David Gleirscher

David Gleirscher
nation	Austria
birthday	23rd July 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Hall in Tirol , Austria
size	183 cm
Weight	90 kg
job	police officer
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	RV Swarovski Halltal Absam
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Pyeongchang 2018 Single seater bronze Pyeongchang 2018 team  Luge World Championships silver Sochi 2020 sprint  Junior Luge World Championships bronze Park City 2013 Single seater gold Igls 2014 team  European Luge Championships gold 2020 Lillehammer team
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2013 (in Lillehammer )  World Cup victories 1  Overall World Cup ES 11. ( 2015/16 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 1 0 2
last change: February 14, 2020

David Gleirscher (born July 23, 1994 in Hall in Tirol ) is an Austrian luge rider . At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he won the gold medal in the single-seater and bronze in the team relay.

biography

David Gleirscher lives in Telfes im Stubai and starts for RV Swarovski Halltal Absam. Father Gerhard was also a luge athlete and won three medals at world championships . Gleirscher is a police officer and father of a son (* 2017).

He had his first success in 2013 at the Junior World Championships in Park City when he won the bronze medal in a single-seater. A year later, he won the gold medal with the team relay at the home JWM in Igls . In the individual, he narrowly missed another medal in fourth.

In the winter of 2014/15 he completed his first full World Cup season and, in twelfth place in the overall ranking, was the third-best Austrian behind Wolfgang Kindl and Reinhard Egger . As fourth in the Altenberg sprint , he barely missed a podium, and was also among the top ten two more times. The following season he finished eleventh overall and finished both sprint and individual competitions in the top 10 at the World Championships at Königssee . In the U23 single-seater category, he won the silver medal behind Tucker West . The 2016/17 season was less successful with a 24th place in the World Cup, but the 2017/18 winter he finished twelfth overall.

At his first Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang on February 11, 2018, he surprisingly won the gold medal without ever having achieved a podium finish in the World Cup. He thus secured the first ÖRV single-seater title since Manfred Schmid in Grenoble in 1968 . Gleirscher benefited from a driving error by the leading German Felix Loch , who fell from first to fifth in the last run. Four days later he won the bronze medal in the team relay with Madeleine Egle and Peter Penz / Georg Fischler . After he made his first podium places in the following season, he won a World Cup race for the first time in Altenberg on January 11, 2020.

His younger brother Nico is also active as a luge competitor.

successes

Olympic games

• Pyeongchang 2018 : in the single-seater, in the team relay

World championships

• Königssee 2016 : 7th single-seater, 9th sprint
• Igls 2017 : 12th sprint, 49th single-seater
• Sochi 2020 : in the sprint

European championships

• Sochi 2015 : 17th single seater
• Altenberg 2016 : 24th single seater
• Sigulda 2018 : 10th single seater

Overall World Cup

season	space	Points
2013/14	064.	04th
2014/15	012.	0329
2015/16	011.	0352
2016/17	024.	0180
2017/18	012.	0425
2018/19	08th.	0526

World Cup victories

singles

No.	date	place	train
1.	January 11, 2020	Altenberg	ENSO ice channel

Junior World Championships

• Park City 2013: in a single seater
• Igls 2014 : in the team relay

Awards

• 2018: “Newcomer of the year” in the election for Austria's athlete of the year

Web links

Commons : David Gleirscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Statistics on the FIL website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Gleirscher. Austrian Toboggan Association, accessed on February 11, 2018 . 
2. ↑ David Gleirscher - About me. David Gleirscher, accessed February 11, 2018 .