Brogan Crowley
Brogan Crowley 
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 United Kingdom
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| birthday | July 20, 1994 | ||||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Saddleworth , Metropolitan Borough of Oldham , England
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| size | 176 cm | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg | ||||||||||||||
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| Trainer | James Howard | ||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 2015 | ||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||
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| last change: April 30, 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Brogan Crowley (born July 20, 1994 in Saddleworth , Metropolitan Borough of Oldham ) is a British skeleton pilot .
Career
She switched from athletics , where she was active in the heptathlon , to skeleton in 2015 and made her debut in Lake Placid in the Skeleton North American Cup on March 18, 2013 . On her debut, she finished fifth on the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic bobsleigh track . In the 2016/17 season she competed in the European Skeleton Cup and made her debut in this racing series on November 4, 2016 in Sigulda, Latvia . On her debut she finished the competition on the track in Sigulda in twelfth place. A week later, on November 10th, she was able to occupy a top ten place in the World Cup for the first time with ninth place in Innsbruck . Her best result of the season came in eighth place on January 20, 2017 in Altenberg . At the end of the season, she finished fourth in the overall ranking of the European Cup with 254 points. At the end of the season, she took part in a Junior Skeleton World Championship for the first and only time in her career on January 28, 2017 . In Sigulda, Brogan Crowley finished ninth as the best female skeleton rider at the 2017 Junior World Championships .
In the 2017/18 season she started again in the European Cup and started on November 11, 2017 in Lillehammer with a second place behind her teammate Eleanor Furneaux and in front of Agathe Bessard from France. A day later, Great Britain celebrated a triple victory. Eleanor Furneaux won the race ahead of Brogan Crowley and Hannah Stevenson . At the European Cup in Winterberg on November 17, Brogan Crowley won a European Cup race for the first time in her career. Second and third place went to Maria Marinela Mazilu from Romania and Corinna Leipold from Germany. One day later she finished third in the second race in the Veltins ice arena behind Corinna Leipold and Alina Tararytschenkowa from Russia. At the last European Cup weekend before the turn of the year, on December 15, 2017 in La Plagne , she finished third behind Eleanor Furneaux and Kimberley Murray in the second British triple success of this winter . One day later, one day later in La Plagne, she finished second behind Alina Tararytschenkowa and ahead of Alena Frolova from Russia. After the turn of the year she missed the podium in Altenberg and Innsbruck with fourth place. At the end of the season she won the overall standings with 480 points ahead of Russian Alina Tararytschenkowa and her own teammate Eleanor Furneaux.
Thanks to her success in the European Skeleton Cup , she was allowed to compete in the Intercontinental Cup in the 2018/19 season . On November 15, 2018, she made her debut in this racing series in Innsbruck and finished eleventh. One day later she was able to take tenth place in the Intercontinental Cup for the first time in the second race on the bobsleigh Igls artificial ice rink . After the turn of the year, she started in Calgary in the North American Cup on January 10th and 11th, finishing twelfth and seventh. On January 25, 2019, she made it onto the podium for the first time in Lake Placid at the Intercontinental Cup competition. Behind her teammate Ashleigh Fay Pittaway and ahead of the Czech Anna Fernstädt , she took second place. A day later, she fell in the second competition on the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic bobsleigh run in the second run, after leading the German Susanne Kreher in the first run . At the end of the season she finished eighth in the Intercontinental Cup overall ranking with 490 points.
Due to injuries, Brogan Crowley was only able to participate in three competitions in the 2019/20 season. Before the turn of the year, she finished sixth in the Intercontinental Cup on December 7th in Winterberg and on December 14th in Königssee . After the turn of the year, she was allowed to make her debut in the Skeleton World Cup on February 16, 2020 at the last World Cup competition of the season . In Sigulda , Latvia , she finished 22nd in the World Cup on her debut. Race-in-Race also hosted the European Skeleton Championship , in which Brogan Crowley took 16th place.
Web links
- Brogan Crowley in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Brogan Crowley in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Brogan Crowley in the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Skeleton athletes Alina Tararychenkova and Krists Netlaus Junior European Champion. IBSF , January 21, 2018, accessed April 30, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Crowley, Brogan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British skeleton pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saddleworth , Metropolitan Borough of Oldham , England , United Kingdom |