Natalie CORLESS

Canada

Luge

Date of Birth: 27 Nov 2003

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Place of birth: NEW WESTMINSTER, BC

Birth Country:

Canada

Residence: WHISTLER, BC

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Luge	Women's Singles	16

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Group A Run 1	Finished
After Run 1	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Group A Run 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Group A Run 3	Finished
After Run 3	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Group A Run 4	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Run 5	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Training Run 6	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Run 1	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Run 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Run 3	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women's Singles Run 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Junior World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
5	Team Relay	2020	Oberhof, GER	2:18.342
8	Team Relay	2019	Innsbruck, AUT	2:13.392
12	Women's Singles	2019	Innsbruck, AUT	1:22.215
14	Doubles	2019	Innsbruck, AUT	1:22.855
15	Doubles	2020	Oberhof, GER	1:19.577
21	Women's Singles	2020	Oberhof, GER	1:24.603

World Cup Rankings
Season	Women's Singles	Doubles
2021/22	36
2019/20		29

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location
20	Women's Singles	2021/22	Innsbruck, AUT
21	Women's Singles	2021/22	Sochi, RUS

Hobbies:

Hiking, rock climbing, camping, travelling, skiing, sailing.

Occupation:

Athlete

Family:

Father, Adrian. Mother, Marketa. One older brother.

Languages spoken:

English, French

Coach:

National: Wolfgang Staudinger (GER)

Debut:

2019 World Cup in Whistler (Doubles - 22nd)
2021 World Cup in Sochi (Singles - 21st)

Start:

First tried luge at age 11 at summer camp with her brother and then followed him into the sport. (olympic.ca)

Reason:

"It makes you feel powerful to be going that fast and be in control of this speed tunnel and little toboggan." (olympics.com, 8 Jan 2021)

“It was probably mostly just how unique [luge] was at the beginning. It was something so cool and so different, and within the sport, it’s a really small community of athletes, so you just get to form such a connection with your teammates, and with athletes of the other nations. So in one aspect, it was just a super-duper exciting sport. I got to go so fast, which I loved. But on the other side, it was also just such an awesome community that I was able to join.” (piquenewsmagazine.com, 3 Feb 2022)

Ambition:

Focused on singles instead of doubles in the 2020/21 season to qualify for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, which will not have a competition for women's doubles. She eventually would like to win an Olympic medal. (insidethegames.biz, 30 Jul 2021; olympics.com, 8 Jan 2021)

Memorable:

Accepting the silver medal for girls doubles at the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games. (olympics.com, 8 Jan 2021)

Philosophy:

“Feel the fear, then do it anyways.” (olympic.ca)

“Dreams don’t work unless you do." (csipacific.ca, Jun 2019)

Award:

Athlete of the Month (with doubles partner Caitlin Nash) (June 2019)

General Interest

WOMEN'S DOUBLES
In December 2019, she and her teammate and good friend Caitlin Nash - both age 16 - became the first women's doubles team to compete against men at the World Cup in Whistler, finishing 22nd. After the medals ceremony, second-place finishers Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt presented their flowers to Corless and Nash. "I don’t think it has sunk in yet, but we proved today that women can do this. We hope this gets people excited for women’s doubles, which is coming into the sport."

The duo paired up the following month at the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games to vie for one of the first doubles titles for women in the sport, winning the silver medal. (olympica.ca; insidethegames.biz, 14 Dec 2019)

BACKGROUND
Grew up in Vancouver, BC for six years before moving to Saratoga Springs, NY, in the United States of America. During the four years she lived in New York State, she spent one year in France. She then moved to Calgary, AB for three years and, finally, Whistler, BC in 2016. (csipacific.ca, Jun 2019)

Milestones

Won the silver medal in girls doubles at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games. In the relay made up of mixed athletes from Canada and Italy, the team finished fourth.

One Junior World Championships appearance in 2019. Placed 21st in singles, 15th in doubles, and fifth in the relay.

Won the overall Youth World Cup standings in both singles and doubles in her first full season with the junior national team in 2018/19.

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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