Veronika Halder (born 14 October 1980 in
Hall in Tirol
Hall in Tyrol is a town in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol, Austria. Located at an altitude of 574 m, about 5 km (3 mi) east of the state's capital Innsbruck in the Inn valley, it has a population of about 13,000 (Jan 2013).
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) is an
Austrian
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 has competed since 2000. She won four medals at the
FIL European Luge Championships with two silvers (Mixed team:
2008
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,
2010
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) and two bronzes (Women's singles: 2008, Mixed team:
2004
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).
Halder competed in two
Winter Olympics, earning her best finish of fifth in the women's singles event at
Turin in
2006
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. Her best finish at the
FIL World Luge Championships was fifth in the women's singles event at
Nagano in
2004
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Events January
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.
References
Austrian luge team profile of Hadler
FIL-Luge profile
External links
*
1980 births
Living people
Austrian female lugers
Olympic lugers for Austria
Sportspeople from Hall in Tirol
Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
20th-century Austrian women
21st-century Austrian women
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