 Bagnis in 2020 | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 November 1999 Vercelli, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Skeleton | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Bob Club Cortina | ||||||||||||||
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Amedeo Bagnis (born 11 November 1999) is an Italian skeleton racer who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.He lives in Tricerro between Milano and Torino. At the IBSF Junior World Championships 2022 in Innsbruck he won the skeleton bronze medal. [1] [2]
Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled, down a frozen track while lying face down and head-first. The sport and the sled may have been named from the bony appearance of the sled.
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) is the international sports federation for the sliding sports of Bobsleigh and Skeleton. It was founded on 23 November 1923 by the delegates of Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States at the meeting of their first International Congress in Paris, France. In June 2015, it announced a name change from FIBT to IBSF. The federation's headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Simone Bertazzo is a retired Italian bobsledder and current bobsled coach who has competed since 2001. He won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz.
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Tretyakov is a Russian skeleton rider. Tretyakov is Olympic champion (2014), World champion (2013), European champion (2007) as well as two-times winner of the Skeleton World Cup, which he won in 2008–09 and 2018–19.
Christopher Grotheer is a German skeleton racer who has competed since 2007. His debut at the European Cup was in November 2010. Grotheer's best Skeleton World Cup finish was 3rd in season 2012–13. He won the Gold medal in Men's Skeleton Singles contest at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Germany's first ever in the event.
Nikita Mikhailovich Tregubov is a Russian skeleton racer.
Barrett Martineau is a Canadian Olympic skeleton racer who has competed since 2010. He was the Canadian Champion in both the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons. Barrett competed for Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang South Korea. In 2016–17, he finished 13th in the overall ranking. He competed for the top of the World Cup overall ranking. He then finished 13th at the 2017 IBSF World Championships. He also won 7 America Cups and 3 Canadian National Titles.
Austria competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with 105 competitors in 12 sports. They won 14 medals in total: five gold, three silver and six bronze; ranking 10th in the medal table.
Latvia competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with 34 competitors in 9 sports. They won one bronze medal in two-man bobsleigh and ranked 28th in the medal table.
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Ashleigh Fay Pittaway is a former German-British skeleton racer who competed on the Skeleton World Cup and Europe Cup circuits. She started racing in 2011 in Germany while a student, and joined the national team in 2015. Her personal coach was Danny Holdcroft, and she used a BlackRoc sled. She won a gold medal in the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer. She also made her World Cup debut in 2016, at Königssee, where she finished 15th. She retired from competitive racing in September 2021, ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Johannes Lochner is a German bobsledder who competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing where he won two silver medals.
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The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Laura Nolte is a German bobsleigh pilot, who began competing for the national team in 2015 and won the gold medal in the two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the youngest in bobsleigh history to win the title. In 2023 she has become the first European to win the Monobob World Champion title at the Sankt Moritz World Championships, while being also the winner of the 2023 European Monobob Champion title in Altenberg, Germany. In 2021, she won the gold medal in the two-woman event at the IBSF European Championships 2021 held in Winterberg, Germany. In the same season, she also won the gold medal in the two-woman event at the IBSF Junior World Championships 2021 held in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
South Korea competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
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