With over 20 major medals to his name, including Olympic bronze, and five World Cups, Germany’s Sascha Benecken is undoubtedly one of the world’s finest lugers. As part of a doubles team with Toni Eggert, he has won a major medal every year since 2012 except one, when he had to make do with a top-ten finish in the Winter Olympics and victory in two World Cup races.
Benecken was born in 1990 in the small German town of Suhl. It was here he met Ton...