- David Mair (natural track luger and skeleton racer)
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Medal record
David Mair (back) and Florian Breitenberger at the FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010Natural track luge World Championships Gold 2000 Olang-Valadora Men's doubles Gold 2001 Stein an der Enns Mixed team Silver 2001 Stein an der Enns Men's doubles European Championships Bronze 1999 Szczyrk Men's doubles David Mair (born July 26, 1980 in Meran) is an Italian luger and former skeleton racer. He competed until 2002 as a natural track luger, then until 2007 as a skeleton racer and switched back to natural track luge in 2009.
Natural track career
As a natural track luger, Mair won a bronze medal at the FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1999, a gold medal at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2000 and a silver medal at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 in the Men's doubles with his brother Armin Mair. He also won a gold medal at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 in the mixed team event.
After five years as a skeleton racer he gave his comeback as a natural track luger in 2009.
Skeleton career
In 2002 Mair switched to skeleton.[1] In 2007 he finished seventh in the team event at the FIBT World Championships.
References
- FIL-Luge profile including his results since 2009 (Note: all his results until 2002 are mistakenly in the FIL-Luge profile of the artificial track luger of the same name)
- FIBT profile
- ^ Russian double wins gold – Mair/Hofer take surprise silver. FIL, January 29, 2005
1979: Italy (Damiano Lugon & Andrea Millet) * 1980: Italy (Oswald Pornbacher & Raimund Pigneter) * 1982: Italy (Andreas Jud & Ernst Oberhammer) * 1984: Italy (Andreas Jud & Ernst Oberhammer) * 1986: Italy (Almir Bentemps & Corrado Herin) * 1990: Italy (Andreas Jud & Hannes Pichler) * 1992: Italy (Almir Bentemps & Corrado Herin) * 1994: Italy (Manfred Gräber & Günther Steinhauser) * 1996: Austria (Reinhard Beer & Herbert Kögl) * 1998: Austria (Andi Ruetz & Helmut Ruetz) * 2000: Italy (Armin Mair & David Mair) * 2001: Austria (Wolfgang Schopf & Andreas Schopf) * 2003: Austria (Wolfgang Schopf & Andreas Schopf) * 2005: Russia (Pavel Porzhnev & Ivan Lazarev) * 2007: Russia (Pavel Porzhnev & Ivan Lazarev) * 2009: Italy (Patrick Pigneter & Florian Clara) * 2011: Russia (Pavel Porzhnev & Ivan Lazarev)2001: Italy (Sonja Steinacher, Anton Blasbichler, Armin Mair, & David Mair) * 2005: Austria (Melanie Batkowski, Robert Batkowski, Reinhard Beer, & Herbert Kögl) * 2007: Austria (Melanie Batkowski, Gernot Schwab, Christian Schatz, & Gerhard Mühlbacher) * 2009: Italy (Anton Blasbichler, Renate Gietl, Patrick Pigneter, & Florian Clara) * 2011: Italy (Renate Gietl, Anton Blasbichler, Patrick Pigneter, & Florian Clara)Categories:- 1980 births
- Germanophone Italian people
- Italian lugers
- Italian skeleton racers
- Living people
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