Alexander Rödiger (born 14 May 1985) is a German

bobsled Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...

der who has competed since 2006. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the

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. Rödiger also won a silver medal in the four-man event at the

FIBT World Championships 2009 The FIBT World Championships 2009, officially known as the Bauhaus FIBT Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships, February 20 to March 1, 2009, at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Lake Placid, New York, for the ninth time, doing so prev ...

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. Rödiger was part of the four-man crew that set start and track records at the 2008-09 Bobsleigh World Cup season opener in

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. His only other

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victory was at the

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in December 2006 and that was also in the four-man event. Rödiger also finished second in the four-man event at the Junior FIBT World Championships in 2008.

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* * * * 1985 births Living people People from Eisenach German male bobsledders Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Thuringia {{Germany-bobsleigh-bio-stub