Gerhard Gleirscher Explained

Gerhard Gleirscher (born 14 December 1969) is an Austrian luger who competed from 1990 to 2000. He won a complete set of medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with a gold in mixed team (1997), a silver in mixed team (1991) and a bronze in men's singles (1997).

Competing in three Winter Olympics, Gleirscher also finished seventh in the men's doubles event in 1992 and in the men's singles event both in 1994 and in 1998.

His best overall finish in the Luge World Cup was third in the men's singles in 1997-8.

Family

Gerhard Gleirscher's son, David, won a gold medal at the men's singles luge event at the 2018 Winter Olympics.^[1]

References

1. News: Rodler David Gleirscher rast sensationell zu Gold. m.b.H.. STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft. derStandard.at. 2018-02-11.

• 1992 luge men's doubles results
• 1994 luge men's singles results
• 1998 luge men's singles results
• FIL-Luge profile
• Web site: Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton . 2007-06-17 . https://archive.today/20121204165409/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/worldluge.shtml . 2012-12-04 . dead .
• Web site: List of men's singles luge World Cup champions since 1978 . 2008-04-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080206094152/http://sports123.com/lug/mwc-s.html . 2008-02-06 . dead .