Daniel Franck (born 9 December 1974) is a Norwegian professional snowboarder. In

Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics The snowboarding competition of the 1998 Winter Olympics was held at Mount Yakebitai and Kanbayashi Snowboard Park. The competition took place between 8 and 12 February 1998 and featured four events: Men's and Women's giant slalom and halfpi ...

, he won Silver in Men's Halfpipe.

Career

Franck was born and raised in Gjerdum, Norway. He started riding in 1991, and began competing professionally in 1993. After winning the National and Nordic championships, he began competing in world cup events in 1993. Franck won his first international championship Gold at the European championships in 1995, and earned 2nd. place at the World Cup Ranking the 1995–96 season. He won the silver medal in the inaugural men's

halfpipe A half-pipe is a structure used in gravity extreme sports such as skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing, freestyle BMX, Inline skating, skating, and scooter riding. Overview The structure resembles a cross-section of a swimming pool, essentially t ...

competition in the

1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with some events ...

in Nagano, Japan. He also participated in the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...

in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he finished 9th. place, after riding with a concussion from a crash in his last practice run. Franck was the first snowboarding athlete to win gold at the ESPN X-Games in Snow Summit – California – in 1997, where he also took the Silver medal in the slope style contest. In the 1999–2000 season he won the World Championships, European Championships and the World Cup overall, a record that still stands today. Franck, has earned 16 world cup wins, 11 Championship medals and more than 40 international podiums in his career. He is also known as "The Slippery Hotdog" because of his effortless style and ghost-like disappearance. Franck was in a computer game known as XGames Pro Boarder and Transworld Snowboarding. Daniel Franck is still riding, but retired from the competition scene in 2008. He runs his own clothing company which carries his name. They launched in 2009 with 34 pieces. He is mentioned in the Mack Dawg Productions, Double Decade as one of the most progressive riders of all time. He can be seen in the following productions: "Upping The Ante", "Melt Down Project", TB2 & TB3 (Standard Films), "Technical Difficulties", "Stomping Grounds" and more.

References

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Daniel Francks Online Store
(Norwegian) 1974 births Living people Norwegian male snowboarders Olympic snowboarders for Norway Snowboarders at the 1998 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2002 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in snowboarding Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Norway {{Norway-snowboarding-bio-stub