Alex Gough has been a luge since 1999. She has been a member of the Canadian national team since 2003. She made her first appearance on the international stage at the Luge World Championships 2005 in Park City , where she finished 30th. Since the 2005/2006 season she has also competed in the Luge World Cup (25th places in the overall World Cup of her first two seasons). Best results of her first season were eleventh place on her home track in Calgary and third place in the Canadian championships. Highlight of the season was to participate in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games of Turin . Actually, Gough was supposed to be set up for the 2010 Games, but already reached 20th place in Cesana . She finished the Luge World Championships in 2007 on the 24th. In 2009 she just missed a medal in Lake Placid in fourth place. The 2008/2009 season was also successful in other respects . In the Altenberg team competition she came second with the Canadian team, in the overall ranking of the World Cup she came in eighth, in the Challenge Cup in seventh place. Gough finished in the top ten in six World Cup races, with the best result being sixth in Calgary. At the Canadian Championships in 2009 she won the title.
The 2009/2010 Olympic season was about as successful. In the overall World Cup she was seventh, in Igls and Cesana she just missed podium finishes in fourth. The 2010 Winter Olympics in domestic Canada were less successful . At the Vancouver competitions , Gough was one of the extended favorites, but only reached an 18th place. The Canadian made a leap in performance in the post-Olympic season 2010/2011 . After she was only 21st at the start of the season in the World Cup in Igls, she came third in the following race in Winterberg and thus on the podium for the first time. She also achieved this ranking in Park City and Königssee. At the 2011 Luge World Championships in Cesana she came third behind Tatjana Hüfner and Natalie Geisenberger and was the first Canadian to win a medal at the Luge World Championships . On February 12, 2011, she won her first World Cup race in Paramonowo , ending a streak of victories for German toboggan women in the World Cup that had lasted over 13 years. At the 2013 World Championships on the home track in Whistler, she won the bronze medal in singles and silver with the Canadian team relay.
At the 2014 Olympics in Sochi , Gough was fifth after the first run of the individual competition and improved to fourth with a good second run. With the Canadian team, which won silver at the last major event in 2013, the World Cup in Whistler, they only managed to close behind the third-placed Latvians.
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