Aileen Frisch

Aileen Frisch

Frisch in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Aileen Christina Frisch
Nationality	South Korean
Born	(1992-08-25) 25 August 1992 (age 32) Lebach,  Germany
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Country	Germany (-2015)  South Korea (2016-)
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

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

• South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics

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. 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.

External links

• Aileen Frisch at the International Luge Federation (archive)
• Aileen Christina Frisch at Olympics.com
• Aileen Frisch on Facebook