Michaela Niemetz loves it quickly: With the Luge, the 25-year-old Gerets riederin starts on the natural ice rinks in national and international competitions.

Geretsried – When you grow up on the top of the hill in the village of Ergertshausen, then there is in Winter a good way to get as quickly as possible to Egling, Deining or the Riedhof – just with the sledge through the snow down the slope showers. Michaela Niemetz laughs. “Quite so,” says the 25-year-old natural track rodlerin. Rather, they had been taken from Childhood by their parents for winter sports. “And as long as I can sit, I was as always on the sled.” As a father, Thomas, took over the Vice-Chairman of the Luge club in Kreuth, she came for the first time, racing in touch.

at the age of eleven graduated from Michaela Niemetz their first race in the Bavarian Championships, then it went on and on. In 2011 and 2013, she was German Junior champion in 2016, she won the title at the adults. International hearing aid acoustics celebrated champion great successes, was Ninth at the European Junior Championships in 2013 and Tenth in the Junior world Championships in 2012. In the women’s European Championships landed the single-seater driver, mostly between rank 13 and 17. Three times she was at the world Cup at the Start and cut-2017 (9.) and 2018 (10.) the best from. In the world Cup of the starter from the WSV recorded Unterammergau least twice space nine. Since her international debut in 2013, Niemetz has been, however, thrown from a serious injury: “I broke twice the hocks, which lasted until I was back on the sled.” However, she was discouraged by these setbacks, by no means, but rather has been motivated. As of today, 25-showed Year also generally speaking, a lot of bite to make the leap into the national squad: “We are a fringe sport, and if someone has Talent and ambition, then he can come quickly to the top.”

Even in the summer, is four to fünfmalpro week

This is part of it, to devote themselves to year-round sports. “I train in the summer four to five times per week,” says Niemetz. Strength and endurance units will be on the program, besides a lot of mountain Biking. In addition, the Natural chutes meet once a month with national coach Herbert Kögl at the Olympic training center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It usually takes until December before the first rides on ice are possible. “We usually train in Austria or South Tyrol.” The competition season is generally very short, the Active in January and February are actually constantly on the go. “Arrival is usually on Thursday, Friday, and is trained on the track, on Saturday and Sunday the Races are held.” Niemetz, who lives in Geretsried, is so grateful to have an understanding boss: “He supports me very much.” For the upcoming season to be even considered for you, with the help of an overtime account for the comp time from work in the small Mr chinger branch of the “Vitakustik” free: “If I can focus entirely on the Sport, jumping hopefully a few more Top-Ten-rankings.” The little leisure time that remains to her, she spends as youth Director at the Technical relief (THW) in Geretsried. “It’s a good thing that my friend mark is here, too.”

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The natural track rodlerin of some regret to me, that your sport has not yet been incorporated into the program of the Olympic winter games. “For 2022, the vote was close to 50:50, but then it smashed.” However, it has applied to the Association for the Olympics 2026 – “maybe it works this time”. And how would it be easy to change with the sledge through radio and television, well-known colleagues on the ice rink? Michaela Niemetz laughs. “I have tried of course. It was faszierend, but not so outstanding that it had me animated to an exchange.“ The differences were already clear. So there is the Luge on natural track with no banked curves, no high speeds to be achieved. In the normal case, it is up to about 80 kilometres per hour, on ice, you come on up to the 140 stuff. The around 1,500-Euro sled to be about 14 kilograms. “With us, it’s also much more pronounced steering movements, and we a brake on the respective curves,” explains the 25-Year-old. Not least, nature was on track eating only 800 to 900 meters long. “Particularly impressive is the train in Moscow, for example, where I was already three times at the Start. Since it is not from the University of from los and it runs directly on the Lenin stadium.“

And it is precisely on competition sites such as these want to start Niemetz also like to do more often. “So two to three years, I would like to sledding still active,” emphasizes the Gerets riederin, whose father is Thomas, coordinator of the national teams. You can also imagine, later on as a trainer. Because: “For me, this is not just a Sport but a passion.”