Ingrīda Amantova (born 21 June 1960 in
Cēsis
Cēsis (), (german: Wenden, liv, Venden, et, Võnnu, pl, Kieś) is a town in Latvia located in the northern part of the Vidzeme Upland, Central Vidzeme Upland. Cēsis is on the Gauja, Gauja River valley, and is built on a series of ridges ...
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is a
Latvia
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Soviet luge
A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh for s ...
r 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
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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
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The International Luge Federation ( French: Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (FIL); German: Internationaler Rennrodelverband) is ...
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
Sigulda (; german: Segewold, pl, Zygwold, russian: Сигулда) is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, from the capital city Riga.
Overview
Sigulda is on a picturesque stretch of the primeval Gauja river valley. Because of the reddish Dev ...
. 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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1960 births
Latvian female lugers
Living people
Lugers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Soviet female lugers
Olympic lugers for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in luge
Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
Sportspeople from Cēsis
Latvian Academy of Sport Education alumni
University of Latvia alumni
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