Aileen Frisch
Germany (-2015)
South Korea (2016-)
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Aileen Christina Frisch (Korean: 아일린 프리슈; 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]
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
- ^ "Naturalized Olympic luger calls S. Korea 'part of my life'". Yonhap News Agency. Yonhap News Agency. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b c Jeré Longman; Chang W. Lee (8 February 2018). "South Korea Got the Winter Games. Then It Needed More Olympians". The New York Times.
- ^ "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.
External links
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- Aileen Frisch at the International Luge Federation (archive)
- Aileen Christina Frisch at Olympics.com
- Aileen Frisch on Facebook