Jessica Degenhardt

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Jessica Degenhardt Luge
Degenhardt at the Luge World Cup of Juniors and Youth A in Oberhof 2018/19
Full name Jessica Doreen Degenhardt
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday April 21, 2002 (age 18)
place of birth Dresden, Germany
size 178 cm
Weight 68 kg
job pupil
Career
society RRC Altenberg
Trainer Steffen Sartor
status active
Medal table
Youth Olympic Games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Luge Junior World Championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
Junior European Luge Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Youth Olympic GamesTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 2020 St. Moritz Double
silver 2020 St. Moritz singles
FIL Junior Luge World Championships
bronze 2018 Altenberg singles
bronze 2019 Igls singles
gold 2020 Königssee singles
gold 2020 Königssee team
FIL European Junior Luge Championships
silver 2020 Winterberg singles
Placements in the Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup February 2020
 Overall World Cup ES 43rd ( 2019/20 )
last change: April 19, 2020

Jessica Doreen Degenhardt (born April 21, 2002 in Dresden ) is a German luge athlete .

biography

Jessica Degenhardt started tobogganing in 2010 through her brother. She started at PSV Elbe Dresden and starts today for RRC Altenberg and attends the “Glückauf” high school in Dippoldiswalde / Altenberg, an elite sports school . She is part of the German national team in the perspective squad and is trained by Steffen Sartor both there and at the club . One of their strengths is their athleticism; they usually do very well in the BSD's athletic tests .

Youth and junior area

Degenhardt played her first season in the youth field (youth B) in 2015/16 and achieved her first notable successes this season. She won the Altenberg three-way tour, won the season opener on the Altenberg racing sledge and bobsleigh track , became a Saxon champion and won the regional youth games in Altenberg. She also won the German Youth B Cup in Oberhof and the German B Youth Championship in Winterberg . At the 36th FIL Summer Cup in Zwickau , she came second.

In the 2016/17 season she was promoted to Youth A. In Altenberg she won the Ore Mountains Championship. She finished the German championship in Winterberg as runner-up. In her first race in the Youth A World Cup, she finished sixth in Innsbruck , and she won the following races in Oberhof , Altenberg and Winterberg as well as the Youth A Cup Oberhof. She also won the overall ranking of the World Cup. Degenhardt won the 37th FIL Summer Cup in Zwickau.

She also competed in the youth A category in the 2017/18 season. She won the title at the German A youth championships on her home track in Altenberg. In the World Cup, she moved up to the junior division and, apart from the fifth race of the season in Innsbruck, always finished in the top six in 21st place, but only achieved podium placements in Oberhof with two third places at the start of the season. In the overall ranking, she finished fifth. At the Junior World Championships in 2018 on her home track, she achieved the bronze rank behind the favorites Jessica Tiebel and the Russian Tatjana Zwetowa , which she had missed when she came fourth in Winterberg at the Junior European Championships in 2018 when she came fourth. At this point she was only 15 years old, significantly younger than most of her competitors, which made winning the medal a surprise. In addition, she again won the 38th edition of the FIL Summer Cup in Zwickau.

Degenhardt / Schneider at the finish line at the A-youth double-seater World Cup race in Oberhof 2019

Also in 2018/19 Degenhardt started with the juniors in the World Cup. At the start of the season, she won her first race of the Junior World Cup in Oberhof and also won the relay race with the German team. She was second in Winterberg and third in Calgary . Degenhardt also always achieved single-digit ranks in the other races. In the overall standings she only had to admit defeat to Russian Zwetowa by 15 points with 402 points, her teammate Anna Berreiter relegated her to third place by one point, but benefited from a failure of Berreiter, who, apart from the penultimate race of the season, was always placed ahead of Degenhardt , in the last race of the season. In addition, she competed with Vanessa Schneider in the girls' two-seater races, which were held for the first time this season. This was only held among the A-youths. Degenhardt and Schneider came to this discipline more by chance than planned. In their first race together in St. Moritz, they took silver behind their team-mates Anka Jänicke and Saskia Schirmer , who also contested their first international race in this discipline. The two remaining races of the season in Winterberg and Oberhof were won by Degenhardt / Schneider and in the end came second in the overall standings behind Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless , who had won the first three races of the season overseas, but each had only two or even one competing team. The first race in St. Moritz was also the 2019 Junior European Championships , in which Degenhardt also achieved fifth place in the individual. At the 2019 Junior World Championships in Igls , Degenhardt finished third behind Cheyenne Rosenthal and Verena Hofer .

