Julia Taubitz

Julia Taubitz

Taubitz in 2022
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	(1996-03-01) 1 March 1996 (age 28) Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Luge
Event	Singles
Club	WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal[1]
Medal record Women's luge Representing  Germany World Championships 2020 Sochi Team relay 2021 Königssee Singles 2021 Königssee Sprint 2024 Alternberg Sprint 2024 Altenberg Team relay 2019 Winterberg Singles 2019 Winterberg Sprint 2020 Sochi Singles 2021 Königssee Team relay 2023 Oberhof Singles 2023 Oberhof Sprint 2024 Altenberg Singles European Championships 2020 Lillehammer Singles 2024 Igls Singles 2024 Igls Team relay World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd Singles 16 14 11 Sprint 11 2 2 Team relay 7 4 1 Total 34 20 14 Updated as of 03 March 2024

Julia Taubitz (born 1 March 1996) is a German luger.

She participated at the 2019 FIL World Luge Championships, winning a medal.^[3]

Career

She made her debut in the Luge World Cup at the age of 19 on November 28, 2015 on the Olympia Eiskanal Igls , where she won the bronze medal at the 2014 Junior World Championships. In her first World Cup races, she finished 18th. On January 16, 2016, she finished ninth on the Oberhof luge track, a top 10 result for the first time. She was the fourth German starter for the Luge World Championships 2016 on the artificial ice track in Königsseequalify and reached sixth place on January 29, 2016 in the sprint competition, which was held for the first time. A day later she reached sixth place again in the actual World Championship race for women and was thus the official U-23 world champion in front of the American Summer Britcher and the Russian Wiktorija Demtschenko . On February 6, Julia Taubitz also won gold at the Junior World Championships held in Winterberg.

In the 2016/17 World Cup , she also qualified for the Luge World Championships on the Olympia Eiskanal Igls . With an eighth place in the women's race, she secured the silver medal in the U-23 area behind Summer Britcher and ahead of Viktoria Demchenko. In the pre-Olympic season, Julia Taubitz was able to achieve a podium finish for the first time in the Olympic Sliding Center in Pyeongchang . She took third place behind Tatjana Ivanovna and Natalie Geisenberger .

In the Olympic season on January 20, 2018 in Lillehammer , she again took third place behind Summer Britcher and Natalie Geisenberger . She missed qualifying for the 2018 Winter Olympics as the fourth best German in the World Cup.

After missing the Olympic qualification, she started the 2018/19 World Cup with two second places. Both in the normal competition and in the sprint competition, she took second place on the Olympia Eiskanal Igls behind the Olympic champion Natalie Geisenberger. In Whistler, too, she took second place behind Geisenberger. In Calgary , Taubitz won her first World Cup races on the bobsleigh and luge track in Canada Olympic Park, both in singles ahead of Geisenberger and in the relay with Felix Loch , Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt . Taubitz won her second individual World Cup victory in heavy snowfall and difficult conditionsKoenigssee in Schoenau. She also took first place in the team relay with Sebastian Bley, Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken . At the 2019 World Championships in Winterberg, she won a silver medal in both the sprint and the individual competition. [3]

After the resignation of Tatjana Hüfner and the pregnancies of Natalie Geisenberger and Dajana Eitberger, Taubitz was considered the best-performing member of an almost completely newly assembled German women's team from the 2019/20 season . From the beginning she was able to live up to her new responsibility and fought with the Russian Tatjana Ivanovna for victory in the overall World Cup. In Lake Placid, Altenberg and Sigulda she won her World Cup races three to five, and she also won her first two sprint races in Lake Placid and Sigulda. At the 2020 European Championships in Lillehammer , she won the silver medal behind Tatjana Ivanova and ahead of Viktoria Demchenko. [4] At theAt the 2020 World Championships in Sochi , she was only beaten by the local hero Ekaterina Katnikova and, like last year, won the silver medal. In the final race with the team relay, Taubitz won her first world championship title alongside Johannes Ludwig and the double Eggert/Benecken. In the last race of the season in Königssee, she took second place behind Anna Berreiter , while Ivanovna only finished sixth. She was able to celebrate her first victory in the overall World Cup. [5]

