- Steffen Skel
Steffen Skel (born
June 14 ,1972 ) is a Germanluge r who competed from1992 to2004 . He won five medals at theFIL World Luge Championships with one gold (Mixed team: 2000), three silvers (Men's doubles: 2000, 2001; Mixed team: 2001), and one bronze (Men's doubles: 1997).Skel also won six medals at the
FIL European Luge Championships with three golds (Mixed team: 2002, 2004, 2006) and three silvers (Men's doubles: 1998, 2000; Mixed team: 2000).His best finish at the
Winter Olympics was fourth in the men's doubles event atSalt Lake City in 2002.Skel won the overall Luge World Cup men's doubles title in 2000-1.
He is dating German skeleton athlete
Diana Sartor , who was nine weeks pregnant during the2006 Winter Olympics atTurin and as of the 2007/08 season, coach of the Canadian Jr. National luge team.References
* [http://www.fil-luge.org/filext/athlet/erfolge_en.asp?p_id=100018 FIL-Luge profile]
* [http://www.hickoksports.com/history/worldluge.shtml Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton.]
* [http://www.eiskanal.com/eiskanal-kunstbahnrennrodeln-europameisterschaften.html List of European luge champions] de icon
* [http://sports123.com/lug/mwc-d.html List of men's doubles luge World Cup champions since 1978.]
* [http://blogs.usatoday.com/sportsscope/2006/02/doubles_skeleto.html "USA Today" profile on Sartor and her relationship to Skel]
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