Johannes Ludwig (luger)

John Ludwig
nation	Germany
birthday	February 14, 1986 (age 35)
place of birth	Suhl ,  German Democratic Republic
size	187 cm
Weight	88kg
job	law enforcement officer
Career
society	BSR Rennsteig Oberhof in WSV Oberhof 05
national squad	since 2006
status	active
medal table
Olympic medals 2× 0× 1× World Cup medals 2× 0× 1× EM medals 0× 3× 2×
winter Olympics bronze Pyeongchang 2018 single seater gold Pyeongchang 2018 team relay gold Beijing 2022 single seater  Luge World Championships bronze Whistler 2013 singles gold Igles 2017 team relay gold Sochi 2020 team relay  European Luge Championships bronze Sigulda 2010 team relay bronze Oberhof 2013 singles silver Sigulda 2014 singles silver Oberhof 2019 team relay silver Sigulda 2021 singles
Placements in the Luge World Cup
World Cup debut 2006  World Cup victories 10 (without team relay)  Overall World Cup ES 1st ( 2021/22 )
podium finishes 1. 2. 3.  single seater 10 9 11  Sprint single seater 0 1 3  team relay 3 2 0
last modified: February 6, 2022

Johannes Ludwig (born February 14, 1986 in Suhl ) is a German luger . His greatest achievement is winning the gold medal in the single seater at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Sporting career

Johannes Ludwig starts for the BSR Rennsteig Oberhof , which is affiliated with the WSV Oberhof 05 eV . The chief police officer at the Federal Police Sports School in Bad Endorf has been luging since 1992. He completed his studies in business administration ( Bachelor of Arts ) at the University of Applied Management. He trains at the Federal Police Sports School in Bad Endorf and at the Bundeswehr Sports Promotion Group in Oberhof. In 2005 he won the overall ranking of the Junior World Cup, a year later he was third and fourth at the Junior World Championships. In the 2006/07 season , the Thuringian competed in his first season in the World Cup, finishing eleventh overall. His best results came in Park City , Calgary , and Winterberg , finishing fifth, eighth, and seventh, respectively. In the other races he was always classified in the top 20. At the 2007 World Championships in Innsbruck-Igls he finished 11th. Also in the 2007/08 season he was eleventh overall and improved his personal best to fourth place at the race in Altenberg . In 2008/09 , Ludwig confirmed this best performance by coming fourth in Whistler , and improved to eighth place overall. The 2009/10 season brought the final breakthrough to the top of the world. At World Cup races in Cesana as third place and in Oberhof as second he made his first podium places and won in Winterberg with the team relay. At the 2010 European Championships in Sigulda , he finished sixth and won the bronze medal in the team relay. After Ludwig only competed in six of the nine races in the World Cup in the 2010/11 season and only finished in the top ten once, the 2011/12 season became more successful again. At the 2012 World Championships in Altenberg , he narrowly missed out on a medal in fourth place. The following winter he got a few third places in World Cup races. At the 2013 European Championships in Oberhof, he won the bronze medal behind Felix Loch and Andi Langenhan ; also at the 2013 World Championships in Whistler.

On November 27, 2016, at the beginning of the 2016/2017 season , he achieved his first World Cup victory at the World Cup in Winterberg. In the 2017/2018 season he celebrated his greatest sporting successes at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang . On February 11, 2018, he won the bronze medal in the single seater . He benefited from a serious driving error made by his teammate Felix Loch in the fourth run, which meant that he dropped from 1st place to 5th place, while Ludwig moved up from 5th place to bronze in the last race. As the best-placed driver in the individual races, Ludwig was seeded for the team relay in accordance with the regulations of the German Luge Association. Together with Natalie Geisenberger and the doubles Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt , Ludwig won the gold medal at the end of the luge competition in Pyeongchang. At the start of the 2018/2019 season, on November 28, 2018 in Innsbruck-Igls, he achieved his second World Cup victory when he was able to confirm his joint best time with Semjon Pawlitschenko in the first run and in the second run. In the 2019/2020 season , Ludwig achieved his third World Cup victory on January 26, 2020 at a curious World Cup in Sigulda , Latvia , when after 21st place in the first run due to difficult external conditions - the track became increasingly slower in the course of the second run - still up drove up the 1st place. Just as oddly, Ludwig also clinched his fourth World Cup victory just a week later at his home race in Oberhof . This time he even managed to move up to first place with a 24th place after the first run in constant rain. Just one day later, together with Anna Berreiter and the doubles Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, he achieved his second World Cup success in the team relay – ten years after his first triumph.

