Georg Fluckinger

Georg Fluckinger
nation	Austria
birthday	March 1, 1955
place of birth	Vienna
Career
discipline	Singles, doubles
society	Sports club Kufstein
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1980 Lake Placid Double
Placements in the Luge World Cup
World Cup victories 6th  Overall World Cup ES 3. ( 1979/80 )  Overall World Cup DS 1. ( 1981/82 )

Georg Fluckinger (born March 1, 1955 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian luge rider .

Fluckinger competed in both single and double seats. At his first Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1980 , he and his partner Karl Schrott won the bronze medal directly. In the single-seater, he also finished the 1979/80 World Cup season in third place. In the doubles he won the overall World Cup in 1981/82 . In 1984 Fluckinger competed at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in a single and double seater. In the individual he reached 15th place, with Franz Wilhelmer he was fourth. Fluckinger experienced his third and final Winter Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988 . There he achieved fifth place with Robert Manzenreiter . In total, he reached the podium 18 times in World Cup races, including three wins (all in doubles), eight second places and seven third places.

successes

World Cup victories

Two-seater

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan. 21, 1979	Imst	Imst toboggan run
2.	0Dec 8, 1981	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
3.	Jan. 13, 1985	Imst	Imst toboggan run

Web links

• Georg Fluckinger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )