Courtney Zablocki

Courtney Zablocki was a luge slider who competed at the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Winter Games, just missing a medal in 2006 when she finished fourth in women’s singles. At the US Championships, she won the title in 2005 and 2006, was runner-up in 2000 and 2003, and placed third in 1999, 2001, and 2007. Zablocki competed at eight World Championships with her best finish coming in 2004 when she was ninth. She competed on the World Cup circuit from 1997-2010.

While sliding Zablocki worked at Home Depot in the program they had for US Olympians. After the 2006 Olympics she joined the Colorado Army National Guard.

Zablocki, later Courtney Landin, wrote several books about pregnancy and raising babies after her sports career, including Happy Sleeping Baby and Mammastyrka. She ran an online pregnancy training course, Gravidstyrka Certification, and ran two websites, www.livinghealthyhappy.com and www.happysleepingbaby.com. She settled in Stockholm with her husband and family.