Martin Psenner

Psenner Martin ( born March 2, 1976 in Fiè ) is a former Italian natural track luge. He was twice Vice-European Champion in doubles and also won the doubles bronze medal at the World Championships in 1996. In the World Cup he reached a total of seven victories in both the two-seater and single seater twice in the second place in the overall World Cup.

Career

Psenner took from 1993 to 1995 in three European junior championships, scoring a best result of third in the single-seater in 1994. In the World Cup he started first with Arthur Künig in doubles. They celebrated in the season 1994/1995 the first victory, achieved another podium finish in the World Cup and occupied the fourth place. In 1995, she also won the last discharged European Cup. In the 1995/1996 season they won not a World Cup race, but reached third with two and three second places behind the Austrians Helmut and Andi Ruetz, five of the six races of the season won the second place in the overall World Cup. At the European Championships in 1995 in Kandalakscha the double Psenner / Künig won behind Ruetz / Ruetz the silver medal at the World Championships in 1996 in Oberperfuss the bronze medal. At the European Championships in 1995 Psenner also started in single-seaters, but did not finish.

In the 1996/1997 season Psenner first started Anton Blasbichler in doubles. They achieved a third and a second place. During the season, Christian Hafner was his new partner in doubles. At the end of the winter Psenner / Hafner celebrated in Garmisch -Partenkirchen her first World Cup victory in the World Cup came Psenner but neither with nor with Blasbichler Hafner in the top six. At the European Championships in 1997 in Moos in Passeier Psenner / Hafner won behind the Austrians Ruetz / Ruetz the silver medal, finishing seventh in the single-seater Psenner. In the 1997/1998 season the double Psenner / Hafner reach two World Cup victories in Kronplatz and Mölten and another two podiums, which in turn behind Ruetz / Ruetz second in the overall World Cup were. In the 1998 World Cup in Rautavaara Psenner / Hafner drove to fifth place and also in the single-seater Psenner Martin scored the fifth. In the 1998/1999 season Psenner / Hafner participated only in the first three World Cup races. They came twice on the podium and in the World Cup in sixth. At the European Championships 1999, she failed to launch. Their last World Cup races they contested at the beginning of the season 1999/2000 in Oberperfuss, where they finished third.

From the winter 1999/2000 Psenner also started in single-seater in the World Cup. First he scored several top 10 rankings and in the World Cup three times in a row, the eleventh rank. In the 2002/2003 season he finished all five World Cup races in which he took part, in the top 10 and also came for the first time in the World Cup as eighth in the top ten. After he had not started at the World Championship in 2000, he scored in the 2001 World Championships in Stein an der Enns fifth place at the 2002 European Championships in Frantschach - Sankt Gertraud the eighth. In the 2003 World Cup in Železniki but he went only in 14th place

In the 2003/2004 season Psenner reach with two third places in Grande Prairie and Garmisch- Partenkirchen his first World Cup podium in the single seaters. But since he could produce only two twelfth places in the other four races, he came in the World Cup still only in tenth place. At the 2004 European Championships in Huttau he finished fourth and missed the bronze medal by less than a tenth of a second. In the season 2004/2005 has established itself Psenner with consistently good performances in the world rankings. He drove in five out of six races in the top three and celebrated in the season finale in Olang his first World Cup victory in the single-seater. He reached behind Anton Blasbichler, who won four races, second in the overall World Cup. Only at the World Championship 2005 in Laces he could not reach these results. In single-seater he finished seventh and fifth in the team competition.

At the end of the 2005/2006 season Psenner in Oberperfuss celebrated his second World Cup victory in the single-seater. Throughout the winter, however, this was his only podium finish, so he fell back in the World Cup in fourth. In the 2006 European Championship in Obergurgl he came only seventh. In the season 2006/2007 Psenner went back in four races in the top three, including his last World Cup victory on January 21, 2007 in Longiaru. He reached for the second time in the single-seat World Cup second place overall. This winter Psenner took together with Johannes Hofer for the first time in seven years, returned to World Cup races in the doubles part. Your best results were two third places in Longiaru and Umhausen, which she finished fifth in doubles overall World Cup. At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie was Psenner fourth in single-seaters, taking time only four hundredths of a second behind bronze remained, and with Johannes Hofer fifth in doubles, coinciding with the Austrians Christian and Andreas Schopf. In the team competition, he came in doubles for use, reaching number six.

In the 2007/2008 season Psenner again participated exclusively in the single-seater at World Cup races. He drove only the first three races of the season, where a fifth-place finish at the season opener in moss in eggs pass was his best result, and denied on January 20, 2008 in Umhausen his last World Cup race. Until next winter he took part in the race of the Intercontinental Cup.

Sporting successes

World Championships

  • Oberperfuss 1996: 3 doubles ( with Arthur Künig )
  • Rautavaara 1998: 5 seater, 5 doubles ( with Christian Hafner )
  • Stein an der Enns 2001: 5 seater
  • Železniki 2003: 14 seater
  • Laces 2005: 7 seater, 5 team
  • Grande Prairie 2007: 4 seater, 5 doubles ( with Johannes Hofer ) 6th team

European Championships

  • Kandalakscha 1995: 2 doubles ( with Arthur Künig )
  • Moos in Passeier 1997: 2 doubles ( with Christian Hafner ), 7 seater
  • Frantschach 2002: 8 seater
  • Huttau 2004: 4 seater
  • Umhausen 2006: 7 seater

European Junior Championships

  • Rautavaara 1993: 7 doubles ( with Gustav Gögele ), 11 seater
  • Length field 1994: 3 seater
  • Saint-Marcel/Fénis 1995: 8 seater

World Cup

  • 2x 2nd place overall in the single-seater in the seasons 2004/2005 and 2006/2007
  • 2x 2nd place overall in doubles in the seasons 1995/1996 and 1997/1998
  • 31 podiums (12 in single-seat and 19 in doubles ), of which 7 wins:

European Cup

  • Victory in doubles in 1995 ( with Arthur Künig )

Italian Championships

  • Italian Champion in doubles in 1998 and 2004 in single-seaters
Italy FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 1996 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1995 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1997 Helmut Ruetz Kandalaksha FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 1998 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1999 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2000 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2002 Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2004 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2005 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2006 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2007 Christian Schopf Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali
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