André Lange

André Lange, born on 28 June 1973, is a retired German bobsleigher and one of the most successful bob pilots of all time. He began his sliding career as a luger and took up bobsleigh in 1993. Competing at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics he won four gold medals and one silver. He won the four-man event in 2002 with Carsten Embach, Enrico Kühn and Kevin Kuske, won the four-man and two-man events in 2006 with Kuske, and in 2010 took the two-man gold and four-man silver. He won fourteen medals at the FIBT World Championships, eight of them gold, and three combined men's Bobsleigh World Cup championships. In 2014 he became head of the Thuringian Winter Sports Centre in Oberhof, left that role in 2017 and joined the South Korean luge team as a coach.