Ernesto Maier (sometimes shown as Ernst Mair, born 1946) was an Italian

luge A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh for s ...

r who competed during the late 1960s and the early 1970s. He won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 1967 FIL World Luge Championships in Hammarstrand,

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. Maier also finished eighth in the men's doubles event at the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe ...

in Sapporo.

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Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton.
*Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Luge: Men's Two-seater". In ''The Complete Book the Olympics: 1896-1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 576. Italian male lugers Lugers at the 1968 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 1972 Winter Olympics 1946 births Olympic lugers for Italy Living people Sportspeople from South Tyrol {{Italy-luge-bio-stub