Markus Prock

Markus Prock
nation	Austria
birthday	June 22, 1964
place of birth	innsbruck
Career
discipline	Single seater
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 5 × 4 × 5 × European championships 3 × 5 × 3 ×
winter Olympics silver 1992 Albertville Single seater silver 1994 Lillehammer Single seater bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Single seater  Luge World Championships gold 1987 Igls Single seater silver 1990 Calgary Single seater bronze 1991 Winterberg Single seater silver 1991 Winterberg Team competition silver 1993 Calgary Team competition bronze 1995 Lillehammer Single seater bronze 1995 Lillehammer Team competition gold 1996 Altenberg Single seater gold 1996 Altenberg Team competition silver 1997 Igls Single seater gold 1997 Igls Team competition gold 1999 Königssee Team competition bronze 2000 St. Moritz Team competition bronze 2001 Calgary Single seater  European Luge Championships silver 1988 Königssee Single seater silver 1990 Igls Single seater silver 1992 Winterberg Team competition gold 1994 Königssee Single seater bronze 1994 Königssee Team competition silver 1996 Sigulda Team competition gold 1998 Oberhof Single seater bronze 1998 Oberhof Team competition silver 2000 Winterberg Single seater gold 2002 Altenberg Single seater bronze 2002 Altenberg Team competition
Placements in the Luge World Cup
World Cup victories 33  Overall World Cup ES 1. (1987/88, 1990 / 91–1996 / 97, 1998/99, 2001/02)  Challenge Cup ES 1. (2001/02)
last change: January 1st, 2010

Markus Prock (born June 22, 1964 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian luge rider .

Life

Between 1981 and 2002 Prock won the overall Luge World Cup ten times and was world champion twice. He won three medals at the Olympic Games . In 1992 in Albertville and 1994 in Lillehammer he won the silver medal . At the end of his career, he won the bronze medal in Salt Lake City in 2002 . This makes him the most successful Austrian luge rider. His greatest competitor during his playing days was Georg Hackl , whom Prock could never leave behind at the Olympic Games.

Prock has been running his own sports agency in Innsbruck since 1997, through which he looks after Armin Zöggeler , Mario Stecher and Gregor Schlierenzauer , whose uncle he is, among others . His daughter Hannah Prock is also a luge athlete and member of the Austrian national team.

In 2008 Prock took part in the ORF soccer show “ Das Match ”.

successes

Olympia	World championships	European championships	World cup
1992 - silver 1994 - silver 2002 - bronze	1987 - gold 1990 - silver 1991 - bronze 1995 - bronze 1996 - gold (individual + team) 1997 - silver (individual), gold (team) 1999 - gold (team) 2001 - bronze	1994 - gold 1998 - gold 2002 - gold	10 × overall world cup winners 33 World Cup individual victories

Overall World Cup

season	space	Points
1984/85	02.	0?
1985/86	0?	0?
1986/87	03.	0?
1987/88	01.	0?
1988/89	0?	0?
1989/90	02.	0?
1990/91	01.	0?
1991/92	01.	0?
1992/93	01.	0?
1993/94	01.	0?
1994/95	01.	0?
1995/96	01.	0?
1996/97	01.	0?
1997/98	0?	0?
1998/99	01.	0575
1999/2000	05.	0400
2000/01	03.	0525
2001/02	01.	0487

World Cup victories

Single seater

No.	date	place	train
1.	0Feb. 3, 1985	Hammar Beach	Hammarstrand bobsleigh run
2.	Dec. 20, 1987	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
3.	Jan. 10, 1988	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
4th	Jan. 24, 1988	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
5.	Nov 25, 1990	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
6th	Dec 16, 1990	Sarajevo	Trebevic - bobsleigh and sled run
7th	Feb. 17, 1991	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
8th.	Nov 17, 1991	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
9.	Dec 17, 1991	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
10.	Jan. 26, 1992	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
11.	Nov 29, 1992	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
12.	0Dec 6, 1993	Sigulda	Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track
13.	Jan. 17, 1993	La Plagne	La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run
14th	0Feb. 7, 1993	Lillehammer	Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run
15th	0Dec 2, 1993	Sigulda	Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track
16.	Dec 12, 1993	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
17th	Jan 16, 1994	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
18th	Nov 30, 1994	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
19th	Nov. 26, 1994	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
20th	Nov. 27, 1994	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
21st	0Dec. 4, 1994	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
22nd	December 17, 1994	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
23.	0Dec 3, 1995	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
24.	Dec 10, 1995	La Plagne	La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run
25th	Feb 11, 1996	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
26th	Dec 15, 1996	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
27.	Dec 22, 1996	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
28.	Jan. 22, 1997	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
29	Jan. 18, 1998	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
30th	Jan. 17, 1999	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
31.	0Feb 6, 1999	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
32.	Jan. 20, 2002	Sigulda	Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track

Awards (excerpt)

• 1992: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1994: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

Commons : Markus Prock  - Collection of Images

• portrait
• Sports agency Prock & Partner
• Markus Prock in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=424&L=1&tx_ttnews%5BpS%5D=1260347276&tx_ttnews%5Bpointer%5D=49&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1938&tx_ttnews%5Bback7fc%