Rupert Staudinger (born 15 July 1997) is a British-German luger. Born in

Berchtesgaden Berchtesgaden () is a municipality in the district Berchtesgadener Land, Bavaria, in southeastern Germany, near the border with Austria, south of Salzburg and southeast of Munich. It lies in the Berchtesgaden Alps, south of Berchtesgaden; th ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...

to a German father and a Welsh mother, he grew up in

Schönau am Königssee Schönau am Königssee is a municipality in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in the German state of Bavaria. It is located at the northern end of the Königssee lake. Geography Schönau is surrounded by the Berchtesgaden Alps; it is the sou ...

. Staudinger competed for the United Kingdom in the men's singles event at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

. Since no British athlete qualified for the

2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (russian: Сочи 2014), was an international ...

, luge did not receive UK Sport funding for the 2018 Olympic cycle. Staudinger still qualified for the

and finished in 33rd place despite posting his best time.

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* 1997 births Living people British male lugers Olympic lugers for Great Britain Lugers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2022 Winter Olympics People from Berchtesgaden Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria German people of Welsh descent {{UK-luge-bio-stub