He won the first two races of the 2021/22 season on the Olympic tracks in Yanqing and Sochi . He also achieved victories in Innsbruck-Igls, Winterberg and Oberhof. One race before the end of the World Cup season, he secured victory in the overall World Cup for the first time. The biggest success of his career is winning the gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

private

Johannes Ludwig is married and lives with his wife and two children in Walsrode , Lower Saxony .

successes

World Cup victories

singles

No.	date	location	rail
1.	Nov 26, 2016	winter mountain	Winterberg bob run
2.	Nov 28, 2018	innsbruck	Artificial ice rink Bob-Toboggan Igls
3.	Jan 26, 2020	Sigulda	Toboggan run Sigulda
4.	Feb 1, 2020	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
5.	Feb 22, 2020	winter mountain	Winterberg bob run
6.	Nov 20, 2021	Yanqing	Yanqing National Sliding Center
7.	Nov 28, 2021	Sochi	Sliding Center Sanki
8th.	18 Dec 2021	innsbruck	Artificial ice rink Bob-Toboggan Igls
9.	Jan 1, 2022	winter mountain	Winterberg bob run
10	Jan 15, 2022	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track

team relay

No.	date	location	rail
1.	Jan 10, 2010	winter mountain	Winterberg bob run
2.	Feb 2, 2020	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
3.	Jan 16, 2022	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track

launch records

Due to his athleticism, Ludwig is one of the fastest starters in the toboggan world cup and holds the start record on seven toboggan runs (as of January 3, 2021).

location	rail	date	time
Lillehammer	Lillehammer Olympiske Bob- og Akebane	13 Dec 2009	4.366s
Calgary	Bobsleigh and luge track at Canada Olympic Park	Dec 11, 2010	4,780s
innsbruck	Artificial ice rink Bob-Toboggan Igls	Nov 27, 2011	5,319s
whistler	Whistler Sliding Centre	Dec 9, 2011	6,930s
Sigulda	Toboggan run Sigulda	Jan 26, 2014	4.548s
Altenberg	Altenberg luge and bobsleigh track	Feb 11, 2015	7,040s
Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink	Nov 21, 2020	3.252s

web links

Commons : Johannes Ludwig  – Collection of images

• home page

itemizations

1. ↑ sport1.de - Winter sports - Ludwig rounds off a strong weekend . Retrieved January 26, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} sport1.de – Olympia 2018 – Why Loch gambled away two gold medals . Last accessed January 26, 2020.
3. ↑ sport1.de – Olympia 2018 – team relay wins ninth gold medal . Retrieved January 26, 2020.
4. ↑ moz.de – Tobogganer Ludwig wins season opener . Retrieved January 26, 2020.
5. ↑ sportschau.de - Winter sports - Winter sports news on Sunday: Crazy catch-up race by tobogganer Ludwig . Retrieved January 26, 2020.
6. ↑ ^{a b} sport1.de – winter sports – tobogganing – Ludwig wins chaos race . Last accessed February 2, 2020.
7. ↑ Crazy toboggan race: Ludwig from 20th place to victory. In: Sports show. 28 November 2021, retrieved 29 November 2021 . 
8. ↑ Sledding with the competition. In: FAZ.NET. January 15, 2022, retrieved January 15, 2022 . 
9. ↑ [1] . Last accessed January 27, 2020.