Laura Deas
Laura Deas 
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| birthday | 19th August 1988 (age 32) | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Wrexham , UK | ||||||||||||||||
| size | 169 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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| National squad | since 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||
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Laura Deas (born August 19, 1988 in Wrexham , Wales ) is a British skeleton pilot .
Career
Laura Deas comes from Wrexham in Wales and now lives in Bath , where she trains with the national team under Chris Type . During her school days, she was a tournament rider and represented Wales in international competitions in tetrathlon (riding, shooting, swimming, running). She also played hockey for the North Wales selection . In 2009, she was discovered in the nationwide Girls4Gold talent search for skeleton sport .
Deas competed in their first international races at the start of the 2010/11 season in the European Skeleton Cup . In her first race in Cesana in November 2010 , she finished 14th and the next day, in the same place, finished tenth for the first time among the top ten. The breakthrough came in the two following races in Igls , where she was third behind her compatriots Elizabeth Yarnold and Rose McGrandle . She won the next race in Winterberg ahead of McGrandle and Yarnold; in the overall standings Deas was sixth. She finished fourth at the 2011 Junior World Championships. In the following season she started again in the European Cup . After a third place, placements between 6 and 16 in the other races and a disqualification, she finished fifth in the overall standings. In March 2012 she took part in the last two races of the season of the America's Cup and finished third and second.
In winter 2012/13 Laura Deas took part in the Intercontinental Cup and achieved two second places during the season. Otherwise she placed between 6th and 19th place, which put them in seventh place overall. In the following season she was again in action in the Intercontinental Cup and drove in the first race of the season on rank 2. She finished the other races with placings between 5 and 11, before she landed again on the podium in the last race of the season in 3rd place. She also came third in the overall standings.
Laura Deas made her debut in the World Cup in the 2014/15 season and finished twelfth in her first race. Already at her second start she reached a podium finish with second place in Calgary . Another podium followed with third place in St. Moritz ; in the remaining races of the season Deas placed between 6 and 11 and was fifth in the World Cup ranking. At the 2015 Skeleton World Championship in Winterberg, she was eighth with the team and seventh in the individual. At the start of the 2015/16 season , she won her first World Cup race in Altenberg .
She celebrated her greatest sporting success to date with the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .
Web links
- Laura Deas in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Results at the-sports.org (English)
- Profile on the website of the British Association (English)
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| SURNAME | Deas, Laura |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British skeleton pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th August 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wrexham , UK |