Luisa Hornung

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Luisa Hornung skeleton
2020-02-26 Training Women's Skeleton (Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships Altenberg 2020) by Sandro Halank – 015.jpg
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday November 13, 1996
size 167 cm
Weight 70 kg
job State Police Officer
Career
discipline skeleton
society BRC 05 Friedrichroda
Trainer Christian Baude (former)
Michael Höhne (former)
status 7th
End of career 2020
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 35th ( 2019/20 )
Debut in the European Cup January 14, 2016 in Koenigssee
Debut in the Interconti-Cup November 17, 2016 in Sochi
last change: May 3, 2020

Luisa Hornung (born November 13, 1996 ) is a former German skeleton pilot .

Career

Luisa Hornung began playing skeleton in 2013 and took part in the German skeleton championships for the first time in Winterberg in 2015 . In her debut she was able to take eleventh place out of 17th participants on the Winterberg Hochsauerland bobsleigh run . At the German Skeleton Championships in 2016 , which took place from December 27th to 30th, 2015 on the Altenberg sledge and bobsleigh track , she was able to take sixth place out of ten starters. After the turn of the year, she made her international debut in the European Skeleton Cup on January 14, 2016 in Königssee . On her debut at the Königssee artificial ice rink , she just missed the podium behind the two German Maxi Just and Janine Becker and Brittin Ashleigh Fay Pittaway with fourth place. One day later she finished sixth in the second race at Königssee.

Before the 2016/17 season, she took part in the 2017 German championships in Königssee . Behind Jacqueline Lölling , Anna Fernstädt and Corina Leipold, she finished fourth on the Königssee artificial ice rink after two runs and thus just missed a medal. In the season 2016/17 she went again in the European Cup at the start and right the first European Cup of the season in Sigulda she could for the first time on the podium on 4 November 2016 when she behind Anna remote Städt and the Russian Renata Chusina finished third . At the end of the season she was able to finish on the podium again at the European Cup in Altenberg . On December 19 and 20, she took second place behind Tamara Seer on the DKB ice channel . At the end of the season, she finished sixth in the overall ranking of the European Cup with 235 points, which she had collected in five of eight European Cup races.

After she only took part in two European Cup races in the 2017/18 season and finished sixth in the German championship in Winterberg , she competed more frequently in the European Cup again in the 2018/19 season . After finishing fourth in the European Cup races in Winterberg (November 23, 2018) and the European Cup races in Königssee (December 6 and 7, 2018), she went to the German Skeleton Championships 2019 in Altenberg and took fourth place on the ENSO ice track after two runs.

After the turn of the year she started in Altenberg in the European Cup races. On January 11, 2019, she finished second behind her teammate Janine Becker and ahead of her teammate Hannah Neise . One day later she finished third in the second race on the ENSO ice canal, together with Russian Alina Tararytschenkowa, third behind Janine Becker and Hannah Neise. At the end of the season in Sigulda , she finished sixth. The European Junior Championship was also held race-in-race and in this ranking it also finished the competition in sixth place. At the end of the season she finished third with 386 points in the four-fold German victory in the overall standings.

Before the 2019/20 season, she competed in the German skeleton championships at Königssee , finishing eighth after two runs. In the 2019/20 season , Luisa Hornung made her debut in the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup . In Sochi , she took 15th place in her debut on November 23, 2019. One day later, Sanki took seventh place in the Sliding Center, her first top ten result in the Intercontinental Cup. Two weeks later, on December 7, 2018, she finished thirteenth in the Intercontinental Cup race in Winterberg .

To the financial statements they took in Koenigssee on Skeleton European Cup in part. After she finished seventh in the first race on December 14th, she finished the race one day later in second place behind Latvian Endija Tērauda and second in front of Briton Amelia Coltman . She competed overseas for the first time after the turn of the year. In Lake Placid she started the two Intercontinental Cup races and finished eleventh and twelfth. With 328 points she finished the season in the Intercontinental Cup overall ranking in twelfth place. At the end of the season, she took part in a Junior Skeleton World Championship for the first time in her career . In Winterberg, she was the oldest starter in the 2019 Skeleton Junior World Championship , ahead of her former teammate Anna Fernstädt , who is ten days younger. After she only finished tenth after the first run in the Veltins-Eisarena , she was able to improve to seventh place in the second run with the second best time. After the end of the season, she announced her retirement on March 9, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Luisa Hornung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Result list of the German Skeleton Championship 2017 in the BSD database
  2. ↑ Results list of the German Skeleton Championship 2019 in the BSD database
  3. ↑ Skeleton athletes Yulia Kanakina and Evgeniy Rukosuev are junior European champions. IBSF , January 26, 2019, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Results list of the German Skeleton Championship 2020 in the BSD database
  5. ↑ Luisa Hornung: Announcement. Instagram , March 9, 2020, accessed May 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hornung, Luisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German skeleton pilot
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1996