Name Oswald Haselrieder Role Luger | Height 1.78 m Weight 72 kg | |
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Similar People Gerhard Plankensteiner, Andre Florschutz, Wolfgang Linger | ||
Oswald Haselrieder (born 22 August 1971 in Völs am Schlern, South Tyrol) is an Italian national of Austrian descent luger who competed from 1990 to 2010. Together with Gerhard Plankensteiner he won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin after competing in three previous Winter Olympic Games.
Haselrieder also won four medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with one gold (Men's doubles: 2009) and three bronzes (Men's doubles: 1996, Mixed team: 1996, 1997). At the FIL European Luge Championships, he won seven medals with one silver (Men's doubles: 1996) and six bronzes (Men's doubles: 2002, 2008 (tied with Germany); Mixed team: 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008).
Haselrieder's best overall Luge World Cup finish was second in men's doubles in 1996-7.
His wife, Doris, competed as a natural track luger for Italy in the early to mid-1990s.