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 position, supine (face-up) and feet-first. A luger begins seated, propelling themselves initially from handles on either side of the start ramp, then steers by using the Ca ...

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
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