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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.
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 ...
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.
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Elana Meyers Taylor becomes the most decorated bobsledder in U.S. Olympic history after taking bronze in two-woman bobsled at the Beijing Games. American Elana Meyers Taylor adds to medal haul ...
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.
With Mariama Jamanka (1st), Elana Meyers Taylor & Lauren Gibbs (2nd) and Phylicia George (3rd) all making the podium, it marked the first time in Winter Olympic history that black athletes won gold, silver and bronze medals in the same event.
She won two silver medals in the two-woman event at the FIBT World Championships, earning them in 2000 and 2001. Davidson is best known for her controversy with her bobsleigh partner Jean Racine (now Prahm) prior to the bobsleigh trials for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City where the pair split when Racine dumped Davidson on December ...