Anne Abernathy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anne Abernathy
Occupation	Luger
Date Of Birth	Apr 12, 1953(1953-04-12)
Age	71
Birthplace	Saint Thomas
Country	United States Virgin Islands
Horoscope	Aries

Anne Abernathy Biography

Anne Abernathy is one of the most popular and richest Luger who was born on April 12, 1953 in Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands. Anne Abernathy (born April 12 1953) is a luge player of the United States Virgin Islands and is the oldest female athlete for the Winter Olympics. Her participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics were her sixth. In spite of her age she’s an extremely competitive athlete with numerous podium places at international events and is regularly placed among the top 20 in worldwide rankings. Her name is known in the luge community for her role as “Grandma Luge.” She is currently training for the 2020 Summer Olympics with the archer.

Abernathy was the first female to be selected for the six Winter Olympics. At the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City she became the oldest female athlete to ever take part for these Winter Games. She is the longest-running female Olympian at every Olympic Games (Winter or Summer) and also the first female athlete older than 50 to compete at this year’s Winter Olympics.

Her top finishes include third place at the Nations Cup in Igls, Austria in January 2004, and third place at the Nations Cup in Königssee, Germany, February 2004. She finished in the top 10 in seven of the eight events in the 2004-2005 Nations Cup series. Abernathy finished 25th in the 37th World Championships in 2004 in Nagano, Japan, but did not compete in the 2005 championships in Park City, Utah due to injuries suffered during homologation at the Cesana Pariol track in Cesana, Italy three weeks earlier.

During practice for the competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Abernathy crashed and broke her wrist and her scapula, and was forced to withdraw from competition.

Abernathy had a major accident during an World Cup race in Altenberg, Germany in January 2001 that caused a devastating brain injury. To heal her from injury employed an alternative treatment that involved controlling rockets in a videogame using electrical impulses generated from brain waves. It was a treatment that was designed to aid in retraining your brain’s system to heal damaged regions. The treatment was successful and she was able to be back in competition by enough time to qualify for at the Winter Olympics. The account of Abernathy’s crash and recovery was presented as part of the Discovery Health Channel series Impact: Stories of Survival.

Anne Abernathy Net Worth

Anne Abernathy is one of the richest Luger from United States Virgin Islands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anne Abernathy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Prior to the start of her debut Olympic performance in the year 1988 Abernathy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (cancer). While the cancer recurred multiple times throughout her athletic career, the truth was kept from the public during 3 Olympic events until exposed in a front-page story in The Washington Post prior to the 1998 Nagano Olympics.

In 1994’s Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway Abernathy was the first athlete to develop an online diary (now called blog) that was an exclusive blog on AOL.

Abernathy is the oldest woman to ever compete in the Winter Olympic Games, breaking the old record during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. She is the only woman to qualify for six Winter Olympic Games and one of only two female athletes to compete in five Winter Olympics. In 2006, she became the first woman over 50 to qualify for the Winter Olympics.

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Anne Ranked on the list of most popular Luger. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States Virgin Islands. Anne Abernathy celebrates birthday on April 12 of every year.