, Christian Schatz and Gerhard Muhlbacher second place. In the season 2011/2012 Kammerlander was best World Cup result is also a fifth-place finish, but the overall World Cup he fell back to 13th. At the European Championships 2012 in Novouralsk he was 14 in the single-seater.

Achievements

World Championships

  • Železniki 2003: 11 seater
  • Laces 2005: 11 seater
  • Grande Prairie 2007: 7 seater, 3rd team
  • Moos in Passeier 2009: 7 seater
  • Umhausen 2011: first single-seater, 2nd team

European Championships

  • Huttau 2004: 8 seater
  • Umhausen 2006: 6 seater
  • Olang 2008: 8 seater
  • St. Sebastian 2010: 5 seater, 3rd team
  • Novouralsk 2012: 14 seater

Junior World Championships

  • Huttau 1999: 1 double seater

European Junior Championships

  • Feld am See 1998: 2 doubles
  • Umhausen 2000: 7 seater
  • Tiers 2001: 3 seater

World Cup

  • 2nd place in the single-seat World Cup in the 2007 /2008 season
  • 5th place in the single-seat World Cup in the 2008 /2009 season
  • 6 podiums, including two victories:

* Same time as Michael Scheikl

Austrian Championships

  • Austrian champion in single-seaters in 2005

Awards

  • 2007: Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2007 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2011 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships Thomas Kammerlander Tiers, South Tyrol FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2005 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2004 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2006 Sankt Sebastian, Styria FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2008 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2009 Gerhard Pilz Reinhard Gruber Gerald Kallan Anton Blasbichler Gernot Schwab
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