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Wilfried Huber (born 15 November 1970 in Bruneck, South Tyrol) is an Italian luger and coach who competed from 1985 to 2010. Together with Kurt Brugger, he won the men's doubles event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. He competed in both doubles and singles, but enjoyed his greatest success in doubles in partnership with Brugger. He made his debut in the Luge World Cup in 1986-87 season. He also took two medals at the World Junior Championships in Olang in 1988, a silver and a bronze. He competed in six Winter Olympics, in 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006: he was aiming to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics, however he was not selected by the Italian team's head coach Walter Plaikner, and retired at the end of the season.[1]

Wilfried Huber

Huber in 2018
Medal record
Men's luge
Representing  Italy
Olympic Games
	1994 Lillehammer	Men's doubles
World Championships
	1990 Calgary	Men's doubles
	1995 Lillehammer	Mixed team
	1993 Calgary	Men's singles
	1993 Calgary	Men's doubles
	1995 Lillehammer	Men's doubles
	1996 Altenberg	Mixed team
	1997 Igls	Mixed team
European Championships
	1994 Königssee	Mixed team
	1992 Winterberg	Men's doubles
	1994 Königssee	Men's doubles
	1998 Oberhof	Mixed team
	1996 Sigulda	Mixed team

Huber also won seven medals at the FIL World Luge Championships, including two silvers (Men's doubles: 1990, Mixed team: 1995) and five bronzes (Men's singles: 1993, Men's doubles: 1993, 1995; Mixed team: 1996, 1997). At the European Luge Championships, he won five medals with one gold (Mixed team: 1994), three silvers (Men's doubles: 1992, 1994; Mixed team: 1998) and one bronze (Mixed team: 1996).

In the Luge World Cup, Huber's finished second overall four times in the men's doubles championship (1989–90, 1992-3, 1994-5, 1997-8) and third overall once in the men's singles championship (1996-7).

After retiring from competition, he joined the coaching staff of the Italian national luge team.[1]

He also had siblings who were involved in bobsleigh and luge. Günther won gold in the two-man bobsleigh event (shared with Canada) at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Norbert won two Winter Olympic medals in men's doubles luge in the 1990s: in 1994 he took the silver behind his brother.[1] Arnold won the men's singles world championships at Winterberg in 1991.

References

• 1988 luge men's doubles results
• 1992 luge men's doubles results
• 1998 luge men's doubles results
• 2002 luge men's singles results
• 2006 luge men's singles results
• DatabaseOlympics.com profile on Huber.
• http://www.fil-luge.org/News-Detail.155.0.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=10669&tx_ttnews[backPid]=45&cHash=dd3f4e331c (FIL-Luge.org 7 July 2009 article on Huber's qualifying efforts for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. - accessed 10 July 2009.)
• FIL-Luge profile
• Fuzilogik Sports - Winter Olympic results - Men's luge
• Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skeleton.
• Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton.
• List of European luge champions (in German)
• List of men's doubles luge World Cup champions since 1978.
• List of men's singles luge World Cup champions since 1978.

External links

• Wilfried Huber at the International Luge Federation
• Wilfried Huber at Olympics.com
• Wilfried Huber at Olympic.org (archived)
• Wilfried Huber at Olympedia

На других языках

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- [en] Wilfried Huber

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[fr] Wilfried Huber

Wilfried Huber, né le 15 novembre 1970 à Brunico, dans la province autonome de Bolzano, dans le Trentin-Haut-Adige, est un ancien lugeur italien.

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[it] Wilfried Huber

Wilfried Huber (Brunico, 15 novembre 1970) è un ex slittinista italiano, tra i pochi atleti ad aver partecipato ad almeno sei edizioni dei Giochi olimpici.

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[ru] Хубер, Вильфрид

Вильфрид Хубер (нем. Wilfried Huber, род. 15 ноября 1970 года в Брунико, Италия) — итальянский саночник, олимпийский чемпион 1994 года в двойках, 7-кратный призёр чемпионатов мира, чемпион Европы. Участник 6 подряд зимних Олимпиад (1988—2006).

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