Max Langenhan

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Max Langenhan Luge
Max Langenhan (2018)
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 21st February 1999 (age 21)
size 188 cm
job Sports soldier
Career
discipline Single seater
society BRC 05 Friedrichroda
National squad since 2018
status active
Medal table
Luge U23 European Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Luge Junior World Championships 3 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior European Luge Championship 4 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Luge U23EMTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze 2020 Lillehammer singles
FIL Junior Luge World Championships
silver 2017 Sigulda Team relay
bronze 2017 Sigulda singles
gold 2018 Altenberg singles
gold 2018 Altenberg Team relay
gold 2019 Igls singles
silver 2019 Igls Team relay
FIL European Junior Luge Championships
gold 2017 Oberhof singles
gold 2017 Oberhof Team relay
gold 2018 Winterberg singles
gold 2018 Winterberg Team relay
Placements in the Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 2018
 Overall World Cup ES 9. ( 2019/20 )
 Challenge Cup ES 12. ( 2018/19 )
last change: end of season 2019/20

Max Langenhan (born February 21, 1999 ) is a German luge rider . Langenhan is a sports soldier and lives in Ernstroda . He starts for the BRC 05 Friedrichroda .

Juniors

Max Langenhan was successful at a national level early on, for example, he won the FIL Summer Luge Cup in the male A youth class in 2014. He made his international debut in January 2015 in the youth A world cup. When he made his debut in Oberhof , he was only defeated by Lucas Geyer in a four-fold German triumph. This was followed by a third place in Igls and again a second place behind Geyer in Winterberg . He finished seventh overall in just three races.

In 2015/16 Langenhan advanced to the Junior World Cup. After a fall at the start of the season in Lillehammer , he came third on the difficult Sigulda track behind Daniil Lebedew and Jonas Müller . In the remaining races of the season he did not reach the podium again, but was never worse than ninth place, which he reached in Igls. During the season Langenhan also played his first international championships. At the 2016 Junior European Championships in Altenberg , he finished fifth, and at the 2016 Junior World Championships in Winterberg, he finished sixth. In the overall ranking of the Junior World Cup, he was also sixth.

The 2016/17 season was extremely successful for Langenhan. After he was only eighth at the start of the season in the Junior World Cup in Igls, he won the following race in Oberhof. It was also the 2017 European Junior Championships . Together with Jessica Tiebel and the two-seater Hannes Orlamünder and Paul Gubitz , he also won the gold medal with the German team relay later in the day. This was followed by the 2017 Junior World Championships in Sigulda, where Langenhan won the bronze medal behind Kristers Aparjods and Nico Gleirscher . In addition, he was again used together with Tiebel and Orlamünder / Gubitz in the team relay and won with this behind the representation from Russia. In Altenberg and Winterberg he won the two remaining races of the season in the Junior World Cup both in the single-seater and with Tiebel and Johannes Pfeiffer and Nico Semmler and Orlamünder / Gubitz with the team relay. With only two points behind Evgeniy Petrov , he was third in the overall standings of the racing series.

the winning German team relay at the 2018 Junior World Championships

The 2017/18 season was Langenhans last in the junior division. It was triumphant, he won all the races he competed in: two races in Oberhof in the Junior World Cup, the race at Königssee , two races in Igls and Winterberg. In Igls and Winterberg, he also won the German team relay, which included Cheyenne Rosenthal and Orlamünder / Gubitz in Igls , Rosenthal and Hendrik Seibert and Calvin Luke Meister in Winterberg. The races in Winterberg were also the 2018 Junior European Championships . The season finale and highlight were the 2018 World Championships in Altenberg. In a four-fold German success, Langenhan won the single-seater title ahead of David Nößler , Paul-Lukas Heider and Moritz Bollmann . He also won the team relay title with Tiebel and Orlamünder / Gubitz.

In 2018 Langenhan was in the final selection for junior athletes of the year, but the award went to trampoline gymnast Lea-Jasmin Riecke .

