Anna Orlova

Anna Orlova ( born August 23, 1972 in Riga) is a Latvian luger.

Anna Orlova is a police officer and lives in pagasts Stopinu. Since 1990, it operates luge and since then also belongs to the Latvian national team. The comparatively weighty athlete was especially towards the end of the 1990s and early 2000s to advanced world class, but could never win a World Cup race due to the dominance of German luger interior. Particularly good performance, they showed mostly on their home track in Sigulda. They finished third in the 1999/2000 season and finished seventh in Sigulda the overall World Cup. Two years later she was behind Silke Kraushaar even come in second. 2002/ 03, in turn, was a ranking third best result they achieved in Lillehammer. In addition, she was again seventh overall, in the following season even sixth. In the 2004/05 season Orlova could again be second behind Kraushaar in Sigulda. Your only World Cup victory they achieved at the beginning of the season 2005/ 06 as part of a team competition in Sigulda.

Orlovas first major event in which she participated, were the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, where she was eleventh. Two years later in Lillehammer she finished ninth in 1998 in Sapporo 13, 2002 in Salt Lake City again Ninth. Your best result it reached in seventh at the 2006 Games in Turin. The greatest success of the Latvian was winning the silver medal in the team competition at the Luge World Cup in 2003 in Sigulda. More good rankings achieved Orlova in seventh in 2004 in Nagano and finished eighth in 2005 in Park City. In European Championships winning the team silver medal in 2006 in Winterberg was their biggest success.