At the start of the 2020/21 season, Taubitz achieved something historic. Despite the return of Geisenberger and Eitberger with extremely strong performances in the World Cup, Taubitz maintained her leadership role in the team. At the first race weekend in Igls, she was able to win three races in one day - the classic individual race, the race in the team relay (with Felix Loch, who also won all three races of the weekend and the doubles Eggert/Benecken) and the sprint race. Although she was not able to repeat the victory in the overall World Cup from the previous season, she achieved a good second place with six wins this season. In addition, their strong performances were rewarded with two gold and one silver medal at the 2021 World Championships in Königssee.

She competed at the 2024 FIL World Luge Championships and won gold medals in the sprint event and the team relay.^[4][5]

Luge results

All results are sourced from the International Luge Federation (FIL) and German Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton Federation (BSD).^[2][1]

Olympic Games

Event	Age	Singles	Team relay
2022 Beijing	25	7th	—

World Championships

• 12 medals – (5 gold, 7 silver)

Year	Age	Singles	Sprint	Team relay
2016 Königssee	19	6th	6th	—
2017 Innsbruck	20	8th	12th	—
2019 Winterberg	22	Silver	Silver	—
2020 Sochi	23	Silver	4th	Gold
2021 Königssee	24	Gold	Gold	Silver
2023 Oberhof	26	Silver	Silver	—
2024 Altenberg	27	Silver	Gold	Gold

World Cup

Season		Singles										Sprint					Team relay							Points	Overall	Singles	Sprint
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		1	2	3	4		1	2	3	4	5	6
2015–16		18	11	13	17	16	9	–	6	–		14	–	13	N/A		–	–	–	–	–	–		309	15th	—	NC
2016–17		13	8	13	15	13	26	13	3	7		9	14	–	N/A		–	–	–	–	–	–		376	12th	—	NC
2017–18		5	5	6	11	DNF	DSQ	–	3	7		5	–	4	12		–	–	–	–	–	–		473	8th	—	NC
2018–19		2	2	1	3	1	9	24	5	5		2	3	12	N/A		–	1	1	–	–	–		793	2nd	—	4th
2019–20		3	1	4	1	3	1	4	3	2		1	6	1	N/A		3	2	4	–	–	–		965	1st	—	1st
2020–21		1	5	10	1	1	4	5	2	2		1	1	1	N/A		1	–	–	2	–	CNX		976	2nd	2nd	1st
2021–22		2	9	1	2	1	1	2	2	4		1	2	5	N/A		7	–	1	4	1	–		979	1st	2nd	1st
2022–23		3	2	3	3	8	1	1	2	5		3	1	1	—		1	–	–	2	–	–		947	1st	1st	1st
2023–24		2	1	2	2	1	3	1	3	9		1	1	1	—		1	–	2	5	–	–		1034	1st	1st	1st

Note: Prior to 2020/21 season, to be classified in sprint standings athletes must compete on all sprint events throughout the season.

European Championships

• 2016 Altenberg – 6th in Singles
• 2017 Königssee – 8th in Singles
• 2018 Sigulda – 6th in Singles
• 2019 Oberhof – 5th in Singles
• 2020 Lillehammer – in Singles, 4th in Team relay
• 2021 Sigulda – 4th in Singles
• 2022 St. Moritz – 4th in Singles
• 2023 Sigulda – 8th in Singles

U23 World Championships

• 2016 Königssee– in Singles
• 2017 Innsbruck – in Singles
• 2019 Winterberg – in Singles

Junior World Championships

• 2014 Sigulda – in Singles
• 2015 Lillehammer – 5th in Singles
• 2016 Winterberg – in Singles, in Team relay

German Championships

• 2016 Königssee – 5th in Singles
• 2017 Altenberg – 5th in Singles
• 2018 Winterberg – in Singles
• 2019 Oberhof – in Singles
• 2020 Königssee – in Singles
• 2021 Altenberg – in Singles
• 2022 Oberhof – in Singles

References

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