Today marks the start of the competition season that will take the luging team to the PyeongChang Olympic Games. The training director Armin Zoeggeler, who was also confirmed as the leader of Italia Team this year, has actually gathered nine World Cup athletes together for an athletic training session in Lana (BZ). There alongside the bronze medallist Dominik Fischnaller are Kevin Fischnaller, Ludwig Rieder, Emanuel Rieder, Patrick Rastner, Simon Kainzwaldner, Florian Gruber, Andrea Voetter and Sandra Robatscher. The training team is also made up of Oswald Haselrieder, Matthias Schnitzer and Wilfried Huber.


Over the past few weeks, the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) has made decisions regarding the list of trainers and athletes selected for the 2017/2018 season, confirming the entire team that won a total of four podiums at last year’s World Cup, including Dominik Fischnaller’s victory in the individual event on the piste of the
Alpensia Sliding Centre, where the Olympic medals will be awarded in February 2018.

Trainers
Training Director ZOEGGELER ARMIN
Coordinator DAMIAN KARL
Head coach BRUGGER KURT
Team A Coach HUBER WILFRIED
Team A Coach HASELRIEDER OSWALD
Team A Athletic Trainer SCHNITZER MATTHIAS
Team A Masseur TARTAGLIA ANTONIO
Junior/Youth Team Coordinator KOFLER KLAUS
Junior Team Coach WEISSENSTEINER GERDA
Junior Team Athletic Trainer TASCHLER GUENTHER
Team A material development coach BRISSONI CORRADO
Team A / Junior material development coach SIEDER KARL
Material development coach PLAIKNER WALTNER
Videographer SOBE HERMANN

Team A

MALE ATHLETES
FISCHNALLER DOMINIK 20/02/1993 C.S. CARABINIERI SECTION: SKIING
FISCHNALLER KEVIN 02/12/1993 C.S. ESERCITO
GRUBER FLORIAN 15/11/1994 C.S. CARABINIERI SECTION: SKIING
GRUBER PATRICK 31/01/1978 C.S. ESERCITO
GRUBER THEO 24/03/1996 A.S.V. VILLANDERS
KAINZWALDNER SIMON 24/02/1994 C.S. CARABINIERI SECTION: SKIING
OBERSTOLZ CHRISTIAN 08/08/1977 C.S. CARABINIERI SECTION: SKIING
RASTNER PATRICK 30/06/1993 C.S. CARABINIERI SECTION: SKIING
RIEDER EMANUEL 01/10/1993 C.S. CARABINIERI SECTION: SKIING
RIEDER LUDWIG 19/06/1991 C.S. CARABINIERI SECTION: SKIING

FEMALE ATHLETES
ROBATSCHER SANDRA 13/12/1995 C.S. ESERCITO
VOETTER ANDREA 03/04/1995 C.S. ESERCITO