Kendall Lorraine Wesenberg (born 23 August 1990) is an American

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who competes on the

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circuit. Wesenberg attended the

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, where she studied business administration, and lives in Nashville,

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. She began racing skeleton in 2014. Wesenberg was named, along with

Katie Uhlaender Katie Uhlaender (born July 17, 1984) is an American skeleton racer who has competed since 2003. She has won six medals at the FIBT World Championships with two gold (women's skeleton: FIBT World Championships 2012, mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team ...

, to represent the U.S. in women's skeleton at the

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in Pyeongchang.

Notable results

Wesenberg started competing internationally in 2014–15 on the Europe Cup circuit, winning her very first race, at Lillehammer. She went on, with three fourth-place finishes and two seconds, to become the first American woman to win the overall Europe Cup season rankings. She moved immediately to the World Cup for the 2015–16 season, taking 15th place at the

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and 11th in the season rankings. She took her first (and so far only) World Cup podium in

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, with a silver medal at St. Moritz, and improved her

performance to 13th at

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; also at the 2017 Worlds, she was on a team event (combined bobsled and skeleton) squad that finished 10th.

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