Nico Walther

Nico Walther
nation	Germany
birthday	7th June 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Freital ,  GDR
size	188 cm
Weight	98 kg
job	Federal policeman
Career
discipline	Bobsleigh luge
society	BSC Sachsen Oberbärenburg
Trainer	Gerd Leopold
National squad	since 2013 (Bob)
status	resigned
End of career	March 1, 2020
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 3 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 0 × JWM medals Bob 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals sledding 4 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang four  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver 2015 Winterberg Four-man bobsleigh silver 2017 Königssee team bronze 2017 Königssee Four-man bobsleigh bronze 2019 Whistler Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2020 Altenberg Four-man bobsleigh  European bobsleigh championships silver 2016 St. Moritz Two-man bobsleigh silver 2017 Winterberg Four-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh Junior World Championships gold 2014 Winterberg Two-man bobsleigh  Junior Luge World Championships gold 2009 Nagano Two-seater gold 2009 Nagano team gold 2010 Igls Two-seater gold 2010 Igls team
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup Debut in the World Cup December 2014 World Cup victories 9 Overall World Cup two 2. ( 2015/16 ) Overall World Cup foursome 3. ( 2017/18 ) Overall World Cup combination 1. ( 2015/16 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  two 2 2 4th  four 7th 7th 6th
Placements in the Luge World Cup Debut in the World Cup January 2011 Overall World Cup 30. ( 2010/11 )
last change: end of season 2019/20

Nico Walther (born June 7, 1990 in Freital ) is a former German bobsleigh athlete and luge athlete .

Career

Nico Walther first started luge in 1996, where he achieved his greatest successes in the junior division in 2009 and 2010 with a total of four gold medals at junior world championships in doubles with Nico Grünneker and with the team relay. He also won the overall ranking in the Junior World Cup twice in a row in the same seasons. In the 2010/11 season Walther / Grünneker also started a race in the Luge World Cup and finished 16th in Königssee .

In 2011 Walther switched to bobsleigh and competed in the European Bobsleigh Cup for the first time in January 2013 . A year later, he clinched his first victory in the two-man bobsleigh in the 2013/14 European Cup and won the overall rankings in two-man, four-man and combined. In January 2014, he was also in the two-with brakeman Tino Paasche again junior world champion . In December 2014 he made his debut in the Bobsleigh World Cup and already reached the podium at the third World Cup station in Altenberg with a third place in a two-man and his first World Cup victory in a four-man. He achieved a total of five podium places and was fourth in the four-man bobsleigh and fifth in the two-man bobsleigh. In the combination, Walther was second behind the dominant Oskars Melbārdis . At the 2015 World Cup at the end of the season in Winterberg , Walther surprisingly won silver in a four-man behind Maximilian Arndt's team with Andreas Bredau , Marko Hübenbecker and Christian Poser , just 0.02 seconds behind .

At the start of the 2015/16 World Cup , he finished on the podium in the first three races in a four-man team, and celebrated his second World Cup victory in Königssee. In Königssee and Lake Placid , he also reached the podium in third and second in the small sled. In January 2016, he won another four in Park City . In the overall standings, Walther was the winner of the combination and second in the two-man bobsleigh. At the 2016 European Championships in St. Moritz , he and Christian Poser won the silver medal in the two-man bobsleigh. In the World Cup winter 2016/17 he achieved second places in Winterberg at the European Championships and in Königssee only two podium finishes, each in a foursome. At the World Championships in Königssee he won two medals with silver in the team and bronze in the foursome.

In the 2017/18 season , Walther won three races in the four-man and two in the two-man bobsleigh. Due to two disqualifications, no more than third place in the four-man jumped out in the overall rankings. At the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang , Walther won the four-man bobsleigh at the same time as South Korean Won Yun-jong, the silver medal in the four-man bobsleigh and achieved fourth place in the two-man bobsleigh with Christian Poser.

Without making it onto the podium in the two-man bobsleigh, Walther and Paul Krenz came third in the overall standings in the 2018/19 season . Thanks to the opening win in Winterberg and three other podium places, he finished fourth in the overall standings in the four-man bobsleigh. At the World Championships in Whistler , he then won the bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh.

A training fall in October 2019 in which Walther suffered a thoracic vertebra injury caused him to end his career at the end of the season. In the last competition on March 1, 2020, he won the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh at the World Championships in Altenberg .

Private

Walther lives in Dresden.

successes

World Cup victories

Two-man bobsleigh

No.	date	place	train
1.	0Nov 9, 2017	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
2.	Jan. 13, 2018	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina

Four-man bobsleigh

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan 15, 2015	Altenberg	DKB ice channel
2.	Dec 13, 2015	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
3.	Jan. 17, 2016	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
4th	Nov 17, 2017	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
5.	0Jan. 7, 2018	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
6th	Jan. 21, 2018	Winterberg	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
7th	Dec 15, 2018	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run

Web links

Commons : Nico Walther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nico Walther in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
• Nico Walther in the database of the International Luge Federation
• Nico Walther in the database of The-Sports.org (English)
• Profile as a bobsleigh pilot at the BSD
• Profile as a luge rider at the BSD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fall forces bobsleigh pilot Walther to take a compulsory break. In: sport.de , October 30, 2019.
2. ↑ Too much risk: Bobsleigh pilot Nico Walther ends his career. In: ran.de , March 1, 2020.