Jaclyn Narracott

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Jaclyn Narracott skeleton
Jaclyn Narracott LP World Cup 2017 (1 of 1) .jpg
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
birthday 5th November 1990
size 167 cm
Weight 62 kg
Career
discipline skeleton
National squad since 2012
status active
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 32nd ( 14/15 )
Debut in the World Cup December 2014
Overall World Cup 23. ( 14/15 )
Debut in the European Cup January 2013
Debut North American Cup March 2012
Debut in the Interconti-Cup December 2013
last change: November 22, 2015

Jaclyn "Jackie" Narracott (born November 5, 1990 ) is an Australian skeleton pilot .

Jaclyn Narracott grew up in Brisbane . She is the niece of the former track and field athlete and bobsleigh athlete Paul Narracott , who so far is the only Australian who has participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. In 2011 she also started bobsleigh and started two races as Astrid Radjenovic's push in the European Cup . In March 2012, she moved to skeleton, where she made her international debut at the America's Cup in Lake Placid . Also in 2012/13 she started in the now renamed North American Cup and reached her first three top 10 places in Whistler . After finishing 13th in the Junior World Championship at the end of 2012, she switched to the European Cup , where she achieved two more top 10 results. After two starts in the 2013/14 European Cup , she switched to the higher-class Intercontinental Cup , where she placed between 17 and 21. At the Junior World Championships in 2014 she was 14th. After two first podium finishes at the North American Cup in November 2014, she made her debut in the World Cup in December in Lake Placid with a 21st place. Her best result of the season in five appearances was 17th place in Calgary . In addition, she reached two ninth places in the Intercontinental Cup in Whistler and 16th place in the 2015 Skeleton World Championship in Winterberg . In the 2015/16 season Narracott started with two second places in the North American Cup .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Luke Dufficy: Narracott sliding to emulate uncle ago. Australian Olympic Committee, June 12, 2013, accessed November 22, 2015 .