Natalie Corless

Natalie Corless
nation	Canada
birthday	27th November 2003 (age 16)
place of birth	Whistler, Canada
size	166 cm
Career
Trainer	Matt McMurray
status	active
Medal table
APM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × OJS medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
America Pacific Championships bronze 2019 Whistler Double Youth Olympic Games silver 2020 St. Moritz Women doubles
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup December 2019  Overall World Cup DS 29. ( 2019/20 )  Challenge Cup DS 28. 2019/20
last change: end of season 2019/2020

Natalie Corless (born November 27, 2003 in Whistler ) is a Canadian luge athlete . She starts in singles and with Caitlin Nash in doubles.

Natalie Corless lives and trains in Whistler. She originally comes from Calgary , where she was enthusiastic about tobogganing near the traditional Olympic track. In addition, the national Olympic enthusiasm in Canada came for the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver . For training reasons, she later moved to Whistler, where she was part of British Columbia's youth selection . She has been part of the Canadian youth national team since 2018. In addition to other sports, she also played soccer for nine years.

Corless made her international debut outside of racing in the NorAm Cup , where she won the individual races in Whistler, Calgary and Lake Placid in 2018 , as part of the Youth A World Cup race in Park City in December 2018 . In the singles she was fifth in a victory for her teammate Trinity Ellis . With her partner Caitlin Nash, she then won the first ever officially held international female double race in luge. Two days later they repeated the double victory and Corless was also second behind Ellis in the individual. At the home race in Calgary they also won the doubles race - albeit as a single starter - and came seventh in the individual. After the turn of the year, she won her first individual race in the Youth A World Cup in St. Moritz . Then the 2019 Junior World Championships in Innsbruck - Igls Corless' became the first international championships. First she was 12th in the individual race. One day later, Corless / Nash started alongside Lara Kipp and Selina Egle from Austria as well as Nadia Falkensteiner and Katharina Putzer from Italy as well as Markéta Nováková and Anna Vejdělková from the Czech Republic as one of the first all- women doubles for the first time in the general doubles class and finished 14th directly behind the Austrian second best female double. With the season, which also included Samantha Judson and Colton Clarke , they drove to eighth place. This was followed by the races in the Youth A World Cup in Winterberg , in which Corless finished third and Corless / Nash eighth, behind the local heroes Sophie Gerloff and Melina Cielaszyk from Germany. Although the doubles could not hold out the North American winning streak in Europe against the strong European competition, at the end of the season they were the first to win the overall ranking in the Youth World Cup. Corless also won the overall standings in the individual. She was also Canadian Junior Champion. In June 2019, the Canadian Sport Institute named Corless and Nash Athlete of the Month.

The 2019/20 season began with the A youth world cup races in Igls. In the individual races Corless drove to 12th place in doubles with Corless she was sixth and fifth. For the last World Cup race of the year in Whistler, Corless / Nash were nominated for the World Cup as the first women's doubles ever . Corless had only turned 16 the previous month and was one of the youngest starters in the World Cup. Since not all nations had come overseas in the last race before the holidays and the turn of the year, they qualified as the last place of the eleven participants in the Nations Cup race and two days later in the main race 22nd. The race was also the America-Pacific Championships 2019 , in their Frame Corless / Nash finished third as one of three eligible doubles and won the bronze medal. Corless was also nominated for the women's Nations Cup race, but without having the opportunity to qualify for the actual World Cup race here. In the race she finished in 10th place and left behind more highly rated drivers like Madeleine Egle , Ulla Zirne , Verónica Ravenna, Klaudia Domaradzka , Hannah Prock and Aileen Frisch . It remained the only missions of the season in the highest racing series. With 34 points they came 28th in the overall ranking of the Nations Cup and 29th in the World Cup with 19 points. In the individual ranking of the Nations Cup, she was tied with Raychel Germaine and Xinyi Liu with 35 points , with the latter needing three races, sharing 45th overall. The appearance in the World Cup had a lot of international media coverage.

Corless / Nash at the finish after the second run of the double race of the Youth Olympic Games

Nash & Corless at the Youth Olympic Games award ceremony

After the first excursion into the performance area, the first major highlight of the career followed, the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games , the ice canal race of which was held on the traditional St. Moritz railway. Alongside the German Jessica Degenhardt and Vanessa Schneider , the Austrians Egle and Kipp, Corless / Nash were among the great precious metal favorites for the first female Olympic double luge race. After Selina Egle was seriously injured shortly before the start and the Austrian doubles were canceled, the Canadians won the silver medal behind the superior top favorites from Germany. For the single race the day before, however, Corless was nominated alongside her doubles partner Nash Kailey Allan . At the side of the Italian Alex Gufler and Kailey Allan, Corless / Nash missed another medal in the relay race in a mixed team in fourth place, just by one place, but behind Russia, Germany and Latvia by sporting worlds. The 2020 Junior World Championships in Oberhof were rather disappointing . Both in the singles and in the doubles race - again in a class with the male doubles - Nash finished 15th. Of the 23 doubles, six female doubles were at the start, of which Corless / Nash were the best.

Web links

The team relay of the Youth Olympic Games: Gufler - Allan - Corless - Nash

Commons : Natalie Corless  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Natalie Corless in the database of the International Luge Federation
• Portrait on the Canadian Speaking Association website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Young athletes are legacy of Vancouver's 2010 Winter Games. Retrieved May 4, 2020 (Canadian English). 
2. ↑ Si chiude la Coppa del mondo Juniores a Oberhof: Felderer e Gufler ancora sul podio nel doppio. Giovani: Falkensteiner 8ª. Retrieved May 4, 2020 (it-it). 
3. ↑ Kreissportbund Sächsische Schweiz - Osterzgebirge eV Accessed on May 4, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Athlete of the Month - June 2019. In: Canadian Sport Institute Pacific. July 2, 2019, accessed May 4, 2020 (Canadian English). 
5. ↑ Wolfgang Harder: Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless first women's doubles in the Viessmann World Cup. Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Oliver Kern: Two young pioneers (new Germany). Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
7. ^ Canadians first females in World Cup doubles luge. December 14, 2019, accessed May 4, 2020 . 
8. ^ Dan Falloon: Corless, Nash enjoy historic Whistler World Cup debut. Retrieved May 4, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Dan Falloon: Whistler lugers Corless, Nash enjoy historic World Cup debut. Retrieved May 4, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Tobogganing: "We have proven that we can". Retrieved May 4, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Wolfgang Harder: Women's doubles to make Olympic debut at YOG 2020 in Lausanne. In: .fil-luge.org. Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course, accessed on May 4, 2020 (English). 
12. ^ Scott Harrigan: Luge Athletes Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless Win Canada's First Medal at Youth Olympic Games. In: ISN. January 18, 2020, accessed May 4, 2020 (American English). 
13. ↑ The Canadian Press: Caitlin Nash, Natalie Corless earn Canada's first medal at Youth Olympics in luge - TSN.ca. January 18, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 . 
14. ^ History of Luge - Luge Canada. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .