Joska Le Conté

Joska Le Conté
Full name	Joska Marianne Le Conté
nation	Netherlands
birthday	September 29, 1987
place of birth	Zeist
size	172 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	skeleton
Trainer	Martin Rettl
National squad	since 2006
status	active
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 14. (14/15) Debut in the World Cup November 2008 Overall World Cup 11. (14/15) Debut in the European Cup November 2006 Debut North American Cup April 2008 Debut in the Interconti-Cup December 2007
last change: November 8, 2015

Joska Marianne Le Conté (born September 29, 1987 in Zeist ) is a Dutch skeleton pilot .

Joska Le Conté lives in Soesterberg and has been involved in skeleton sports since 2006. Since the same year she has been part of the Dutch national team. Le Conté made her international debut in November 2006, finishing 20th in a European Cup race in Igls . In January 2007 she won her first title as Dutch champion . She then finished 15th at the 2007 European Skeleton Championships in Königssee . In the following season, Le Conté started again in the European Cup , but then moved up to the Intercontinental Cup , which was driven for the first time that season. Here in Winterberg she came in sixth for the first time a top ten placement in an international race. At the European Skeleton Championships in Cesana in 2008 , she finished eighth. At the beginning of 2008, Le Conté became Dutch champion for the second time. In the next international race within the framework of the European Cup in Winterberg, the Dutchwoman was able to achieve her best international result in second place behind Jelena Judina . She finished seventh at the Junior World Championships in Igls and 25th at the World Championships in Altenberg .

In the 2008/09 season Le Conté made his debut in the World Cup and achieved a 16th place in Whistler as the best place . She was also ninth at the European and 25th at the World Cup . In the following years she always started mainly in the World Cup. In winter 2009/10 she could not place better than in the previous year; at the 2010 Junior World Championships she was fifth. In the 2010/11 Skeleton World Cup , Le Conté was among the top 15 four times and in 2011/12 she missed the top 10 in eleventh in Altenberg - equivalent to fifth in the European Championship - and twelfth in Winterberg only barely the top 10. Also in the 2012 / season 13 , an 11th place was her best placement, whereas Le Conté only achieved placements between 18 and 22 in 2013/14 . The winter of 2014/15 was her most successful season to date with her first single-digit World Cup placement, namely a seventh place in Königssee and 11th place in the overall World Cup. She was 12th at the European Championships in Igls; at the world championship in Winterberg she finished 15th.

Web links

• Joska Le Conté in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Results at the-sports.org (English)
• Profile at the Dutch Bobsleigh and Sled Association (Dutch)
• Official website (Dutch)