Anna Orlova
Anna Orlova (born August 23, 1972 in Riga ) is a Latvian luge athlete .
Life and athletic career
Anna Orlova is a police officer and lives in Stopiņu pagasts . She has been running luge since 1990 and has been a member of the Latvian national team since then. The comparatively heavy athlete belonged to the extended world elite, especially towards the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, but was never able to win a World Cup race due to the dominance of German female luge athletes. She mostly performed well on her home track in Sigulda . So she finished third in the 1999/2000 season in Sigulda and was seventh in the overall World Cup. Two years later she was even able to finish second behind Silke Kraushaar . 2002/03 was again a third place best result that she achieved in Lillehammer . In addition, she was again seventh in the overall standings, and even sixth the following season . In the 2004/05 season Orlova was again second behind Kraushaar in Sigulda. Her only World Cup victory she achieved at the beginning of the 2005/06 season as part of a team competition in Sigulda.
Orlova's first major event she participated in was the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , where she finished eleventh. Two years later in Lillehammer she was ninth, in 1998 in Sapporo 13th, in 2002 in Salt Lake City again ninth. Their best result reached in seventh at the 2006 Games of Turin . The greatest success of the Latvian was winning the silver medal in the team competition at the 2003 Luge World Championships in Sigulda. Orlova also achieved good placements as seventh in Nagano in 2004 and eighth in Park City in 2005 . At the European Championships, winning the team silver medal in 2006 in Winterberg was her greatest success.
successes
World Cup victories
Team relay
| No. | date | place | train |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Nov 6, 2005 |
 Sigulda
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Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track |
Web links
- Anna Orlova in the database of the International Luge Federation
- Anna Orlova in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Statistics at les-sports
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orlova, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian luge athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |