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{{short description|German biathlete}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox biathlete <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biathlon -->
| name              = Frank Luck
| image             = Frank Luck Ruhpolding 2005 (cropped).jpg
| alt               = 
| caption           = Luck in 2005
| fullname          =
| nickname          = 
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1967|12|5}}
| birth_place       = [[Schmalkalden]], [[East Germany]]
| death_date        = 
| death_place       = 
| residence         = 
| occupation        = 
| height            = {{height|m=1.79|precision=0}}
| weight            = 
| website           = 
| disciplines       = [[Biathlon]]
| club              = WSV Oberhof O5
| skis              = [[Fischer Skis|Fischer]] 
| rifle             = 
| wcdebut           = 18 January 1987
| retired           = 13 February 2004
| olympicteams      = '''4''' ([[Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics|1988]], [[Biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics|1994]], [[Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics|1998]], [[Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics|2002]])
| olympicmedals     = '''5'''
| olympicgolds      = 2
| worldsteams       = '''15''' ([[Biathlon World Championships 1989|1989]], [[Biathlon World Championships 1990|1990]], [[Biathlon World Championships 1991|1991]], [[Biathlon World Championships 1992|1992]], [[Biathlon World Championships 1993|1993]], [[Biathlon World Championships 1995|1995]], [[Biathlon World Championships 1996|1996]], [[Biathlon World Championships 1997|1997]], [[Biathlon World Championships 1998|1998]], [[Biathlon World Championships 1999|1999]], [[Biathlon World Championships 2000|2000]], [[Biathlon World Championships 2001|2001]], [[Biathlon World Championships 2002|2002]], [[Biathlon World Championships 2003|2003]], [[Biathlon World Championships 2004|2004]])
| worldsmedals      = '''20'''
| worldsgolds       = 11
| wcseasons         = '''18''' (1986/87–2003/04)
| wcraces           = 
| wcraceswithrelays = 
| wcwins            = '''12'''
| wcrelayswins      =
| wcpodiums         = '''39'''
| wcrelayspodiums   =
| wcoveralls        = '''0'''
| wctitles          = '''2:'''<br />'''2 Individual''' (1999–00, 2001–02)
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| updated           = 
| medaltemplates    = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[biathlon]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{GER}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Biathlon at the Winter Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold |[[1994 Winter Olympics|1994 Lillehammer]] |[[Biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics|4 × 7.5 km relay]]}}
{{MedalGold |[[1998 Winter Olympics|1998 Nagano]] | [[Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics|{{nowrap|4 × 7.5 km relay}}]]}}
{{MedalSilver |[[1994 Winter Olympics|1994 Lillehammer]] |[[Biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's individual|20 km individual]]}}
{{MedalSilver |[[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Salt Lake City]] |[[Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics|20 km individual]]}}
{{MedalSilver |[[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Salt Lake City]] |[[Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics|4 × 7.5 km relay]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Biathlon World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 1991|1991 Lahti]] | 4 × 7.5 km relay}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 1993|1993 Borovets]] | Team event}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 1995|1995 Antholz-Anterselva]] | 4 × 7.5 km relay}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 1997|1997 Brezno-Osrblie]] | 4 × 7.5 km relay}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 1999|1999 Kontiolahti]] | 10 km sprint}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 2000|2000 Oslo]] |{{nowrap|12.5 km pursuit}}}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 2003|2003 Khanty-Mansiysk]] | 4 × 7.5 km relay}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 2004|2004 Oberhof]] | 4 × 7.5 km relay}}
{{MedalSilver |[[Biathlon World Championships 1991|1991 Lahti]] | 10 km sprint}}
{{MedalSilver |[[Biathlon World Championships 1996|1996 Ruhpolding]] | 4 × 7.5 km relay}}
{{MedalSilver |[[Biathlon World Championships 1997|1997 Brezno-Osrblie]] | Team event}}
{{MedalSilver |[[Biathlon World Championships 1998|1998 Hochfilzen]] | Team event}}
{{MedalSilver |[[Biathlon World Championships 1999|1999 Kontiolahti]] | 12.5 km pursuit}}
{{MedalBronze |[[Biathlon World Championships 1993|1993 Borovets]] | 4 × 7.5 km relay}}
{{MedalBronze |[[Biathlon World Championships 2000|2000 Oslo]] | {{nowrap|20 km individual}}}}
{{MedalBronze |[[Biathlon World Championships 2000|2000 Lahti]] | 4 × 7.5 km relay}}
{{MedalCountry|{{GDR}}}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Biathlon World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 1989|{{nowrap|1989 Feistritz an der Drau}}]] | 10 km sprint}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 1989|{{nowrap|1989 Feistritz an der Drau}}]] |4 × 7.5 km relay}}
{{MedalGold |[[Biathlon World Championships 1990|1990 Oslo]] | Team event}}
{{MedalBronze |[[Biathlon World Championships 1990|1990 Kontiolahti]] | 4 × 7.5 km relay}}
}}

'''Frank Luck''' (born 5 December 1967) is a German and, before 1990, [[East Germans|East German]] former [[biathlon|biathlete]].

