Felix Hole

Felix Hole
nation	Germany
birthday	24th July 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Sonneberg ,  GDR
size	191 cm
Weight	95 kg
job	Police officer
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	RC Berchtesgaden
Trainer	Norbert Loch
National squad	since 2006 (senior squad)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 13 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 5 × 2 × 2 × JWM medals 4 × 1 × 0 × DM medals 5 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver Single seater gold 2014 Sochi Single seater gold 2014 Sochi team  Luge World Championships gold 2008 Oberhof Single seater gold 2008 Oberhof team gold 2009 Lake Placid Single seater gold 2009 Lake Placid team silver 2011 Cesana Single seater gold 2012 Altenberg Single seater gold 2012 Altenberg team gold 2013 Whistler Single seater gold 2013 Whistler team gold 2015 Sigulda team silver 2015 Sigulda Single seater gold 2016 Königssee sprint gold 2016 Königssee Single seater gold 2016 Königssee team silver 2019 Winterberg sprint gold 2019 Winterberg Single seater bronze 2019 Winterberg team  European Luge Championships bronze 2012 Paramonowo Single seater gold 2013 Oberhof Single seater gold 2013 Oberhof team gold 2015 Sochi team bronze 2015 Sochi Single seater gold Altenberg 2016 Single seater gold Altenberg 2016 team silver Sigulda 2018 Single seater silver Sigulda 2018 team  Junior Luge World Championships gold 2006 Altenberg Single seater gold 2006 Altenberg team gold 2007 Cesana Single seater gold 2007 Cesana team silver 2008 Lake Placid Single seater German championships bronze 2008 Oberhof Single seater gold 2009 Königssee Single seater gold 2010 Winterberg Single seater gold 2012 Altenberg Single seater gold 2014 Winterberg Single seater gold 2016 Königssee Single seater
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2006 (in Park City )  World Cup victories 39 (without relay)  Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2017/18 )  Challenge Cup ES 10. ( 2008/09 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 33 16 9  Sprint single seater 6th 1 3  Challenge Cup singles 0 1 1  Team relay 28 5 4th
last change: end of season 2018/19

Felix Loch (born July 24, 1989 in Sonneberg ) is a German luge athlete . In his career so far in the single-seater and with the team, he has won three Olympic gold medals , 13 world championship titles , five European championship titles and six times the overall World Cup .

Background and career

Felix Loch, son of the German national toboggan trainer Norbert Loch , starts for the RC Berchtesgaden and lives in Schönau am Königssee . Loch proved his talent early on. In 2002 he reached second place in the German championships in the age group "Youth B" in the doubles. In the following year he repeated this success and was also champion in the single seater. He also won the single-seater title in 2004 and 2005 as an A-youth. In the 2004/05 season he was second in the overall A-Juniors World Cup.

2005/06 season In the 2005/06 season Loch started in the Junior World Cup and won four races, finished second twice and won the overall World Cup. In 2006 he was junior world champion in the single seater and in the team in Altenberg .

2006/07 season With the resignation of Denis Geppert, he moved into the extended circle for the World Cup in the 2006/07 season. On his first appearance in Park City , he was tenth. On December 7th, 2006 he reached the sixth and so far best place in Königssee . A ninth place followed in Oberhof , and finally a seventh place in Altenberg. With this and winning the junior world championship title in individual and in a team at the end of January 2007 in Cesana , he qualified for the world championships in Innsbruck-Igls at the beginning of February . There the at that time only seventeen year old came in a good ninth place for him.

2007/08 season In the 2007/08 season he was able to steadily improve and consolidate his performance in the World Cup and qualified again for the World Championships in Oberhof. On January 26, 2008, when he was only 18 years old, he won his first world title. This makes him the youngest luge world champion to date. Shortly before that, he was sixth, second-best German starter at the 2008 European Championships in Cesana. At the Junior World Championships in Lake Placid in 2008, he finished second behind Wolfgang Kindl . In 2008, he and Natalie Geisenberger were honored with the Bavarian Sports Prize in the category “Outstanding young athletes”.

Felix Loch after his victory at the 2008 Luge World Championships in Oberhof

2008/09 season On October 25, 2008, Loch in Königssee was German champion 2009 in single seater. On February 7, 2009, he defended his world title in Lake Placid . Only Georg Hackl and Armin Zöggeler achieved this before him . At the World Cup in Königsee, Felix Loch was able to take third place on the podium for the first time in January 2009 . In the next World Cup in Cesana he reached second place. After four more podium places, he finished fourth in the overall World Cup.

