Christopher WEBER

Germany

Bobsleigh

Date of Birth: 5 Oct 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Place of birth: DORTMUND

Birth Country:

Germany

Residence: DORTMUND

Residence Country:

Germany

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Bobsleigh	4-man GER Germany	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 1	Finished
After Heat 1	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 3	Finished
After Heat 3	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 4	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 5	Finished
After Heat 5	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 6	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Heat 1	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Heat 3	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Heat 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
5	2-man	2018	PyeongChang, KOR	00:03:17.140
8	4-man	2018	PyeongChang, KOR	00:03:17.110

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
2	4-man	2020	Altenberg, GER	3:36.14
2	2-man	2020	Altenberg, GER	3:42.09
3	4-man	2021	Altenberg, GER	3:36.53
8	2-man	2019	Whistler, BC, CAN	3:26.05
9	4-man	2019	Whistler, BC, CAN	3:23.03

World Cup - Best Achievements
Season	2-man	4-man
2021/22	1 x 2nd	2 x 2nd, 1 x 4th, 2 x 5th
2020/21		1 x 3rd, 2 x 4th, 1 x 5th
2019/20	1 x 1st	1 x 1st, 4 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd
2018/19	1 x 3rd	1 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location	Result
2	4-man	2021/22	Innsbruck, AUT	1:41.57
2	4-man	2021/22	Winterberg, GER	1:48.00
2	2-man	2021/22	Altenberg, GER	1:50.20
4	4-man	2021/22	Winterberg, GER	1:49.55
5	4-man	2021/22	St. Moritz, SUI	2:09.76
5	4-man	2021/22	Winterberg, GER	1:49.83
7	4-man	2021/22	Innsbruck, AUT	1:42.25
21	4-man	2021/22	Altenberg, GER	55.36

Nickname:

Chris

Hobbies:

Cars, sport

Occupation:

Athlete, Car Salesman

Languages spoken:

German

Club name:

BSC Winterberg

Coach:

National: Rene Spies (GER)
Personal: Patrick Saile (GER)

Position style:

Crew

Other sports:

Athletics: Competed as a sprinter at the national level.

Debut:

2017 World Cup in Innsbruck (Two-man - 14th, Four-man - 6th)

Injuries:

2020/21: A back injury forced him to miss the first half of the season.

January 2019: Severe ice burn on his shoulder in a crash at the World Cup in Altenberg that required a skin graft from his thigh.

National team:

2016

Start:

Introduced to the sport in 2016 by his former athletics teammate and German bobsledder Pablo Nolte. Weber, who impressed national team head coach Rene Spies in his debut training run, would go on to push in Nolte's sled, winning a silver medal with him in the two-man at the 2017 Junior World Championships. (Info 2018; physiomed-dortmund.de; bild.de, 18 Feb 2019)

Reason:

"I was a sprinter with a best time of 10.76 seconds. That would never have got me to the Olympics." (brilon-totallokal.de, 13 Jun 2020)

Ambition:

To win a medal at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. (bild.de, 18 Feb 2019)

Training:

During the COVID-19 pandemic, built a gym in the workshop of his parents' car dealership where he works and trained there with German bobsleigh pilot Laura Nolte. (brilon-totallokal.de, 13 Jun 2020; sport-kreisunna.de, 1 June 2020)

Hero:

Actor Arnold Schwarznegger (AUT), former bodybuilder, and governor of the U.S. state of California from 2003 to 2011. (ibsf.org)

Ritual:

A chain from his parents is his lucky charm. (teamdeutschland.de)

Award:

Dortmund Athlete of the Year (2018)

General Interest

RIVAL FRANCESCO FRIEDRICH (GER)
“Franz is the ultimate in bobsleigh. It's very hard to beat him... On a very good day, we have the chance to annoy him [in the four-man], that is, to beat him. It's our turn." (brilon-totallokal.de, 13 Jun 2020)

Milestones

Three-time World Championships medallist (two silver, one bronze). Won two silvers in 2020 (two-man, four-man), both behind compatriot Francesco Friedrich, finishing in the four-man 0.05 seconds out of the gold medal position. Four-man bronze in 2021behind Friederich (GER) and Benjamin Maier (AUT).

2017 Junior World Championships two-man silver medallist, 0.06 seconds from gold (with Nolte Pablo).

From 9 December 2017 (15th in two-man in Winterberg) until 19 December 2021 (21st in four-man in Altenberg), he did not finish outside the top-seven in a World Cup race across both disciplines. Finishing 21st in the Altenberg World Cup in 2020/21 is the only time he has ranked outside the top-seven in the four-man at a World Cup event in his career - and only one other time in the two-man, in his first-ever race in the discipline (14th with Nico Walther).

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Legend

:: Silver
:: Gold Medal Event

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