Günther Huber (born 28 October 1965) is an Italian

bobsledder 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 ...

who competed in the 1990s. Before taking up bobsledding, he had originally started his sporting career in

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, with his most notable result being a third place in doubles in the 1982 World Junior Luge Championships: he switched to bobsleigh in 1988.

Biography

Huber was a member of

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. He competed in four

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and won two medals in the two-man event with one gold (with

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, shared with

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and

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) and one bronze (with

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). Huber also won two medals in the two-man event at the

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with a gold in

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and a silver in

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. His World Championship title came at the end of a troubled four-month period during which his bobsleigh was stolen, and then first Tartaglia and his replacements

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and Enrico Costa were injured, with the later finally being replaced by

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. Huber took his first World Cup podium during the 1991-92 season with a third in the two-man event at St. Moritz, and scored his first World Cup race win in another two-man race at

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the following season. He won the

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championship three times (Two-man: 1991-2, 1992-3; Combined men's: 1996-7). He also took six medals at the

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, including two golds, one each in two-man and four-man competition. In addition he won eight Italian national titles, seven in two-man and one in four-man. Huber is a bobsleigh coach for the Italian national team as of 2008. He is the brother of lugers

Arnold Huber Arnold Huber (born 11 September 1967 in Bruneck, South Tyrol) is an Italian luger who competed during the 1990s. He won five medals at the FIL World Luge Championships, including one gold (Men's singles: 1991), two silver (Mixed team: 19 ...

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and

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References

Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964

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* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080409025356/http://sports123.com/bob/mwc-4.html List of four-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
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