Matt Mortensen
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Full name | Matthew Mortensen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | December 11, 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Huntington Station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 182 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Single-seater (until 2007) double-seater (since 2007) |
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National squad | since 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: end of season 2017/18 |
Matthew "Matt" Mortensen (born December 11, 1985 in Huntington Station ) is a former American luge athlete .
Career
Matt Mortensen, who has been active in the pack sport since 1998, initially competed in a single-seater. Here he came in 32nd place at the 2005 Luge World Championships . His best World Cup placement was twelfth in the 2006/07 season . Since the 2007/08 season , Mortensen competed in doubles with Preston Griffall . At the season opener of the World Cup in Lake Placid , the doubles took eighth place and thus brought Mortensen to the top ten for the first time.
In the 2010/11 season , a fifth place in Park City was the best World Cup result for the Mortensen / Griffall duo. At the Luge World Championships 2011 in Cesana Pariol both finished seventh. In the following winter of 2011/12 , a fifth place in Calgary was her best result. They finished ninth in the season's overall standings. At the Luge World Championships 2012 in Altenberg, Mortensen and Griffall only managed to finish 14th. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season , the duo secured their first and only national title. In the two-seater World Cup, sixth place in Lake Placid was the best result of the season for both of them. Only with the team relay could they previously experience second place on the same track.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Mortensen finished 14th with Griffall. After Christian Niccum , partner of Jayson Terdiman, ended his active career after the Olympic Games, Mortensen came to Terdiman as a partner. In Oberhof , both of them secured a good podium position as a double in the team relay as second. At Königsee both celebrated a podium finish as second behind the Germans. In the Lake Placid team relay , the two Americans and their teammates also made it onto the podium. Terdiman and Mortensen finished ninth at the 2015 Luge World Championships in Sigulda .
Mortensen ended his career after the 2018 Winter Olympics .
Web links
- Matt Mortensen in the database of the International Luge Federation
- Matt Mortensen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Matt Mortensen with Team USA
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augusta's Julia Clukey earns spot on USA Luge team . May 20, 2014. Accessed February 23, 2015.
- ^ Scott McDonald: Olympic Luger Matt Mortensen Reflects On Stellar Career After Retirement. In: Team USA. July 10, 2018, accessed January 18, 2020 .
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SURNAME | Mortensen, Matt |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mortensen, Matthew (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American luge rider |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1985 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Huntington Station , New York , United States |