Georg Hackl

Georg Hackl
nation	Germany
birthday	September 9, 1966
place of birth	Berchtesgaden
job	Locksmith (former contract soldier) trainer
Career
discipline	Single-seater, double-seater (with Stefan Ilsanker )
society	RC Berchtesgaden
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 10 × 10 × 2 × EM medals 7 × 4 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 1988 Calgary singles gold 1992 Albertville singles gold 1994 Lillehammer singles gold 1998 Nagano singles silver 2002 Salt Lake City singles  Luge World Championships silver 1987 Igls Two-seater gold 1989 Winterberg Single seater gold 1990 Calgary Single seater silver 1991 Winterberg Single seater gold 1991 Winterberg Team competition silver 1993 Calgary Single seater gold 1993 Calgary Team competition silver 1995 Lillehammer Single seater gold 1995 Lillehammer Team competition silver 1996 Altenberg Single seater silver 1996 Altenberg Team competition gold 1997 Igls Single seater silver 1997 Igls Team competition bronze 1999 Königssee Team competition bronze 2000 St. Moritz Single seater gold 2000 St. Moritz Team competition silver 2001 Calgary Single seater gold 2001 Calgary Team competition gold 2003 Sigulda Team competition silver 2004 Nagano Single seater silver 2005 Park City Single seater gold 2005 Park City Team competition  European Luge Championships gold 1988 Königssee Single seater gold 1988 Königssee Team competition gold 1990 Igls Single seater silver 1990 Igls Team competition bronze 1992 Winterberg Single seater gold 1992 Winterberg Team competition silver 1994 Königssee Single seater silver 1994 Königssee Team competition gold 1996 Sigulda Team competition silver 2000 Winterberg Single seater gold 2000 Winterberg Team competition gold 2002 Altenberg Team competition
Placements in the Luge World Cup
World Cup victories 33  Overall World Cup ES 1. (1988/89, 1989/90)  Challenge Cup ES 1. (2003/04)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 33 17th 16  Two-seater 3 3 4th  Team relay 1 0 0
last change: January 1st, 2010

Georg Hackl (born September 9, 1966 in Berchtesgaden ), known as Hackl Schorsch , is a former German luge and sports soldier with the rank of sergeant major . His greatest sporting successes include three Olympic gold medals and two silver medals in the single-seater, which he achieved in six participations in a row from 1988 to 2006 .

School and education

Hackl attended the CJD Christophorus Schools in Berchtesgaden . He came to tobogganing through school, where he also became a German student champion. After school he successfully trained as a locksmith .

After completing his active sports career, Hackl completed a three-year training course as a qualified trainer at the Cologne Trainer Academy , which he completed in April 2009 as the best of his class with a grade of 1.1.

Sledding

Georg Hackl at the start of the Luge World Cup 2005 in Oberhof

Hackl was one of the world's most successful luge athletes, who achieved victories on all the well-known toboggan runs and for over 18 years was always at the forefront of tobogganing. He was known as a tinkerer who devoted himself to optimizing his sled in every free minute .

Hackl's career began in 1987 by winning the German Championship, which he has won 16 times over the years. In the following year he was able to win the European Championships and also won the silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary behind Jens Müller ( GDR ).

In 1989 he became world champion for the first time and won the overall World Cup. He even surpassed this success in the following year, when he won the European Championships in addition to the World Cup and World Cup.

Hackl won the gold medal for the first time at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . The next year he became vice world champion and won as a member of the German team World Cup team gold, which he was able to repeat in 1995 after winning gold again in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer .

After another runner-up in 1996, he became world champion again in 1997, just a hundred days after a spinal disc operation. He also won gold again at the 1998 Olympic Games .

After a fall in a competition, Hackl suffered a defeat at the World Cup in 1999 on his home track in Königssee . After winning the World Cup and European Championship team gold in 2000, he was runner-up again in 2001 and won team gold again.

At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , he won silver behind one of his greatest competitors, the Italian Armin Zöggeler , and thus his fifth Olympic medal. In the same year he was awarded the Bavarian Sports Prize in the "Ambassador of Bavarian Sports" category.

In 2003 Hackl only finished 16th in the individual ranking at the World Cup, but then won gold again with the team. In 2004 and 2005 he again won the runner-up in the individual competition, which was again accompanied by team gold in 2005.

The end of his career was in sight when he had to undergo another operation on his intervertebral disc in 2005. In January 2006, severe flu caused him to lose 4 kg in weight and spend five days in hospital while preparing for the Olympics.

A nerve inflammation in his left arm led to bad start times at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin and robbed him of hope for bronze. Hackl finished 7th in his last individual race and was thus without a medal in the last competition of his sports career. One year after his resignation, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf , the highest German sports award.

During his active time, Hackl was a sports soldier in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Bischofswiesen , most recently in the rank of sergeant major . His current job as a technical trainer at the bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany enables him to pass on his experience to German luge athletes.

Hackl was inducted into the FIL Hall of Fame in 2012.

