Georg Hackl

Hackl won the individual event at the Albertville Olympics in 1992, Lillehammer in 1994, and Nagano in 1998. And he book-ended these gold medals with silver medals in Calgary in 1988 and Salt Lake City in 2002. Hackl is the first Winter Olympian to win a medal in five consecutive Olympic Games and the first Olympian, summer or winter, to win a medal in the same individual event at five consecutive games. "His mental strength is phenomenal," German coach Thomas Schwab told Tim Layden in Sports Illustrated. "It really borders on virtuosity. Before he gets on the sled at the top of the run, he has gone through every situation that could possibly happen. As he slides, it seems to him that it has already happened before. He has this mystical air about him."