Fabienne Meyer

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Fabienne Meyer
Personal information
NationalitySwiss
Born28 November 1981 (1981-11-28) (age 42) [1]
Langenthal, BE, Switzerland [1]
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) [2]
Weight73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) [2]
Sport
SportBobsleigh pictogram.svg Bobsleigh
Eventtwo-women
Coached by Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Marcel Rohner
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Petr Ramseidl [2]
Medal record
Women's bobsleigh
Representing Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 KöniggseeTwo-woman
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2012 AltenbergTwo-woman

Fabienne Meyer (born 28 November 1981) is a Swiss former bobsledder who has been competing since 2005. [2]

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She scored her first World Cup win in a two-woman event at Königssee, Germany, in January 2014. The race also doubled as the women's Bobsleigh European Championship, earning Meyer a gold medal alongside brakewoman Tanja Mayer. Meyer had previously won a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2012. [3]

Meyer won the World Junior Championships in Bobsleigh in February 2008. [4]

Meyer's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 6th in the two-woman event at Lake Placid, New York, in 2012. [4]

She competed with Hanne Schenk in the two-woman event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver where they finished in tenth place. [5] She also participated in the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Meyer retired from competition after the 2013-14 season. [6]

European Championships

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References

  1. 1 2 "Fabienne Meyer's Biography". NBC Olympics . Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Fabienne Meyer's profile". SOOC. Archived from the original on 17 February 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  3. "Viessmann FIBT World Cup and European Championships: Victory for Fabienne Meyer". International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation . 26 January 2014. Archived from the original on 27 January 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Fabienne Meyer (Switzerland): season totals". the-sports.org. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  5. "Switzerland's two-woman bobsleigh, piloted by Fabienne Meyer, prepares for the start of a training run at the 2010 Winter Olympics". Yahoo SportsEurosport . Reuters . Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  6. "Swiss bobsleigh brakeman Thomas Lamparter ends career - European Champion Fabienne Meyer and Caroline Spahni also retire". Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobagganing . 26 March 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-01-30. Retrieved 30 January 2015.