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| Nationality | Austrian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 April 1994 Hall in Tirol, Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Elisabeth Vathje (m. 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Two-man Four-man | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | BSC-Stubai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Benjamin Maier (born 19 April 1994) is an Austrian bobsledder. [1]
Maier competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Austria. He teamed with brakeman Markus Sammer in the two-man event, finishing 22nd, and with Sammer, Stefan Withalm, Angel Somov and Sebastian Heufler in the four-man event, finishing 21st. [2] [3]
As of February 2016, his best showing at the World Championships is a bronze medal in the 2013 team event. His best finish in an Olympic event is 5th in the 2016 four-man event. [1]
Maier made his World Cup debut in January 2014. As of February 2016, his best finish is 2nd two times, in 2015–16 at St. Moritz and Schönau am Königssee. [1]
Maier married Canadian skeleton athlete Elisabeth Vathje in 2018. [4]
Pierre Fritz Lueders is a Canadian Olympic, world and World Cup champion bobsledder who competed from 1990 to 2010. He piloted both two-man and four-man bobsleigh, retiring after the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was named to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.
Noelle Pikus-Pace is an American retired skeleton racer who began her career in 2001. She won five medals at the FIBT World Championships, competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and won the silver medal in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Ivo Rüegg is a Swiss bobsledder who competed between 1996 and 2010. He won five medals at the FIBT World Championships with two golds, two silvers Two-man: 2007, Mixed team: 2009), and a bronze.
Jürgen Loacker is an Austrian bobsledder who competed from 1999 to 2013. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 13th in the four-man event at Turin in 2006.
Justin Kripps is a Canadian bobsledder and an Olympic champion in two-man bobsleigh following his gold medal win at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Kripps won a silver medal in the two-man event at the 2017 World Championships and a bronze in the mixed team event at the 2012 World Championships. He has competed in the sport since 2006 and has many World Cup podiums. During the 2017–18 Bobsleigh World Cup, he finished the season first in the two-man and overall, to win the Crystal Globe as overall champion.
Christina Hengster is an Austrian bobsledder who has competed since 2004. Her best World Cup finish was 2nd in the two-woman event in Park City, Utah, United States, in January 2016.
Christian Poser is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2008. His best World Cup finish was first in the four-man event at Calgary in December 2010. Poser competed for Germany at the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics.
Elizabeth Anne Yarnold, OBE is a British former skeleton racer who joined the Great Britain national squad in 2010. With consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, she is the most successful British Winter Olympian and the most successful Olympic skeleton athlete of all time from any nation. She won the 2013–14 Skeleton World Cup, followed by a gold in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Yarnold was selected to be one of the two women skeleton drivers representing Team GB at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, and went on to become the first person to defend an Olympic gold in skeleton and the first British athlete to defend a Winter Olympic title. Yarnold set the track record for women's skeleton at the Olympic venue in the final heat of the race with a time of 51.46 seconds, beating Jacqueline Lölling's pre-Olympic record by nearly 1.3 seconds and her own first-heat record by 0.2 second. Yarnold was also the flag bearer for Great Britain at the Pyeongchang opening ceremony.
Won Yun-jong is a South Korean bobsledder.
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Bror van der Zijde is a Dutch bobsledder.
Markus Sammer is an Austrian bobsledder.
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Thorsten Margis is a German bobsledder.
Andrew Matthews is a British bobsledder.
Stefan Withalm is an Austrian bobsledder.
Angel Somov is an Austrian bobsledder.
Sebastian Heufler is an Austrian bobsledder.
Elisabeth Vathje is a retired Canadian skeleton racer. In 2008, she was encouraged to try sliding sports by her father, who had shared an airplane trip with members of the Canadian luge team, but as a 14-year-old, she was too young to train bobsleigh, so she tried out for skeleton instead. She used a Bromley sled. Vathje was named one of the three women to represent Canada in skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after finishing third in the World Cup season standings for 2017–18. She retired in 2022 after being left off the Canadian team for the 2021–22 season.
Jacqueline "Jacka" Pfeifer is a German skeleton racer who has won numerous races and championships, including the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics skeleton competition in 2012 and the 2017 World Championships. Pfeifer began competing in skeleton at the age of 12 and was selected to the German national team in 2009. She won her first two international races, as a fifteen-year-old on the Europe Cup circuit, at Cesana Pariol in 2010. Her personal coach is Kathi Wichterle, and she rides an FES sled. When not racing, Pfeifer works for the German Federal Police.
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