Anna Berreiter
Berreiter in 2020
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (1999-09-03) 3 September 1999
Berchtesgaden, Germany[1]
Height168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight72 kg (159 lb)[1]
Websiteannaberreiter.de
Sport
CountryGermany
SportLuge
EventSingles
ClubRC Berchtesgaden[2]
Coached byPatric Leitner
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking3rd in Luge World Cup (2022–23)
Medal record
Women's luge
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2022 BeijingSingles
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 OberhofSingles
Gold medal – first place2023 OberhofTeam relay
Silver medal – second place2021 KönigsseeSprint
Bronze medal – third place2023 OberhofSprint
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 SiguldaSingles
Silver medal – second place2023 SiguldaTeam relay
Bronze medal – third place2024 IglsSingles
World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Singles 4 3 5
Sprint 0 0 1
Team relay 2 3 0
Total 6 6 6
  • Updated as of 26 February 2023

Anna Berreiter (born 3 September 1999) is a German luger. She is the 2023 World and European Champion and silver medallist at the 2022 Winter Olympics. A two-time Under-23 World Champion, Berreiter was also part of the German squad that took the World team relay title in 2023 and has won further 1 silver and 1 bronze medals in sprint discipline at the World Championships level. She is the youngest woman to win a Luge World Cup race, and so far, has won 4 individual races in her World Cup career.

Career

Berreiter started luge when she was eight years old. She is a member of the RC Berchtesgaden club.[2]

Youth and junior career

Berreiter represented her country at various age categories. She made her debut in the Youth-A World Cup in December 2015 in her home track Königssee. She finished the first race in second-place while her teammates completed all-German top 5.[3] After a mediocre ninth-place in Innsbruck, she won the other two races of the season in Altenberg and Oberhof.[4] In the following season, Berreiter was promoted to the Junior World Cup but she was unable to fully match her impressive youth performance in her new age group. She was 16th in her first race in Innsbruck, and finished 5th and 6th respectively in Oberhof and Winterberg.[5]

In the 2017/18 season, after fifth-place finishes at the opening two races in Oberhof, Berreiter was runner-up to Jessica Tiebel in Königssee and reached her first podium in the junior level. In the following two races in Innsbruck, she achieved two more podium results by finishing third in both. She was 6th in the last World Cup race of the season in Winterberg, which was also the Junior European Championships,[6] and finished the season in third-place in the overall standings behind Cheyenne Rosenthal and Lisa Schulte.[7] At the 2018 Junior World Championships in Altenberg, Berreiter missed the medals and finished 5th despite recording the 2nd best time in her second run.[8]

Berreiter made a very successful start to her last junior season by winning the two singles races in Park City,[9] as well as the two team relay races.[10][11] In the following race in Calgary she was second by only 0.002 seconds,[12] and she grabbed her fourth consecutive junior World Cup podium at the Junior European Championship race in St. Moritz with a third-place finish.[13] She was behind two other European athletes and therefore won the bronze medal,[14] which was her first ever international medal in any age group.[2] In the team relay, she won the European title with her teammates David Nößler, Hannes Orlamünder and Paul Gubitz.[14] In the Junior World Cup tour; Berreiter was the overall leader by 69 points before the season finale in Oberhof, but she gave away the title to Tatiana Tcvetova after crashing out in the first run,[15] and dropped to third place in the overall rankings.[16]

Berreiter at her first ever World Cup race in Innsbruck in 2019.

Senior career

2019/20 season: World Cup debut and first victory

Berreiter advanced to the German senior World Cup team in 2019/20 season following the retirement of Tatjana Hüfner and the maternity leaves of the Olympic medalists Natalie Geisenberger and Dajana Eitberger.[17][18] She made her World Cup debut on 23 November 2019 in Innsbruck, the first race of the season, and finished the race in seventh-place.[19] Before the third stage of the season in Whistler, Berreiter – as a newcomer – had to qualify for the main race through the Nations Cup due to her lack of sufficient World Cup points from the previous races. In Whistler, despite her little experience in North American tracks, she was able to win the Nations Cup race and earned her first success in senior level.[20] In the singles race she finished second to Tatiana Ivanova and reached the first World Cop podium of her career in her 3rd ever World Cup singles race.[21] She followed that up with a fifth-place finish in the sprint race which was her seasons best in this discipline.[19]

On 2 February 2020, Berreiter celebrated her first World Cup victory in Oberhof.[22] She became the youngest ever female luger to win a World Cup race at the age of 20 years and 152 days, overtaking Natalie Geisenberger who won her first race when she was 20 years and 313 days.[23] After setting the fastest time in both of the runs in the singles race,[24] Berreiter earned her spot in the team relay squad and helped Germany to capture their first team relay victory of the season.[25]

Luge results

All results are sourced from the International Luge Federation (FIL) and German Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton Federation (BSD).[19][2]

Olympic Games

  • 1 medal (1 silver)
Event Age Singles Team relay
China 2022 Beijing22Silver—

World Championships

  • 4 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Event Age Singles Sprint Team relay
Russia 2020 Sochi206th9th—
Germany 2021 Königssee214thSilver—
Germany 2023 Oberhof23GoldBronzeGold

