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Jill Bakken holds flowers aloft and enjoys her moment of triumph after winning the gold in the first-ever women's Olympic bobsled race 19 February. Her brakeman Vonetta Flowers is also being lifted by teammates on the left. Bobsleigh is an Olympic sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games.
Elana Meyers Taylor from the United States has more Olympic bobsleigh medals than any other woman, but is yet to win a gold medal so far; her five medals comprise three silver and two bronze from 2010 through 2022.
Flowers and Prahm competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, finishing sixth. Flowers also won the bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee. She retired from competition after the 2006 Winter Olympics. In December 2010, she was elected to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. She was inducted as a ...
Jill Bakken (born January 25, 1977) is an American Olympic bobsledder who has competed since 1994. As the driver, she and partner Vonetta Flowers won the gold medal in Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics for the U.S. Bakken's best Bobsleigh World Cup season finish was second in the two-woman event in 1999–2000.
Three bobsleigh events were competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics, at Utah Olympic Park.The competition took place between February 16 and February 23, 2002. [1] [2]For the first time since 1932, Olympic bobsleigh added a new event, with the first ever women's competition, won by Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers of the United States.
Lauryn Williams speaking at the USA Track & Field national meeting, December 2014. Lauryn Williams (born September 11, 1983) is an American sprinter and bobsledder. [1] She was the gold medalist in the 100 meter dash at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and won silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2007 World Championships, and 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
The two-woman competition in bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 18 February (heats 1 and 2) and 19 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of Beijing. [1] Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi of Germany won the event, the first Olympic medal for them.
Gibbs played volleyball while she was a student at Brown University.She left a job as a sales manager in 2013 to try out for the U.S. bobsled team. [3] Gibbs won a bronze medal at the 2016 bobsled world championships, [2] and with Elana Meyers Taylor won a silver medal in the two-woman event at the 2018 Winter Olympics.