2009/10 season On October 31, 2009 he defended his title at the German Championships . On December 5, 2009 , Loch achieved the first World Cup victory on the Altenberg track after two fourth places at the beginning of the season. Here, Loch was also part of the winning team relay and thus won his first victory in this discipline. In the course of the season, a second and third place followed and at the end of the season, the third place in the overall World Cup. The culmination of his career so far came on February 14, 2010, when Loch won the single-seater Olympic champion at the Olympic Games in Vancouver .

2010/11 The first competition of the season 2010/11 hole won in Innsbruck-Igls, plus the race in Oberhof and Altenberg. He also stood on the podium two more times. He was second in the overall World Cup at the end of the season. Felix Loch won the silver medal at the 2011 World Championships after being in the lead after the first round.

2011/12 season In the 2011/12 season , Loch won the World Cups in Innsbruck, Whistler , Königsee, Oberhof, Winterberg and Sigulda , plus a second place in Calgary . With the victory in Sigulda, he was able to secure the overall World Cup victory for the first time one race before the end of the season. At the Luge World Championships 2012 in Altenberg , Felix Loch won his third individual world championship title and his third title in a team competition. At the European Championships in Paramonowo he won the bronze medal in individual.

2012/13 season At the beginning of the 2012/13 season , Felix Loch won the World Cup opener in Innsbruck and the races in Altenberg and Oberhof. The latter was rated as the 2013 European Championship , where Loch secured the European Championship for the first time on January 13th. On the same day, he also won the title with the team relay around Natalie Geisenberger and the two-seater duo Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken . He also won both possible titles at the 2013 World Championships on the track in Whistler.

2013/14 season In the 2013/14 winter , Loch was victorious in five World Cup races and won the overall standings for the third time. At the Olympic Games in Sochi he won the gold medal again by a clear margin. On February 13, 2014, he was again Olympic champion in the team relay together with the single-seater driver Natalie Geisenberger and the two-seater drivers Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt . At the closing ceremony, Loch had the honor of carrying the German flag into the Olympic Stadium. For these achievements, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on May 8, 2014 by Federal President Joachim Gauck .

2014/15 season He was able to make the start of the season successful and won both the normal men's race and the men's sprint in Innsbruck-Igls . Before the 2015 Luge World Championships , he was able to win three more individual races and drove to the World Championships in Sigulda as the World Cup leader . There he had to surrender to the Russian Semyon Pavlichenko on February 15, 2015 . In the relay competition he was able to cross the finish line as part of the German team, ahead of Russia and Canada. At the end of the season he was able to win the overall men's world cup for the fourth time in a row.

Season 2015/16 The season started rather mixed. His first victory was only on the fourth World Cup station in Calgary . After that he was able to start a strong series and was able to win seven competitions in a row. With this he laid the foundation for his fifth overall World Cup victory in a row. At the Luge World Championships in 2016 on the Königssee artificial ice rink , he was able to win all three gold medals and is therefore also the first world champion in the sprint race, which was held for the first time.

Season 2016/17

Hole at the award ceremony for the Luge World Cup in Altenberg (February 2017)

The 2016/17 season was not Felix Loch's season. He could only win one normal World Cup race and one sprint race during the season. For this reason, he did not travel to the 2017 Luge World Championships in Innsbruck as a favorite. For the first time since the 2007 World Championships, where he competed at the age of seventeen, he was without a medal. In the overall men's world cup , he finished second behind the Russian Roman Repilow .

2017/18 season In the 2017/18 winter , Loch was victorious in four World Cup races and won the overall standings for the sixth time. At the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang he led the single-seater competition until the last run, but fell back to fifth after a driving error in the fourth run. He missed the chance to catch up with his mentor Georg Hackl , who had won gold in the individual three times in a row.

2018/19 season In the 2018/19 season he kept track of his form for a long time, until the World Championship he was unable to win any race except in the relay and was only on the podium twice. At the 2019 Luge World Championships in Winterberg , he won the entire set of medals and was individual world champion for the sixth time, setting Armin Zöggeler's record . On February 2, 2019, he won his first World Cup race in Altenberg in over a year.

successes

Olympic games

• 2010 : in a single seater
• 2014 : in the single seater and in the team relay
• 2018 : 5th place in a single seater

World championships

• 2008 : in the single seater and in the team relay
• 2009 : in the single seater and in the team relay
• 2011 : in a single-seater
• 2012 : in the single-seater and in the team relay
• 2013 : in the single seater and in the team relay
• 2015 : in the single seater and in the team relay
• 2016 : in sprint, single seater and team relay
• 2019 : in the single-seater, in the sprint and in the team relay

Overall World Cup

Play media file

Hole at the finish of the second round of the 2015 World Cup in Altenberg, where he won the overall World Cup for the 2014/15 season.

