Laura Nolte
Laura Nolte 
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| birthday | 23rd November 1998 (age 21) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Unna , Germany | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 180 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sports soldier student |
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| discipline | Bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||||||
| position | pilot | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | BSC Winterberg | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Marcus Hoselmann, Christopher Brau, Andre Neagun |
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| National squad | since 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Laura Nolte (born November 23, 1998 in Unna ) is a German bobsleigh driver .
Life
Laura Nolte started bobsleigh in 2015 . In the 2015/16 season she took part in the OMEGA Youth Series, which served to qualify for the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games . At the two competitions in Innsbruck she took second place in the monobob and won the two competitions in Lillehammer and thus qualified for the Winter Youth Olympic Games . At the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games, which were held on the bobsleigh run in Lillehammer, she won the gold medal in the monobob competition on February 20, 2016 after two runs.
Before the 2016/17 season, she and Lena Zelichowski took part in the start-up world championship on September 10, 2016 and the two won the bronze medal behind the Russian duo Nadezhda Sergejewa and Julija Schokschujewa and behind the Romanian duo Andreea Grecemedu and Olivia Franciska Vild . In the 2016/17 season she did not take part in any international competition listed by the IBSF . However, she started at the German junior championships on February 11, 2017 and took fourth place with her push-puller Kathleen Heigl .
In the 2017/18 season Laura Nolte made her debut in the Bobsleigh European Cup , which forms the foundation of the World Cup in Europe . On November 11, 2017, she and her pusher Lisa Sophie Gericke took fourth place in their debut on the track in Lillehammer. One day later she was able to take a podium place for the first time and finished second behind Kathrin Beierl's bobsleigh and in front of Kim Kalicki's bobsleigh together with her pusher Lena Zelichowski. The two of them were able to confirm this podium position at the European Cup in Altenberg and again took second place on the DKB-Eiskanal in the German triple victory behind Christin Senkel's bobsleigh and in front of Sandra Kroll's bobsleigh . Before the turn of the year, Laura Nolte and Lena Zelichowski took third place behind the bobsleds of Christin Senkel and Maria Adela Constantin at the European Cup competition in La Plagne .
After the turn of the year she started at the European Cup in Innsbruck together with Lavinia Pittschaft and the two took second place behind Christin Senkel's bobsleigh and Sabrina Duljevic's bobsleigh in the competition on the Igls bobsleigh rink . At the end of the season of the European Cup in Winterberg , Laura Nolte and her pusher Vivian Hanusch took third place behind the two German bobsleds from Christin Senkel and Kim Kalicki . At the end of the season she finished second in the overall standings behind Christin Senkel and ahead of Lyubow Tschernych . On January 27, 2018, she started at the Junior World Championships in St. Moritz together with Lavinia Pittschaft and the two won the Junior World Championship in the U23 category at the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina . In addition, they won the “normal” ranking behind the Romanian bobsleigh by Andreea Grecu and behind the German bobsleigh by Kim Kalicki. At the end of the season, she won the silver medal at the German championships together with Stefanie Paehler . The German Junior Championships also took place race-in-race and Laura Nolte and her push-puller became German Junior Champions.
Before the 2018/19 season, she took part in the German championship in Winterberg and finished fourth with her pusher Deborah Levi . The 2018/19 season began for the two of them in the Europa Cup with a podium in Altenberg. Behind Christine de Bruin's bob and in front of Christin Senkel's bobsleigh, they took second place on the ENSO ice track . On January 5, 2019 Laura Nolte won a European Cup race for the first time. Together with Deborah Levi, she won the Veltins ice arena in front of Andreea Grecu and Breeana Walker's bobsleds . After finishing second behind her teammate Kim Kalicki in the two European Cup competitions in Innsbruck , she finished second in the overall European Cup standings behind Alena Osipenko and ahead of Eveline Rebsamen . At the Junior World Championships in Königssee , she competed with Deborah Levi. While the two missed a medal in the "normal" classification with fourth place, they finished second in the U23 classification behind their teammate Kim Kalicki. At the end of the season, Laura Nolte took part in the German Junior Championships with Lena Zelichowski and finished second behind Kim Kalicki and in front of Anne Lobenstein .
Before the 2018/19 season, Laura Nolte started together with Deborah Levi in the German push championships and secured victory and the German championship title ahead of the two duos Mariama Jamanka and Kira Lipperheide as well as Kim Kalicki and Viktoria Dönicke . In addition, the two of them won the German championship title at the German championships in Altenberg ahead of Kim Kalicki and Stephanie Schneider 's bobsleighs . At the beginning of the 2019/20 season, Laura Nolte started in the European Bobsleigh Cup and, right at the start with Deborah Levi, took third place in the European Cup race in Aktenberg behind the bobsleds of Andreea Grecu and An Vannieuwenhuyse . On December 14, 2019, she secured her second European Cup victory together with Deborah Levi. In Winterberg, the two won ahead of Anna Köhler's and Andreea Grecu 's bobsleighs . A day later she took second place in the second competition in the Veltins-Eisarena behind Anna Köhler's bobsleigh and in front of Andreea Grecu's bobsleigh.
After the turn of the year Laura Nolte was allowed to make her debut in the Bobsleigh World Cup . In Winterberg, she and Deborah Levi took third place in the German triple victory behind the bobs of Stephanie Schneider and Mariama Jamanka on January 4, 2020. At her second World Cup, a week later, on January 11, 2020, she won her first victory in a World Cup competition with Deborah Levi as a pusher in La Plagne in front of Christine de Bruin and Stephanie Schneider's bobsleds. In her third and fourth races in the Bobsleigh World Cup, she also achieved a podium finish. Together with Erline Nolte , with whom Laura Nolte is not related, she finished second in Innsbruck on January 18th and in Königssee on January 25th. She qualified for the first time for the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships . Together with her pusher Ann-Christin Strack , she fell in the second run of the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships 2020 , which were held in Altenberg. Although they reached the finish line, they still did not start in the third run.
successes
World Cup victories
| No. | date | place | train | Pusher |
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| 1. | January 11, 2020 |
 La Plagne
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La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run | Deborah Levi |
European victories
| No. | date | place | train | Pusher |
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| 1. | 5th January 2019 |
Winterberg
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Veltins ice arena | Deborah Levi |
| 2. | December 14, 2019 |
Private
Laura Nolte is a sports soldier and student of business psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum . She trains at BSC Winterberg and lives in Unna .
Web links
- Laura Nolte in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
- Laura Nolte in the database of the Bobsleigh and Sleigh Association for Germany
- Laura Nolte in the teamdeutschland.de database
- Laura Nolte in the database of the university sports of the Ruhr University Bochum
Individual evidence
- ^ German push championships and international start competition in Oberhof. IBSF , October 8, 2019, accessed March 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Nolte, Oelsner and Hafer German bobsleigh champions. IBSF , November 11, 2019, accessed March 20, 2020 .
- ↑ "Every athlete dreams of being at the Olympics". Welt am Sonntag, December 30, 2019, accessed on January 11, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Nolte, Laura |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bobsleigh athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1998 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Unna , Germany |