Kerstin Langkopf is a former German luge athlete . In the 1980s she was one of the best female luge athletes in West Germany.
Kerstin Langkopf was initially active as a junior. At the Junior World Championships in 1984 in Bludenz she was 21st, 1986 at Königssee 13th and 1988 in Olang ninth. She finished 13th at the 1985 European Junior Championships in Königssee, and in 1987 she was eighth in Sarajevo . In 1988 she came to her first assignment with women. At the European Championships in 1988 in Königssee, she was eleventh. In the team competition held for the first time at an EM, she won the title together with Georg Hackl , Johannes Schettel , Veronika Bilgeri , Thomas Schwab and Wolfgang Staudinger . At the 1989 World Championships in Winterberg , Langkopf missed another medal with Georg Hackl, Johannes Schettel, Margit Paar , Thomas Schwab and Wolfgang Staudinger in fourth place in the team. She was ninth in the individual race. After the reunification of Germany , it was no longer able to assert itself against national competition.
Langkopf won the national title in 1989, in 1986, 1987 behind Veronika Bilgeri and in 1990 behind Jana Bode she was runner-up.
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