Sebastian Huber (bobsledder)

Sebastian Huber
nation	German Empire
birthday	June 26, 1901
place of birth	Füssen ,  German Empire
date of death	March 6, 1985
Place of death	Füssen ,  BR Germany
Career
discipline	Four-man bobsleigh
position	Pusher
society	SC Riessersee
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze St. Moritz 1928 Four-man bobsleigh bronze Lake Placid 1932 Four-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold Oberhof 1931 Two-man bobsleigh gold Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1934 Four-man bobsleigh gold St. Moritz Four-man bobsleigh

Sebastian "Wastl" Huber (born June 26, 1901 in Füssen ; † March 6, 1985 there ) was a German bobsleigh driver . He won two Olympic medals and was world champion twice.

Career

Sebastian Huber was Hanns Kilian's pusher for several years at SC Riessersee . He first took part in the Olympic Games in St. Moritz in 1928. In the five-man bobsleigh with Hanns Kilian, Valentin Krempl , Hans Heß , Sebastian Huber and Hans Nägle , he won the bronze medal behind the bobsleighs from the United States. In 1930 Kilian and Huber won their first German championship title in the two-man bobsleigh . In the following year, the two became German champions in the four-man bobsleigh with Fritz Schwarz and Hans Jocher . In 1931, a bobsleigh world championship in the two-man bobsleigh was held in Oberhof for the first time , and Kilian won the title together with Sebastian Huber. At the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1932, the two-man and four-man bobsleigh competitions that are still common today were held for the first time. Kilian and Huber took fifth place with the two-man bobsleigh, with the four-man bobsleigh in the line-up of Kilian, Max Ludwig , Hans Mehlhorn and Huber, they again won bronze behind two US bobsleighs.

In 1934 the bobsleigh world championship in four-man bobsleigh took place on Kilian's house track in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Kilian won the title together with Fritz Schwarz, Hermann von Valta and Sebastian Huber. The following year, Alexander Gruber was in the bobsleigh instead of Sebastian Huber . At the Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 , Huber was there again, but Kilian only took seventh place.

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970.
• Volker Kluge : Olympic Winter Games, the chronicle . Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-328-00631-1 .

Web links

• Sebastian Huber in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World Championships two-man bobsleigh ( Memento from July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• World Championships four-man bobsleigh ( Memento from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• German Bobsleigh Championships