Men

Langenhan at his first World Cup race in Igls in 2018

After Andi Langenhan - who is not related to Max Langenhan - resigned after the Olympic Games and Ralf Palik had also ended his career, young up-and-coming drivers moved up to the vacant positions in the squad, above all Langenhan and Sebastian Bley . With a sixth place he was able to qualify for his first World Cup race without any problems during his first appearance in the Nations Cup and finished in 12th place. He qualified for his first race in the Sprint World Cup, which he finished in sixth place with his first single-digit World Cup placement. This was followed by Langenhan's first World Cup North American tour. In Calgary he was 16th, in Lake Placid after a good fourth place in the Nations Cup 14th, which he was again qualified for the sprint race, in which he was 14th again. After the turn of the year, he continued the season at this level, was fifth in the Nations Cup and 15th in the main race, and in Sigulda he was also 15th. In Igls, Langenhan competed in the Junior World Championships for the last time . On the Innsbrucker Bahn he defended his title from last year in front of Bastian Schulte and Lukas Gufler . With Cheyenne Rosenthal as well as Hannes Orlamünder and Paul Gubitz he then won the silver medal in the team relay race behind Austria. In Oberhof he returned to the World Cup as 22nd after missing the race in Altenberg due to the Junior World Championships. At the season finale in Sochi , he reached his second top ten placement in tenth and qualified as one of only eight tobogganists for the third and final sprint race of the season, in which he was 12th. He finished eighth in the overall ranking of the Sprint World Cup and 17th in the overall World Cup ranking with 300 points.

Langenhan at the World Cup race in Oberhof in February 2020
After the race during the interview

In the 2019/20 season , Langenhan was not only able to confirm, but also improve, his performances from the previous season. Only at the start of the season did he have to qualify for the World Cup race via the Nations Cup, after which he always belonged to the group of the seeded. As in the previous season, he was 12th at the start of the season in Austria. The overseas races followed, where he once again managed to achieve a single-digit position in Lake Placid in ninth place. He was also the best German. He qualified again for the sprint race, in which he was tenth. In Whistler Langenhan finished eleventh and sprint eighth. After the turn of the year, the good trend in Altenberg continued and Langenhan equalized his best World Cup result to date and finished sixth. At the next race in Norway, he finished 12th. It was also the 2020 European Championships , in which he was eleventh, in the separate U-23 classification he was third behind Kristers Aparjods and Jonas Müller. In Sigulda, too, he again missed the top ten positions in eleventh place, but qualified for the sprint race for the third time in the season, in which he was ninth. In the season only six drivers were able to achieve all three sprint races, Langenhan finished fourth in the overall standings and was the best German in the standings. He was 12 again in Oberhof. Then he took part in the world championships for the first time in Sochi . With 21st place he stayed below expectations, but was fourth in the separate U-23 classification behind Jonas Müller, Kristers Aparjods and Jonathan Gustafson . At the weather-related chaos race in Winterberg, in which the Austrians and the US-Americans withdrew their teams due to the adverse conditions, he was seventh as well as at the season finale at Königssee and was able to conclude the season in a forgiving way. In the overall World Cup ranking, Langenhan finished ninth with 462 points, just two points behind Reinhard Egger and 20 points behind Felix Loch .

Statistics and Achievements

Successes at championships

Award ceremony at the FIL Summer Luge Cup in Ilmenau 2018: with Johannes Ludwig and Andi Langenhan

U23 world championships

U23 European Championships

Junior World Championships

  • 2017 : bronze singles, silver team relay
  • 2018 : Gold individual and team relay
  • 2019 : Gold Singles and Silver Team Relay

Junior European Championships

  • 2017 : Gold individual and team relay
  • 2018 : Gold individual and team relay

German championships

FIL Summer Luge Cup

  • 2014: Winner Youth A male
  • 2018: third

Placements in the overall World Cup

season World cup Points Sprint World Cup Nations Cup
2018/19 17th 300 8th. 12.
2019/20 09. 462 4th 51.

Web links

Commons : Max Langenhan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Max Langenhan. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  2. ^ JWM tobogganing: Gold for Nagler / Malleier and the German team - ENSO Eiskanal Altenberg. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Lea-Jasmin Riecke is junior athlete of the year. October 8, 2018, accessed on July 23, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Max & Andi, the two Langenhans. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Sport1.de: Tobogganing: Felix Loch disappointed in Lake Placid - Langenhan finished ninth. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Luge World Championship is casting its shadow ahead. February 12, 2020, accessed July 23, 2020 .
  7. ^ Tim Reynolds: US, others pull out of the Luge World Cup, citing safety. February 21, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Langenhan, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German luge rider
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1999