season	space	Points
2006/07	16.	0211
2007/08	06th	0297
2008/09	04th	0480
2009/10	03.	0484
2010/11	02.	0658
2011/12	01.	0815
2012/13	01.	0650
2013/14	01.	0685
2014/15	01.	0975
2015/16	01.	0940
2016/17	02.	0748
2017/18	01.	0923
2018/19	03.	0685
2019/20	07th	0482

World Cup victories

Single seater

Team relay

No. date place train 1. 0Dec 5, 2009  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 2. Nov 28, 2010  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 3. Jan 15, 2011  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 4th Jan. 23, 2011  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 5. Nov 27, 2011  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 6th 0Dec 9, 2011  Whistler Whistler Sliding Center 7th 0Jan. 6, 2012  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 8th. Jan 15, 2012  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 9. Jan. 21, 2012  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 10. Feb. 18, 2012  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 11. Nov 25, 2012  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 12. 0Dec 9, 2012  Altenberg DKB ice channel 13. Jan. 13, 2013  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 14th 23 Nov 2013  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 15th 0Dec 7, 2013  Whistler Whistler Sliding Center 16. 0Jan. 5, 2014  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 17th Jan. 12, 2014  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 18th Jan. 19, 2014  Altenberg DKB ice channel 19th Nov 29, 2014  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 20th Nov 30, 2014  Innsbruck (sprint) Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 21st 0Jan. 3, 2015  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 22nd Jan. 17, 2015  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 23. Jan. 24, 2015  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 24. Feb 22, 2015  Altenberg DKB ice channel 25th Feb 22, 2015  Altenberg (sprint) DKB ice channel 26th 19 Dec 2015  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 27. 19 Dec 2015  Calgary (Sprint) Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 28. Jan. 10, 2016  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 29 Jan. 16, 2016  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 30th Jan. 17, 2016  Oberhof (sprint) Oberhof luge track 31. 0Feb 7, 2016  Sochi Sliding Center Sanki 32. Feb 13, 2016  Altenberg DKB ice channel 33. Nov 27, 2016  Winterberg (Sprint) Winterberg bobsleigh run 34. 04th Feb 2017  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 35. Nov 26, 2017  Winterberg (Sprint) Winterberg bobsleigh run 36. 0Dec 2, 2017  Altenberg DKB ice channel 37. 0Dec 8, 2017  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 38. Jan. 14, 2018  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 39. 0Feb. 2, 2019  Altenberg ENSO ice channel

No. date place train 1. 0Dec 6, 2009  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 2. 0Jan. 3, 2010  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 3. Jan. 16, 2011  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 4th Jan. 23, 2011  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 5. Dec 10, 2011  Whistler Whistler Sliding Center 6th Jan 15, 2012  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 7th Jan. 22, 2012  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 8th. 0Dec 9, 2012  Altenberg DKB ice channel 9. Dec 16, 2012  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 10. Nov 24, 2013  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 11. 0Dec 8, 2013  Whistler Whistler Sliding Center 12. Dec 15, 2013  Park City Utah Olympic Park 13. 0Jan. 5, 2014  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 14th 0Dec 6, 2014  Lake Placid Lake Placid bobsled run 15th 0Jan. 4, 2015  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 16. Jan. 18, 2015  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 17th Jan. 25, 2015  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 18th 0Feb. 1, 2015  Lillehammer Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run 19th 01st Mar 2015  Sochi Sliding Center Sanki 20th Jan. 10, 2016  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 21st Feb 14, 2016  Altenberg DKB ice channel 22nd 0Feb. 5, 2017  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 23. Feb. 26, 2017  Altenberg DKB ice channel 24. 19 Nov 2017  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 25th 03rd Dec 2017  Altenberg DKB ice channel 26th 0Dec 9, 2017  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 27. Jan. 14, 2018  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 28. 0Dec 8, 2018  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park

European championships

• 2012 : in a single seater
• 2013 : in the single seater and in the team relay
• 2015 : in the single-seater and in the team relay
• 2016 : in the single seater and in the team relay
• 2018 : in the single seater and in the team relay

Junior World Championships

• 2006: in the single seater and in the team relay
• 2007: in the single seater and in the team relay
• 2008: in a single seater

German championships

• 2007: 4th place in the single-seater
• 2008: in a single seater
• 2009: in a single seater
• 2010: in a single seater
• 2012: in a single seater
• 2014: in a single seater
• 2016: in a single seater

Wok World Cup

At the 8th edition of Stefan Raab's Wok World Championships 2010, Felix Loch came 4th in the “single wok” after Georg Hackl, Joey Kelly and Christian Clerici . In 2011 he was second after Georg Hackl and before Lucy Diakovska .

Web links

Commons : Felix Loch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Felix Loch's website
• Felix Loch on the website of OK Sotschi 2014 (English, French, Russian)
• Statistics and profile on fil-luge.com
• Profile on rennrodeln.info

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy of the previous homepage ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 .