Christian Baude
Christian Baude 
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 Germany
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| birthday | October 6, 1982 | ||||
| place of birth | Suhl, German Democratic Republic
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| size | 175 cm | ||||
| Weight | 75 kg | ||||
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| society | BSR Rennsteig Oberhof | ||||
| Trainer | Frank Schenk | ||||
| National squad | since 2009 | ||||
| status | resigned | ||||
| End of career | 2012 | ||||
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| last change: April 14, 2020 | |||||
Christian Baude (born October 6, 1982 in Suhl ) is a German former luge and skeleton skier and current trainer. He has been the head coach of the German national skeleton team since April 2020.
Life
Christian Baude was a luge athlete from 1990 to 2008 and started for the BSR Rennsteig Oberhof . The Sports Soldier of the Bundeswehr ( Sergeant ) entered in the doubles with his partner Marcel Lorenz on. Baude / Lorenz already started together in the youth field, their greatest success during this time was a third place at the Junior World Championships in 2002. With a second place at the World Cup race in Oberhof in 2005, the duo qualified for the World Championships. There they reached a 12th place.
Baude switched to skeleton in 2008. At the German Championships in 2009 , he finished eighth. From the 2009/10 season he competed in the European Skeleton Cup . He contested his first race in Königssee , where he finished third behind Matthias Guggenberger and Alexander Kröckel . A day later he won his second European Cup race in the same place. In the two following races in Altenberg he was second behind Kröckel, as well as in the penultimate race of the season in Cesana Pariol behind Alexander Rotte . In the overall standings Baude only had to admit defeat to Kröckel and for his part relegated Rotte to third place. The following 2010/11 season went even better . Baude won five of the eight races of the season with the races in Cesana, Winterberg and Altenberg and was third in both races in Igls . Only in the last race of the season did he miss the podium in St. Moritz in ninth place. With 519 points, he won the overall ranking by exactly 100 points ahead of Anton Batujew and Maximilian Graßl .
In 2008, Baude began training as a trainer, which he completed in 2011. Since the desired connection to the world elite did not succeed, he ended his active career in 2012, was subsequently still active as a test driver for the Institute for Research and Development of Sports Equipment until the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and acted as a trainer for the German Skeleton European Cup -Team. In 2012 he took over the post of federal training base trainer skeleton at the Olympic base in Oberhof . There he looked after Christopher Grotheer , Fabian Küchler and Corinna Leipold, among others . On April 8, 2020, as the successor to Dirk Matschenz , he was appointed head coach of the German national skeleton team by the Bobsleigh and Sled Association for Germany .
Baude lives in Zella-Mehlis .
Web links
- Official website of Marcel Lorenz and Christian Baude ( Memento of March 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Christian Baude in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
- Personnel notification: BSD appoints Christian Baude as the new head coach skeleton. In: bsd-portal.de. Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany , April 8, 2020, accessed on April 14, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Baude, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German former luge and skeleton rider and current trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suhl |