==Career==
Luck started early with [[cross-country skiing (sport)|cross-country skiing]], but in 1980 he went over to biathlon. By 1988 at the age of 21 he had already qualified for the [[1988 Winter Olympics|Winter Olympics]] in [[Calgary]], where he finished sixth in the sprint event. His big breakthrough came with the 10&nbsp;km sprint [[Biathlon World Championship|world title in 1989]]. Having originally competed for the East German team, by 1991, [[German reunification|Germany had unified]] and Luck was now competing for the combined Germany team. Because of illness he missed the [[1992 Winter Olympics]] in [[Albertville]], but at the [[1994 Winter Olympics]] in [[Lillehammer]] he won the gold medal with the German relay team which he repeated four years later at the [[1998 Winter Olympics]] in [[Nagano, Nagano|Nagano]]. During his seventeen-year career, Luck won eleven world championship gold medal with the last one in the relay in 2004 at [[Oberhof, Germany|Oberhof]] where he retired as a biathlete after this event. With five silver and three bronze medals he is one of the most successful world championship competitors of all time.

Luck also won three times at the [[Holmenkollen ski festival]] biathlon competition with two wins in the pursuit (1999, 2000) and one win in the sprint (2002).
He is the [[Brother-in-law]] to his one-time teammate [[Sven Fischer]].

== Doping ==
In April 2009, Luck, on the German TV show ''Sport Inside'' ([[WDR Fernsehen|WDR]]), acknowledged having unwittingly been given the anabolic steroid [[Oral Turinabol]] by his trainer in the 1980s.<ref>[http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/biathlet-frank-luck-gibt-doping-zu-spaeter-reim-auf-die-blauen-pillen-1.401136 Später Reim auf die blauen Pillen ], Süddeutsche Zeitung, 10 May 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.focus.de/sport/mehrsport/biathlon-ex-biathlet-frank-luck-entlastet-ullrich_aid_387975.html Biathlon: Ex-Biathlet Frank Luck entlastet Ullrich], focus.de, 7 April 2009</ref>

==Biathlon results==
All results are sourced from the [[International Biathlon Union]].<ref name="IBUprofile">{{cite web |url=http://services.biathlonresults.com/athletes.aspx?IbuId=BTGER10512196701 |title=Frank Luck |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=IBU Datacenter |publisher=International Biathlon Union |access-date=1 June 2015}}</ref>

===Olympic Games===
''5 medals (2 gold, 3 silver)''
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|- "
!Event
!style="width:70px;"|Individual
!style="width:70px;"|Sprint
!style="width:70px;"|Pursuit
!style="width:70px;"|Relay
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|Canada}} [[1988 Winter Olympics|1988 Calgary]]
| —
| 6th
| {{n/a}}
| —
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|Norway}} [[1994 Winter Olympics|1994 Lillehammer]]
| style="background:silver;"| '''Silver'''
| 6th
| {{n/a}}
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|Japan}} [[1998 Winter Olympics|1998 Nagano]]
| —
| 7th
| {{n/a}}
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|United States}} [[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Salt Lake City]]
| style="background:silver;"| '''Silver'''
| 29th
| 11th
| style="background:silver;"| '''Silver'''
|}
:''*Pursuit was added as an event in 2002.''

