Kevin FISCHNALLER

COVID-19
Tested positive for COVID-19 in Beijing prior to the start of the luge competition at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, thus ruling him out of the event. "Due to a positive COVID test, I'm not allowed to compete at the biggest event of the year the Olympics," he wrote on social media at the time. "I was devastated when I heard about the result, all the work over the past years for nothing." (Instagram, 4 Feb 2022; repubblica.it, 4 Feb 2022)

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OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Made his Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018, finishing seventh, after being fifth in Runs 2 and 3.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Has six top-10 finishes in 10 World Championships starts (2015-21), his best being a pair of eighths in 2020 (singles) and 2021 (sprint singles).

WORLD CUP
Shared the overall sprint title in 2020/21 with Felix Loch (GER), after second-place finishes in Winterberg and Innsbruck. It was his first podium in three years, after his first win at the Winterberg singles in November 2017.

His first, and only other podium, came in November 2014, when he finished third at the Innsbruck sprint, sharing the podium with his cousin Dominik.

Has five total Junior World Cup career-podium finishes (all from 2012/13), including two individual and one team relay win.

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Finished fifth at the 2020 European Championships in Lillehammer, his only top-10 result at this level.

Was crowned European junior champion in 2012, after finishing second in 2011, behind Dominik.