Ashley Farquharson

Ashley Farquharson
nation	United States
birthday	16th March 1999 (age 21)
Career
discipline	Single seater
Trainer	Robert Fegg , Bill Tavares Bengt Walden , Ľubomír Mick
National squad	since 2014 (juniors) 2019 (A)
status	active
Medal table
US Junior Championships 3 × 0 × 1 ×
US Junior Championships bronze 2015 Single seater gold 2017 Single seater gold 2018 Single seater gold 2019 Single seater
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup November 2019  Overall World Cup ES 17. ( 2019/20 )  Challenge Cup ES 2. ( 2019/20 )
last change: end of season 2019/20

Ashley Farquharson (born March 16, 1999 ) is an American luge athlete .

Private matters and beginnings in tobogganing

Ashley Farquharson moved with her parents from Sacramento to Park City when she was two years old . Like her schoolmate Brittney Arndt from Ecker Hill Middle School , she took part in an extracurricular support program in tobogganing at her school and fell in love with the sport. Her first trainer was Jon Owen and the training took place at the Wasatch Luge Club . At the age of 15 she was named to the US national junior team. She lives alternately in Park City and since 2016 the Olympias base in Lake Placid .

Juniors

Farquharson made her international debut in the Youth A World Cup December 2014 on the Lake Placid track, finishing ninth. It was the only use in the first season. She had far more missions in the 2015/16 season . In Lillehammer , she made her international debut outside North America and finished fourth. She was not able to confirm this achievement afterwards. She was 24th at Königssee , 12th in Igls , and eleventh in Altenberg . At the season finale in Oberhof , Farquharson was able to finish in the top ten in seventh place and was also fourth in the team relay race alongside Jonathan Gustafson and the doubles Benjamin Farquharson and Christian Colaiezzi. The 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer became a first career highlight. In Norway, however, Farquharson fell in the first round.

The 2016/17 season began for Farquharson with two podium finishes in the Youth A World Cup races at the start of the season in Calgary , first behind Samantha Judson and Carolyn Maxwell , in the second race behind Olena Smaha and Maxwell. As the season progressed, she was eighth on the European railways in Igls, seventh in Oberhof, fifth in Altenberg and Winterberg . In the overall standings she was third with 296 points behind Jessica Degenhardt and Maxwell, one point ahead of Evita Köhne.

Farquharson at the start of the 2018 Junior World Championships in Altenberg

At first, Farquharson was part of the training group of potential athletes for the 2018 Winter Olympics at the beginning of the 2017/18 season, alongside Emily Sweeney , Summer Britcher , Raychel Germaine and Brittney Arndt, but then continued the season with the juniors. She no longer competed in the Youth A World Cup, but in the juniors. In her first races in Oberhof she was 13th and 18th. The best result of the season followed with 12th place. In the two following races in Igls, the American was only 25th and 17th, and at the season finale in Winterberg 22nd Overall ranking of the Junior World Cup took Farquharson 19th place. The end of the season was the 2018 Junior World Championships in Altenberg, where she finished 22nd.

Farquharson at the Junior World Cup race in February 2019

The 2018/19 season was Farquharson's last season with the juniors. At the start of the season, she finished seventh in two single-seater races in Park City and third in two team relay races with Zach Digregorio and the doubles Duncan Segger and Dana Kellogg . This was followed by races in Calgary, in which 15th of the individual and again with Sean Hollander and Segger / Kellogg team relay third. The individual race was also the America-Pacific Championships for juniors, in the context of this special classification she was fourth as the best American woman behind the Canadians Samantha Judson, Makena Hodgson and Tora Yacey. After the turn of the year, the races on European tracks followed. First of all, the 2019 Junior World Championships took place in Igls . On the Innsbrucker Bahn, Farquharson missed a medal against Cheyenne Rosenthal , Verena Hofer and Jessica Degenhardt by one place in fourth place. One day later, she was fifth in the team relay race with Hollander, Kellogg and Segger. In the subsequent Junior World Cup race in Winterberg, she also narrowly missed the podium in fourth place. At the season finale in Oberhof, she was eleventh and team relay sixth. Farquharson finished ninth in the overall standings for the season.

Nationally, Farquharson won the titles at the US Junior Championships in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and in 2015 she won the bronze medal.

Women

Farquharson at her first World Cup race, November 2019 in Igls

For the 2019/20 season Farquharson moved up to the US World Cup team . Her first season was very successful. As a newcomer, she was able to qualify for all World Cup races. At the start of the season she qualified as 13th of the Nations Cup for the main race, which she finished 15th. As the best US woman, she also qualified for the team relay straight away. She finished sixth here alongside Tucker West , Christopher Mazdzer and Jayson Terdiman . The North American tour followed. On her home track in Lake Placid, she qualified fourth in the Nations Cup for the World Cup race, in which she came ninth in the top ten for the first time. This was the first time she qualified for the sprint race, in which she narrowly missed a podium and was fourth behind Julia Taubitz , Summer Britcher and Emily Sweeney. The results in Calgary were less good. In Canada, she was 18th. It was also the 2019 America-Pacific Championships , in which Farquharson was fifth.

Farquharson at the 2020 World Cup race in Oberhof

After the turn of the year the World Cup continued in Europe. In Altenberg, Farquharson reached 23rd place. After an improvement in Lillehammer with 17th place, another setback followed in Sigulda with 26th place, although she was previously third in the Nations Cup race. In Oberhof she was able to achieve a better placement as 13th. The 2020 World Championships in Sochi followed . In the world championships in Russia, Farquharson qualified for the sprint race and came in at the end of 12th. She also finished 12th in the individual race. In the separate U-23 classification, she was fourth behind Anna Berreiter , Cheyenne Rosenthal and Madeleine Egle and missed out once again a podium placement by one rank. In Winterberg, the US team including Farquharson refused to start due to the dangerous track due to difficult weather conditions. At the end of the season with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, she finished eighth. In the overall ranking of the World Cup she was 17th with 256 points, in the overall ranking of the Nations Cup she finished second behind Raluca Strămăturaru and ahead of her former schoolmate Brittney Arndt.

For the 2020/21 season , Farquharson was reappointed to the USA World Cup team.

statistics

Placements in the overall World Cup

season	space	Points	Nations Cup
2019/20	17th	256	02.

Web links

Commons : Ashley Farquharson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ashley Farquharson in the International Luge Federation database
• Portrait at teamusa.org (English)
• Ashley Farquharson at the-sports.org (English)

Single receipts

1. ↑ Ashley Farquharson, Park City native, leads USA Luge's women's juniors. Retrieved July 21, 2020 (English). 
2. ↑ Ben Ramsey: Ashley Farquharson, Park City native, leads USA Luge's women's juniors. Retrieved July 21, 2020 (American English). 
3. ↑ Mountain Express Magazine: 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics - Ashley Farquharson. In: Mountain Express Magazine. December 17, 2019, accessed July 21, 2020 (American English). 
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6. ^ Tim Reynolds: US, others pull out of the Luge World Cup, citing safety. February 21, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Plans on ice: USA Luge's Mazdzer wondering what comes next. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .