Frank Luck

Frank Luck
Full name	Frank Luck
Association	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	5th December 1967 (age 52)
place of birth	Schmalkalden,  GDR
Career
job	Head of a hunting business, television commentator
society	ASK Vorwärts Oberhof WSV Oberhof 05
Debut in the World Cup	1986
World Cup victories	12
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 3 × 0 × World Cup medals 11 × 5 × 4 ×
winter Olympics silver 1994 Lillehammer singles gold 1994 Lillehammer Season gold 1998 Nagano Season silver 2002 Salt Lake City singles silver 2002 Salt Lake City Season  Biathlon world championships gold 1989 Feistritz sprint gold 1989 Feistritz Season bronze 1990 Kontiolahti Season gold 1990 Oslo team silver 1991 Lahti sprint gold 1991 Lahti Season bronze 1993 Borovets Season gold 1993 Borovets team gold 1995 Antholz Season silver 1996 Ruhpolding Season gold 1997 Osrblie Season silver 1997 Osrblie team silver 1998 Hochfilzen team gold 1999 Kontiolahti sprint silver 1999 Kontiolahti persecution bronze 2000 Oslo singles gold 2000 Oslo persecution bronze 2000 Lahti Season gold 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk Season gold 2004 Oberhof Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	3. ( 1993/94 , 1998/99 )
Individual World Cup	1.  ( 1999/00 , 2001/02 )
Sprint World Cup	2. ( 1998/99 )
last change: March 19, 2008

Frank Luck (born December 5, 1967 in Schmalkalden ) is a former German biathlete .

Career

Frank Luck grew up in Seligenthal . A career as a cross-country skier was predetermined because his father, uncle and grandfather were cross-country skiers. He stood on skis for the first time at the age of three. In 1980 he switched to biathlon. He qualified for the Winter Olympics in Calgary in 1988 . In the sprint he took 6th place. His breakthrough came with the sprint world title in the 1988/89 season. Frank Luck belonged to the ASK Vorwärts Oberhof and was therefore a member of the NVA . After 1989 he was accepted as a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr's sports promotion group .

Due to the childhood disease mumps , he could not take part in the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville . At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he was Olympic champion with the German biathlon relay. He was able to repeat this success four years later in Nagano . In his more than 17-year career, Luck won a total of eleven world championship titles, the last with the relay at the 2004 Biathlon World Championships in his home town of Oberhof . After this race he ended his career. With another five silver and four bronze medals, Frank Luck is the most successful World Cup participant after Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Raphaël Poirée . At the beginning of April 2009 Frank Luck admitted in a television interview ( Sport Inside , WDR) that he had been unknowingly administered the doping substance Oral-Turinabol by his trainer during the GDR era .

On May 6, 2002, he was honored with the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements .

From the 2004/2005 season he worked for Eurosport as a biathlon co-commentator at Sigi Heinrich's side .

Private

Frank Luck was with Andrea, geb. Fischer, the sister of the biathlete Sven Fischer , with whom he has two children. He is currently in a relationship with the snowboard world champion Sandra Farmand . In March 2007 they had a daughter. He is a nature lover, already accompanied his father on the hunt and is now hunting himself .

After his sports career, Frank Luck accepted an offer from his former sponsor, the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) , to turn his hobby, hunting, into a profession. At the end of 2006 he signed a contract to set up a hunting business as a freelancer from April 1, 2007 in the Brandenburg Castle of Liebenberg , which is owned by the DKB . Since the end of 2009 he has been the manager of this hunting operation.

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	1	9	2			21st	33
2nd place	4th	4th	5	1	1	7th	22nd
3rd place	5	5	2			5	17th
Top 10	29	48	28	4th	1	36	146
Scoring	50	86	45	16	1	37	235
Starts	60	106	51	16	1	37	271

Web links

Commons : Frank Luck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Frank Luck in the IBU database (English)
• Frank Luck in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Literature by and about Frank Luck in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of May 6, 2002 on the occasion of the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2002 Winter Olympics In: bundespraesident.de: Der Bundespräsident / Speeches / Greetings