Amanda Lightfoot
Amanda Lightfoot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Association | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 30th January 1987 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Overall World Cup | 90th ( 2010/11 ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
last change: March 9, 2011 |
Amanda Lightfoot (born January 30, 1987 ) is a British biathlete .
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 |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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year | place | ||||||
2014 | Sochi | 70. | 75. | - | - | - | - |
2018 | Pyeongchang | 73. | 67. | - | - | - | - |
Web links
- Amanda Lightfoot in the database of the IBU (English)
- Portrait on the website of the British Association
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lightfoot, Amanda |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British biathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1987 |