Frank Luck
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| Frank Luck | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Frank Luck | |
| Date of birth | December 5, 1967 (age 39) | |
| Place of birth | Schmalkalden, DDR | |
| Height | 179 cm | |
| Professional information | ||
| Club | WSV Oberhof O5 | |
| Skis | Fischer | |
| World Cup | ||
| Seasons | 1986-2004 | |
| Wins | 12 | |
| Additional podiums | 27 | |
| Total podiums | 39 | |
| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's biathlon | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1994 Lillehammer | 4 x 7.5 km relay | |
| Gold | 1998 Nagano | 4 x 7.5 km | |
| Silver | 1994 Lillehammer | 20 km | |
| Silver | 2002 Salt Lake City | 20 km | |
Frank Luck (b December 5, 1967 in Schmalkalden) is a former German biathlete. Frank Luck started early with cross country skiing, but in 1980 he went over to biathlon. Already in 1988, 21 years old he qualified for the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, where he finished sixth in the sprint event. His big breakthrough came with the World title in 1989. Because of illness he missed the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, but at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer he won the gold medal with the German relay team which he repeated four years later at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. During his seventeen-year career, Luck won eleven world championships with the last one in the relay in 2004 at Oberhof where retired as a biathlete after this event. With five silver and three bronze medals, respectively, he is one of the biggest world championship competitors of all time.
Luck also won three times at the Holmenkollen ski festival biathlon competition win two wins in the pursuit (1999, 2000) and one win in the sprint (2002). He is the Brother-in-law to Sven Fischer
[edit] International titles
- 1989 World Champion 10 km and relay
- 1990 Team World Champion
- 1991 Relay World Champion
- 1993 Team World Champion
- 1994 Relay Olympic Champion
- 1995 Relay World Champion
- 1997 Relay World Champion
- 1998 Olympic Relay Champion
- 1999 10 km World Champion
- 2000 Pursuit World Champion
- 2003 Relay World Champion
- 2004 Relay World Champion
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1968: Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov, Nikolay Pusanov, Viktor Mamatov & Vladimir Gundartsev * 1972: Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov, Rinnat Safin, Ivan Biakov & Viktor Mamatov * 1976: Soviet Union Aleksandr Yelizarov, Ivan Biakov & Nikolay K. Kruglov, Alexander Tikhonov * 1980: Soviet Union Vladimir Alikin, Alexander Tikhonov, Vladimir Barnachov & Anatoly Alyabyev * 1984: Soviet Union Dmitri Vassiliev, Yuri Kachkarov, Alguimantas Šalna & Sergey Bulygin * 1988: Soviet Union Dmitri Vassiliev, Sergey Chepikov, Alexander Popov & Valery Medvedtsev * 1992: Germany Ricco Gross, Jens Steinigen, Mark Kirchner & Fritz Fischer * 1994: Germany Ricco Gross, Frank Luck, Mark Kirchner & Sven Fischer * 1998: Germany Ricco Gross, Peter Sendel, Sven Fischer & Frank Luck * 2002: Norway Halvard Hanevold, Frode Andresen, Egil Gjelland & Ole Einar Bjørndalen * 2006: Germany Sven Fischer, Michael Greis, Ricco Gross & Michael Rösch
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