Ekaterina Alexandrovna Lavrentieva

Ekaterina Lavrentieva
Ekaterina Lavrentieva at the EM 2010
Full name	Екатерина Александровна Лаврентьева Ekaterina Alexandrovna Lavrentieva
nation	Russia
birthday	June 26, 1981
place of birth	Kandalaksha
size	165 cm
Weight	58 kg
job	Sports coach
Career
discipline	Single seater
National squad	since 1996
status	active
Medal table
World championships 4 × 6 × 3 × European championships 6 × 2 × 3 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championship 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Natural Track Luge World Championships gold Olang 2000 Single seater silver Železniki 2003 Single seater gold Latsch 2005 Single seater silver Latsch 2005 team gold Grande Prairie 2007 Single seater silver Moos in Passeier 2009 Single seater bronze Moos in Passeier 2009 team silver Umhausen 2011 Single seater bronze Umhausen 2011 team gold Deutschnofen 2013 Single seater silver Deutschnofen 2013 team silver Saint Sebastian 2015 Single seater bronze Latzfons 2019 team  European Natural Track Luge Championships silver Frantschach 2002 Single seater gold Hüttau 2004 Single seater gold Olang 2008 Single seater gold St. Sebastian 2010 Single seater gold Novouralsk 2012 Single seater gold Novouralsk 2012 team gold Umhausen 2014 Single seater bronze Passeier 2016 Single seater bronze Passeier 2016 team silver Moscow 2020 Single seater bronze Moscow 2020 team  Natural track tobogganing Junior World Championships gold Hüttau 1999 Single seater  Natural track toboggan junior European Championship gold Feld am See 1998 Single seater silver Umhausen 2000 Single seater gold Tiers 2001 Single seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
World Cup victories 55  Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 2000/2001 , 2003/2004 , 2005/2006 , 2006/2007 , 2007/2008 , 2008/2009 , 2009/2010 , 2010/2011 , 2011/2012 , 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 55 25th 15th
last change: May 2, 2020

Jekaterina Alexandrowna Lavrentjewa ( Russian Екатерина Александровна Лаврентьева ; English transcription: Yekaterina Alexandrovna Lavrentyeva ; born June 26, 1981 in Kandalakscha ) is a Russian natural track tobogganist . She is four-time world and six-time European champion and won three gold medals at junior world and European championships . With 55 World Cup victories and another 40 podium places, she has won the overall World Cup 12 times so far . This makes her the most successful natural toboggan runner since the introduction of the World Cup in winter 1992/1993 and one of the most successful.

Career

Lavrentjewa started in 1996 at international junior championships and achieved her first major success at the 1998 European junior championship in Feld am See when she won the gold medal in the single-seater. She also succeeded in doing this at the 1999 Junior World Championships in Hüttau and at the 2001 European Junior Championships in Tiers . Only at the 2000 European Junior Championships in Umhausen did she have to admit defeat to Italian Renate Gietl . This year she celebrated her first major triumph in the general class when she became world champion for the first time at the 2000 World Championships in Olang with best times in all three races.

In the World Cup , Lavrentieva celebrated her first victory on February 11, 2001 in Moscow , after she had already achieved several podium places. The Russian woman also won the next World Cup race, the season finale in Hüttau a week later, with which she secured the overall World Cup victory for the first time in her career at the end of the 2000/2001 season with a lead of ten points over the Italian defending champion Sonja Steinacher . At the 2001 World Cup in Stein an der Enns , however, she only reached seventh place.

In the 2001/2002 season Lavrentieva remained without a World Cup victory. With four podium places, she achieved third place overall behind the Austrians Sandra Mariner and Sonja Steinacher, who won the overall World Cup for the third time with maximum points. Steinacher was also the overall winner in the 2002/2003 season . Lavrentjewa was five points behind her in the final standings despite two wins, one more than the Italian. At the 2002 European Championships in Frantschach , Lavrentjewa won the silver medal in a tight decision behind the Italian Sandra Lanthaler and ahead of Steinacher. She also won silver at the 2003 World Cup in Železniki . This time Steinacher won by seven hundredths of a second.

After Sonja Steinacher's career ended, Lavrentjewa secured the overall World Cup victory for the second time in the 2003/2004 season with four wins. In the 2004/2005 season she only had to admit defeat to the Italian Renate Gietl with two victories in the last two races of the season, who scored four victories of the season and was 20 points ahead of the Russian in the final standings. At the 2004 European Championships in Hüttau, Lavrentjewa won her first European title and at the 2005 World Championships in Latsch she was world champion for the second time and also won silver in the team competition.

In the 2005/2006 season Lavrentieva succeeded in winning all six World Cup races. She won the overall World Cup for the third time and was the first natural toboggan runner to win six World Cup races in a row, and the second to win all World Cup races in one season. The Austrian Elvira Holzknecht was able to win all World Cup races in the winter of 1994/1995 , but only four competitions were held at that time. Only at the European Championship 2006 in Umhausen Lavrentjewa, who went into the race as the defending champion, remained without a win: She only achieved fifth place.

In the next few years Lavrentjewa remained the most successful athlete in the World Cup: In the 2006/2007 season , she won four of the six races and again the overall World Cup. With her three victories in the first three races of the season, she had won a total of eleven World Cup races in a row. Only the Italian Renate Kasslatter was able to finish this series in the fourth race of the season. In the 2007/2008 season , too, the Russian was crowned the overall winner with five race wins. This made her the first to win the overall World Cup three times in a row. Lavrentieva was also unbeatable at major events during these years. At the 2007 World Cup in Grande Prairie , she was able to successfully defend her title and became world champion for the third time, and at the 2008 European championship in Olang she was European champion for the second time after 2004.