Despite the many victories, he only won the overall World Cup twice. At the same time, Markus Prock drove , who was overall winner ten times.

successes

Overall World Cup

season	space	Points
1987/88	0?	0?
1988/89	01.	0?
1989/90	01.	0?
1990/91	02.	0?
1991/92	03.	0?
1992/93	03.	0?
1993/94	03.	0?
1994/95	0?.	0?
1995/96	03.	0?
1996/97	0?.	0?
1997/98	0?.	0?
1998/99	02.	0511
1999/2000	02.	0585
2000/01	02.	0500
2001/02	03.	0439
2002/03	02.	0590
2003/04	02.	0560
2004/05	02.	0501
2005/06	012.	0256

World Cup victories

Single seater

Two-seater

No. date place train 1. Jan. 17, 1988  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 2. 0Jan. 8, 1989  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 3. Jan. 15, 1989  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 4th Jan. 22, 1989  Hammar Beach Hammarstrand bobsleigh run 5. Feb. 20, 1989  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 6th Dec 17, 1989  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 7th 23 Dec 1989  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 8th. Jan. 21, 1990  Sarajevo Trebevic - bobsleigh and sled run 9. Jan. 28, 1990  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 10. Feb 11, 1990  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 11. 0Dec 8, 1990  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 12. Jan. 20, 1991  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 13. 0Feb 9, 1991  St. Moritz Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina 14th Jan. 31, 1993  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 15th Feb. 28, 1993  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 16. Jan. 29, 1995  St. Moritz Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina 17th 0Feb. 2, 1997  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 18th Nov 22, 1998  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 19th Dec 20, 1998  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 20th Feb 14, 1999  Nagano Bobsleigh track in Asakawa 21st Feb 13, 2000  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 22nd Feb. 18, 2001  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 23. Nov 10, 2001  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 24. 0Dec 9, 2001  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 25th Dec 13, 2001  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 26th Feb. 27, 2002  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 27. Nov 24, 2002  Park City Park City bobsleigh 28. Jan. 19, 2003  Lillehammer Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run 29 Jan. 26, 2003  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 30th 0Feb 9, 2003  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 31. Jan. 18, 2004  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 32. Jan. 25, 2004  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 33. Jan. 16, 2005  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh

No. date place train 1. Jan. 11, 1986  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 2. Dec 13, 1986  Sarajevo Trebevic - bobsleigh and sled run 3. 0Feb. 7, 1987  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink

Team relay

No.	date	place	train
1.	0Jan. 7, 2006	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run

Wok World Cup

Hackl with Stefan Raab at the 2008 Wok World Cup

Hackl has so far participated in twelve world championships in the fun sport of wok driving . In the single wok he was world champion nine times (2004, 2005, 2007-2013) and three times vice world champion (2006, 2014 and 2015), in the four-wok he came second once (2006).

With these results, Hackl is by far the most successful wok driver. This is why he is sometimes jokingly dubbed “Wokl-Schorsch”.

Personal

Georg Hackl is divorced and lives with his partner in Bischofswiesen .

Part-time engagement

Local politics and economy

In the 2002 district elections in Berchtesgadener Land , Hackl ran for the CSU . He achieved the second highest number of votes and was thus elected to the district council. In the local elections in 2008 and again in 2014 , he was confirmed in office.

Georg Hackl is committed to the expansion of renewable energies. Since 2014 he has been an active advocate for the biogas industry and has worked for the Fachverband Biogas e. V. u. a. Contributed to numerous YouTube videos.

Georg Hackl has been active as a costume designer since 2012 and publishes his models under the name “Schorsch Hackl”.

social life

For the action group “Children in Need” e. V. ( Windhagen im Westerwald ), Hackl has been an international ambassador since the 1990s . Since April 2004 he has also been the patron of the Juvenile Obesity Foundation based in Bischofswiesen .

Sports

In the elections of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which took place during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Hackl was one of the 15 athletes who applied for two free places on the IOC's Athletes ' Commission to be a member of the IOC for eight years be. Hackl would then have been the third German in the IOC alongside IOC Vice President Thomas Bach and NOK Honorary President Walther Tröger , but only achieved fifth place in the election by the participants in the Turin Olympic Games. The Canadian cross-country skier Beckie Scott and the Finnish ice hockey player Saku Koivu were elected as athletes' representatives on February 23, 2006 .

Web links

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

• Georg Hackl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Action group “Children in Need” e. V. (menu item: Georg Hackl)
• Obesity Foundation (menu item: News)
• derstandard.at (Newspaper report: Hackl criticizes Sochi 2014 Olympic hosts)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Luge Federation
2. ↑ Photo gallery - The best pictures of "Schorsch". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 2, 2009. Retrieved August 29, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Tobogganing: Hackl and Pilz in the “Hall of Fame”. In: Focus online. June 18, 2012
4. ↑ Loch inherits Hackl. In: faz.net , February 18, 2012.
5. ↑ Blog Berchtesgadener Land - Schorsch Hackl Mode Tracht, accessed on January 31, 2017