Aileen Frisch

Aileen Frisch
Personal information
Nationality South Korea South Korean
Born (1992-08-25) 25 August 1992
 Germany
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Country
Sport Luge
Event(s) Singles
Coached by Steffen Sartor (GER)
Korean name
Hangul 아일린 크리스티나 프리슈
Revised Romanization Aillin Keuliseutina Peulisyu
McCune–Reischauer Aillin k'ŭrisŭt'ina p'ŭrisyu

Aileen Christina Frisch (born 25 August 1992) is a German-born South Korean luger. Frisch is competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for South Korea.[1]

Sports career

In 2012, Frisch became world junior female singles luge champion, competing as a German.[2]

Frisch failed to make the German luge team for the 2014 Winter Olympics.[2]

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 then in 2016, she acquiesced and acceded to a second request, when she started missing the competition and travel in international sport. In December 2016 she became a South Korean citizen so she could legally compete on the South Korea team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Luge athlete profile Pyeongchang 2018". pyeongchang2018.com. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 JERÉ LONGMAN; CHANG W. LEE; (8 February 2018). "South Korea Got the Winter Games. Then It Needed More Olympians". New York Times.

See also

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