Ingrīda Amantova Biography
Ingrīda Amantova (born 21 June 1960 in Cēsis) is a Latvian-born Soviet luger who competed during the early 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles event at Lake Placid, New York, in 1980 and finished fourth in the same event at the following Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. This was the only instances Soviet or Latvian athletes won Olympic medals in women's luge.
Amantova's best overall Luge World Cup finish was second in 1982-3. She was three times the champion of Soviet Union in luge.
She was mainly training on the domestic track near Sigulda. The track was open in the 1970s and became the first one in Soviet Union. Amantova belonged to the first generation of Soviet athletes who used the track and demonstrated top-level results.
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Sources
- Fuzilogik Sports - Winter Olympic results - Women's luge at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 June 2015)
- Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skeleton. at the Wayback Machine (archived 30 June 2007)
- List of women's singles luge World Cup champions since 1978. at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 February 2008)
External links
- Ingrīda Amantova at Olympedia
- Ingrīda Amantova at Olympics.com
- Ingrīda Amantova at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)
