Sochi (pps) While Germany’s four-time World Champion Felix Loch claimed his second Olympic victory, Italy’s Armin Zoeggeler wrote an important chapter in the history of Olympic Winter Games. The 40-year-old from South Tyrol is the first winter sports athlete to have claimed his sixth successive medal at his sixth Olympic Games. The 2002 and 2006 Olympic Champion earned his third bronze medal after 1994 and 2010 at the “Sanki Sliding Center” of the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Additionally, Zoeggeler has another silver medal of the 1998 Games in Nagano (Japan) to his name.

In the presence of the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Dr. Thomas Bach of Germany, and football legend Franz Beckenbauer (Germany), Loch didn’t achieved the feat of claiming his second Olympic gold medal after the one in Vancouver in 2010 with the biggest ever winning margin at Olympic luge events. Four years ago, the now 24-year-old won the gold medal with a winning margin of about seventh tenths of a second, this time in Sochi it amounted to exactly 0.476 seconds.

42-year-old Russian Albert Demchenko took the silver medal. He thus went down in luge history as the oldest medal winner of all times. Thanks to this success Demchenko, in the lead after the first run, managed to put a smile on the face of Natalia Gart, President of Russia’s luge federation.