Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Bobsled - Women's - 2014 Winter Olympics

Gold
Canada
 Kaillie Humphries
Kaillie Humphries (née Simundson) (born 4 September 1985) is a Canadian bobsledder. Humphries is the reigning Olympic champion in the two-woman at the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2014 Winter Olympics. With her victory in 2014 she became the first female bobsledder to defend her Olympic title, she also became the first female Canadian Olympian to repeat as champion since Catriona Lemay Doan. In addition she is also the two time defending overall World Cup champion. Humphries has also achieved seven FIBT World Championship medals which includes her current title as the reigning two-time World Champion.
Heather Moyse
Heather Moyse (born 23 July 1978) is a Canadian athlete, representing Canada in international competition as a bobsledder, rugby union player, and track cyclist and competing at the Canadian intercollegiate level in rugby, soccer and track and field.





Silver
USA
 Elana Meyers
Elana Meyers (born 10 October 1984) is an American bobsledder who has competed since 2007. She is a native of Douglasville, Georgia and is a graduate of The George Washington University, where she was a member of the Softball team.

Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams (born 11 September 1983) is a track and field sprint and Bobsled athlete of Trinidadian descent, competing internationally for the United States. She was the gold medalist in the 100 meter dash at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and won silver medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics, 2007 World Championships and the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
A World Junior Champion in 2002, she went on to win the 100 m at the 2003 Pan American Games and claimed the NCAA title over the distance for the University of Miami the following year. She has also featured as part of the American 4×100 meter relay team, winning gold medals at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships.
Williams is one of the few people who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games.




Bronze
USA
Aja Evans
Aja Evans (born 12 May 1988) is an American bobsledder who competes as a brakeman. She previously competed in track & field as a college athlete.

Jamie Greubel
Jamie Greubel (born 9 November 1983) is an American bobsledder who won her first Bobsleigh World Cup medal in December 2012. She is expected to compete in Bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Two-woman.
Greubel graduated from the Hun School of Princeton in Princeton, New Jersey in 2002 and Cornell University in 2006.[3][4] Greubel competed in field hockey and track in high school and was a heptathlete in college. She set Cornell records in the heptathlon and indoor pentathlon. She holds a master's degree in education.
Greubel took up bobsledding after graduating from college at the suggestion of one of her college track and field teammates. She first made the U.S. national bobsled team in 2007–2008 season Greubel started in the sport as a brakeman but switched over to pilot in 2010.

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