When the World Cup was held for the first time in the 1992/1993 season , Obrist was one of the world's best in this racing series from the start. This winter he made it onto the podium in all five World Cup races, achieved two third and two second places as well as one victory in Welschnofen and thus became the first overall World Cup winner in a single-seater ahead of Gerhard Pilz and Erhard Mahlknecht. In the 1993/1994 season he was able to repeat this success with three victories in Bad Goisern, Szczyrk and Welschnofen, but had to share the overall victory with Erhard Mahlknecht. At the 1993 European Championships in Stein an der Enns , Obrist won the bronze medal and at the 1994 World Championships in Gsies, behind Gerhard Pilz, the silver medal in the single-seater, which was the fourth time in a row that he was on the podium in championships.
The World Cup season 1994/1995 began Obrist with a victory in Negaunee , came in the other three races (this winter only four World Cup races were held) once in second and once thus achieved third place and in the World Cup behind compatriot Manfred tombs second Space. At the European Championships in 1995 in Kandalakscha he missed the medal ranks with fifth place, but he won the last European Cup in Olang . In his last World Cup season in 1995/1996 , Obrist finished on the podium in three of six races. He achieved two third places in Landskron and Latsch and a second place in the second race in Landskron and thus finished fourth in the overall World Cup. At the 1996 World Cup in Oberperfuss , he won the bronze medal.
Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years FIL 1957 - 2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tapeII . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p.285-407 .
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