Yuliya Vetlova

Julija Anatoljewna Wetlowa (Russian Юлия Анатольевна Ветлова; born October 18, 1983 in Kandalakscha ) is a former Russian Naturbahnrodlerin. It was 2007 vice world champion, reached four podium finishes in World Cup races and two fifth place in the World Cup. In addition, it was established in 2003 European Junior Champion and a year earlier Vice Junior World Champion.

Career

Wetlowa comes as many internationally successful Russian natural track luge from Kandalakscha. On December 6, 1998, she was at the age of 15 years in the season opener for the 1998/1999 season in Sölden her debut in the World Cup and finished second in this race in tenth place. But in the rest of the winter they came only once in the World Cup for use ( ninth place in Agordo ) and they finished the season in 13th place overall. In the following season they only played two World Cup races and again was a ninth place, this time in Gummer, her best result. In the overall standings, she was 19, after she had attended a World Youth Championship in the previous year for the first time and was 13, she first went end of January 2000 in a World Cup in the general class at the start and finished in twelfth place. A week later she was Twelfth also at the Junior European Championships. In the 2000/2001 season, the Russian played three World Cup races and came in fourth place in Moscow for the first time to the world class approach. Another top - 10 finish at the season finale in Huttau brought her tenth place in the overall World Cup. At the World Championship 2001 in Stein an der Enns was Twelfth and at the European Junior Championship in the same year in Tiers ninth.

In the 2001/2002 season Wetlowa first participated in all six World Cup races. She reached to Rank ten placings and was in the overall classification with equal points with the Austrian Marlies Wagner Eighth. Two sixth places were their best World Cup results in the 2002/2003 season, but they fell in the World Cup three places to rank eleven back. Great achievements came at the Junior World Championship in 2002 in Gsies by winning the silver medal at the European Junior Championship 2003 in Kreuth, where she won the gold medal. In the general class she managed 15th place at the 2002 European Championships in Frantschach - Sankt Gertraud no top- 10 ranking, but at the 2003 World Cup in Železniki she was after all, Eighth.

In the 2003/2004 season Wetlowa drove in all five World Cup races in which they took part, among the seven fastest, reaching as third parties in Moscow and Herzogenaurach their first two podiums. In the overall World Cup they thus achieved fifth place. Also, she was fifth at the 2004 European Championships in Huttau. In the next two years, they could not connect to these services. She came in no World Cup races in the top five and finished the seasons 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 only in eleventh place overall. Without top-10 result, they remained as the eleventh at the World Championship 2005 in Laces and in twelfth at the 2006 European Championship in Obergurgl. In the 2005 World Cup but it had also taken part in the team competition, where she finished seventh place together with Alexander Yegorov, Denis Alimov and Roman Molwistow in Team Russia II.

From the season 2006/2007 the Russian return better results. This winter she drove in all six World Cup races into the top seven and reached number three in Longiaru her third podium finish, the first in three years. In the overall World Cup she finished in sixth place. The greatest success of her career was celebrating the then 23 -year-old at the 2007 World Championships in Canada Grande Prairie when she won the silver medal behind her teammate Ekaterina Lawrentjewa who won with a two -second lead. In addition, it was with Alexander Yegorov and Pyotr Popov in Russia Team II Fourth of team competition.

Similar results as the World Cup in winter 2006/2007 Wetlowa achieved in the following two years. In the 2007/2008 season they went in every race with the fastest eight, three of them in the top five, and once, as a third party in Laces, also on the podium. So she reached for the second time after 2003/2004 to fifth place in the overall World Cup. In their last World Cup season 2008/2009 Wetlowa remained without podium, but they scored two fourth, two sixth and seventh seats two and finished sixth in the World Cup. For large events could win no other precious metal more after her silver medal from 2007. At the 2008 European Championships in Olang she was fifth at the 2009 World Championships and in moss in eggs pass in the seventh single-seater and together with Alexander Yegorov and Pyotr Popov in Russia II Eighth team in the team competition. After the 2008/2009 season Wetlowa took no part in more international races.

Sporting successes

World Championships

Olang 2000: 12 seater
Stein an der Enns 2001: 12 seater
Železniki 2003: 8 seater
Laces 2005: 11 seater, 7 team
Grande Prairie 2007: 2 -seater, 4 crew
Moos in Passeier 2009: 7 seater, 8 team

European Championships

Frantschach 2002: 15 seater
Huttau 2004: 5 seater
Umhausen 2006: 12 seater
Olang 2008: 5 seater

Junior World Championships

Huttau 1999: 13 seater
Gsies 2002: 2 seater

European Junior Championships

Umhausen 2000: 12 seater
Tiers 2001: 9 seater
Kreuth 2003: 1 single-seater

World Cup

2x 5th overall in the single-seater in the seasons 2003/2004 and 2007/2008
2x 6 overall in the single-seater in the seasons 2006/2007 and 2008/2009
4 podiums and a further 39 top-10 results

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