Toni Eggert

Toni Eggert is a sports soldier in the Oberhof sports support group and competes for BRC Ilsenburg. He has been luge competitor since 2000. 

He has competed in the doubles with Marcel Oster since 2003. Both were already successful as juniors. In doubles they won the Junior World Championships twice, in 2007 in Cesana Pariol and 2008 in Lake Placid. They also won a title (2007) and a second place (2008) in the team competition. 

They also achieved great success in the Junior World Cup. In the 2005/06 season they finished third overall, in 2006/07 they came fourth, and in 2007/08 they won the overall ranking of the race series. 

In the last junior season, they not only won the overall standings, but also all six races of the season and two races of the Challenge Cup. In 2007, Eggert and his partner also won the title at the German Junior Championships. 

Since the 2008/09 season, both have been members of the German B squad and qualified to compete in the luge World Cup. They benefited from the absence of the doubles André Florschütz/Torsten Wustlich due to injury. In their very first race, the doubles team finished in the top ten in eighth place. Two more races followed with the same placing. For the fourth race, Eggert/Oster were replaced by their direct rivals for the World Cup place, Ronny Pietrasik and Christian Weise, who, however, could not match the Suhl team's performance as they finished 15th. 

They then competed again in Cesana and achieved their last result so far in seventh place. For the rest of the season, they replaced the now recovered duo Florschütz/Wustlich. 

In 2010, Sascha Benecken became Eggert's new partner. On 14 January 2012, the double achieved their first World Cup victory in Oberhof. 

On 10 February 2012, they both won the silver medal in the doubles at the World Championships in Altenberg and the gold medal in the team relay two days later. Both received the silver laurel leaf for this. 

On their home track in Oberhof, Eggert/Benecken won the doubles and team relay titles at the 2013 European Championships. At the 2013 World Championships in Whistler, Wendl/Arlt were again ahead of them. 

On 13 February 2016, Eggert/Benecken were again European Champions in Altenberg; one day later they also won the title with the team. 

At the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, he won the bronze medal with Benecken on 14 February 2018. In October 2018, Eggert suffered a fractured fibula in a training accident in Oberhof, but was able to start again at the World Cup opener six weeks later.