{{short description|South Korean luger}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Aileen Frisch | image = 2018-11-21 Aileen Christina Frisch by Sandro Halank.jpg | caption = Frisch in 2018 | full_name = Aileen Christina Frisch | nationality = {{flagicon|South Korea}} South Korean | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1992|8|25}} | birth_place = Lebach, {{flag|Germany}} | alma_mater = | height = 1.75 m | weight = 69 kg | country = {{ubl|{{flag|Germany}} (-2015)|{{flag|South Korea}} (2016-)}} | sport = {{Luge}} | event = Singles | coach = Steffen Sartor (GER) | module3 = {{Infobox Korean name/auto|child=yes | hangul = %프리쉐_아일린크리스티나 }} }}
'''Aileen Christina Frisch''' (born 25 August 1992) is a South Korean-Slovenian<ref>{{cite news |url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20220125002400315 | title=Naturalized Olympic luger calls S. Korea 'part of my life' |website=Yonhap News Agency |publisher=Yonhap News Agency |date=25 January 2022 |access-date=5 February 2022 | author1=유지호 }}</ref> luger. Frisch competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics for South Korea.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/luge/athlete-profile-n3040942-frisch-aileen-christina.htm |title=Athlete Profile - FRISCH Aileen Christina |website=PyeongChang2018.com |publisher=PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games |access-date=9 February 2018 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421113444/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/luge/athlete-profile-n3040942-frisch-aileen-christina.htm |archivedate=2018-04-21}}</ref>
==Sports career== In 2012, Frisch became the world junior female singles luge champion, competing as a German.<ref name=NYT-2018-02-08/>
Frisch failed to make the German luge team for the 2014 Winter Olympics.<ref name=NYT-2018-02-08/>
She retired from luging in 2015 at age 22. After her retirement, she was contacted by German coaches hired by South Korea to become a naturalized South Korean and join the South Korean luge team. At first, she refused, but in 2016, she consented and acceded to a second request when she started missing the competitions. In December 2016, she became a South Korean citizen so she could legally compete on the South Korea team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.<ref name=NYT-2018-02-08>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/sports/olympics/south-korea-naturalized-citizens.html |title= South Korea Got the Winter Games. Then It Needed More Olympians. |author1= Jeré Longman |author2=Chang W. Lee |date= 8 February 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> She also competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/fil-luge-qualification-list-3.pdf|title=XXIV Olympic Winter Games 2022 in Beijing - Quota places luge|publisher=International Luge Federation|website=www.fil-luge.org/|date=19 January 2022|accessdate=21 January 2022|archive-date=22 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122020310/https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/fil-luge-qualification-list-3.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== *South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{FIL|aileen-frisch|Aileen Frisch|archive=20181223121035}} * {{Olympics.com|frisch|Aileen Christina Frisch|org_id=aileen-christina-frisch|org_archive=20190811100518}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{Facebook|aileen.frisch|Aileen Frisch}}
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