Frank Luck

Frank Luck, born on 5 December 1967, is a German biathlete who competed for East Germany before reunification and for the unified German team afterwards. He started in cross-country skiing, moved to biathlon in 1980 and qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, where he finished sixth in the sprint. He won the 10 km sprint world title in 1989, missed the 1992 Games through illness, and then took Olympic relay gold with the German team at Lillehammer in 1994 and again at Nagano in 1998. Across a seventeen-year career he won eleven world championship gold medals, the last in the relay at Oberhof in 2004, where he retired. He also won three times at the Holmenkollen ski festival and is the brother-in-law of his former teammate Sven Fischer. In 2009 he said on German television that his trainer had unwittingly given him an anabolic steroid in the 1980s.