Aileen Frisch

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Aileen Frisch Luge
Aileen Frisch (2018)
Full name Aileen Christina Frisch
nation GermanyGermany Germany (until 2015) South Korea (since 2017)
Korea SouthSouth Korea 
birthday August 25, 1992
place of birth Lebach , Saarland
Career
discipline Single seater
status active
Medal table
JWM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
DM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIL Junior Luge World Championships
gold Königssee 2012 singles
gold Königssee 2012 team
German championshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze Königssee 2013 singles
Placements in the Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 24, 2012
 Overall World Cup ES 25. ( 2018/19 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 0 0 1
last change: May 20, 2020

Aileen Christina Frisch (born August 25, 1992 in Lebach , Saarland ) is a German - South Korean  luge athlete .

Originally from Schellerhau in the Ore Mountains, Frisch starts for SSV Altenberg . In winter 2011/12 she was the dominant starter in the junior division: she won the junior world championships on the combined artificial ice rink at Königssee , the junior European championship, the junior overall world cup and also the national German title. In the elimination races of the German national team in October and November 2012, she convinced with solid performances, so that she was nominated by national coach Norbert Loch for the 2012/13 World Cup line-up . She made her debut on November 24, 2012 at the season opener on the track in Innsbruck-Igls , where she was able to go straight to the top with a fifth place. On January 5, 2013, she achieved her first podium finish in the World Cup with third place at Königssee. In her first participation in the Luge World Championships , she finished fifth on February 3, 2013 on the track in Whistler, Canada .

Frisch initially ended her sports career in 2015 due to a lack of prospects, but has started for the South Korean national luge team since January 2017. For this purpose, Frisch was naturalized in South Korea before the 2018 Winter Olympics , but kept her German citizenship. She finished eighth at the 2018 Olympic Games.

In the 2017/18 season she was 27th in the overall World Cup, in the 2018/19 season she was 25th and in 2019/20 she was 41. Her best result as an athlete from South Korea in the World Cup was achieved in 2018 in Sigulda with 16th place.

Web links

Commons : Aileen Frisch  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on the 27th FIL Junior Luge World Championships ( Memento from March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Aileen Frisch starts again in the World Cup
  3. Toboggan World Cup: Fresh wind from Aileen Frisch ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. German tobogganer wants to drive for South Korea. n-tv.de, November 15, 2016, accessed on February 2, 2017 .
  5. a b Luge athlete Frisch probably starts for South Korea. sport.de, December 2, 2016, accessed on February 2, 2017 .
  6. Naturalization test packed: Fresh for South Korea. In: sport.de. December 16, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2017 .
  7. n-tv news television: South Korea internationalises the Olympic team . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed on February 17, 2018]).
  8. ^ Egbert Kamprath: On to Olympia 2022. In: Sächsische.de. April 18, 2018, accessed May 20, 2020 .