| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Luge | ||
Competitor for  Austria |
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| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 2006 Turin | Men's doubles |
| Gold | 2010 Vancouver | Men's doubles |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold | 2003 Sigulda | Men's doubles |
| Gold | 2011 Cesana | Men's doubles |
| Gold | 2012 Altenberg | Men's doubles |
| Bronze | 2003 Sigulda | Mixed team |
| Bronze | 2013 Whistler | Men's doubles |
| World Cup Championships | ||
| Gold | 2011–12 | Men's doubles |
| Silver | 2010–11 | Men's doubles |
| Bronze | 2004–05 | Men's doubles |
| Bronze | 2007–08 | Men's doubles |
| Bronze | 2008–09 | Men's doubles |
| European Championships | ||
| Gold | 2010 Sigulda | Men's doubles |
| Silver | 2008 Cesana | Men's doubles |
| Silver | 2008 Cesana | Mixed team |
| Silver | 2010 Sigulda | Mixed team |
| Bronze | 2004 Oberhof | Men's doubles |
| Bronze | 2004 Oberhof | Mixed team |
Wolfgang Linger (born 4 November 1982 in Hall in Tirol) is an Austrian luger who has competed internationally since 2000. As young children, he and his older brother Andreas learned to luge on a former Olympic luge track, and at age 14 began competing as a doubles team for the first time. Linger has won three medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with two golds (Men's doubles: 2003, 2011) and a bronze (Mixed team: 2003). He also earned six medals at the FIL European Luge Championships with a gold (Men's doubles: 2010), three silvers (Men's doubles: 2008, Mixed team: 2008, 2010), and two bronzes (Men's doubles, mixed team: both 2004). Linger's best overall Luge World Cup men's doubles finish was third twice (2004-5, 2007-8). In 2005, he broke his leg in a crash, but the next year at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy won the gold medal in doubles luge. He repeated this feat at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, defeating another team of brothers, Andris and Juris Šics of Latvia.
Wolfgang was nine years old when he tried an artificial luge track for the first time, on a track that had been used for Olympic events in 1964 and 1976. His brother was one of the few other members of their local luge club who tried it. Five years later, when they were both 14, they were allowed to try doubles luge for the first time. Despite competing as individuals or in mixed doubles in some events, the Wolfgang and Andreas have seen their most significant success as a doubles team.
The Linger brothers placed 8th in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their runs were relatively consistent, at 43.330 seconds and 43.354 seconds, but they would still trail their countrymen Tobias and Markus Schiegl. By the following, season, however, the Lingers challenged the Schiegls as the best doubles luge team in Austria, beating the latter at the inaugural Krombacher Challenge Cup and setting a course record there.
Linger was injured when he and his brother crashed in an Olympic test run in 2005. The track had a reputation for being fast, and the accident occurred on the 17th of 19 turns. He fractured the ankle and fibula in his left leg, and metal pins were inserted to help it heal. Despite this, he later told reporters that while he found the track to be challenging, he liked luging on it.
Only a year after his injury and with metal pins still inserted in his left leg, Linger and his brother were selected to compete in their second Winter Olympics, the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy. The doubles competition there saw crashes by three different teams, one of which resulted in a Ukrainian competitor being taken to a hospital in an ambulance. As a result the event was described in the media as being 'plagued' by crashes. The Lingers managed to win the gold medal, defeating defending 2002 champions André Florschütz and Torsten Wustlich of Germany.
The Linger brothers entered the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada defending their 2006 gold medal and as strong favorites to be medal contenders. Controversy surrounded the luge competitions at the 2010 Games following the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in a crash during a training run prior to the opening of the Games. After Kumaritashvili's death, changes were made in the ice profile of the turn where he crashed, padding was added to support columns like the one he hit, and the start of the doubles competition was moved up to what had previously been the junior start. This meant that competitors only had six training runs on the altered course in which to develop an entirely new strategy for their runs. After the first run, the Linger brothers led their closest competitors, brothers Andris and Juris Šics of Latvia, by a razor-thin margin of .088 seconds. However, they expanded their lead in the second run, winning the gold medal by a cumulative .264 seconds. Their victory prevented the German team at the Games from sweeping all three luge medals, as German competitors had previously won both the men's and women's singles events.
Linger lives in Absam, Austria, and serves in the Austrian army.
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