World Cup

Season Singles Sprint Team relay Points Overall Singles Sprint
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6
2019–20 Innsbruck
7		 Lake Placid
15		 Whistler
2		 Altenberg
10		 Lillehammer
13		 Sigulda
10		 Oberhof
1		 Winterberg
5		 Königssee
1		 Lake Placid
11		 Whistler
5		 Sigulda
11		 Innsbruck
–		 Altenberg
–		 Lillehammer
–		 Oberhof
1		 Winterberg
–		 Königssee
1		 637 4th — 7th
2020–21 Innsbruck
–		 Altenberg
–		 Oberhof
–		 Winterberg
9		 Königssee
4		 Sigulda
17		 Oberhof
3		 Innsbruck
–		 St. Moritz
–		 Innsbruck
–		 Winterberg
13		 Innsbruck
–		 Innsbruck
–		 Altenberg
–		 Oberhof
–		 Königssee
–		 Sigulda
–		 St. Moritz
CNX		 223 19th 19th 20th
2021–22 Yanqing
4		 Sochi
1		 Sochi
4		 Altenberg
3		 Innsbruck
4		 Winterberg
4		 Sigulda
10		 Oberhof
3		 St. Moritz
7		 Sochi
5		 Innsbruck
3		 Sigulda
10		 Yanqing
–		 Sochi
2		 Altenberg
–		 Winterberg
–		 Oberhof
–		 St. Moritz
–		 723 4th 4th 4th
2022–23 Innsbruck
5		 Whistler
5		 Park City
4		 Sigulda
4		 Sigulda
1		 Altenberg
2		 Winterberg
2		 St. Moritz
3		 Winterberg
3		 Innsbruck
9		 Park City
5		 Winterberg
5 		Whistler
–		 Sigulda
–		 Sigulda
2		 Altenberg
–		 St.Moritz
– 		Winterberg
2 		789 3rd 3rd 6th
Standings through 29 January 2023

European Championships

U23 World Championships

  • 2020 Sochi – 1st place, gold medalist(s) in Singles
  • 2021 Königssee – 1st place, gold medalist(s) in Singles

Junior World Championships

Junior European Championships

German Championships

  • 2018 Winterberg – 6th in Singles
  • 2019 Oberhof – 2nd place, silver medalist(s) in Singles
  • 2020 Königssee – 5th in Singles
  • 2021 Altenberg – 2nd place, silver medalist(s) in Singles
  • 2022 Oberhof – 1st place, gold medalist(s) in Singles

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Anna Berreiter". teamdeutschland.de. Team Deutschland. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
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  3. ↑ "3. Junioren / Jugend A Weltcup Rennrodeln". eisarena-knigssee.de (in German). Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  4. ↑ "2015/16 Youth-A Luge World Cup – Women's Overall Rankings" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  5. ↑ "2016/17 Junior Luge World Cup – Women's Overall Rankings" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "Überragendes FIL Junioren-Weltcup-Finale Rennrodel". veltins-eisarena.de (in German). Winterberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "2017/18 Junior Luge World Cup – Women's Overall Rankings" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  8. ↑ "2018 Junior Luge World Championships – Women's Results" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  9. ↑ "Anna Berreiter gewinnt zwei Junioren-Weltcups". berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de (in German). Berchtesgadener Anzeiger. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  10. ↑ "2018/19 Junior Luge World Cup – Park City Team Competition Race 1 Results" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  11. ↑ "2018/19 Junior Luge World Cup – Park City Team Competition Race 2 Results" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  12. ↑ "2018/19 Junior Luge World Cup – Calgary Women's Results" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  13. ↑ "2018/19 Junior Luge World Cup – St. Moritz Women's Results" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  14. 1 2 "Siege für David Nössler (GER), Verena Hofer (ITA) und Team Deutschland". olympia-bobrun.ch (in German). St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  15. ↑ "Sophie Gerloff und Melina Cielaszyk setzen Glanzlicht". nwbsv.de (in German). Nordrhein-Westfälischer Bob- und Schlittensportverband. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  16. ↑ "2018/19 Junior Luge World Cup – Women's Overall Rankings" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  17. ↑ "Record-breaking World Champion Felix Loch heads the BSD team". fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  18. ↑ "RCB Nachwuchssportlerin Anna Berreiter für Weltcupteam nominiert". rodelclub-berchtesgaden.de (in German). RC Berchtesgaden. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  19. 1 2 3 "Anna Berreiter". fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  20. ↑ "2019/20 Luge World Cup – Whistler Women's Nations Cup Results" (PDF). fil-luge.org. International Luge Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  21. ↑ "Rodeln: Berchtesgadener Berreiter und Loch auf dem Podium". br.de (in German). Bayerischer Rundfunk. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  22. ↑ "Rodeln: Erster Weltcupsieg für Berchtesgadenerin Anna Berreiter". br.de (in German). Bayerischer Rundfunk. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  23. ↑ @GracenoteGold (2 February 2020). "Anna Berreiter became the youngest woman to win a Luge World Cup singles" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 February 2020 – via Twitter.
  24. ↑ "Berreiter wins first Luge World Cup event in home nation on final day". insidethegames.biz. Inside the Games. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  25. ↑ "Brilliant Berreiter bags double Luge World Cup success". eurosport.co.uk. Eurosport. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
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