Louise Corcoran

Louise Mary Elizabeth Corcoran ( born July 30, 1979 in Waitakere, Auckland ) is a New Zealand skeleton pilot.

Louise Corcoran began in 1993 due to a call from Bruce Sandford with the sport of skeleton. At the University of Otago it is designed for helicopter pilot. Your coach Tim Nardiello, also Bev Petersen for the sprint and Jon Turnbull for strength training. Her international debut in November 2000 as the 16th in a America's Cup race in Calgary. In February 2001, she launched the first time in Park City in skeleton World Cup, where she was 22. At their first World Championships Corcoran took part in 2003 in Nagano. There she finished in 16th place. In January 2005, she was, although from New Zealand, Austrian Champion. In the same month, she started at the Universiade, where she finished eighth. In January 2006 she appeared on at the British Championships and won the silver medal. At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin Corcoran reached one of its best rankings with the 12th rank. For the season 2007/ 08 she started in the newly created Skeleton Intercontinental. In Park City and Calgary, each won a race and finished at the end of the first place in the overall standings of the race series.