Günther Huber (born 28 October 1965) is an Italian
bobsledder who competed in the 1990s. Before taking up bobsledding, he had originally started his sporting career in
luge, with his most notable result being a third place in doubles in the 1982 World Junior Luge Championships: he switched to bobsleigh in 1988.[1]
Huber also won two medals in the two-man event at the
FIBT World Championships with a gold in
1999 and a silver in
1997. His World Championship title came at the end of a troubled four-month period during which his bobsleigh was stolen, and then first Tartaglia and his replacements
Massimiliano Rota and
Enrico Costa were injured, with the later finally being replaced by
Ubaldo Ranzi.[1]
Huber took his first World Cup podium during the 1991-92 season with a third in the two-man event at
St. Moritz, and scored his first World Cup race win in another two-man race at
Lillehammer the following season. He won the
Bobsleigh World Cup championship three times (Two-man: 1991-2, 1992-3; Combined men's: 1996-7).[1]
He also took six medals at the
European Championships, including two golds, one each in two-man and four-man competition. In addition he won eight Italian national titles, seven in two-man and one in four-man.[1]