Summer Britcher

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Summer Britcher Luge
Summer Britcher (2018)
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 21st March 1994 (age 26)
place of birth Baltimore
size 180 cm
Weight 71 kg
Career
discipline Single seater
status active
Medal table
YOG medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
America Pacific Championships 0 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
U-23 World Cup medals 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Youth Olympic Winter Games
gold 2012 Innsbruck team
America Pacific ChampionshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze 2014 Lake Placid singles
silver 2015 Calgary singles
bronze 2017 Calgary singles
silver 2018 Lake Placid singles
Luge U-23 World ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 2015 Sigulda singles
silver 2016 Königssee singles
gold 2017 Igls singles
Placements in the Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 2013
 World Cup victories 5
 Overall World Cup ES 3. ( 2017/18 , 2018/19 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 2 1 4th
 Sprint single seater 3 2 0
 Team relay 0 2 2
last change: end of season 2018/2019

Summer Britcher (* 21st March 1994 in Baltimore ) is a US luger .

Career

Britcher had her first international success at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck . There she won the gold medal in the team relay. In the individual she was fifth. She played her first World Cup at the beginning of the 2013/14 season in Innsbruck-Igls and finished eighth. In the further course of the season she was twice in the top ten in the World Cup and at the end of the season she finished 14th in the overall World Cup of singles. At the highlight of the season, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she came in 15th. In the following season she achieved four top ten results in the World Cup and thus finished 12th in the overall single-seater World Cup. After finishing fifth in Innsbruck-Igls at the beginning of the 2015/16 season , she achieved her first podium finish in the World Cup with third place in Lake Placid . At the following World Cup in Park City , she won her first World Cup. She won in the single-seater as well as in the sprint race. The following week she won the sprint race in Calgary . In the single-seater she came in third place. Four more top ten results followed during the season, including three eighth places. At the highlight of the season, the Luge World Championships 2016 at Königssee , she was seventh in the single-seater and fourth in the sprint race. She finished the season in fifth place in the overall single-seater World Cup.

Junior World Championships

year space discipline
2014 5. Juniors

FIL U-23 World Championship

year space discipline
2015 2. Single seater
2016 2. Single seater
2017 1. Single seater

FIL World Championships

year space discipline
2015 9. Single seater
2016 4th Sprint single seater
2016 7th Single seater
2017 11. Sprint single seater
2017 4th Single seater
2019 8th. Sprint single seater
2019 5. Single seater

World Cup overall placements

season space Total points Total time discipline
2013/14 14th 249 - Single-seater women
2014/15 12. 333 - Single-seater women
2015/16 3. - 1: 30.132 Sprint single seater women
2015/16 5. 726 - Single-seater women
2016/17 6th - 1: 43.486 Sprint single seater women
2016/17 10. 480 - Single-seater women
2017/18 2. - 2: 18.801 Sprint single seater women
2017/18 3. 726 - Single-seater women
2018/19 3. - 1: 39.755 Sprint single seater women
2018/19 3. 637 - Single-seater women

Youth Olympic Winter Games

year space discipline place
2012 5. Single seater Innsbruck-Igls
2012 1. Team relay Innsbruck-Igls

winter Olympics

year space discipline place
2014 15th Single seater Sochi
2018 19th Single seater Pyeongchang
2018 4th team Pyeongchang

World Cup victories

Single seater

No. date place train
1. Dec 11, 2015 United StatesUnited States Park City Utah Olympic Park
2. Dec 12, 2015 United StatesUnited States Park City (Sprint) Utah Olympic Park
3. 19 Dec 2015 CanadaCanada Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
4th Jan. 20, 2018 NorwayNorway Lillehammer Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run
5. Jan. 20, 2018 NorwayNorway Lillehammer (Sprint) Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.the-sports.org/summer-britcher-luge-spf208417.html
  2. Overall World Cup for singles 2013/14 (PDF).
  3. Overall World Cup for singles 2014/15 (PDF).
  4. Junior World Championships singles women igles 2014 results (PDF).
  5. U-23 World Championships Singles Women Sigulda 2015 Results (PDF).
  6. U-23 World Championships singles women Berchtesgaden-Königssee 2016 results (PDF).
  7. U-23 World Championships singles women Innsbruck 2017 results (PDF).
  8. World Championship singles women Sigulda 2015 results (PDF).
  9. World Championships Sprint Singles Women Innsbruck 2017 Results (PDF).
  10. Luge World Cup 2013/14 women singles (PDF).
  11. Luge World Cup 2014/15 single-seater women (PDF).