Maximilian Arndt

Maximilian Arndt
nation	Germany
birthday	July 23, 1987
place of birth	Suhl ,  GDR
Career
discipline	Two, four
position	pilot
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 1 × EM medals 3 × 1 × 1 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships bronze 2012 Lake Placid two silver 2012 Lake Placid four silver 2012 Lake Placid team gold 2013 St. Moritz four gold 2015 Winterberg four  European bobsleigh championships silver 2012 Altenberg two gold 2012 Altenberg four gold 2013 Igls four gold 2016 St. Moritz four bronze 2016 St. Moritz two
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2010  Overall World Cup two 2. (2011/12)  Overall World Cup foursome 1. (2013/14, 2015/16)

Maximilian Arndt (born July 23, 1987 in Suhl ) is a former German bobsleigh athlete . His greatest successes were victories at the world championships in four-man bobsleigh in 2013 and 2015 .

Career

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Maximilian Arndt from BSR Rennsteig Oberhof started bobsleigh in 2003. The team of his pushers consists of René Teuert, Cliff Denner, Florian Kunze and Fabian Gneupel. At the Junior World Championships in 2007 he won the title in the two-man bobsleigh and the silver medal in the big sled. In 2008 he was able to repeat the silver medal in the four-man bobsleigh, but just missed another medal in fourth place in the small sled. Nationally he won the junior title in 2006 and 2007 and was second in the four in 2007 behind Oliver Harraß .

In December 2006, Arndt made his debut in the European Bobsleigh Cup with Lucas Kuske as a pusher and was 12th in Königssee . In January, he achieved a first single-digit placement in Winterberg with pusher Jens Nohka with fifth place. In November 2007, he won his first European Cup race in the two-man bobsleigh in Igls . In December 2008 he was able to win a European Cup race for the second time with pushing Denner in Altenberg . In 2010 Arndt became Junior World Champion in the two-man bobsleigh and came third in the four-man. On his World Cup debut in November 2010 on the difficult track in Whistler , he achieved a good fifth place in the two-man bobsleigh with Martin Putze and two days later in a four-man came second behind Olympic champion Steven Holcomb . His successful bobsleigh was pushed by René Teuert , Martin Putze and Alexander Rödiger . In the following races in Calgary and Lake Placid , he achieved two more podium places in the four-man bobsleigh. At the Junior World Championship in 2011 he won the title in a four-man and finished second in a two-man.

In the winter of 2011/12 Maximilian Arndt won his first World Cup race on January 8, 2012 in Altenberg in the four-man bobsleigh. Two weeks later he won in St. Moritz with both bobsleighs. He finished second in the overall World Cup and also won the combined ranking. At the 2012 Bobsleigh World Championships in Lake Placid , he won the bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh with Kevin Kuske , the silver medal with the German team with Steven Deja and the silver medal in the four-man bobsleigh with Alexander Rödiger , Kevin Kuske and Martin Putze . A year later, he and his crew won the title at the World Championships in St. Moritz in the four-man bobsleigh. In 2012 , 2013 and 2016 Arndt also became European champion in the four-man bobsleigh.

In June 2016, Arndt announced his retirement from competitive sports. He is a police master and was a member of the sports promotion group of the Thuringian police .

Arndt married his long-time girlfriend Annemarie in the summer of 2018. The couple have three daughters together and live in Oberhof.

successes

Placements by season

season	World cup			WM			EM		OS
	four	two	Comb.	four	two	team	four	two	four	two
2010/11	12.	14th	14th	4th	-		-	-
2011/12	2.	2.	1.	2.	3.	2.	1.	2.
2012/13	4th	22nd	11.	1.	10.	-	1.	-
2013/14	1.	11.	4th						6th	15th
2014/15	3.	18th	11.	1.	-	-	5.
2015/16	1.	10.	2.	7th	12.	-	1.	3.

World Cup victories

Two-man bobsleigh

Four-man bobsleigh

No. date place train 1. Jan. 21, 2012  St. Moritz Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina

No. date place train 1. 0Dec 1, 2011  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 2. 0Jan. 8, 2012  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 3. Jan. 22, 2012  St. Moritz Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina 4th 0Jan. 6, 2013  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 5. Jan. 20, 2013  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 6th 0Jan. 4, 2004  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 7th 0Jan. 5, 2004  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 8th. Dec 13, 2014  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 9. 0Jan. 9, 2015  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 10. 0Jan. 9, 2016  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 11. 0Feb 7, 2016  St. Moritz Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina 12. Feb 28, 2016  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink

Web links

• Bobsleigh team Arndt
• Maximilian Arndt in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 11/27/2010 4:00 p.m. WC 4 Men Bob Whistler. FIBT , November 28, 2010, accessed November 29, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Luge and bobsleigh: Geisenberger and Arndt win world title for the first time. In: Deer Spiegel online. February 3, 2013, accessed February 8, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Arndt defends European title in the four-man bobsleigh. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung online. February 3, 2013, accessed February 8, 2013 . 
4. ↑ DPSK office at the World Cup ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the German Police Sports Board. Retrieved June 18, 2013