Yekaterina Lavrentyeva

Yekaterina Alexandrovna Lawrentjewa (Russian Екатерина Александровна Лаврентьева, English transcription: Yekaterina Alexandrovna Lavrentyeva; born June 26, 1981 in Kandalakscha ) is a Russian Naturbahnrodlerin. She is three -time world and five -time European champion and won three gold medals at Junior World and European Championships. With 40 World Cup victories and 26 other podiums they previously won nine times the overall World Cup. This makes it the most successful Naturbahnrodlerin since the introduction of the World Cup in winter 1992/1993 and one of the most successful ever.

Career

Lawrentjewa started from 1996 in international junior championships and achieved their first major success at the Junior European Championships 1998 in Feld am See, when she won the gold medal in the single-seater. She managed well at the Junior World Championship 1999 in Huttau and at the Junior European Championship 2001 in Tiers. Only at the European Junior Championship 2000 in Obergurgl, she had to admit defeat of the Italian Renate Gietl. This year, they celebrated it in the General Class, their first major triumph when they in Olang for the first time world champion was at the World Championship in 2000 with personal bests in all three scoring runs.

In the World Cup Lawrentjewa celebrated on February 11, 2001 in Moscow, their first victory after they had previously achieved several podiums. Also the next World Cup race, the season finale in Huttau a week later, won the Russian, which she by a margin of ten points on the Italian defending champion Sonja Steinacher for the first time in her career secured the overall World Cup victory at the end of season 2000 /2001. At the World Championship 2001 in Stein an der Enns, however it only reached number seven.

In the 2001/2002 season Lawrentjewa remained without World Cup victory. With four podium finishes, they scored the third overall behind the Austrian Sandra Mariner and Sonja Steinacher, which won for the third time with the maximum number of points the overall World Cup victory. Also in the 2002/2003 season Steinacher was the overall winner. Lawrentjewa remained despite two wins, one more than the Italian, in the final scoring five points behind her. At the 2002 European Championships in Frantschach Lawrentjewa won in a close decision the silver medal behind the Italian Sandra Lanthaler and before Steinacher. Also in the 2003 World Cup in Železniki she won silver. This time Steinacher won seven hundredths of a second.

After the retirement of Sonja Steinacher Lawrentjewa be secured in the 2003/2004 season with four straight wins for the second time overall World Cup victory. In the season 2004/2005 she had to deal with two victories in the last two races of the season, only the Italian Renate Gietl beaten, who scored four wins this season and in the final standings was 20 points ahead of the Russian. At the 2004 European Championships in Huttau Lawrentjewa won their first European title and the World Championship 2005 in Laces she was for the second time world champion and also won silver in the team competition.

In the 2005/2006 season succeeded Lawrentjewa to win in all six World Cup races. She won for the third time overall World Cup and was the first Naturbahnrodlerin, who won six World Cup races in succession, and the second, which won all World Cup races a season. In the winter of 1994/1995 the Austrian Elvira lumberjack won all World Cup races, but only four competitions were then discharged. Only in the 2006 European Championship in Obergurgl remained Lawrentjewa that went into the race as the defending champion, without a victory: They only reached the fifth place.

In the next few years Lawrentjewa remained the most successful athlete in the World Cup: In the 2006/2007 season she won four of six races and once again the overall World Cup. With three wins in the first three races of the season they had won eleven World Cup race in a row. Only the Italian Renate Kasslatter could finish this series in the fourth race of the season. Also in the 2007/2008 season, the Russian has named five race victories for the overall winner. So she was the first who could win three consecutive overall World Cup. Even with major events Lawrentjewa was unbeatable in those years. At the 2007 World Championships in Grande Prairie they could successfully defend their title and became the third time world champion and the 2008 European Championships in Olang she was for the second time after 2004 European Champion.

In the 2008/2009 season won Lawrentjewa Although only two World Cup races, but reached the final score 15 points more than the Italian Renate Gietl, which celebrated three victories this season, so she decided for the fourth time in a row and a total of six times the overall World Cup for themselves. At the 2009 World Championships in moss pass in eggs but Lawrentjewa remained three hundredths of a second behind Gietl. She won the silver medal in the single-seater and also the bronze medal in the team competition.

In the 2009/2010 season scoring Lawrentjewa three wins and three second places and once again securing the victory in the World Cup before Renate Gietl. At the European Championships 2010 in St. Sebastian they could defend their title successfully. The 2010/2011 season began Lawrentjewa with four wins in a row, but at the World Cup 2011 in Obergurgl, she had to admit defeat as the last World Cup, the Italian Renate Gietl. In the team competition, she won the bronze medal with Yuri Talych, Pavel and Ivan Lazarev Porschnew. Even in the last two World Cup races of the winter it was each second behind Gietl, which they for a total eighth time - won the World Cup - and for the sixth time in a row before Renate Gietl.

The same ranking - Lawrentjewa before Gietl - was also in the World Cup of the season 2011/2012, where it Lawrentjewa this year succeeded for the second time to win all six World Cup races of winter for themselves. Their dominance they showed at the European Championships 2012 in Novouralsk where they both in the single-seater (with their teammates Yuri Talych, Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lazarev ) won the gold medal ( for the third time in a row and the fourth time ) and in the team competition.

Sporting successes

World Championships

  • Olang 2000: 1 single-seater
  • Stein an der Enns 2001: 7 seater
  • Železniki 2003: 2 seater
  • Laces 2005: first single-seater, 2nd team
  • Grande Prairie 2007: first single-seater
  • Moos in Passeier 2009: 2 -seater, 3 crew
  • Umhausen 2011: 2 -seater, 3 crew

European Championships

  • Szczyrk 1999: 7 seater
  • Frantschach 2002: 2 ​​seater
  • Huttau 2004: first single-seater
  • Umhausen 2006: 5 seater
  • Olang 2008: first single-seater
  • St. Sebastian 2010: 1 single-seater, 5 team
  • Novouralsk 2012: first single-seater, 1st team

Junior World Championships

  • Aosta 1997: 9 seater
  • Huttau 1999: first single-seater

European Junior Championships

  • Szczyrk 1996: 6 seater
  • Feld am See 1998: first single-seater
  • Umhausen 2000: 2 seater
  • Tiers 2001: first single-seater

World Cup

  • 9x overall World Cup victory in the single-seater in the seasons 2000/2001, 2003/2004, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012
  • 2x 2nd place overall in the single-seater in the seasons 2002/2003 and 2004/2005
  • 1x 3rd place overall in the single-seater in the 2001/2002 season
  • 66 podiums, 40 wins:
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2000 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2005 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2007 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2009 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2011 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2002 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2004 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2008 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010 Kandalaksha FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships Tiers, South Tyrol FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2001 Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud Elvira Holzknecht FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2006 Sankt Sebastian, Styria FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1999 Italy Oberperfuss Deutschnofen Irene Zechner Christa Gietl Melanie Batkowski Thomas Kammerlander Christian Schopf Andreas Schopf
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