Maximilian Graßl lives in Schönau am Königssee . He started skeleton in 2007. At the start of the 2010/11 season , he made his debut in the European Skeleton Cup . In his first two races in Cesana in November 2010, he was first eleventh and then fourth. More races followed, in which he always achieved single-digit results. In Altenberg , behind Christian Baude and Pascal Oswald in the first race of the weekend, and behind Baude and Christopher Grotheer one day later, he was able to achieve podium finishes for the first time in third place.