Reinhold Frosch (9 April 1935 – 14 February 2012) was 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 ...

r who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s. He won a complete set of medals at the

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with a gold in the men's doubles (

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), a silver in the men's singles event (1960), and a bronze in the men's singles event (

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). Frosch also won a bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 1962 FIL European Luge Championships in Weissenbach,

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References

List of European luge champions

Reinhold Frosch's obituary
1935 births 2012 deaths Austrian male lugers {{Austria-luge-bio-stub