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Courtney Zablocki
- Two-time U.S. Olympian in luge (2002, 2006)
- Earned a career-best, fourth-place finish at the 2001 Igls, Austria, World Cup
- Silver medallist at 2001 North American Championships
- Silver medallist at the 2001 World Junior Championships
- A few events into the 2001-02 season, Zablocki recorded a career-high fourth place finish at the in December 12 World Cup event in Igls, Austria.
- "Finally, I put together two good runs," Zablocki said. "I've had good first or second runs this season, but until today I wasn't able to put together two solid runs back-to-back. Being 4th is awe-some,but being consistent was more importan
- Zablocki finished a career-high ninth in the 2000-01 overall World Cup standings. However, at the 2001 World Championships in Calgary, she made a major mistake at the end of her first run and placed a disappointing 39th in the final standings.
- She finished 12th at the previous year's World Championships in 2000.
- She graduated from the National Sports Academy in Lake Placid in spring of 2000. While attending NSA, she trained at the Olympic Training Center there. She now takes college correspondence classes through Brigham Young University.
- Like many other fellow U.S. luge teammates, she started luge in 1993 after seeing an advertisement for a street luge clinic at a local recreation center.
- She won the street luge time trial at the clinic, earning an invitation to attend a luge camp at Lake Placid.
- After the camp she was later named to the U.S. development team and she began competing internationally (at the junior level) in the 1996-97 season. Success came quickly as Zablocki became the U.S. Junior National Champion in 1998.
- When she was younger, Zablocki participated as a gymnast and diver and also swam for a club team.
- Hobbies include volleyball, bowling, reading, and working in her strawberry patch. Her mother calls her "Strawberry Girl" for the time she spends on the patch.
Zablocki says she has always been "comfortable with speed." As a child, she and her brothers would ride mattresses and laundry baskets down the staircase in her family's home. Now she gets that same rush riding the luge.
"It hasn't been easy. We've done a lot of sliding in a very short amount of time. The hardest part was trying to be consistent; to earn the best result you possibly could, so you could get whatever tier you needed to make the Olympic Team."
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Height: 5'6
Born: 28-Jan-1981
Hometown: Highlands Ranch, Colo.
Sport: Luge
Event: Luge / Singles
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