Marlies Wagner

Marlies Wagner ( born May 25, 1983 in Vienna) is an Austrian Naturbahnrodlerin. The sports scientist won previously at the World and European Championships, one silver and two bronze medals in the team competition, in single-seater is a fourth place her best result to date. In the World Cup they previously achieved four podium finishes and since the 2000/2001 season she was able to classify four times in the top five in the single-seat World Cup.

Career

Wagner took from 1998 to 2003 at the Junior World and European championships in part and missed it twice in fourth at the Junior World Championship 1999 in Huttau and at the Junior European Championship 2003 in Kreuth only just a medal. In the 1999/2000 season they played their first three World Cup races, achieved its best result an eighth place in Stein an der Enns and was twelfth in the standings. In the same winter she took in Olang the first time in a World Championship in the general class part and finished it the seventh place in the single-seater.

At the start of the World Cup season 2000/2001, the then 17 -year-old reached the second rank, so their first podium finish, while her best result to date in a World Cup race in Obergurgl. In the overall World Cup they reached the fifth place with three other top 5 results. At the World Championship 2001 in Stein an der Enns she won in Austria Team II together with Gerhard Pilz, Peter Lechner and Peter Braunegger the silver medal in the inaugural team competition.

In the 2001/2002 season in the World Cup they could not quite connect to the previous year's results and fell, equal on points with the Russian Julija Wetlowa, in eighth place in the overall standings back. The greatest success of this winter she succeeded at the Austrian Championships 2002, when she was Austrian Champion in the single-seater for the first time. In the season 2002/2003 she succeeded in the fifth World Cup race in Kindberg third place her second podium finish and it reached equal points with Italian Renate Gietl sixth place in the overall World Cup single-seater. In the 2003 World Cup in Železniki they finished ninth.

In the seasons 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 Wagner scored in almost every race a top-10 result, with her ​​best result was a fifth place in the last race of the season, respectively. In two years she has been Seventh in the World Cup. At the 2004 European Championships in Huttau she missed in fourth barely a medal in the single-seater, at the World Championship 2005 in Laces she was only ten. In the World Cup season 2005/2006 Wagner ran as a third party in Grande Prairie again on the podium, reaching further three fifth places in the overall World Cup fifth place for the second time after the 2000/2001 season. She was also the second time Austrian Champion in the single-seater. In the 2006 European Championship in Obergurgl she finished in eighth place.

While Wagner was in the World Cup season 2006/2007 with no podium, achieved its best result a fifth place in January in Obergurgl and thus fell back to eighth place in the standings, they scored in the 2007/2008 season with the third rank in Obergurgl again a podium finish, which she finished sixth overall. In February 2007, Wagner won at the World Championships in Grande Prairie in Austria Team II together with Gerald Kammerlander, Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl the bronze medal in the team competition, they also finished fifth in the single-seater. At the European Championships 2008, she was seventh.

Fourth place in the World Cup season 2008/2009 was the season opener at St. Sebastian their best result and she finished seventh in the overall standings. Also in the 2009/2010 season two fourth places in Novouralsk and Umhausen were her best results. In the overall standings, they could be improved by two places to fifth. At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier Wagner was eighth at the European Championships in 2010 and seventh in the single-seater. In the 2010 inaugural at a European team competition she won in Austria Team II together with Gerald chamber Lander, Christian Schatz and Gerhard Muhlbacher the bronze medal. At the beginning of the season 2010/2011 Wagner scored in Novouralsk two fifth places, which remained their best World Cup results this winter. In the overall World Cup for the fourth time she came to fifth place. At the World Cup 2011 in Obergurgl they finished ninth in the single-seater and together with Thomas Chamber Lander, Christian Schopf and Andreas Schopf in Austria Team II fourth in the team competition.

Although Wagner at the beginning of 2012 for the third time Austrian Champion in the single-seater was, she could not connect to the results of previous years internationally in the season 2011 /2012. A seventh place in the opening race in Latzfons was her best World Cup result, so they fell back in the World Cup to ninth place - their worst overall result since their first World Cup season twelve years ago. At the European Championships 2012 in Novouralsk she came in eleventh place for the first time at international championships not in the top 10.

In addition to tobogganing Wagner also participates in competitions in the role sledding in the summer. She repeatedly won the Austrian Championships and the Appreciation of the role of Austrian luge cups.

Achievements

World Championships

  • Olang 2000: 7 seater
  • Stein an der Enns 2001: 2nd team
  • Železniki 2003: 9 seater
  • Laces 2005: 10 seater
  • Grande Prairie 2007: 5 seater, 3rd team
  • Moos in Passeier 2009: 8 seater
  • Umhausen 2011: 9 seaters, 4th team

European Championships

  • Huttau 2004: 4 seater
  • Umhausen 2006: 8 seater
  • Olang 2008: 7 seater
  • St. Sebastian, 2010: 7 seater, 3rd team
  • Novouralsk 2012: 11 seater

Junior World Championships

  • Huttau 1999: 4 seater
  • Gsies 2002: 7 seater

European Junior Championships

  • Feld am See 1998: 8 seater
  • Umhausen 2000: 5 seater
  • Tiers 2001: 6 seater
  • Kreuth 2003: 4 seater

World Cup

  • 5th overall in the single-seater in the seasons 2000/2001, 2005/2006, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011
  • 4 podium finishes in World Cup race

Austrian Championships

  • Austrian Champion in the single-seater 2002, 2006 and 2012
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2007 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2000 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2004 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2005 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2006 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2008 Sankt Sebastian, Styria FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2009 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2011 Thomas Kammerlander
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