Lauren Gibbs (born March 2, 1984) is an American

bobsledder Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...

who competes as a brakeman. She was named to the U.S. Olympic team for the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

Career

Gibbs played volleyball while she was a student at Brown University. She left a job as a sales manager in 2013 to try out for the U.S. bobsled team. Gibbs won a bronze medal at the 2016 bobsled world championships, and with

Elana Meyers Taylor Elana Meyers Taylor (born Elana Alessandra Meyers; October 10, 1984) is an American Olympic bobsledder and World Champion who has competed since 2007. Born in Oceanside, California, Meyers Taylor was raised in Douglasville, Georgia and is a grad ...

won a silver medal in the two-woman event at the

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* 1984 births Living people American female bobsledders Brown University alumni Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in bobsleigh Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Los Angeles 21st-century American women {{US-bobsleigh-bio-stub