Kurt Brugger

Kurt Brugger

Kurt Brugger (born March 17, 1969 in St. Georgen near Bruneck , South Tyrol ) is a former Italian luge and mountaineer .

Kurt Brugger was a long-time member of the Italian luge team. With Wilfried Huber he won the gold medal in the doubles at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . In 1992 in Albertville and in 1998 in Nagano , they each took fifth place.

At world championships Huber and Brugger won three medals: in 1990 in Calgary they came second, in 1993 in Calgary and 1995 in Lillehammer, they took third place each. They won silver twice at European championships: 1992 in Winterberg and 1994 at Königssee .

Today Brugger is part of the coaching staff of the Italian national luge team.

successes

World Cup victories

Two-seater

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan. 11, 1988	Sarajevo	Trebevic - bobsleigh and sled run
2.	Feb 11, 1990	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
3.	Feb. 28, 1993	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
4th	0Dec. 4, 1994	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
5.	Feb 19, 1995	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
6th	Jan. 26, 1997	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
7th	Feb. 18, 2001	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid

Expeditions as a mountaineer

As an extreme mountaineer, he took part in the following expeditions:

• 1994 Broad Peak 8045 m
• 1999 Mount McKinley 6125 m
• 2003 Nanga Parbat 8125 m

Web links

• Kurt Brugger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )