Madeleine EGLE

Austria

Luge

Date of Birth: 21 Aug 1998

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Place of birth: HALL

Birth Country:

Austria

Residence: RINN

Residence Country:

Austria

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Luge	Women's Singles	4

Records

Records	Event	Time	Date	Location
SR	Women's Singles Run 1	7.164	7 February, 2022	Yanqing National Sliding Centre (CHN)

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Group B Run 1	Finished
After Run 1	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Group B Run 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Group B Run 3	Finished
After Run 3	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Group B Run 4	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Run 5	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Run 6	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Run 1	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Run 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Run 3	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Run 4	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Team Relay Competition	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	Team Relay	2018	PyeongChang, KOR	00:02:24.988
9	Women's Singles	2018	PyeongChang, KOR	00:03:06.609

Youth Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	Singles	2016	Lillehammer, NOR	00:01:46.267
9	Team Relay	2016	Lillehammer, NOR	00:02:57.410

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Team Relay	2021	Koenigssee, GER	2:43.139
5	Team Relay	2020	Sochi, RUS	2:45.223
9	Women's Singles Sprint	2021	Koenigssee, GER	39.561
11	Women's Singles	2020	Sochi, RUS	1:40.131
13	Women's Singles Sprint	2019	Winterberg, GER	39.253
15	Women's Singles	2021	Koenigssee, GER	1:42.909
15	Women's Singles Sprint	2020	Sochi, RUS	32.410
18	Women's Singles	2016	Koenigssee, GER	1:42.579
26	Women's Singles	2017	Innsbruck, AUT	40.387
35	Women's Singles	2019	Winterberg, GER	1:01.884

U23 World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	Women's Singles	2020	Sochi, RUS	1:40.131
5	Women's Singles	2021	Koenigssee, GER	1:42.909
13	Women's Singles	2019	Winterberg, GER	1:01.884

World Cup Rankings
Season	Women's Singles
2021/22	1
2020/21	3
2019/20	13
2018/19	13
2017/18	22
2016/17	31

World Cup - Best Achievements
Season	Women's Singles Sprint	Women's Singles
2021/22	1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd	4 x 1st, 2 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 5th
2020/21	1 x 5th	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd, 3 x 4th, 1 x 5th
2019/20		2 x 5th

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location
1	Women's Singles Sprint	2021/22	Innsbruck, AUT
1	Women's Singles	2021/22	Altenberg, GER
1	Women's Singles	2021/22	Oberhof, GER
1	Women's Singles	2021/22	Yanqing, CHN
1	Women's Singles	2021/22	Sigulda, LAT
2	Women's Singles	2021/22	St. Moritz, SUI
2	Women's Singles	2021/22	Innsbruck, AUT
3	Women's Singles	2021/22	Winterberg, GER
3	Women's Singles Sprint	2021/22	Sigulda, LAT
5	Women's Singles	2021/22	Sochi, RUS
7	Women's Singles	2021/22	Sochi, RUS
10	Women's Singles Sprint	2021/22	Sochi, RUS

Nickname:

Maddy

Hobbies:

Rock climbing, wakeboarding, swimming, shopping, going to festivals.

Occupation:

Athlete, Sport soldier

Education:

Studies Business Law.

Family:

Younger sister, Selina.

Languages spoken:

German, English

Club name:

SV Rinn

Coach:

National: Rene Friedl (GER)

Sporting relatives:

Sister Selina (Luge): Finished 21st in singles at the 2021 World Championships in Koenigssee, resulting in a top-10 finish in the U23 category. Began competing in the World Cup in January 2021, after primarily Youth World Cup appearances the past three seasons, with four podium finishes (all in doubles).

Great aunt Angelika Schafferer (Luge): Represented Austria at three consecutive Olympic Winter Games (1972-1980), with two top-10 finishes. Won a bronze medal at the 1978 World Championships in Imst.

Debut:

2016 World Championships in Koenigssee (Singles - 18th)
2016 World Cup in Winterberg (Singles - 22nd)

Start:

Started lessons in 2007. (olympics.com, 29 March 2021)

Reason:

"I started because I wanted to get to the Olympics once in my life. That's something I was dreaming about when I was a little child." (olympics.com, 29 March 2021)

Ambition:

Win a second medal at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. (olympics.com, 29 March 2021)

Memorable:

Winning team relay bronze at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. "I never expected to win a medal. I was there for my first Olympic Games and I knew it would be hard to win a medal. It was more just to gain experience. And knowing the Olympics are only every four years, who knows if you can ever take part again. So, it was huge, really huge, to compete there." (olympics.com, 29 March 2021)

Philosophy:

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up." (Instagram)

Award:

Tyrol Team of the Year (2020)
Military Team of the Year (2018)
Olympic Winter Games Closing Ceremony flagbearer (2018)

Milestones

OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Youngest Austrian to win a luge medal at the Olympic Winter Games (19 years 178 days), after winning team relay bronze at PyeongChang 2018.

Subsequently, became the first female luger to win a medal at both the Olympic Winter Games and Youth Olympic Games after winning singles bronze at Lillehammer 2016.

Added a silver to her bronze-medal haul with a second-place finish in the team relay at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Team relay gold medallist in 2021 (Koenigssee), finishing 0.038 seconds ahead of Germany, with teammates David Gleirscher, Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller.

Won U23 singles bronze medallist in 2020 (Sochi), finishing 0.005 seconds ahead of Ashley Farquharson (USA), after winning the U23 European title two weeks earlier, where she finished almost half-a-second ahead of Jessica Tiebel (GER).

Junior World Championship team relay bronze medallist in 2017 (Sigulda). Finished fourth at the 2015 championships in Lillehammer, missing the podium by 0.046 seconds.

WORLD CUP
Finished third in the singles standings for the 2020/21 season. Despite only two podium appearances she finished in the top-six seven times, including a fourth-place in Oberhof, where she finished 0.007 seconds off the podium.

Recorded her first two individual World Cup podiums in January 2021 before a breakout 2021/22 campaign where she podiumed in every individual race except for three. Won four races in singles and one in sprint, winning the season standings in singles over Julia Taubitz by two points. In the sprint, finished as runner up to Taubitz, who took the women's overall standings.

Has three Junior World Cup wins, with her first during the final race of the 2014/15 season in Winterberg, after finishing fourth in all five races prior.

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Legend

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