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Ashley Walden

Ashley Walden

American luger

Ashley Walden (née Hayden; born November 5, 1981, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American luger who competed from 1998-2011. She won two silver medals in the mixed team event at the FIL World Luge Championships (2004, 2005).

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Hayden also finished eighth in the women's singles event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Her best result in the Luge World Cup was a third place at Winterberg in 2005. In addition she won ten consecutive US national luge start championships in a row.[1]

In 2006, she married luger Bengt Walden, a naturalized American citizen originally from Sweden. For NBC Sports at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she worked as a researcher for the luge events. She announced her retirement from competition in December 2011.[1] In May 2014 the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation announced that Walden had been appointed as the federation's director of internal operations.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Ashley Walden retires". Federation internationale de luge de course. January 3, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  2. [2]
    "USA Bobsled makes big changes". espn.go.com. May 16, 2014. Retrieved May 16, 2014.


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