Christoph Langen

Christoph Langen (born 27 March 1962 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German bobsledder who competed for the West Germany and Germany national team from 1985 to 2005, and as a pilot from 1991. In his four Winter Olympics he won four medals, two golds (two-man 2002, four-man 1998) and two bronzes (two-man 1992 and 1998). At the FIBT World Championships he won twelve medals, eight of them gold and four silver. He also won the Bobsleigh World Cup combined event twice, the two-man event three times and the four-man event once. Injuries to his Achilles tendon, which needed two surgeries, kept him out of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He then worked as a bobsleigh television commentator in Germany until he was promoted to head coach of the Germany national team in June 2010.