Max Leo

Max Leo
nation	Germany
birthday	December 16, 1941
place of birth	Tegernsee
date of death	20th July 2012
Career
discipline	Single seater, double seater
society	RC Rottach-Egern
End of career	1964
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Luge World Championships silver 1962 Krynica-Zdrój Two-seater

Max Leo (born December 16, 1941 in Tegernsee ; † July 20, 2012 ) was a German luge athlete .

Career

Max Leo started for the RC Rottach-Egern . In January 1958, Leo won the title at the 4th European Junior Championship in Oberhof with a lead of over three seconds on Thomas Köhler . With the seniors he achieved his greatest success at the 1962 World Championships in Krynica-Zdrój , when he and Fritz Nachmann became vice world champion in doubles. He also took eleventh place in the single-seater. The following year he reached seventh place in the single seater at the World Championships in Imst. For the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , where luge was first held as an Olympic discipline, he missed the qualification for the nine-man all - German team and ended his career.

Private life

Leo had been married to the former ski racer Burgl Frebsinger since 1970 , with whom he ran a pension in Oberau . He was also the managing director of a family-founded ski school and head of the football department at TSV Berchtesgaden .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ His heart was attached to TSV: Max Leo from Oberau died on Friday after a serious illness with his family. Online edition of the Berchtesgadener Anzeiger from July 24, 2012 (accessed on November 21, 2012).
2. ↑ Chronicle 1948 - 1998 ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published by the Bavarian Bobsleigh and Toboggan Association eV as a PDF file, p. 14, 15 of 24 pages, online at bbsv-online.de , accessed on April 29, 2017.