Christian Steger

Christian Steger ( born August 15, 1967 in Bruneck ) is a former Italian Skeleton pilot.

Christian Steger Polisportiva Vipiteno was active Skeleton athletes since the mid- 1990s. He played his first international race in 1996 as part of the Skeleton World Cup in Calgary, where he finished 26th. This was followed by the debut in the Skeleton World Cup, where the Italian was in his first race in Lake Placid 15. The World Cup 1997 in Lake Placid brought a 23rd place. Also in 1998 he made in St. Moritz as a 19 only a slight improvement. In 1999 in Altenberg than 22 and 2000 in Igls than 21 he could be placed in this area. In his last world title bouts reached Steger 2001 as a 12 - Placed in Calgary his best finish in this race. In the World Cup was a tenth place, reached in 2001 in Park City, best result. It remained in the unique position among the top ten. He usually had ranked in the range 15 to 25, better results were rare, poorer results are not much more common. The last of his 23 World Cup races contested Steger in December 2001. Climax and international degree in the career of the Italian was to participate in the 2002 Winter Olympics, where skeleton was olympic again for the first time in 48 years. Steger drove to 19th place.

National Steger was the most successful athletes in the second half of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. In 1998 he became a master in 1996 and 1999 runner-up, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2003, third in the national championships. After the Italian Championships 2003 Steger ended his active career.