David Mair (natural track luger and skeleton racer)

David Mair (born July 26, 1980 in Meran) is an Italian luger and former skeleton racer. He competed until 2002 as a natural track luger, then until 2007 as a skeleton racer and switched back to natural track luge in 2009.

Natural track career

As a natural track luger, Mair won a bronze medal at the FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1999, a gold medal at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2000 and a silver medal at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 in the Men's doubles with his brother Armin Mair. He also won a gold medal at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 in the mixed team event.

After five years as a skeleton racer he gave his comeback as a natural track luger in 2009.

Skeleton career

In 2002 Mair switched to skeleton.^[1] In 2007 he finished seventh in the team event at the FIBT World Championships.

References

• FIL-Luge profile including his results since 2009 (Note: all his results until 2002 are mistakenly in the FIL-Luge profile of the artificial track luger of the same name)
• FIBT profile

1. ^ Russian double wins gold – Mair/Hofer take surprise silver. FIL, January 29, 2005