Imelda Gruber
Imelda Gruber ( born August 11, 1986 in Schlanders ) is a former Italian Naturbahnrodlerin. It was 2006 Vice European Champion in single seaters, winning two medals at Junior World and European Championships and scored in the World Cup five top - 10 finishes.
Career
Your first medal at international junior championships won Gruber with the second place in the Junior European Championships 2005 in Kandalakscha. Previously, she was already gone twice in the top five. In the Intercontinental Cup they won in the 2003/2004 season the overall standings and reached the next winter second overall.
After these performances they came in the 2005/2006 season in the World Cup for use. While she finished her first World Cup race in Longiaru only in 14th place, she reached in the next two races in Kindberg and Olang each sixth. Your biggest success, the then 19 -year-old end of January 2006 at the European Championships in Obergurgl, where she won the silver medal with just three hundredths of a second behind her teammate Christa Gietl. Three weeks later, they scored the third place at the Junior World Championships 2006 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. In the world cup they then drove to sixth and seventh place and the season finale in Oberperfuss in fifth place, which they achieved sixth place in the World Cup at the races in Grande Prairie.
Despite these results Gruber began in winter 2006/2007 again exclusively in the Intercontinental Cup, which they won just ahead of her compatriot Tamara Black. After this season, Gruber took no part in competitions more.
Sporting successes
European Championships
- Umhausen 2006: 2 seater
Junior World Championships
- Gsies 2002: 6 seater
- Kindberg 2004: 4 seater
- Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2006: 3 seater
European Junior Championships
- Kreuth 2003: 5 seater
- Kandalakscha 2005: 2 seater
World Cup
- Season 2005/2006: 6 seater overall World Cup
- 4 finishes among the top six
Intercontinental
- Overall victory in the single-seater in the seasons 2003/2004 and 2006/2007