| Two-woman at the XIX Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Park City | |||||||||
| Dates | February 19 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 30 from 11 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 1:37.76 | |||||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics | ||
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The Women's two-woman bobsleigh competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States was held on 19 February, at Park City. [1] The event was contested for the first time in Olympic history.
Each of the 15 two-woman teams entered for the event completed both runs.
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  United States (USA-2) | Jill Bakken Vonetta Flowers | 48.81 | 48.95 | 1:37.76 |
 |  Germany (GER-1) | Sandra Prokoff Ulrike Holzner | 49.10 | 48.96 | 1:38.06 |
 | Germany (GER-2) | Susi Erdmann Nicole Herschmann | 49.19 | 49.10 | 1:38.29 |
| 4 |  Switzerland | Françoise Burdet Katharina Sutter | 49.28 | 49.06 | 1:38.34 |
| 5 | United States (USA-1) | Jean Racine Gea Johnson | 49.31 | 49.42 | 1:38.73 |
| 6 |  Netherlands (NED-1) | Eline Jurg Nannet Kiemel | 49.64 | 49.54 | 1:39.18 |
| 7 |  Italy | Gerda Weissensteiner Antonella Bellutti | 49.66 | 49.55 | 1:39.21 |
| 8 |  Russia | Viktoria Tokovaya Kristina Bader | 49.72 | 49.55 | 1:39.27 |
| 9 |  Canada | Christina Smith Paula McKenzie | 49.60 | 49.75 | 1:39.35 |
| 10 | Netherlands (NED-2) | Ilse Broeders Jeanette Pennings | 49.70 | 49.67 | 1:39.37 |
| 11 |  Great Britain (GBR-2) | Michelle Coy Jackie Davies | 49.77 | 49.78 | 1:39.55 |
| 12 | Great Britain (GBR-1) | Cheryl Done Nicola Gautier | 50.10 | 49.79 | 1:39.89 |
| 13 |  Hungary | Ildikó Strehli Éva Kürti | 49.99 | 49.92 | 1:39.91 |
| 14 |  Sweden | Karin Olsson Lina Engren | 50.37 | 49.93 | 1:40.30 |
| 15 |  Romania | Erika Kovacs Maria Spirescu | 50.12 | 50.62 | 1:40.74 |
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Maya Pedersen-Bieri is a Swiss-Norwegian skeleton racer who has competed since 1995. She won the gold medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She retired from the sport in 2010 before returning to compete for Norway in 2016, becoming at the oldest woman to start a World Cup race when she returned to the top level of skeleton in 2017. She is listed in the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation athlete registration system as Maya Pedersen.
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Trinidad and Tobago sent a delegation to compete at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States from 8–24 February 2002. This was Trinidad and Tobago's third appearance at a Winter Olympic Games. The delegation consisted of three bobsledders, Gregory Sun, Andrew McNeilly, and Errol Aguilera. In the two-man competition, a four-run event in which all three men competed, they came in 37th place.
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF), originally known by the French name Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT), is the international sports federation for bobsleigh and skeleton. It acts as an umbrella organization for 14 national bobsleigh and skeleton associations as of 2007. 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.
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Eline Jurg is a Dutch bobsledder who has competed since 1996. Competed in two Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of sixth in the two-woman event at Salt Lake City in 2002.
Gabriele Kohlisch is a German luger and bobsledder who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997 in luge, then from 1998 to the early 2000s in bobsleigh. She is one of only two people to win World Championship gold medals in both bobsledding and luge, the other being fellow German Susi Erdmann.
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