Georg Fischler

Georg Fischler
nation	Austria
birthday	3rd July 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Hall in Tirol ,  Austria
size	173 cm
Weight	74 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
society	HLSZ
National squad	since 2003
status	resigned
End of career	August 1, 2018
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang Double bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Team relay  Luge World Championships bronze 2012 Altenberg Double silver 2015 Sigulda Double silver 2016 Königssee Double sprint silver 2017 Innsbruck-Igls Double sprint  European Luge Championships gold 2012 Paramonowo Double bronze 2013 Oberhof Double silver 2015 Sochi Double
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2004  Overall World Cup DS 3. ( 2012/13 , 2015/16 )

Georg Fischler (born July 3, 1985 in Hall in Tirol ) is a former Austrian luge rider .

Career

Georg Fischler is a sports soldier and lives in Absam . The trained body shop technician has been tobogganing since 1992 and starts for the RV Swarovski Halltal-Absam . Until his retirement in August 2018 he formed a luge two-seater with Peter Penz . Both were successful in the junior division in the early 2000s, including winning gold at the Junior World Championships in Calgary . They have been competing in the Luge World Cup since the 2004/05 season . They finished the season 17th in the overall World Cup, in the following season they finished 14th and in 2006/07 they were ninth. In the second race of the 2008/09 season in Sigulda , Penz / Fischler finished third on the podium for the first time. The Luge World Championships in 2005 in Park City as a 16, finished Penz / Fischler 2007 they finished eighth in doubles and won the bronze medal with the Austrian team. At the 2006 European Championships in Winterberg , they finished eleventh. In 2009 they won the silver medal at the 2009 Luge World Championships in Lake Placid in the team competition and were eighth in the doubles race. In Altenberg , the doubles achieved their best World Cup result in second place in December 2009 and only had to admit defeat to the overall World Cup winners of the season, André Florschütz and Torsten Wustlich .

At the European Luge Championships 2010 in Sigulda, Penz / Fischler finished fifth. In the overall ranking of the 2009/10 season it was enough for both of them only to rank 11. In the following season they improved significantly and ended up fifth in the overall World Cup. However, they could not take the performance to the Luge World Championships 2011 in Cesana Pariol and were only 14th in doubles. In the 2011/12 season he won the first World Cup on the bobsleigh Igls artificial ice rink in Innsbruck-Igls, ahead of the Russians Yuschakow / Machnutin and their teammates Linger / Linger. In Whistler they also celebrated another podium finish as second. At the final European Championships in 2012 in Paramonowo (Moscow) , they celebrated another World Cup victory with their title win and thus came fourth in the overall World Cup ranking.

In the 2012/13 season Penz / Fischler were able to further improve their performance. Except for one World Cup, they were on the podium in all races, mostly they only had to admit defeat to the Germans Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt . At the 2013 European Luge Championships, they both celebrated bronze medals. At the following World Luge Championships in 2013 , Penz / Fischler finished fifth. At the end of the season they finished third behind the two teams from Germany in the overall World Cup ranking.

At the beginning of the 2013/14 Olympic season , both of them secured the first podium of the season with third place in the second World Cup in Innsbruck-Igls. In Winterberg they had to share this space with the Italians Ludwig Rieder and Patrick Rastner . They also secured third place in the team relay on the same track. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Penz / Fischler were still in third place after the first run, but fell back to 19th place after driving errors. Both finished the overall World Cup a little later in fourth place.

Penz / Fischler at the World Cup in Altenberg 2015

In the 2014/15 season , Penz / Fischler rose to the first Austrian team for the first time after the Linger brothers resigned. They demonstrated their good performance with various podium placements.

The duo won the silver medal at the 2015 and 2016 World Championships . At the European Championships in Sochi in 2015 , both of them achieved this success just 0.3 seconds behind the Germans Wendl / Arlt.

After finishing third at the World Cup in Whistler in the 2016/17 season , Georg Penz was diagnosed with heart muscle inflammation on December 31, 2016 . The home world championships in Innsbruck-Igls were a long way off. In the end he got the green light from the doctors and was able to start at the home World Cup . While they missed a medal in the actual two-seater competition with fourth place behind the three German duos, they won the silver medal in the sprint competition.

After Georg Fischler and his partner Peter Penz won their last race in the 2011/12 season, they won the two-seater sprint in Lillehammer in the 2017/18 season ahead of the Germans Wendl / Arlt and the Americans Mortensen / Terdiman . With a World Cup victory and third place in the two-seater World Cup behind them, they traveled to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . In the two-seater competition, the duo won the silver medal 0.088 seconds behind the Olympic champions Wendl / Arlt. With the Austrian relay they won the bronze medal behind Germany and Canada.

On August 1, 2018, Fischler and Penz announced their end of career and announced a farewell trip as part of the World Cup kick-off in Igls on 24/25. November 2018. Penz has been suffering from back pain for years and already has a contract as a trainer with the Austrian Luge Association. Fischler is aiming for a professional career in the police force.

successes

World Cup victories

Two-seater

No.	date	place	train
1.	Dec 18, 2010	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
2.	Feb. 26, 2011	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
3.	Jan 25, 2012	Paramonowo	Paramonowo luge and bobsleigh track
4th	Jan. 21, 2018	Lillehammer (Sprint)	Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run

Awards

• 2007: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria

Web links

Commons : Georg Fischler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Georg Fischler in the database of the International Luge Federation
• Georg Fischler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website of Penz / Fischler
• Fischler on the website of the Austrian Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Penz / Fischler two-seater for World Cup silver . derStandard.at. February 14, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
2. ↑ Courier: Penz / Fischler sprint to silver medal . Article from January 29, 2016, accessed on January 31, 2016.
3. ↑ Tobogganing: Wendl / Arlt European champions for the first time - Eggert / Benecken win overall World Cup . FOCUS online. February 28, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
4. ↑ Tobogganing: Penz / Fischler win EM silver . In: DiePresse.com . February 28, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
5. Jump up ↑ Luge rider Georg Fischler at the World Cup in danger. Salzburger Nachrichten , December 31, 2016, accessed on March 18, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Fischler receives permission to start. rodel-austria.at, January 19, 2017, accessed on August 18, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Penz / Fischler donate World Cup prelude. Laola1.tv , January 27, 2017, accessed March 18, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Tobogganing: double podium for Kindl, Penz / Fischler wins. Courier , January 21, 2018, accessed March 18, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Penz / Fischler toboggan two-seater win silver. Die Presse , February 14, 2018, accessed on March 18, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Olympia 2018 - Luge team wins relay gold. Eurosport , February 15, 2018, accessed March 18, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Toboggan duo Peter Penz / Georg Fischler listens to orf.at, August 1, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018.
12. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.