Alexander Michael Ferlazzo (born 3 April 1995) is an Australian

luge A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh for s ...

r who has competed since 2012. He competed in the first-ever Youth Olympics in

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, Austria, where he finished 19th out of 25th. Ferlazzo also competed for

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at the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

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, Russia. He finished 33rd in the men's single competition, 6.518 seconds behind gold medal winner Felix Loch.

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* * 1995 births Living people Australian male lugers Olympic lugers for Australia Lugers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Lugers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Townsville Sportsmen from Queensland {{Australia-luge-bio-stub