Christian Steger from Polisportiva Vipiteno has been an active skeleton athlete since the mid-1990s. He contested his first international race in 1996 as part of the Skeleton World Championship in Calgary , where he was 26th. This was followed by his debut in the Skeleton World Cup , where the Italian finished 15th in his first race at Lake Placid . The 1997 World Cup in Lake Placid brought a 23rd place. In 1998 , when he was 19th in St. Moritz , he only made a slight improvement. Also in Altenberg in 1999 as the 22nd and in Igls in 2000as 21st he could place himself in this area. In his last world title fights, Steger achieved his best result in this competition in 2001 when he came 12th in Calgary. A tenth place in the World Cup, achieved in Park City in 2001, was the best result. It stayed with the one-time placement among the top ten. Mostly it was in the range between 15 and 25, better results were rare, worse results not much more common. Steger contested the last of his 23 World Cup races in December 2001. The highlight and international conclusion in the Italian's career was his participation in the 2002 Winter Olympics , where skeleton was again an Olympic Games for the first time in 48 years. Steger drove to 19th place.
Nationally, Steger was one of the most successful athletes in the second half of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. He became champion in 1998, runner-up in 1996 and 1999, and third in the national championships in 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2003. After the Italian championships in 2003, Steger ended his active career.
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