===World Championships===
''20 medals (11 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze)''
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|- "
!Event
!style="width:70px;"|Individual
!style="width:70px;"|Sprint
!style="width:70px;"|Pursuit
!style="width:70px;"|{{nowrap|Mass start}}
!Team
!style="width:70px;"|Relay
|-
| align=left |{{nowrap|{{flagicon|AUT}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1989|1989 Feistritz]]}}
| 4th
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| —
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
|-
| align=left |{{nowrap|{{flagicon|URS}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1990|1990 Minsk]]}}
| 6th
| 5th
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
| style="background:#cfaa88;"| '''Bronze'''
|-
| align=left |{{nowrap|{{flagicon|FIN}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1991|1991 Lahti]]}}
| —
| style="background:silver;"| '''Silver'''
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| —
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|RUS|1991}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1992|1992 Novosibirsk]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| 7th
| {{n/a}}
|-
| align=left |{{nowrap|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1993|1993 Borovets]]}}
| 10th
| —
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
| style="background:#cfaa88;"| '''Bronze'''
|-
| align=left |{{nowrap|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1995|1995 Antholz-Anterselva]]}}
| 11th
| 7th
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| —
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|GER}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1996|1996 Ruhpolding]]
| 8th
| 33rd
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| 6th
| style="background:silver;"| '''Silver'''
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|SVK}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1997|1997 Brezno-Osrblie]]
| —
| 7th
| 9th
| {{n/a}}
| style="background:silver;"| '''Silver'''
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|SLO}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1998|1998 Pokljuka]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| 16th
| {{n/a}}
| style="background:silver;"| '''Silver'''
| {{n/a}}
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|FIN}} [[Biathlon World Championships 1999|1999 Kontiolahti]]
| 24th
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
| style="background:silver;"| '''Silver'''
| 20th
| {{n/a}}
| 4th
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Biathlon World Championships 2000|2000 Oslo Holmenkollen]]
| style="background:#cfaa88;"| '''Bronze'''
| 4th
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
| 17th
| {{n/a}}
| style="background:#cfaa88;"| '''Bronze'''
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|SLO}} [[Biathlon World Championships 2001|2001 Pokljuka]]
| —
| 11th
| 17th
| 22nd
| {{n/a}}
| 12th
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Biathlon World Championships 2002|2002 Oslo Holmenkollen]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| 6th
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Biathlon World Championships 2003|2003 Khanty-Mansiysk]]
| 36th
| 30th
| 5th
| 17th
| {{n/a}}
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|GER}} [[Biathlon World Championships 2004|2004 Oberhof]]
| —
| —
| —
| —
| {{n/a}}
| style="background:gold;"| '''Gold'''
|}
:''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.''
:''**Team was removed as an event in 1998, and pursuit was added in 1997 with mass start being added in 1999.''

===Individual victories===
''12 victories (1 In, 9 Sp, 2 Pu)''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Season
! Date
! Location
! Discipline
! Level
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| '''[[1988–89 Biathlon World Cup|1988–89]]''' <br /> 2 victories <br /> (2 Sp) || 17 December 1988 ||{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Les Saisies|Albertville]]||10&nbsp;km sprint||[[Biathlon World Cup]]
|-
| 11 February 1989 ||{{flagicon|AUT}} [[Feistritz an der Drau|Feistritz]]||10&nbsp;km sprint||[[Biathlon World Championships]]
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"| '''[[1990–91 Biathlon World Cup|1990–91]]''' <br /> 1 victory <br /> (1 Sp) || 2 February 1991 ||{{flagicon|GER}} [[Oberhof, Germany|Oberhof]]||10&nbsp;km sprint||[[Biathlon World Cup]]
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"| '''[[1992–93 Biathlon World Cup|1992–93]]''' <br /> 1 victory <br /> (1 Sp) || 6 March 1993 ||{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Lillehammer]]||10&nbsp;km sprint||[[Biathlon World Cup]]
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"| '''[[1993–94 Biathlon World Cup|1993–94]]''' <br /> 1 victory <br /> (1 Sp) || 22 January 1994 ||{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Rasen-Antholz|Antholz-Anterselva]]||10&nbsp;km sprint||[[Biathlon World Cup]]
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| '''[[1997–98 Biathlon World Cup|1997–98]]''' <br /> 2 victories <br /> (2 Sp) || 6 December 1997 ||{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Lillehammer]]||10&nbsp;km sprint||[[Biathlon World Cup]]
|-
| 5 March 1998 ||{{flagicon|SLO}} [[Pokljuka]]||10&nbsp;km sprint||[[Biathlon World Cup]]
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| '''[[1998–99 Biathlon World Cup|1998–99]]''' <br /> 2 victories <br /> (1 Sp, 1 Pu) || 12 February 1999 ||{{flagicon|FIN}} [[Kontiolahti]]||10&nbsp;km sprint||[[Biathlon World Championships]]
|-
| 14 March 1999 ||{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Holmenkollen National Arena|Oslo Holmenkollen]]||12.5&nbsp;km pursuit||[[Biathlon World Cup]]
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"| '''[[1999–2000 Biathlon World Cup|1999–2000]]''' <br /> 1 victory <br /> (1 Pu) || 20 February 2000 ||{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Holmenkollen National Arena|Oslo Holmenkollen]]||12.5&nbsp;km pursuit||[[Biathlon World Championships]]
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| '''[[2001–02 Biathlon World Cup|2001–02]]''' <br /> 2 victories <br /> (1 In, 1 Sp) || 19 December 2001 ||{{flagicon|SVK}} [[Osrblie|Brezno-Osrblie]]||20&nbsp;km individual||[[Biathlon World Cup]]
|-
| 21 March 2002 ||{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Holmenkollen National Arena|Oslo Holmenkollen]]||10&nbsp;km sprint||[[Biathlon World Cup]]
|}
:''*Results are from UIPMB and IBU races which include the [[Biathlon World Cup]], [[Biathlon World Championships]] and the [[Winter Olympic Games]].''

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.frankluck.de Official website] {{in lang|de}}
* {{IBU name|BTGER10512196701}}

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