U.S. Olympic Athletes

Erin Hamlin

  • Home:  Remsen, NY
  • Birthday:  Nov. 19, 1986

Luge

2006 Olympian

2010 Olympic hopeful

Personal Specs

Height: 5'7"

 Short List Performance

  • 2006 Olympic Winter Games -12th
  • 2009 FIL World Luge Championships - gold
  • 2009 Norton U.S. Champion
  • 2008 Verizon U.S. Champion

 Vancouver Watch

Hamlin won the gold medal at the 2009 FIL World Luge Championships in the women's singles event. She is not only the first U.S. woman to win the Luge World Championships, but she is also the first woman from outside Germany to stand on top of the podium in a Luge World Championship since 1993. Even more impressive, she broke the lock that the Germans have had on World Cup, Olympic, and World Championship wins since 1997. Taking the event in her home in Lake Placid, she has set the groundwork for another possible upset in Vancouver.

 Personal

During the summer of 1999, at the age of 12, Hamlin was introduced to the sport of luge through a USA Luge Slider Search in Syracuse, NY. After being selected to a development team, she began training in Lake Placid, N.Y., where she continues to reside for most of the off-season. Making the World Cup Team in the fall of 2005 landed her on the senior circuit where she raced her way onto her first U.S. Olympic Team in 2006.

 Did You Know...?

  • Plans to attend college after 2010 Olympic Winter Games
  • Was a Sectional All-Star in both soccer and track while attending Remsen Junior/Senior High School (Remsen, N.Y.)
  • Favorite book is Angels & Demons -- Dan Brown
  • Favorite athletes are Lance Armstrong and Mia Hamm

Best-Ever Results

  • Finished 12th at the 2006 XX Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy
  • Won first-career individual senior international medal, Challenge Cup silver, Dec.
    1, 2006
  • A 19th Junior World Luge Championship team event bronze medalist
  • 2008 Verizon U.S. National Champion
  • Two-time Verizon U.S. Junior (to age 20) Women's Singles National champion (2004 & 2005)
  • 2003 Youth A (to age 17) women's singles overall World Cup bronze medalist
  • A Fall 2007 World Cup team relay gold medalist (Nov. 17)
  • A gold medalist at the 41st World Championships (Lake Placid, N.Y.)

2008-09 Results

  • 2008-09 World Cup Results: 4th, 11th, 8th, 11th, 10th, 24th, 8th
  • Team Relay: 3rd, 6th
  • World Championships: 1st