Wolfgang Linger

Wolfgang Linger

Linger in 2014
Medal record
Men's luge
Representing  Austria
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Turin Men's doubles
Gold medal – first place 2010 Vancouver Men's doubles
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi Men's doubles
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Sigulda Men's doubles
Gold medal – first place 2011 Cesana Men's doubles
Gold medal – first place 2012 Altenberg Men's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Sigulda Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Whistler Men's doubles
World Cup Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011–12 Men's doubles
Silver medal – second place 2010–11 Men's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2004–05 Men's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2007–08 Men's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2008–09 Men's doubles
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Sigulda Men's doubles
Silver medal – second place 2008 Cesana Men's doubles
Silver medal – second place 2008 Cesana Mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Sigulda Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Oberhof Men's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Oberhof Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sigulda Men's doubles

Wolfgang Linger (born 4 November 1982 in Hall in Tirol) is an Austrian former luger who competed internationally since 2000. As young children, he and his older brother Andreas learned to luge on a former Olympic luge track, and at age 14 began competing as a doubles team for the first time. Linger has won five medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with three golds (Men's doubles: 2003, 2011 and 2012) and two bronzes (Mixed team: 2003 and men's doubles: 2013). He also earned seven medals at the FIL European Luge Championships with a gold (Men's doubles: 2010), three silvers (Men's doubles: 2008, Mixed team: 2008, 2010), and three bronzes (Men's doubles: 2004 and 2014, Mixed team: 2004). The Lingers were overall Luge World Cup men's doubles champions in 2011-12 and scored 15 World Cup race victories.[1] In 2005, he broke his leg in a crash, but the next year at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy won the gold medal in doubles luge. He repeated this feat at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, defeating another team of brothers, Andris and Juris Šics of Latvia.[2]

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