Nico Gleirscher (born 17 March 1997) is an Austrian

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 ...

Career

He started competing for the Austria national team in the various youth categories, finishing second overall in the Youth World Cup in 2013/14 and third in the Junior World Cup in 2014/15. He also won four medals at the , including a silver in singles in Sigulda 2017 and three bronze medals (singles in Lillehammer 2015, team event in Winterberg 2016 and in Sigulda 2017). He also won four medals at the (one silver and three bronze medals). He made his World Cup debut in the 2015/16 season, on 29 November 2015, in Igls, finishing the singles event and in 19th position. He got his first podium on 26 November 2017 in Winterberg in the single sprint, where he finished third, and his first win on 3 January 2021 in Schönau am Königssee, where he won the team race together with

Madeleine Egle Madeleine Egle (born 21 August 1998) is an Austrian luger. She won bronze at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics and in 2018 another bronze medal at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang. Career Egle turned pro in 2015 at the age of 16. She debuted at ...

Thomas Steu Thomas Steu (born 9 February 1994) is an Austrian luger. He competed in the men's doubles event at the 2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , op ...

and

Lorenz Koller Lorenz Koller (born 26 September 1994) is an Austrian luger. He competed in the men's doubles event at the 2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the ...

. Overall, as his best result, he placed 17th in 2017/18. He is the son of

Gerhard Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to: Given name * Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate * Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark * Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–19 ...

and is the brother of

David David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

, who have also been successful elite lugers. On 29 January 2021, he became the world champion in the sprint classification, ahead of

Semen Pavlichenko Semen Aleksandrovich Pavlichenko (russian: Семё́н Алекса́ндрович Павличе́нко; born 11 May 1991) is a Russian luger. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events ...

, and his brother David came third.

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* 1997 births Living people Austrian male lugers Sportspeople from Innsbruck Lugers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic lugers for Austria 21st-century Austrian people {{Austria-luge-bio-stub