Armin Zöggeler

Armin Zöggeler is a retired Italian luger, born on 4 January 1974 in Meran in South Tyrol, and a double Olympic champion. Nicknamed Il Cannibale for his run of victories, he is one of the most successful men in the sport. He won six medals in the same individual event at six consecutive Winter Olympics, the first athlete to do so, with golds in 2002 and 2006, silver in 1998 and bronze in 1994, 2010 and 2014. He also holds sixteen medals from the FIL World Luge Championships and eighteen from the European Championships, and won the overall World Cup in men's singles ten times, with 57 individual World Cup wins as of January 2014. A Carabiniere by profession, he was made a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2010 and entered the FIL Hall of Fame in June 2019.