Aileen Frisch

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Aileen Frisch
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Frisch in 2018
Personal information
Full nameAileen Christina Frisch
Nationality Flag of South Korea.svg South Korean
Born (1992-08-25) 25 August 1992 (age 33)
Lebach, Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Country
SportLuge pictogram.svg Luge
Event
Singles
Coached bySteffen Sartor (GER)
Korean name
Hangul
프리쉐아일린크리스티나
RR Peuriswe Ailrinkeuriseutina
MR P'ŭriswe Aillink'ŭrisŭt'ina

Aileen Christina Frisch (born 25 August 1992) is a South Korean-Slovenian [1] luger. Frisch competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics for South Korea. [2]

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Sports career

In 2012, Frisch became the world junior female singles luge champion, competing as a German. [3]

Frisch failed to make the German luge team for the 2014 Winter Olympics. [3]

She retired from luging in 2015 at age 22. After her retirement, she was contacted by German coaches hired by South Korea to become a naturalized South Korean and join the South Korean luge team. At first, she refused, but in 2016, she consented and acceded to a second request when she started missing the competitions. In December 2016, she became a South Korean citizen so she could legally compete on the South Korea team at the 2018 Winter Olympics. [3] She also competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 유지호 (25 January 2022). "Naturalized Olympic luger calls S. Korea 'part of my life'". Yonhap News Agency . Yonhap News Agency . Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Athlete Profile - FRISCH Aileen Christina". PyeongChang2018.com. PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 2018-04-21. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 Jeré Longman; Chang W. Lee (8 February 2018). "South Korea Got the Winter Games. Then It Needed More Olympians". The New York Times .
  4. ↑ "XXIV Olympic Winter Games 2022 in Beijing - Quota places luge" (PDF). www.fil-luge.org/. International Luge Federation. 19 January 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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