Aileen Frisch
 Frisch in 2018 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Aileen Christina Frisch |
| Nationality |  South Korean |
| Born | 25 August 1992 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 | |
| Revised Romanization | Aillin Keuliseutina Peulisyu |
| McCune–Reischauer | Aillin k'ŭrisŭt'ina p'ŭrisyu |
Aileen Christina Frisch (born 25 August 1992) is a South Korean luger. Frisch competed 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]
See also
References
- ^ "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". New York Times.
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