Maria-Luise Rainer
| File:Maria-Luise Rainer IMG 7908 by Stepro LR7.5.jpg Rainer in 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 April 1959[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | File:Luge pictogram.svg Luge | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Singles | |||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic finals | File:Olympic rings.svg 1976–1988 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Olympics: 6th, 1984 (2:49.138) World Cup (overall): 1st, Women's singles, 1985–86 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Maria-Luise Rainer (born 23 April 1959) is an Italian former luger. She competed between the late 1970s and the late 1980s.
Competitive career
[edit | edit source]Rainer won the bronze medal in the women's singles event at the 1979 FIL World Luge Championships in Königssee, West Germany.[2] In addition, she won two medals at the FIL European Luge Championships with a silver (women's singles, 1980) and a bronze (mixed team, 1988). Rainer also won the overall Luge World Cup title in women's singles in the 1985–86 season.
Competing in four Winter Olympics (1976–1988), Rainer had her best finish of sixth in the women's singles event at Sarajevo in 1984.[1]
Later career
[edit | edit source]Later in her career, Rainer served as race director of the women's singles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.[3] Rainer has had a lengthy career with the International Luge Federation (FIL), serving as Senior Technical Director at FIL World Cup and World Championship competitions throughout Europe and North America.
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Maria Luisa Rainer at Olympics.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Maria Luise Rainer at Olympic.org (archived)
- Marie-Luise Rainer at OlympediaLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Marie-Luise Rainer at InterSportStats
- Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton (hickoksports.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-05-29)
- List of European luge champions (eiskanal.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-03-25) (in German)
- List of women's singles luge World Cup champions since 1978 (sports123.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-02-06)
- Olympic finishers in women's single event: 1964-2002 (torino2006.coni.it) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-05-11) (in Italian)
- SportQuick.com information on World champions in luge (sportquick.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-09-27) (in French)
- Fans of Reality TV (fansofrealitytv.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-09-28)
- Italian lugers
- Italian female lugers
- Living people
- Lugers at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Lugers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
- Lugers at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Lugers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Olympic lugers for Italy
- 1959 births
- Sportspeople from Sterzing
- Lugers from South Tyrol
- 20th-century Italian sportswomen