Franz Schachner

Franz Schachner
nation	Austria
birthday	July 20, 1950
place of birth	Liezen
Career
discipline	Two and four-man bobsleigh
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × Bobsleigh World Championships 0 × 2 × 0 × European bobsleigh championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×  winter Olympics bronze Innsbruck 1976 Two-man bobsleigh  Luge World Championships bronze 1974 Two-seater bronze 1975 Two-seater  European Luge Championships silver 1970 Hammarstrand Single seater

Franz Edwin Schachner (born July 20, 1950 in Liezen , Styria ) is a former Austrian luge athlete .

Schachner took part in two Olympic Games, 1972 in Sapporo and 1976 in Innsbruck , where he won a bronze medal together with Rudolf Schmid in a two-seater. Schachner also won two bronze medals in doubles at the 1974 and 1975 World Championships . He won a silver medal at the 1970 European Championships in Hammarstrand , Sweden . After his sporting career he worked as an innkeeper and was on the Liezen city council from 1993 to 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ^ City chronicle of Liezen.

Web links

• Franz Schachner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Olympic.org
• Fil-luge.org Obituary for Rudolf Schmid (German)
• City chronicle of Liezen