Amanda Lightfoot

Amanda Lightfoot
Association	United Kingdom
birthday	30th January 1987 (age 33)
Career
job	Soldier
society	AGC ladies
Trainer	Walter Pichler
Admission to the national team	2007
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2007
Debut in the World Cup	2008
status	active
Medal table
British Championships 6 × 10 × 3 ×
British Championships gold 2007 Ruhpolding Season silver 2007 Ruhpolding team bronze 2007 Ruhpolding Military patrol silver 2008 Obertilliach Season silver 2008 Obertilliach team bronze 2008 Obertilliach Mass start bronze 2008 Obertilliach Military patrol silver 2009 Obertilliach Season silver 2009 Obertilliach team gold 2010 Ruhpolding singles gold 2010 Ruhpolding sprint gold 2010 Ruhpolding team silver 2010 Ruhpolding Mass start silver 2010 Ruhpolding Season gold 2011 Ruhpolding sprint gold 2011 Ruhpolding team silver 2011 Ruhpolding singles silver 2011 Ruhpolding Season silver 2011 Ruhpolding Military patrol
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	90th ( 2010/11 )
last change: March 9, 2011

Amanda Lightfoot (born January 30, 1987 ) is a British biathlete .

Amanda Lightfoot at the 2012 World Cup in Ruhpolding

Athletic career

Amanda Lightfoot is a soldier, she starts for her unit, the AGC Ladies . She has been part of the British national team since 2007 and has also competed in international races since then. She competed in her first races as part of the Biathlon European Cup . In 2008 she achieved her best result in the second highest racing series of the biathlon with a 22nd place in a pursuit race in Cesana San Sicario . The high point of the first season were the Biathlon European Championships 2008 in Nové Město na Moravě , in which Lightfoot was nominated for four races, but only competed in the sprint and in the relay, where she was 58th and 12th. In the 2008/09 season , the Briton celebrated her World Cup debut in a relay race in Hochfilzen and finished 19th. In Ruhpolding , the relay with Lightfoot was able to improve the ranking by one place.

At World Championships took Lightfoot in 2009 in part for the first time. However, she was unable to place in the top 100 in the sprint as 105th or in the individual race as 104th. With the British relay, she took 21st place alongside Adele Walker , Emma Fowler and Alanda Scott . Later in the year, the Briton also took part in the 2009 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof and took 42nd place in the sprint on roller skis and As a lapped runner did not reach the goal in the pursuit race. In the 2009/10 season she achieved 71st place in a sprint in Kontiolahti, her best result for a long time in the World Cup and confirmed this placement at the start of the 2010/11 season in an individual in Östersund . In the further course of the season it was able to increase steadily. At the season highlight, the 2011 Biathlon World Championships , she not only achieved her best placement in a World Cup race as 34th of the individual, but also won World Cup points for the first time. It was also the first world cup points won by a British woman in biathlon. Before that, she took part in the sprint race and qualified there as 54th for the pursuit, which she could not finish as a lapped runner. With Walker, Lee-Steve Jackson and Pete Beyer , she was also 19th with the mixed relay. She attracted attention in the biathlon world cup in the mixed relay in Nové Město na Moravě, where she was the leader in the first shooting. This was the first time a British relay team led a World Cup race. After taking a penalty while standing, the relay fell back.

Nationally, Lightfoot won the 2007 relay title, team silver and bronze military patrol. The following year she was runner-up in the squadron and team and third in the individual and with the military patrol. In 2009 she also won silver with the military patrol and in the team competition. Her nationally most successful year was 2010 when she won the title in individual, sprint and team competition as well as winning silver in the relay and in the mass start. In 2011 she won two titles, in the sprint and in the team classification. She also won silver three times.

statistics

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring	3	1			16	20th
Starts	23	53	7th		16	99
As of January 13, 2019

World championships

Results at biathlon world championships

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2009	Pyeongchang	104.	105.	-	-	21st	-
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	34.	54.	LAP	-	19th	19th
2012	Ruhpolding	59.	36.	43.	-	22nd	24.
2013	Nové Město	95.	58.	32.	-	-	25th
2015	Kontiolahti	66.	48.	48.	-	-	25th
2016	Oslo	48.	81.	-	-	-	-
2017	Hochfilzen	32.	66.	-	-	-	-
2020	Antholz	64.	90.	-	-	-	-	30th

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2014	Sochi	70.	75.	-	-	-	-
2018	Pyeongchang	73.	67.	-	-	-	-

Web links

Commons : Amanda Lightfoot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Amanda Lightfoot in the database of the IBU (English)
• Portrait on the website of the British Association