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Kate Hansen

Hansen in 2013
Personal information
Birth name	Kate Elizabeth Hansen
Born	(1992-06-09) June 9, 1992 (age 32) Burbank, California, U.S.
Education	Brigham Young University
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight	130 lb (59 kg)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Luge
Club	Brigham Young University
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2014 Sochi

Kate Elizabeth Hansen (born June 9, 1992) is an American luger who has competed since 2003. In 2008, she became the youngest Junior World Champion, at age fifteen.

Career

Hansen has been competing since 2003. She would practice luge in California by riding a skateboard down hills on her back. In 2008, at the age of fifteen, she was the youngest-ever Junior World Champion. She has been on the United States National Team since 2007, and she finished 16th in the women's singles at a World Cup event in Calgary on November 21, 2009. Hansen won the USA Luge National Championship in October 2013 with a broken foot. In January 2014 she was the U.S. Olympic Committee's athlete of the month. She finished 10th place in the Sochi 2014 Olympics.

Sochi 2014

Hansen appeared in the Olympics for the first time at Sochi 2014, where she had a 10th-place finish with a time of 3 minutes 22.667 seconds.

Personal life

Hansen is a Mormon and currently attends Brigham Young University. She took a year off to attend the Olympics. She graduated from La Cañada High School. She resides in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

Hansen is a fan of Beyoncé and listens to her exclusively while warming up for her races. She warms up by dancing, which became her trademark during the Sochi 2014 Olympics. The official Facebook page of Beyonce posted the link to her dance warmup before Hansen's final race in the Sochi 2014 luge event, wishing her luck. The dance apparently came about after she broke her foot and had trouble running to warm up.

Hansen teamed up with Jimmy Kimmel in a prank video which made it seem that a wolf had broken into the apartment where she was staying. A few days later, they admitted to the prank after having scared the media, as well as security.

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kate Hansen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
2. ^ Kragthorpe, Kurt. "Olympics: BYU student 10th after two solid luge runs". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
3. ^ Judd, Brandon (February 10, 2014). "BYU Student, U.S. Luger Kate Hansen's Pre-race Dance Routine At Olympics Grabs Worldwide Attention". Deseret News. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
4. Campa, Andrew (February 11, 2014). "La Canada's Kate Hansen Accomplishes Goal of Taking 10th Place at Olympics". La Canada Valley Sun. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
5. Plaschke, Bill (February 11, 2014). "Sochi Olympics: Finishing 10th, luger Kate Hansen is Games' big winner". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
6. Cooper, Sam (February 10, 2014). "American Luger Kate Hansen Dances To Beyoncé Before Every Race and Doesn't Care Who Watches". Yahoo. Retrieved February 11, 2014.

• FIL-Luge profile

External links

• Kate Hansen at the International Luge Federation
• Kate Hansen at Team USA (archive December 11, 2018)
• Kate Hansen at Olympics.com
• Kate Hansen at Olympic.org (archived)
• Kate Hansen at Olympedia (archive)
• Kate Hansen on Instagram
• Kate Hansen's channel on YouTube

• 1992 births
• Living people
• Latter Day Saints from California
• American female lugers
• Sportspeople from Burbank, California
• Lugers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
• Olympic lugers for the United States
• People from La Cañada Flintridge, California
• Contestants on American game shows
• 21st-century American sportswomen