Carina Schwab comes from a luge family. Her father Martin Schwab was a luge athlete and is the assistant coach of the German junior national team. For a long time he was his daughter's exercise bike. Her uncle Thomas Schwab was a successful tobogganist, national trainer for Germany and is currently Secretary General of the Bobsleigh and Sled Association for Germany . Carina Schwab lives in her birthplace and started working for the local RC Berchtesgaden . The sports soldier has been a member of the German national team's B squad since the 2010/11 season .
Schwab won the first race in the Youth A World Cup in the 2005/06 season. In 2007 she was third in the overall junior World Cup. A year later, she improved to second place and also won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Lake Placid . In 2009 she improved by one place and won the overall ranking of the Junior World Cup and was vice world champion of the junior women in Nagano . In 2010 Schwab won the junior world champion title in Igls and again took second place in the overall junior world cup.
Schwab started sporadically with women since the end of the 2000s. At the German Championships 2009 - the championships are always held the year before and form part of the World Cup qualification - she placed sixth behind the World Cup starters Tatjana Hüfner , Natalie Geisenberger , Stefanie Sieger , Anke Wischnewski and Corinna Martini . In the period that followed, Sieger and Martini were to be their direct competitors for fourth place in the World Cup and were initially ahead of her in the two following seasons. Schwab was only tenth at the 2010 DM . In 2011 she reached fifth place, leaving Steffi Sieger behind. Because Martini was also injured, the number five in the German team was able to qualify for the World Cup for the first time this season. She contested her first race at the start of the season in Igls, where she finished seventh and thus immediately achieved a single-digit position. In her second race in Winterberg Schwab was able to improve two places. In the following races of the season she always drove to single-digit positions, in Königssee and Oberhof she just missed a first podium finish in fourth place. She achieved this on February 12, 2011 in Paramonowo , when she was second and therefore best German in the victory of Canadian Alex Gough - the first World Cup success for a non-German in more than 13 years.
After missing the qualification for the German World Cup team for the 2013/14 season , Carina Schwab announced her immediate retirement from luge in November 2013.
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