André Florschütz
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Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1976-08-06) 6 August 1976 (age 48) Sonneberg, Bezirk Suhl, East Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb; 13.4 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Luge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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André Florschütz (born 6 August 1976 in Sonneberg) is a German luger who competed from 1993 to 2010. Together with Torsten Wustlich, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Florschütz also won nine medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with six golds (Men's doubles: 2001, 2005, 2008; Mixed team: 2005, 2008, 2009) and three silvers (Men's doubles: 2004, 2009; Mixed team: 1999).
His best overall finish at the FIL European Luge Championships was fifth in the men's doubles event twice (2004, 2008).
Florschütz's best overall finish in the men's doubles Luge World Cup was second three times (2000-1, 2003-4, 2004-5). His younger brother Thomas competes for Germany in bobsleigh.
References
- After Leitner/Resch and Grimette/Martin. at the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (30 March 2010 article accessed 30 March 2010.)
- "FIL-Luge profile". Archived from the original on 10 February 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2007.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - "Fuzilogik Sports – Winter Olympic results – Men's luge". Archived from the original on 21 February 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- "Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skeleton". Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
- "Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton". Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2007.
- "List of men's doubles luge World Cup champions since 1978". Archived from the original on 6 February 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2008.
External links
- André Florschütz at the International Luge Federation (archive)
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- 1955: Austria (Hans Krausner & Josef Thaler)
- 1957–58: West Germany (Fritz Nachmann & Josef Strillinger)
- 1960: Austria (Reinhold Frosch & Ewald Walch)
- 1961: Italy (Roman Pichler & Enrico Prinoth)
- 1962: Italy (Giovanni Graber & Giampaolo Ambrosi)
- 1963: Poland (Ryszard Pędrak-Janowicz & Lucjan Kudzia)
- 1965: East Germany (Wolfgang Scheidel & Thomas Köhler)
- 1967: East Germany (Klaus Bonsack & Thomas Köhler)
- 1969–70: Austria (Manfred Schmid & Ewald Walch)
- 1971: Italy (Paul Hildgartner & Walter Plaikner)
- 1973: East Germany (Horst Hörnlein & Reinhard Bredow)
- 1974: East Germany (Bernd Hahn & Ulrich Hahn)
- 1975–77: East Germany (Hans Rinn & Norbert Hahn)
- 1978: Soviet Union (Dainis Bremze & Aigars Kriķis)
- 1979: West Germany (Hans Brandner & Balthasar Schwarm)
- 1981: East Germany (Bernd Hahn & Ulrich Hahn)
- 1983–87: East Germany (Jörg Hoffmann & Jochen Pietzsch)
- 1989: East Germany (Stefan Krauße & Jan Behrendt)
- 1990: Italy (Hansjörg Raffl & Norbert Huber)
- 1991–95: Germany (Stefan Krauße & Jan Behrendt)
- 1996–97: Austria (Tobias Schiegl & Markus Schiegl)
- 1999–2000: Germany (Patric Leitner & Alexander Resch)
- 2001: Germany (André Florschütz & Torsten Wustlich)
- 2003: Austria (Andreas Linger & Wolfgang Linger)
- 2004: Germany (Patric Leitner & Alexander Resch)
- 2005: Germany (André Florschütz & Torsten Wustlich)
- 2007: Germany (Patric Leitner & Alexander Resch)
- 2008: Germany (André Florschütz & Torsten Wustlich)
- 2009: Italy (Gerhard Plankensteiner & Oswald Haselrieder)
- 2011–12: Austria (Andreas Linger & Wolfgang Linger)
- 2013–16: Germany (Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt)
- 2017–23: Germany (Toni Eggert & Sascha Benecken)
- 2024: Austria (Juri Gatt & Riccardo Schöpf)
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