Martin Lachkoviks ( German: Martin Lachkovics , January 25, 1975 , Vienna ) is an Austrian athlete and bobsledder , who played for the Austrian national team in various disciplines and forms from 1995 to 2012. Participant of two summer Olympic games, repeated winner of national championships, medalist of the World Cup.
 Martin Lahkoviks | |
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| general information | |
| Date and place of birth | January 25, 1975 (44 years old) Vein |
| Citizenship |  Austria |
| Growth | 178 cm |
| Weight | 92 kg |
| Club | Lcc wien |
| Sports career | 1995-2007 |
| IAAF | |
| Personal records | |
| 100 m | 10.26 (2000) |
| 200 m | 20.48 (1999) |
Biography
Martin Lahkoviks was born on January 25, 1975 in Vienna . Even in school age he became interested in sports, joined the local athletics club and began to actively engage in sprint running. Success came to him in 1995, when he became the champion of the national championship in the 4x400 m race. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , where he ran the 4 × 100 m relay, nevertheless , the Austrian team was unable to go beyond the first round. Over the next four years, the athlete remained one of the best sprinters in Austria, three times became the champion in the 100 meters, two times won at the distance of 200 m, three times in the relay 4 × 100 m and four times in the relay 4 × 400 m. In 2000, he went to the Olympics in Sydney , where he represented Austria at distances of 100 and 200 m - in the first case he reached the stage of quarter finals.
Lahkoviks continued his career as an athlete until 2007, although recently he has not won anything and rarely got to the largest international starts. His last victories in athletics date back to 2003, when he once again became the champion of Austria at a distance of 100 m and for the eighth time in a row won the relay in a 4x400 m relay.
Having lost the leadership in athletics, Martin Lahkoviks decided to try his hand at bobsled, in 2006 he passed the selection to the national team as an accelerator and began to go to the most prestigious world starts. In December, he made his World Cup debut, at the stage in Canadian Calgary, showing the eighth time with a two-seater crew and the tenth with four-seater, while in the subsequent stages he almost always got into the top ten. At the 2007 World Championships in Switzerland, St. Moritz finished with four Jurgen Loaker thirteenth. The following season, he won the first world cup medal, bronze with two at the stage in Calgary. At the 2008 World Championships in German Altenberg was ninth with a deuce and eighth with a four. Lakhkoviks performed adequately at the World Cup stages, so in November 2009 he took another bronze medal, arriving third with four at the stage in the American Lake Placid, but did not get to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver . Subsequently, he participated in the races of the World Cup in Königssee, where he finished thirteenth with a four-seater crew, but in 2012, after several unsuccessful stages of the world cup, he decided to end his career as a professional athlete.
Links
- Martin Lahkoviks - profile on the IAAF website
- Martin Lahkoviks (German) (English) - page on the FIBT website
- Martin Lahkoviks - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com