Endija Tērauda

Endija Tērauda
Full name	Endija Lāsma Tērauda
nation	Latvia
birthday	May 30, 1997
place of birth	Riga ,  Latvia
size	173 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
discipline	skeleton
Trainer	Gints Dzerve
National squad	since 2014
status	active
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 46th ( 2019/20 ) Debut in the European Cup January 22, 2015 in Innsbruck European Cup victories 2
last change: April 20, 2020

Endija Lāsma Tērauda (born May 30, 1997 in Riga ) is a Latvian skeleton pilot .

Career

Endija Tērauda switched from athletics , where she specialized in the 100-meter hurdles , to skeleton and made her international debut on January 22, 2015 in Innsbruck in the European Skeleton Cup . She finished the competition in 19th place. One day later, she took 17th place in the second competition on the Bob-Rodel Igls artificial ice rink . With these two races she finished 30th in the overall ranking of the European Cup in the 2014/15 season with 32 points.

At the first European Cup of the 2015/16 season in Altenberg , she was able to achieve a top ten place for the first time with ninth place on December 4, 2015. In the second race a day later, she took eighth place on the DKB ice channel . On her home track in Sigulda she was able to take sixth place on December 19 and in the second race at home a day later she was able to take fifth place for the first time with fifth place. Although she only completed four out of eight races in the European Cup season, she was able to collect 155 points and finished the season in twelfth place in the overall standings. At the end of the season, she took part in the 2016 Skeleton Junior World Championships in Winterberg on December 23, 2016 , and she finished eighth in the Veltins ice arena on her first participation . In the following season, on January 28, 2017, she only took part in the 2017 Junior World Championship and finished the competition in Sigulda in seventh place.

In the 2017/18 season she competed again in the European Skeleton Cup and was able to report her best result of the season in La Plagne on December 15, 2017 with sixth place. One day later at the second competition in La Plagne, she achieved eighth place. On January 25, 2018, she took part in the legendary Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina in the 2018 Skeleton Junior World Championship and achieved 14th place.

She started the 2018/19 season in the European Cup on November 16, 2018 in Innsbruck with a fifth place. A day later, she finished tenth in the second race on the Igls bobsleigh rink . On her home track in Sigulda , she just missed her first podium finish on January 29, 2019 in the European Cup race with fourth place. She also took the ungrateful fourth place at the Race-in-Race Skelton Junior European Championship. In the end she finished fourth in the overall ranking of the European Cup with 205 points. At the end of the season, she took part in the 2019 Skeleton Junior World Championship in Königssee and finished the race on the Königssee artificial ice rink in eleventh place.

After finishing the competition in seventh place at the European Cup in Winterberg at the start of the 2019/20 season, she started a week later in Königssee . In the first competition on the Königssee artificial ice rink , she finished fifth and one day later she won her first race in the European Cup ahead of Luisa Hornung from Germany and Amelia Coltman from the United Kingdom at Königssee . After the turn of the year she was able to take her second win of the season on January 18, 2020 on her home track in Sigulda . She decided the race in front of her compatriot Dārta Zunte and the Russian Alina Tararytschenkowa for themselves. At the end of the season she finished second in the overall standings of the European Cup with 377 points behind the British Amelia Coltman and ahead of the Russian Alina Tararytschenkowa.

On February 9, 2019, she competed for the last time in her career in a Junior World Championship in skeleton . At the Skeleton Junior World Championship 2020 in Winterberg , she finished sixth, her best result at a Junior World Championship. For Latvia, she was allowed to take part in the European Skeleton Championship in Sigulda on February 16, 2020 . Because Latvia does not have a place in the Women's World Cup, Endija Tērauda only took part in the 2020 European Championship and not in the race-in-race World Cup . Even before the first run, she had a mishap which the Latvian coaches and supervisors did not notice. Because she did the first run without a bib number on the suit, she was disqualified from the competition.

Web links

• Endija Tērauda in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Endija Tērauda in the Latvia Bobsled Federation database
• Endija Tērauda in the sports.riga.lv database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Skeleton athletes Tararychenkova and Seibel Junior European Champion. IBSF , January 25, 2020, accessed April 20, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Siguldā uzvar Ņikitina, Endijai Tēraudai muļķīga diskvalifikācija. Latvia Bobsled Federation, February 16, 2020, accessed April 20, 2020 .