Mariama Jamanka (born 23 August 1990) is a retired German

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 won Gold in the two-woman event with

Lisa Buckwitz Lisa-Marie Buckwitz (born 2 December 1994) is a German bobsledder. She won a gold medal in the two-woman event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and also competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Career Buckwitz started off as a heptathlete. Buckwitz t ...

at the

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

Career

A former discus and

hammer thrower The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin. The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consists ...

of Berlin, Jamanka became a bobsledder in 2013. She entered the

Bobsleigh World Cup The Bobsleigh World Cup is an annual bobsleigh competitions. It has taken place since the 1984 Winter Olympics. Below is a lists of season champions. Each table shows the country and driver only. Combined men's Debuted: 1985. Medal table Two- ...

during the 2015–16 season. In January 2017, she won the European Championship in

Winterberg Winterberg ( Westphalian: ''Winnenmerg'') is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany and a major winter sport resort of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland. Geography Winterberg is located in the middle of ...

with brakewoman

Annika Drazek Annika Drazek (born 11 April 1995) is a German bobsledder and former track and field athlete. She was a sprinter, competed at two IAAF World Youth Championships The IAAF U18 Championships in Athletics (until 2015 known as IAAF World Youth Champ ...

. Later the same year, she was part of the gold-winning German team in the mixed team event at the

IBSF World Championships IBSF World Championship may refer to: *IBSF World Snooker Championship *IBSF World Championships (bobsleigh and skeleton) The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Sk ...

Königssee The Königssee is a natural lake in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. Most of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park. Description Situated within the Berchte ...

. Before the

Pyeongchang Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...

, Germany's head coach René Spies changed the brakewomen of the country's two leading two-women bobsleighs: Drazek was assigned to pilot

Stephanie Schneider Stephanie Schneider (born 25 September 1990) is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2008. Her best World Cup finish was first in the two-woman events at Whistler in November and Lake Placid in December 2010. She won gold at the 2011 F ...

, while Jamanka had to work with Schneider's former brakewoman

, with Schneider and Drazek being the most aspiring German team for the Pyeongchang Games. However, Jamanka and Buckwitz won the event, winning Germany's first two-woman bobsleigh medal since 2006, while Schneider and Drazek, who both became injured during the Games, finished fourth. Jamanka announced her retirement from the sport in April 2022.

Personal

Mariama's mother is German, and her father is from the Gambia.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jamanka, Mariama 1990 births Living people German female bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for Germany Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Berlin Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in bobsleigh 21st-century German women