In the 2008/2009 season , Lavrentjewa only won two World Cup races, but achieved 15 points more in the final standings than the Italian Renate Gietl, who celebrated three victories of the season, with which she won the overall World Cup for the fourth time in a row and for the sixth time. At the 2009 World Championships in Moos in Passeier , Lavrentjewa was three hundredths of a second behind Gietl. She won the silver medal in the single seater and also the bronze medal in the team competition.

In the 2009/2010 season Lavrentjewa achieved three wins and three second places and thus again secured victory in the overall World Cup ahead of Renate Gietl. At the 2010 European Championships in St. Sebastian she was able to successfully defend her title. The 2010/2011 season began Lavrentjewa with four wins in a row, but at the 2011 World Cup in Umhausen, as at the last World Cup, she had to admit defeat by Italian Renate Gietl. In the team competition she won the bronze medal with Yuri Talych , Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lasarew . In the last two World Cup races of the winter, she was second behind Gietl, which means she won the overall World Cup for the eighth time - and for the sixth time in a row ahead of Renate Gietl.

The same ranking - Lavrentjewa ahead of Gietl - resulted in the overall World Cup for the 2011/2012 season , with Lavrentjewa winning all six World Cup races in one winter for the second time this year. She also showed her dominance at the 2012 European Championships in Novouralsk , where she won gold both in singles (for the third time in a row and fourth time in total) and in team competition (with her teammates Yuri Talych, Pavel Pornev and Ivan Lazarev).

Sporting successes

World championships

• Olang 2000 : 1st single-seater
• Stein an der Enns 2001 : 7th single seater
• Železniki 2003 : 2nd single seater
• Latsch 2005 : 1st singles, 2nd team
• Grande Prairie 2007 : 1st single seater
• Moos in Passeier 2009 : 2nd singles, 3rd team
• Umhausen 2011 : 2nd singles, 3rd team
• Deutschnofen 2013 : 1st singles, 2nd team
• Sankt Sebastian 2015 : 2nd single seater
• Latzfons 2019 : 3rd team, 4th singles

European championships

• Szczyrk 1999 : 7th single seater
• Frantschach 2002 : 2nd single seater
• Hüttau 2004 : 1st single-seater
• Umhausen 2006 : 5th single seater
• Olang 2008 : 1st single-seater
• St. Sebastian 2010 : 1st singles, 5th team
• Nowouralsk 2012 : 1st singles, 1st team
• Umhausen 2014 : 1st single-seater
• Passeier 2016 : 3rd singles, 3rd team
• Moscow 2020 : 2nd singles, 3rd team

Junior World Championships

• Aosta 1997 : 9th single seater
• Hüttau 1999 : 1st single-seater

Junior European Championships

• Szczyrk 1996 : 6th single seater
• Feld am See 1998 : 1st single-seater
• Umhausen 2000 : 2nd single-seater
• Tiers 2001 : 1st single seater

World cup

• 12 × overall World Cup victory in single-seater in the seasons 2000/01 , 2003/04 , 2005/06 , 2006/07 , 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2013 / 14 and 2014/15
• 2 × 2nd overall place in the single-seater in the seasons 2002/2003 and 2004/2005
• 3 × 3rd overall place in the single-seater in the 2001/2002 , 2015/2016 and 2018/2019 seasons
• 95 podium places, including 55 victories:

date place country February 11, 2001 Moscow Russia February 18, 2001 Huettau Austria January 12, 2003 Umhausen Austria January 19, 2003 Moscow Russia January 6, 2004 Grande Prairie Canada January 18, 2004 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany January 15, 2004 Moscow Russia February 21, 2004 Aurach Austria January 23, 2005 Latzfons Italy February 20, 2005 Olang Italy December 11, 2005 Longiarü Italy January 15, 2006 Kindberg Austria January 22, 2006 Olang Italy March 3, 2006 Grande Prairie Canada March 5, 2006 Grande Prairie Canada March 11, 2006 Oberperfuss Austria January 4, 2007 Laces Italy January 14, 2007 Umhausen Austria January 21, 2007 Longiarü Italy February 9, 2007 Moos in Passeier Italy January 13, 2008 Umhausen Austria January 20, 2008 Umhausen Austria January 27, 2008 Laces Italy February 23, 2008 Železniki Slovenia February 24, 2008 Železniki Slovenia January 31, 2009 Deutschnofen Italy February 25, 2009 Novouralsk Russia

date place country December 17, 2009 Novouralsk Russia January 10, 2010 Umhausen Austria February 27, 2010 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany December 11, 2010 Novouralsk Russia December 12, 2010 Novouralsk Russia January 16, 2011 Casies Italy January 23, 2011 Kindberg Austria January 8, 2012 Latzfons Italy January 15, 2012 Olang Italy January 22, 2012 Železniki Slovenia January 29, 2012 Deutschnofen Italy February 16, 2012 Novouralsk Russia March 3, 2012 Umhausen Austria December 30, 2012 Lasa Italy January 13, 2013 Moos in Passeier Italy 20th January 2013 Umhausen Austria 3rd February 2013 Kindberg Austria February 24, 2013 Vatra Dornei Romania February 27, 2013 Vatra Dornei Romania December 22, 2013 Novouralsk Russia January 12, 2014 Moos in Passeier Italy January 18, 2014 Umhausen Austria December 14, 2014 Kühtai Austria 4th January 2015 Lasa Italy January 11, 2015 Deutschnofen Italy February 1, 2015 Vatra Dornei Romania February 15, 2015 Umhausen Austria January 24, 2016 Moscow Russia

Web links

Commons : Ekaterina Lavrentieva  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ekaterina Alexandrovna Lavrentieva in the database of the International Luge Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Cup Final Oberperfuss. International Luge Federation, March 12, 2006, accessed February 24, 2010.