Matthias Guggenberger has been a permanent member of the Austrian national team since 2006. In his World Cup debut in January 2007, he finished 11th after a serious illness in Igls . In Winterberg , with a seventh place, he achieved his first place in the top 10 shortly afterwards. At his first European championship , Guggenberger drove from 17th place in the first run to 6th place with the fastest time in the second run. At the Junior World Championships in 2007, he finished fifth. Since then, Guggenberger has always been part of the Austrian World Cup team. In the 2008/09 season he achieved another single-digit placement with rank 6 in Königssee . In November 2009 he took part in a European Cup race in Königssee, where he celebrated his first victory in an international race. After a season of stable performance in the World Cup, including four top 10 placings and eighth place in the European Championship , Guggenberger took part in the Olympic Games , where he surprisingly came fourth after the first two runs and after four on the Whistler track Runs came eighth.
In the post-Olympic winter , Guggenberger was only able to achieve a single-digit World Cup placement on his home track in Igls. About a year later , however, he celebrated his first podium finish in the World Cup in Königssee with third place. With tenth place in the overall World Cup, he was among the top 10 in the final ranking for the first time; at the World Championships in Lake Placid he was 18. In the following two winters, his best results were a 10th place in January 2013 in Koenigssee and an 11th place in December 2013 in Lake Placid. He then took part in his second Olympic Games in Sochi in February 2014 , where he finished 14th. In the 2014/15 season he was placed in the top ten in five of the eight World Cup races, which, like three years earlier, earned him tenth place in the overall World Cup. At the 2015 World Championships in Winterberg, he finished 19th in the individual and sixth in the team competition. In 2016 Guggenberger was third in the team at the World Championships in Igls.
Guggenberger has been training the successful Latvian brothers Martins Dukurs and Tomass Dukurs since 2018/19. In the first season, Martins won the World Championship in Whistler and the European Championship in Innsbruck. In 2019/20 he was overall World Cup winner and European champion and his brother Tomass was vice European champion. In addition to the Latvian athletes, Guggenberger also trains the Austrian athlete Janine Flock, who won the European title in 2019. In 2019/20 Janine Flock won bronze both at the WW in Altenberg and at the EM in Sigulda. She also came second in the overall World Cup.
Guggenberger is also multiple Austrian and Tyrolean champions. His father is the former skeleton pilot Mario Guggenberger and his older brother is the former actor and child star Manuel Guggenberger (* 1980).
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