Jaclyn LaBerge

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Jaclyn LaBerge skeleton
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 20th September 1984
place of birth Calgary
size 164 cm
Weight 64 kg
Career
discipline skeleton
Trainer Mike Steen
National squad since 2007
status active
Medal table
NM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Canadian Championships
bronze 2014 Whistler singles
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 27. ( 14/15 )
Debut North American Cup October 2008
North America Cup victories 6th
Debut in the Interconti-Cup November 2014
Interconti victories 2
last change: November 28, 2015

Jaclyn LaBerge (born September 20, 1984 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Canadian skeleton athlete .

Jaclyn LaBerge lives in Calgary and started skeleton in 2006. Her first races in the performance area she contested in the context of Canadian Championships , in which she was tenth in 2007 and eighth in 2008. At the start of the 2008/09 season , the Canadian took part in her first race in the America's Cup in Park City . Already on her first appearance she achieved a top ten result in eighth place. In five races of the season, she only missed a top ten result once in eleventh place. In the overall ranking, LaBerge reached ninth place. The following season was particularly successful . The Canadian was used in seven of the eight races of the season and consistently achieved single-digit results. In the first race of the season in Park City, she was third behind Diana Gruber and Robynne Thompson and thus reached the podium for the first time. She won the following two races and was second again in Calgary later in the season. In the overall standings she took first place ahead of Lanette Prediger and Robynne Thompson. In the following season she was able to maintain the level of performance with placings between 2 and 5 and swapped places with Prediger in the overall standings. In the following three winters she only took part in sporadic international races and won another race in the now renamed North American Cup in December 2012 .

In 2014 LaBerge won her first medal at national championships with bronze. She made a permanent return to international competitions and started the season with another win and a second place in the Skeleton North American Cup 2014/15 in Park City. She then moved to the higher-ranking Intercontinental Cup , where she first finished 22nd and 17th in her first races in Europe in Königssee and Winterberg . At the races in Canada in the second half of the season, she reached two fourth places and two wins and was sixth in the overall standings. In 2015/16 LaBerge started the winter with two more victories and two second places at the North American Cup on her home track in Calgary.

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