Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke became the first British women to win a Bobsleigh World Championship title when they won gold in Lake Placid this afternoon (Saturday). The pair had been second at the halfway mark overnight after two of the four runs that make up the World Championships – four-hundredths of a second behind leaders Shauna Rohbock and Elana Meyers of the USA. But the Brits produced an outstanding third run to head the...
Britain’s Nicola Minichiello ended the 2008/9 Bobsleigh World Cup in third place overall. Minichiello, who does some of her training at the University of Bath, finished sixth in the final leg of the World Cup in Park City, the USA at the weekend. That was good enough to ensure she secured third place overall for the series. During the eight-race World Cup series Minichiello collected a silver and two bronze medals in a season that...
The push-start track at the Sports Training Village is set to feature on the BBC 1 documentary Bobsleigh Challenge on Monday (16th February). The BBC put four former athletes through their paces in the challenge – Bath Bullet Jason Gardener, former decathlete Dean Macey, rugby World Cup winner Dan Luger and cyclist Craig MacLean. The quartet practised on the push-start track at the University of Bath before tackling the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games bobsleigh...
British bobsleigh driver Nicola Minichiello has collected three World and European medals in just two days in St Moritz, Switzerland. Minichiello collected the bronze medal in round five of the World Cup yesterday (Thursday) – a race arranged to replace the cancelled World Cup round in Italy just before Christmas. She produced a repeat performance with another bronze in World Cup round six today at the same track. That race also doubled as the European...
The British bobsleigh crew of Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke won their first World Cup medal of the season by taking silver at the Konigssee track in Germany at the weekend. The British pair finished just 0.14 seconds behind the USA1 crew of Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming over two runs. It means driver Minichiello, who does some of her training at the University of Bath, climbs to fifth in the overall 2008/9...
The British women’s bobsleigh crew of Nicola Minichiello and Jackie Gunn achieved a top-10 finish in their first World Cup event of the 2008/9 season. The pair, who do some of their training at the University of Bath Sports Training Village, came ninth overall in round one of the World Cup in Winterberg, Germany. Nicola and Jackie were 10th fastest after the first run, but were almost half a second quicker in the second run...
The British women’s bobsleigh crew of Jackie Davies and Paula Walker finished 13th in the penultimate round of the World Cup at the weekend. The pair, who do some of their training at the University of Bath, followed up their 10th place in Italy a week ago with 13th in Winterberg, Germany at the weekend. Gold went to Germany’s Sandra Kiriasis, who drove to her fifth straight women’s bobsleigh victory. The final round of the...
The British bobsleigh crew of Jackie Davies and Paula Walker finished 10th in their first World Cup outing of the season. The pair, who do some of their training at the University of Bath, secured a top-10 finish overall with the ninth fastest times in each of the two runs. The event, which took place at Cesana Pariol in Italy, was round six of the eight-round 2006/7 season. Gold went to Germany’s reigning World Champion...
Britain’s bobsleigh women finished 14th and 16th in the World Championships in Switzerland. Jackie Davies and her brakeman Paula Walker came home 14th in the GB2 crew at St Moritz with a pair of 13th place finishes and two 17th place finishes. The GB1 crews of Nicola Minichiello and Lauren Therin finished 16th overall. Their best performance was an eighth fastest time in the third of four runs. The Brtitish crews do some of their...
The British bobsleigh pair of Nicola Minichiello and Lauren Therin produced their best World Cup result of the season to finish ninth in Austria. The pair, who do some of their training at the University of Bath Sports Training Village, followed up their recent 10th place at Cortina in Italy with ninth on the Igls track in Austria. They produced a consistent pair of runs in Igls, finishing eighth and ninth. The British pair are...
