Wolfgang Kindl (born 18 April 1988) is an Austrian world champion luger who has competed since 2007.

Competitive career

At the

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, he won silver medals in the men's singles and mixed team events. At the 5 December 2014 men's singles event in

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, Kindl placed second, behind American Tucker West, with Dominik Fischnaller of Italy coming in third. Kindl finished the 2014-15 Luge World Cup third overall in the men's singles discipline. During the following 2015-16 Luge World Cup season, Kinda finished 2nd in the men's singles category. behind

Felix Loch Felix Loch (; born 24 July 1989) is a German luger and Olympic champion. He has been competing since 1995 and on the German national team since 2006. He has won fourteen medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with twelve golds (Men's singles ...

of Germany. In the 2017-17

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campaign Kindl finished third behind respectively, the repeating world champion, Felix Loch, and

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of Russia. The next year was Kindl's best

season finish so far as he finished as the champion in men's spring singles event for the 2017–18 and also placed second in the men's singles event standings. Kindl represented Austria at the

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, Canada, finishing ninth in the men's singles. Kinda reprised representing Austria in the 2014 Winter Olympics held in Sochi, Russia and again finished ninth in the men's singles event. At the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

staged in PyeongChang,

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Kindl represented Austria for the third time and again finished ninth in the men's singles event for the third consecutive time. Kindl at last obtained an Olympic medal when he won silver in the singles event in the 2022 Beijing games. Kindl finished behind only German

Johannes Ludwig Johannes Ludwig (born 14 February 1986) is an Olympic gold medal-winning German luger who has competed since 1996. He won a bronze medal in the Team relay event at the FIL European Luge Championships 2010 in Sigulda. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, ...

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* 1988 births Living people Austrian male lugers Lugers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Austria Olympic lugers for Austria Olympic medalists in luge Sportspeople from Innsbruck 21st-century Austrian people {{Austria-luge-bio-stub