2008 German Skeleton Championship

The 43rd German Skeleton Championship in 2008 was held on 4 and 5 January 2008, at the skating rink in Altenberg. There was one event for women and for men. Both were conducted in four runs, which were divided into two races over two days.

At the start, a total of 16 out of 17 registered participants, five participants from the previous year.

• Day 2 Run 3: In the third run, the shortest time required main and extended his lead in the overall standings far from. Frank Rommel was like in the two runs of the previous day's second ( 57.83 ). The third place of the passage occupied Florian Grassl ( 57,93 ), which also showed the best start ( 5.23 ).
• Run 4: In the last race only took the ten best athletes in the first three runs. The third-best run showed Grassl ( 58.26 ), second fastest driver was Matthias Biedermann ( 58,25 ). The fastest time fuht Frank Rommel (57.30 ). Sebastian Haupt came despite his comfortable projection after a mistake that had almost led to a fall, once again in danger of losing its title seemed to be sure. With 58.36 seconds (fifth run time) it was 1.06 seconds behind the best run Rommel, who had also submitted the best start time again with 5.24 seconds.

Conclusion: Sebastian Haupt won despite an end due to a driving error again just become rightly result and consider its second league titles. Three times he was able to drive the fastest times. The runner-up Frank Rommel particularly benefited from its strong start. Three times he presented Startbestzeiten, once he was starting in second. Last year's champion Grassl lost all chances for the title one the very first run. Then he secured his third three times the bronze medal. Michi Halilovic top favorite was his favorite role can not be just and only came sixth. Sandro Stielicke put to a great start, but was lower than third in the first round to reach only three eighth places and finished seventh. Frank adhesive, with Florian Grassl last year's champion, had resigned from active competitive sports before the season and drove the German Championship in his last race. He was eighth. David Ludwig could only be eleventh and did not reach the final round. The fourth placed David Ling man drove four nearly identical runs that were all seconds time difference within three hundredths. Striking was the great performance spread between the starters.

Women

At the start, a total of 13 reported participants, four participants from the previous year.