Robert Fegg

Robert Fegg (born October 26, 1978 in Berchtesgaden ) is a German toboggan trainer and former luge athlete .

At the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, Fegg belonged to the extended world elite in the category of single-seaters in luge sport, but was mostly in the shadow of Georg Hackl , Jens Müller and Karsten Albert . In 1997 the sports soldier of the Bundeswehr from WSV Königssee , who has been tobogganing since 1986, won the gold medal in the individual and with the German team at the Junior World Championships. The following year he again won gold with the team and silver in the individual. At the 1999 Luge World Championships in Königssee he was fourth in the individual, only 22 thousandths of a second behind the winner of the bronze medal, Norbert Huber . With the team he won the silver medal. Two years later he finished fifth in the singles in Calgary . In the overall World Cup of the 2000/01 season , he was twelfth. At the German championships he was third in 1999 and runner-up in 2001. After his active career, Fegg became a coach and was one of the national coaches for Canada between 2003 and 2010. From 2010 to 2014 he was responsible for the development of the junior national team as junior head coach. From 2014 to 2018 he was part of the national coaching team of South Korea alongside Steffen Sartor to prepare the South Koreans for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . For the 2018/19 season, Fegg became the head coach of the US junior luge teams. In May 2020 he succeeded Bill Tavares in the position of head coach of the US national luge team.

Web links

• Robert Fegg in the database of the International Luge Federation
• Sandy Caligiore: USA Luge announces repositioning of coaching staff in advance of 2020-2021 competitive seasons. In: teamusa.org. Team USA, May 27, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 .