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Skeleton At The 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's
The women's skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the Cesana Pariol. Results Two-time world champion Maya Pedersen set the two fastest times to win the gold medal, Switzerland's first gold of the games. Shelley Rudman won silver, Great Britain's only medal of the games. Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards took bronze for Canada, the first Olympic medal in skeleton won by a Canadian athlete. Rudman's hometown of Pewsey, Wiltshire held a twelve-hour canoe marathon to raise money to help her go to Turin after she was disqualified from the 2005 world championships in Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ... for her sled being overweight after she was denied funding by the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. Pederson trained fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesana Pariol
Cesana Pariol was the venue for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The track, built for the games, is located in Cesana. The venue holds approximately 7,130 spectators, of whom 3,624 are seated. Construction details The track is constructed with about of ammonia refrigeration pipes to help form ice on the track for proper sliding. Numerous sensors located along the track ensure that the ice's thickness is kept between to keep the track properly smooth during competitions. History During construction of the track prior to the 2006 games, there was concern that the track would be completed in time for homologation. A archaeological find (a small part of a Roman ruins) during construction slowed progress until the remains were excavated (near the current Turn 11). The track was completed on end of 2004. In January 2005, the FIBT and FIL held their homologation events at the track. The FIBT had no issue when they ran their events during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Pedersen-Bieri
Maya Pedersen-Bieri (born 27 November 1972 in Spiez) 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 (the country of her husband and coach, Snorre Pedersen) 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. Born in Spiez, Switzerland, Pedersen-Bieri is married to Snorre Pedersen (who is her trainer), has two children, both of her children are females and lives in Øyer near Lillehammer, Norway. Notable results Before retiring in 2010, Pederen-Bieri was one of the most successful skeleton athletes in the world. Pedersen-Bieri won the FIBT World Championships in the women's skeleton event in 2001 and 2005, and earned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiko Nakayama
is a Japanese skeleton racer who has competed since 1999. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of 12th in the women's skeleton event at Salt Lake City in 2002. Nakayama's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 11th in the women's skeleton event at Königssee in 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 .... References 2002 women's skeleton results (todor66.com)* * External links * * 1970 births Japanese female skeleton racers Living people Olympic skeleton racers of Japan Skeleton racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics People from Matsumoto, Nagano 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women {{Skeleton-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Steele
Michelle Steele (born 8 March 1986) is an Australian skeleton racer who has competed since 2004. She finished 13th in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Steele's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was sixth in the women's skeleton event at St. Moritz in 2007. Her best finish in the World Cup was 3rd at Calgary in 2013. She used to be a surf lifesaving athlete, and a level nine gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh .... Steele's surf lifesaving highlights including coming fourth in the open women's beach flags at the Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships in 2004, and being Queensland State Champion in open and under 19 beach flag events. References External links * * * * * * 2006 women's skeleton results (todor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Corcoran
Louise Corcoran (born 30 July 1979) is a New Zealand skeleton racer who has competed since 2000. She finished 12th in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Her best World Cup result was 11th in Sigulda in 2005. Corcoran's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 16th in the women's skeleton event at Nagano in 2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des .... Corcoran won the six race FIBT Americas Cup Series in 2008. She first became interested in the sport in 1999, quitting her job as a guide and flying to Canada to participate in a five-day school that would qualify her for international competition. She founded the Taniwha Sled Company with her brother, building skeleton sleds. After winning the NBR Audacious Challenge on 15 Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Trunova
Svetlana Valeryevna Trunova (russian: Светлана Валерьевна Трунова) (born 7 June 1983), now Vasilyeva, is a Russian skeleton racer who has competed since 2004. She finished 11th in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Trunova also competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ... where she finished 16th. References 2006 women's skeleton results* Skeletonsport.com profile 1983 births Living people Olympic skeleton racers for Russia Russian female skeleton racers Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2010 Winter Olympics 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian women {{Skeleton-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay Alcock
Lindsay Alcock (born October 6, 1977) is a Canadian skeleton racer who has competed since 1998. She won a silver medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee. Competing in two Winter Olympics, Alcock earned her best finish of sixth in the women's skeleton event at Salt Lake City in 2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe .... She won the women's Skeleton World Cup overall title in 2003-4. A native of Calgary, Alberta, Alcock also does motivational speaking. References 2002 women's skeleton resultsFIBT profile External links * 1977 births Canadian female skeleton racers Living people Sportspeople from Calgary Skeleton racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic skele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desiree Bjerke
Desiree Bjerke Andersen (born 22 March 1971 in Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian skeleton racer who has competed since 1997. She finished ninth in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Bjerke's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 17th twice in the women's skeleton event (2005, 2007). She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ... where she finished 17th. External links 2006 women's skeleton results* Skeletonsport.com profile 1971 births Living people Norwegian female skeleton racers Olympic skeleton racers for Norway Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Fredrikstad 20th-century Norwegian women 20th-century Norwegian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anja Huber
Anja Huber (born 20 May 1983 in Berchtesgaden) is a German skeleton racer who has competed since 2003. She earned two gold medals at the 2008 FIBT World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, winning them in women's skeleton and the mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event. Huber finished eighth in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and earned a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ... in Vancouver. Huber won the women's overall Skeleton World Cup in 2010–11 season. References 2006 women's skeleton results* * External links * * * * * 1983 births Living people People from Berchtesgaden Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria German female skeleton racers Skeleton racers at the 2006 Wint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanja Morel
Tanja Morel (born October 14, 1975) is a Swiss skeleton racer who has competed since 1998. She finished seventh in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Zanoletti's best finish at the FIBT World Championships The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since 1930. Starting with 2002, championships of non-Winter Olympi ... was fourth in the women's skeleton event on three separate occasions ( 2003, 2004, 2007). References2006 women's skeleton results [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Uhlaender
Katie Uhlaender (born July 17, 1984) is an American skeleton racer who has competed since 2003. She has won six medals at the FIBT World Championships with two gold (women's skeleton: FIBT World Championships 2012, mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event: 2012), one silver (women's skeleton: 2008), and three bronze (women's skeleton: 2007, mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event: 2008, 2009). Career Uhlaender won the women's Skeleton World Cup title twice ( 2006-7, 2007-8). She also finished sixth in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She earned a medical waiver to compete in the 2009-10 Skeleton World Cup season following surgery in the wake of an April 2009 snowmobile accident where Uhelander shattered her kneecap. She then broke it again in August 2009 (having a total of four surgeries). She qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where she finished 11th. She then had another surgery (microfracture labral repair by Dr Phillipon at S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costanza Zanoletti
Costanza Zanoletti (born 2 December 1980 in Novara) is an Italian skeleton racer who has competed since 2002. She finished fifth in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Zanoletti's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 15th in the women's skeleton event at Nagano in 2003. She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ... where she finished 15th. References 2006 women's skeleton results (todor66.com)* * * External links * * 1980 births Italian female skeleton racers Living people Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic skeleton racers for Italy 20th-century Italian women 21st-century Italian women Sportspeople from Novara {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
