Christoph Regensburger

	Christoph Regensburger
	; Christoph Regensburger at the Austrian championships 2010
nation	Austria
birthday	March 11, 1993
Career
discipline	Two-seater, single-seater
society	SV Umhausen
National squad	since 2008
status	resigned
Medal table
Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships
Natural track toboggan junior European Championship
	Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 11, 2009
Overall World Cup DS	2. ( 2015/16 )
	last change: May 5, 2020

Christoph Regensburger (born March 11, 1993 ) is an Austrian natural toboggan runner . He achieved his greatest successes together with Thomas Kammerlander in a two-seater. In 2009 and 2013 they became European junior champions and Austrian national champions and 2010 junior world champions . They achieved eight podium finishes in the World Cup and came second overall in the 2015/16 season . Together with Dominik Holzknecht , he became junior world champion in the doubles for the second time in 2012 .

Career

Christoph Regensburger took part in competitions in the Intercontinental Cup from the 2007/2008 season. In the single-seater he drove four times this winter under the fastest 20 and was 15th in the overall classification; in the two-seater he only contested one race with Michael Kalchschmied , which they finished in sixth position. At the Junior World Championships in Laces in 2008 he competed in the doubles with Thomas Kammerlander, who was three years older than him, and also achieved sixth place there.

From the 2008/2009 season , Christoph Regensburger started in the World Cup together with Thomas Kammerlander . In all five World Cup races they took part in this winter, they finished in the top ten, with three seventh places being their best results. They achieved eighth place in the overall World Cup. On January 4th, 2009 Christoph Regensburger and Thomas Kammerlander became Austrian champions in two-seater on the Grantau natural toboggan run in Umhausen . A month later they won the gold medal at the 2009 Junior European Championships in Longiarü , 2.4 seconds ahead of their team mates Rupert Brüggler and Tobias Angerer .

At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season , Regensburger / Kammerlander achieved their best result in the World Cup with fifth place in the opening race in Nowouralsk . In the further course of the season a sixth and two seventh places followed, but due to a failure in Umhausen they only came eighth in the overall World Cup, as in the previous year. For the first time they also started at an international championship in the general class and achieved fifth place at the 2010 European championship in St. Sebastian . Here Christoph took Regensburg in single-seat part and finished 19th in the junior class were again successful Regensburg / Kammerlander when she in the Junior World Cup 2010 in German furnace the gold medal by a margin of 57 hundredths of a second to Dominik and Dieter Apolloner won. In addition, Regensburg was ninth in the single-seater.

Since the end of the 2009/2010 season, Christoph Regensburger and Dominik Holzknecht have started in a two-seater. After they had already achieved second place in their first joint Intercontinental Cup race in February 2010, they finished second in all IC Cup races in the 2010/2011 season and thus won the overall standings. At the end of winter they came to their first joint World Cup in Olang , where they finished eighth. At the European Junior Championships 2011 in Laas , the duo won the silver medal behind the Russians Maxim Zwetkow and Denis Moissejew ; Regensburger finished twelfth in the single-seater.

At the Junior World Championship 2012 in Latsch , Regensburger / Holzknecht secured the gold medal in the doubles. In addition, Christoph Regensburger was fourth in the single-seater. In the Intercontinental Cup in the 2011/2012 season, Regensburger reached third place overall in the single-seater and second in the doubles with Holzknecht, while in the World Cup in winter 2011/2012 the only result of the Regensburger / Holzknecht duo was ninth place in Olang.

successes

World championships

Deutschnofen 2013 : 17th single-seater
Sankt Sebastian 2015 : 4th two-seater (with Dominik Holzknecht)
Vatra Dornei 2017 : 5th two-seater (with Dominik Holzknecht)

European championships

St. Sebastian 2010 : 5th two-seater (with Thomas Kammerlander), 19th single-seater
Umhausen 2014 : 5th two-seater (with Dominik Holzknecht)
Passeier 2016 : 4th two-seater (with Dominik Holzknecht)

Junior World Championships

Latsch 2008 : 6th two-seater (with Thomas Kammerlander)
Nova Ponente 2010 : 1st two-seater (with Thomas Kammerlander), 9th single-seater
Latsch 2012 : 1st two-seater (with Dominik Holzknecht), 4th single-seater

Junior European Championships

Longiarü 2009 : 1st two-seater (with Thomas Kammerlander)
Laas 2011 : 2nd two-seater (with Dominik Holzknecht), 12th single-seater
Nowouralsk 2013 : 1st two-seater (with Dominik Holzknecht), 3rd single-seater

World cup

2nd place overall in the doubles in the 2015/16 season
3rd place overall in the doubles in the 2014/15 season
8 podium places

Austrian championships

Austrian champion in two-seater 2009

Web links

Commons : Christoph Regensburger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Christoph Regensburger in the database of the International Luge Federation

personal data
SURNAME	Regensburg, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian natural track toboggan runner
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1993