Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf achieved their first international success by winning the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in 1999 in Hüttau . In winter 1999/2000 they won the overall ranking of the Intercontinental Cup, became Austrian champions in doubles and won the gold medal at the 2000 European Junior Championships in Umhausen . Here Wolfgang Schopf also took part in the single-seater, where he finished eighth.
The Schopf cousins started in the World Cup from the 2000/2001 season . In the first race on January 4th in Umhausen they reached second place, but only two sixth places followed in Unterammergau and Lüsen . The then 17 and 16 year old cousins caused a sensation in their first title fight in the general class, the 2001 World Championship in Stein an der Enns . With the fastest time in the second race, they left defending champions Armin and David Mair from Italy by nine hundredths of a second and became world champions in the doubles for the first time. A week later they were able to successfully defend their Junior European Championship and then they won the two remaining World Cup races in Moscow and Hüttau, relegating last year's winners Armin and David Mair to second place by 15 points and winning the overall World Cup in their first season.
In the 2003/2004 World Cup season , Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf achieved the same number of points as the Russians Porschnew and Lasarew with a third and three second places and a victory in Moscow on January 25th. But because they could show a better result, the overall World Cup victory went to the Russians and the Schopf cousins came second. At the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau they also had to admit defeat to the Russians Porschnew / Lasarew and their compatriots Denis Alimow and Roman Molwistow and won the bronze medal.
The 2004/2005 season was the last joint for Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf. They were able to finish the first three races of the season on the podium, but after that they were no longer among the top three and in the overall World Cup they finally took fourth place. At their last World Cup in Laces they were without a medal for the first time, because they only came tenth in the doubles and sixth in the team competition. In 2005 Wolfgang Schopf ended his career. Andreas Schopf then started with his brother Christian Schopf .
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