Felix Loch was born on July 24, 1989 in Sonneburg, Germany. Loch is an Olympic athlete who will take part in the Olympic men's luge at the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Loch will represent his home country of Germany.

Loch has been a dominant force on the luge circuit the past couple of years. He won gold medals in the men's singles and mixed relay luge events at the World Championships in both 2008 (held in Oberhof, Germany) and 2009 (held in Lake Placid, New York.) http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-luge/athletes/felix-loch_ath1014866Fc.html

After missing the first three races of the 2008/09 World Cup season due to recovering from torn shoulder ligaments sustained in a crash during International Training Week on the Olympic track at Whistler Sliding Center, Loch came on like gangbusters. He would win four silver medals and two bronze in the final six races, finishing in fourth place overall for the season.http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=2135/bio/index.html

This season, Loch finished third in the standings behind Armin Zöeggeler of Italy and Albert Demchenko of Russia.http://www.fil-luge.org/filext/cupresult_detail_select.asp?lan=en&currSeason=2009%2F2010&art=&cup_id_fk=45&v_id=- Loch also set a land speed record for luge when he was clocked at 153.98 kilometers an hour, breaking the old record of 144.3 held by legendary German luger Georg Hackl. http://www.fil-luge.org/News-Detail.155.0.html?&tx_ttnews[pS]=1233442800&tx_ttnews[pL]=2419199&tx_ttnews[arc]=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=10379&tx_ttnews[backPid]=157&cHash=1c12cdc5a6

Making his Olympic debut at just 20 years of age, Loch showed the world why he is so highly regarded when it comes to the luge.

Loch went over the Whistler Olympic Park course with relative ease, with a combined time for four runs of 3 minutes, 13.085 seconds. Included in that four run session was a track record run of 48.168 seconds on his first run. http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-luge/schedule-and-results/mens-singles-run-1_lgm010101mA.htmlhttp://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-luge/schedule-and-results/mens-singles-run-4_lgm010104NK.html

David Moeller of Germany took the silver, finishing 0.679 seconds behind Loch, while the aforementioned Zöeggeler took the bronze.http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-luge/schedule-and-results/mens-singles-run-4_lgm010104NK.html

With the gold medal winning performance, Loch became the youngest luge gold medalist in history. http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=2135/index.html