Anna Berreiter

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 5 individual races in her World Cup career.

Anna Berreiter

Berreiter in 2020
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	(1999-09-03) 3 September 1999 (age 25) Berchtesgaden, Germany[1]
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)[1]
Website	annaberreiter.de
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Luge
Event	Singles
Club	RC Berchtesgaden[2]
Coached by	Patric Leitner
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking	2nd in Luge World Cup (2023–24)
Medal record Women's luge Representing  Germany Olympic Games 2022 Beijing Singles World Championships 2023 Oberhof Singles 2023 Oberhof Team relay 2021 Königssee Sprint 2023 Oberhof Sprint European Championships 2023 Sigulda Singles 2023 Sigulda Team relay 2024 Igls Singles World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd Singles 5 5 6 Sprint 0 0 2 Team relay 3 3 0 Total 8 8 8 Updated as of 3 March 2024

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
2022 Beijing	22	Silver	—

World Championships

• 4 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

Event	Age	Singles	Sprint	Team relay
2020 Sochi	20	6th	9th	—
2021 Königssee	21	4th	Silver	—
2023 Oberhof	23	Gold	Bronze	Gold
2024 Altenberg	24	—	13th	—

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		7	15	2	10	13	10	1	5	1		11	5	11		–	–	–	1	–	1		637	4th	—	7th
2020–21		–	–	–	9	4	17	3	–	–		–	13	–		–	–	–	–	–	CNX		223	19th	19th	20th
2021–22		4	1	4	3	4	4	10	3	7		5	3	10		–	2	–	–	–	–		723	4th	4th	4th
2022–23		5	5	4	4	1	2	2	3	3		9	5	5		–	–	2	–	–	2		789	3rd	3rd	6th

Standings through 29 January 2023

European Championships

• 2020 Lillehammer – 11th in Singles ( in U23 category)
• 2021 Sigulda – 14th in Singles (4th in U23 category)
• 2022 St. Moritz – 7th in Singles ( in U23 category)
• 2023 Sigulda – in Singles, in Team relay

U23 World Championships

• 2020 Sochi – in Singles
• 2021 Königssee – in Singles

Junior World Championships

• 2018 Altenberg – 5th in Singles

Junior European Championships

• 2017 Oberhof – 5th in Singles
• 2018 Winterberg – 6th in Singles
• 2019 St. Moritz – in Singles, in Team Relay

German Championships

• 2018 Winterberg – 6th in Singles
• 2019 Oberhof – in Singles
• 2020 Königssee – 5th in Singles
• 2021 Altenberg – in Singles
• 2022 Oberhof – in Singles

References

1. "Anna Berreiter". teamdeutschland.de. Team Deutschland. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
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. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. 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.
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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. "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. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
19. "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. 2 February 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
25. "Brilliant Berreiter bags double Luge World Cup success". eurosport.co.uk. Eurosport. Retrieved 8 February 2020.

External links

• Anna Berreiter at FIL
• Anna Berreiter at Olympics.com
• Anna Berreiter at Olympedia
• Anna Berreiter at the German Olympic Sports Confederation (in German)
• Anna Berreiter Archived 10 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine at the German Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton Federation (in German)
• Official website (in German)