Matt Mortensen

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Matt Mortensen Luge
Mortensen, 2013
Full name Matthew Mortensen
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday December 11, 1985
place of birth Huntington Station
size 182 cm
Weight 79 kg
Career
discipline Single-seater (until 2007)
double-seater (since 2007)
National squad since 2005
status resigned
End of career 2018
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
America Pacific Championships 3 × gold 4 × silver 0 × bronze
National championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
FIL Luge World Championships
silver 2017 Innsbruck-Igls Team relay
America Pacific ChampionshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 2011 Calgary Two-seater
silver 2012 Lake Placid Two-seater
silver 2013 Whistler Two-seater
gold 2014 Lake Placid Two-seater
silver 2015 Calgary Two-seater
gold 2016 Park City Two-seater
silver 2017 Calgary Two-seater
US championshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze 2007 Two-seater
silver 2008 Two-seater
gold 2012 Two-seater
Placements in the Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 2005
 Overall World Cup DS 3. ( 2016/17 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Two-seater 0 3 0
 Sprint two-seater 0 0 2
 Team relay 0 4th 2
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

Commons : Matthew Mortensen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Augusta's Julia Clukey earns spot on USA Luge team . May 20, 2014. Accessed February 23, 2015.
  2. ^ Scott McDonald: Olympic Luger Matt Mortensen Reflects On Stellar Career After Retirement. In: Team USA. July 10, 2018, accessed January 18, 2020 .