Felix Loch is considered to be the youngest world champion in luge.
Multiple world and European championships, Olympic victories and other awards show his success.
Felix Loch
entered
a toboggan run for the first time
at the age of five
.
At the age of 18 the
luge rider
became
world champion
for the first time
.
13 world championship, five European championship and three
Olympic
victories mark only a small part of his sporting successes.
The German
luge rider Felix Loch
was born on July 24, 1989 in Sonneberg and now lives in Schönau am Königssee.
As a multiple
world champion
and
Olympic champion
, he celebrates
success
both in the
single-seater
and in the
team
.
At the age of five, his father
Norbert Loch took
the athlete to the toboggan run for the first time.
Loch was not satisfied with sledding on a wooden sledge.
Early on, he was tempted to ride the high-tech sled through the ice channel.
His father, then the Bavarian regional luge trainer and former luge athlete at the Olympics for the GDR, granted him this request.
In his first years in tobogganing, Felix Loch was considered too light, also due to his small body size.
In this regard, the competition had the edge at the beginning.
But with his later height of 1.90 m, he was able to leave this disadvantage behind.
Felix Loch gets his first title and becomes world and Olympic champion
Since 1996, the proceeds
lugers
for the RC Berchtesgaden at the start.
His first big success happened in 2002. At the German championships he reached second place in the
doubles
in the B-youth
.
The following year he was able to defend his place and was also champion in the
single seater
.
He also successfully defended his championship title the following year.
In 2008 Felix Loch won his first world title.
At just 18 years of age, he is the youngest luge world champion to this day.
Also in the following year in Lake Placid he reached first place at the world championship.
The third individual victory title followed at the 2012 Luge World Championships in Altenberg.
But before that he achieved his first Olympic victory.
In 2010, Felix Loch took part in the Olympic Games in Vancouver and emerged as the winner in the single-seater.
Further successes of the luge
On January 13th 2013 the time had come and the
luge rider
became European champion for the first time in Altenberg and Oberhof, both individually and in a
team
.
In both categories he won the world championship again in the same year.
In 2014 he again celebrated successes at the Olympics in Sochi and achieved first place in the team with Natalie Geisenberger, Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl.
After
Felix Loch
won the relay competition together with the German team in the following 2015 World Cup and won three gold medals on the artificial ice rink in Königssee, a less victorious phase followed.
During the Luge World Championship in Winterberg 2019 he was back in top form and won the entire set of medals.
He won the individual world title for the sixth time, surpassing the record of the Italian luge driver Armin Zöggeler.
Felix Loch, his honors and his private life
At the closing ceremony of the 2014 Olympic Games,
Felix Loch was given
the honor of carrying the German flag into the stadium.
In addition, the then Federal President Joachim Gauck presented the
luge athlete with
the silver laurel leaf for his sporting successes on May 8, 2014.
These include:
13 gold medals at the German Championships
5 times gold at the European Championships
4 times gold at the Junior World Championships
13 gold medals at the World Championships
45 World Cup victories
3 times gold at the Olympics
On April 29th, 2016, Felix Loch and his partner tied the knot.
Both met in 2010 in Munich.
The couple's first child, Lorenz, was also born in 2016.
Two years later the second son
Ludwig was
born.
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By Sophie Neumärker
