Sarah Podorieszach

Sarah Podorieszach ( born June 5, 1989 in Calgary, Alberta) is a former Italian- Canadian luger.

Sarah Podorieszach was born as Italian -born Canadian who operates their sport but for Italy. You rodelte since 2000 for Canada, starting in 2005 as part of the Italian national squad. In 2003, she was discovered by Italian scouts in the Junior World Cup in Italy and in 2004 moved the nationality even though they previously had no connection with Italy, apart from the fact that their grandparents came from the country. The student, who lives both in Calgary and in Kien, starts for the SV Gitschberg. She drives in the Luge World Cup since the 2005/ 06 season. In Nagano Podorieszach 2006 reached 14 as their best individual score in the World Cup and was able to repeat it in 2007 in Lake Placid. The same place they occupied at the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin. At their first luge World Cup 2007 in Igls the young Italo - Canadian came in 20th place. In the overall standings of the World Cup in their first season they finished 29th place and improved the following season to rank 21 even more successful started the 2007 / 8th In the first five races Podorieszach achieved results between 14th and 17th in Koenigssee, however, she fell in the sixth race hard and had to be medically treated at the track. Since then, she denied any World Cup races more. Recent major events was the Luge World Cup in Oberhof 2008, when she was 20, and the European Luge Championships 2008 in Cesana Torinese, in the Podorieszach place went to 13.