Brittney Arndt
Brittney Arndt 
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| birthday | 18th July 1998 (age 22) | ||||||||||||
| size | 170 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Single seater | ||||||||||||
| National squad | since 2017 | ||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||
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Brittney Arndt (born July 18, 1998 ) is an American luge athlete .
Private matters and beginnings in tobogganing
Brittney Arndt is the child of two firefighters. She has a brother. She comes from a footballing family, her father and her uncle did the sport semi-professionally. During her childhood she lived in Florida and later in Utah . In Park City , she visited with her toboggan colleague Ashley Farquharson the Ecker Hill Middle School . She came into contact with the sport of tobogganing through a friend who was sister of the US national team luge driver Anthony Espinoza . In autumn 2010, at the age of 12, she began tobogganing as part of an extracurricular program at her school. Her first trainer was John Owen.
Arndt is in a relationship with the US bobsleigh pilot Codie Bascue . She lives in Park City.
Juniors
Arndt played her first international junior season in 2014/15 . After debuting two races in Whistler , finishing sixth and eighth, she finished seventh on her home track at Park City. This was followed by the first overseas races. Here she contested the first races in Lillehammer at the Junior World Championships 2015 , where she was 27th. This was followed by races in Oberhof and Igls , which she finished 16th and 13th. In the overall ranking of the Youth A World Cup, she took tenth place.
The season 2015/16 spent Arndt in Europe. First she competed in the Youth A World Cup and was 20th in Lillehammer, 32nd in Sigulda and 17th at Königssee . Then she moved up to the Junior World Cup and finished 12th in Igls, 20th in Altenberg and 15th in Oberhof. For the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, she could not prevail against Ashley Farquharson.
In 2016/17 she started with strong races in Calgary . After finishing eighth at the start of the season, she won her first race two days later and was also third in the team relay with Sean Hollander and the two-seater Dana Kellogg and Duncan Seggar . Even after moving to Europe, she continued with a sixth place in Igls. An 18th place in Oberhof was initially a setback, but already at the Junior World Championships 2017 in Igls she was eighth in the top ten when Jessica Tiebel won . She also kept this performance range for the rest of the World Cup races of the season. In Altenberg she was tenth in the individual and seventh in the relay, in Winterberg she reached seventh and eighth in these competitions. In the overall standings, she came fourth behind Tiebel, Tatjana Zwetowa and Kristina Schamowa .
The 2017/18 season was Arndt's last among the juniors. Initially, she was part of the training group of potential athletes for the 2018 Winter Olympics , alongside her Emily Sweeney, Summer Britcher, Raychel Germaine and Ashley Farquharson, but then continued the season with the juniors. She found it difficult to get into the season and to build on the performance of the previous season. At the start of the season she was 15th and 16th in two individual races in Oberhof. After a small high at Königssee with eighth place, she missed the top ten places again in two races in Igls in 17th and 12th and was also with the US -Team relay only sixth. Also at the season finale in Winterberg, Arndt only achieved mediocre placements with 19th place in the single-seater race and seventh place in the relay. She finished the overall standings in 15th place. She was able to bring better performances to the end of the season and the highlight of the season, the 2018 Junior World Championships in Altenberg, where Arndt finished seventh in the individual races and with the relay.
Women
Arndt's first season in women 2018/19 began with strong performances for a new starter. After qualifying for the main race in tenth place in the Nations Cup, she finished in 17th place and thus missed her first sprint race of the top 15 by just two places. The pre-Christmas World Cup tour in North America followed. First she started strong in Whistler as fifth in the qualification, but could not consistently confirm this performance as 26th of the World Cup race. In Calgary Arndt was 15th. The first appearances in the World Cup on a US track followed. In Lake Placid she qualified again with a very good performance as fourth in the Nations Cup for the main race and achieved her first top ten placement in the World Cup with sixth place. It was also the 2018 America-Pacific Championships , in which she finished third behind Emily Sweeney and Summer Britcher and thus won the bronze medal. In addition, she qualified for a sprint race for the first time and was fifth in this. Two more races followed, in Königssee and Sigulda, in which Arndt was 19th and 16th. After that, like her young colleague Raychel Germaine, she was taken out of the World Cup by the coaches for the remaining three stations of the season. With 217 points she was at the end of the 20th overall World Cup ranking of the season.
Arndt could not build on the performances of the previous season in 2019/20 . In Igls, she started the season in 13th place, but then fell in Lake Placid. In Whistler, she finished 19th, in the simultaneous ranking of the America-Pacific Championships in 2019 , she was sixth. In Altenberg, Arndt missed the actual World Cup race for the first time as 19th in the Nations Cup race. The best result of the season followed. In Lillehammer she reached the podium for the first time in second place in the Nations Cup race behind Ulla Zirne , in the following World Cup race she reached ninth place and thus her only top ten placement of the season. On the Sigulda track, which is considered difficult to drive, she was 23rd, in Oberhof after a good fourth place in the qualification in the Nations Cup she was 16th . The first World Championships followed . In Sochi, Arndt finished 17th and in the separate U-23 classification, he finished eighth. In Winterberg, the US team refused to start due to the dangerous track due to difficult weather conditions. Arndt was also openly critical of the help provided by the World Luge Federation, Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course, in this context. At the end of the season with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, Arndt finished 14th in the overall ranking of the World Cup with 173 points and 21st in the overall ranking of the Nations Cup, behind Raluca Strămăturaru and her former schoolmate Ashley Farquharson third rank.
Arndt won the bronze medal at the US championships in 2019. The year before she was runner-up behind Britcher at the starting championships.
In 2018 Arndt was US Junior Luge of the Year.
statistics
Placements in the overall World Cup
| season | space | Points | Nations Cup |
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| 2018/19 | 20th | 217 | 13. |
| 2019/20 | 21st | 173 | 3. |
Web links
- Brittney Arndt in the database of the International Luge Federation
- Portrait at teamusa.org (English)
- Getting to Know… Brittney Arndt (English)
- Arndt at the-sports.org (English)
Single receipts
- ↑ eurosport.com. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ ken: Getting to Know… Brittney Arndt. In: Sliding on Ice. June 1, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Brittney Arndt's gold medal highlights USA Luge effort in opening Junior World Cups. In: Team Worldwide. December 5, 2016. Retrieved July 19, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ [1]
- ^ Eggert-Benecken win third straight doubles luge world title. Retrieved July 19, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Young Park City sliders ready to take on the world luge championships | News break. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ^ Tim Reynolds: US, others pull out of the Luge World Cup, citing safety. February 21, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Gustafson, Britcher win USA Luge national titles. November 2, 2019, accessed on July 19, 2020 (German).
- ↑ West and Britcher successfully defend USA Luge start crowns. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ^ USA Luge announce new board members and award winners. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Arndt, Brittney |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American luge athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1998 |