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]
 Frisch in 2018 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Aileen Christina Frisch |
| Nationality |  South Korean |
| Born | 25 August 1992 Lebach,  Germany |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |
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| Sport |  Luge |
| Event | Singles |
| Coached by | Steffen Sartor (GER) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 프리쉐 아일린 크리스티나 |
| Revised Romanization | Peuliswe Aillin Keuliseutina |
| McCune–Reischauer | p'ŭriswe Aillin k'ŭrisŭt'ina |
Sports career
editIn 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "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.