Degenhardt / Schneider at the finish: Winner of the first Olympic gold medal in the women's two-seater

The 2019/20 season was dominated by the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne , to which everything was geared. Degenhardt was supposed to compete in the female doubles with Vanessa Schneider, who gave his Olympic premiere in Switzerland, as well as in the singles. If everything went well, the goal was to start in the team competition and thus three gold medals. That's why she had to compete again in the Youth World Cup, which she competed alongside that of the juniors. It started with two victories in Igls, with Schneider in the two-seater and in the individual race. In addition, she was second behind Kailey Allan from Canada in the second individual race in Igls. Degenhardt / Schneider did not finish the second race in doubles after a fall. A real series of victories followed in December 2019. In Königssee there were again two races in the singles and doubles of the Junior World Cup, all of which were won. Then Degenhardt drove in Altenberg in the Junior World Cup and also won both individual races and the relay races with Max Ewald , Jakob Jannusch and Mathis Ertel. In addition, she won the junior women's double race with Schneider. After the turn of the year the Youth Olympic Games took place and the sledge races were held on the traditional St. Moritz railway. Degenhardt was the German flag bearer at the opening ceremony of St. Moritz. Somewhat surprisingly, Degenhardt had to admit defeat to her teammate Merle Fräbel in the individual race , but one day later won the first ever Olympic gold medal in the women's doubles with Schneider. They referred the Canadians Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless, who had previously made their debut as the first women's doubles in the World Cup , to second place. Probably the biggest competitors Selina Egle and Lara Kipp from Austria could not compete because Egle broke his foot during training. By winning the individual gold medal, Fräbels qualified for the team competition and won silver with the German team behind Russia.

Two weeks after the youth games, the season in Winterberg continued. In the Junior World Cup race, which was also part of the 2020 Junior European Championships , Degenhardt won the silver medal behind the Italian Verena Hofer. She won the following race on the same track as well as the double race the day before in the Youth World Cup. In mid-February, Degenhardt won the gold medal at the 2020 Junior Luge World Championships in Oberhof both in the individual ahead of the Russian Diana Loginowa and the Austrian Lisa Schulte and together with Moritz Bollmann and the doubles Max Ewald and Jakob Jannusch in the team relay race. Despite the fall in the second race of the season, Degenhardt / Schneider won the overall junior World Cup with five wins of the season in six races with 500 points ahead of their teammates Luisa Romanenko and Pauline Patz and the Austrian double Egle / Kipp. Degenhardt also won the individual ranking with the optimal yield of 400 points in four wins from the four of the six races of the season in which she competed. She relegated her teammates Melina Cielaszyk and Merle Fräbel to their places. In the overall ranking of the Junior World Cup, she was second behind Verena Hofer with 385 points, with Hofer only contesting four of the races of all five Degenhardt.

Performance range

In the summer of 2019, Degenhardt won the 27th FIL Summer Luge Cup in Ilmenau, the most important luge race on a summer track, thus ending Dajana Eitberger's eight-year winning streak . After Jessica Tiebel withdrew from the running of the 2019/20 season, Degenhardt moved up into the World Cup team for the last race of the season at Königssee after her outstanding performance in the youth and junior division of the season. First she had to qualify for the main race in the World Cup via the Nations Cup race, which she did with flying colors as second place behind Sandra Robatscher . With eleventh place she made a convincing debut in the elite class, in which she finished the top ten by just one place and 0.02 seconds over Sandra Robatscher, after she was ninth after the first round. In the overall ranking she reached the 43rd place with 34 points, tied with the Polish Natalia Jamróz .

successes

Jessica Degenhardt and Vanessa Schneider at the Olympic medal ceremony in St. Moritz

Youth Olympic Games

Junior World Championships

Jessica Degenhardt (left) together with Jessica Tiebel after the award ceremony of the Junior Luge World Championships 2018 in Altenberg

Junior European Championships

Web links

Commons : Jessica Degenhardt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JWM tobogganing: Jessica Tiebel and Max Langenhan win gold - ENSO Eiskanal Altenberg. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ JWC St.Moritz. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jessica Degenhardt wants to write Olympic history. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
  4. ^ Youth Olympic Games - Luge rider Jessica Degenhardt is the standard bearer. January 9, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Artrevolver: Day 9 YOG: Medals in luge and Noko. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Dancing duo continues Germany's dominance in luge. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Altenbergerin wins world title in Oberhof. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ This is what makes this toboggan runner so successful. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Degenhardt, Jessica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Degenhardt, Jessica Doreen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German luge athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 2002
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden