Christian Rasp

Christian Rasp
nation	Germany
birthday	September 29, 1989
place of birth	Ochsenfurt ,  Germany
size	183 cm
Weight	97 kg
job	Police officer
Career
discipline	Two-man bobsleigh, four-man bobsleigh
position	Pusher
society	WSV Königsee
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 4 × 1 × 0 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold 2017 Königssee Four-man bobsleigh gold 2017 Königssee team  European bobsleigh championships gold 2017 Winterberg Four-man bobsleigh gold 2018 Innsbruck Four-man bobsleigh gold 2019 Königssee Four-man bobsleigh gold 2020 Winterberg Four-man bobsleigh silver 2019 Königssee Two-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup December 2016  World Cup victories 9
last change: February 28, 2017

Christian Rasp (born September 29, 1989 in Ochsenfurt ) is a German bobsleigh athlete and former athlete .

Career

Christian Rasp grew up in Mainbernheim in Lower Franconia and began his athletic career as a track and field athlete. His greatest successes as a sprinter were the German U23 championship titles in the 100 m and 200 m in 2010 and the nomination for the U23 European Championships in Ostrava in 2011 . His personal best over 100 m is 10.45 s from 2015.

In the same year, Rasp switched to bobsleigh and started as a pusher in Johannes Lochner's four-man bobsleigh . In the 2016/2017 season, Rasp was regularly used in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh in the World Cup and won several World Cup victories. At the 2017 World Championships , he won the gold medal in Johannes Lochner's four-man bobsleigh and gold in the team competition.

In the 2017/2018 season, Rasp was again European champion in the four-man bobsleigh and for the first time overall world cup winner in the four-man in Innsbruck . At the Winter Olympics in 2018 Rasp also went in the four at the start.

Private

Christian Rasp is a police officer. He lives and trains in Berchtesgaden.

Web links

• Christian Rasp in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Christian Rasp in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Christian Rasp in the database of European Athletics (English)
• Athlete profile at the BSD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=r/athlete=154782-rasp-christian/index.html
2. ^ German Olympic Sports Confederation, media and public relations: Detail - German Olympic team. Retrieved February 11, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Bavarian Police - Christian Rasp. Retrieved February 11, 2018 . 
4. ↑ http://www.wochenblatt.de/nachrichten/bgl/regionales/Rasp-sport;art66,332256