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André Lange (; born 28 June 1973) is a retired
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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 Fede ...
der and the most successful bob pilot of all time. Competing at the 2002, 2006 and 2010
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, he has won four gold and one silver medals. Lange originally started his sledding career as a luger, taking up bobsleigh in 1993. At the
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, Lange won the four-man event with teammates
Carsten Embach Carsten Embach (born 12 October 1968 in Stralsund) is a German bobsledder who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the four-man event with a gold in 2002 and a bronze in 1994. ...
, Enrico Kühn and Kevin Kuske. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Lange also won gold in the four-man event with teammates Kevin Kuske,
René Hoppe René Hoppe (born 9 December 1976 in Oelsnitz, Saxony) is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1998. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, he won a gold medal in the four-man event with teammates Kevin Kuske, André Lange, and Martin ...
and Martin Putze, in addition to winning the two-man event with Kuske. He competed in the
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, winning gold in the two-man and silver in the four-man events. Lange also won fourteen medals at the
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with eight golds (Two-man:
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; Four-man:
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, 2003,
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, 2008), four silvers (Two-man: 2000, 2005; Four-man:
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), and two bronzes (Two-man: 2004, Four-man: 2007). At the Bobsleigh World Cup level, he has won three combined men's championships (2000-1, 2002–3, 2003–4), one two-man championship ( 2007–08), and four four-man championships (2000-1, 2002–3, 2003–4, 2007–8). In April 2014 it was announced that Lange would become the head of the Thuringian Winter Sports Centre in Oberhof, which includes the DKB Ski Arena, the Oberhof sledding track, the Kanzlersgrund ski jumps and the town's indoor ski area, following the retirement of the previous head Wolfgang Filbrich that July. In May 2017 he announced that he was leaving this role. In August 2017 the Korea Luge Federation announced that Lange would join the South Korean luge team as a coach in October on a five-month contract to assist head coach Steffen Sartor to help prepare them for the
2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...
in
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Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080208132156/http://sports123.com/bob/mwc-4.html List of four-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985br>List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lange, Andre 1973 births Living people People from Ilmenau People from Bezirk Suhl German male bobsledders Sportspeople from Thuringia German sports coaches Olympic bobsledders of Germany Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf