 | Ashley Walden
DOB: November 5, 1981
Height / Weight: 5'9", 140 lbs. (1 meter 75, 63.5 kg)
Resides in Westborough, Mass.
Born in Framingham, Mass. | Personal /Career Info: Best-Ever Results - Finished eighth at 2002 XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Has competed in six world championships (1999-2001, 2004-2005 & 2007)
- Seven-time consecutive JetBlue Airways U.S. national luge start champion (1998-2004, 2007)
- Two-time Meransan, Italy int'l start champion (2001 & 2003)
- 2007 Verizon U.S. National champion, 2008 silver medalist
- Recorded best-ever World Cup finish, third, Jan. 22, 2005, in Winterberg, Germany, becoming the first U.S. women's singles slider to medal on the western German track
- A two-time world championship team event silver medalist (2004 & 2005)
- 2000 Verizon North American champion
- Three-time Verizon North American Championship bronze medalist (2001, 2002 & 2004)
2008-09 Results - 2008-09 World Cup Results: 17th, 9th, 12th, 14th, 11th, 22nd
- World Championships: 7th
Fun Facts - Ashley participated in softball, track & field and field hockey while attending Westborough High School (Westborough, Mass.)
- Ashley's favorite quote is "Never, never, never quit." -- Winston Churchill
- Ashley is married to U.S. men's singles slider, Bengt Walden
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Ashley Walden slides through the finish line. |
Ashley Walden enjoys Nagano, Japan |
Ashley, Run1, 2009 National Seeding Race |
Ashley and Bengt being interviewed. Oct 5, 2009 |
Ashley takes curve 15 in Sigulda, Latvia. Dec. 08 |
Ashley in the fall of 2009 |
The Norton-United Way eating contest. 09/09 |
Ashley speaks to the press following her 2009 World Championship race |
Ashley Walden was fourth in the Oberhof, Germany Challenge Cup race. |
Ashley pulls away on the start. 10/09 |
Ashley Walden, January 2009 |
Ashley wins race-off #1. 10/21/09 |
Ashley, run 2, 2009 National Seeding Race |
Ashley getting ready. 09 National seeding race |
Ashley racing off to make the fall 2008 National Team |
Ashley and Julia Clukey hiking in Austria, 8/09 training camp |
Ashley zooms past start 4 and enters curve #9. Lake Placid Worlds training |
Ashley Walden paddles down the Lake Placid start ramp. |
Ashley exits curve 12 during Worlds training. Feb. 4, 2009 |
Ashley Walden prepares for Sunday's national's race. |
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