- Nicole Minichiello
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Medal record Bobsleigh World Championships Gold 2009 Lake Placid Two-woman Silver 2005 Calgary Two-woman Nicola Minichiello born Nicola Gautier on March 21, 1978 is a British bobsledder who has competed since 2001. She has won two medals in the two-woman event at the FIBT World Championships winning a silver in (2005) and making history with a gold in (2009) by becoming the first British female Bobsleigh Driver to win a World Championships.
Competing in three Winter Olympics, Minichiello earned her best finish of ninth in the two-woman event at Turin in 2006. This was also the best ever Olympic result by a GB women’s bobsleigh team.
Nicola is supported through the Bromley Technologies 'Formula Ice 2010' project alongside skeleton bosleigh athletes Shelley Rudman and Kristan Bromley.
When not Bobsledding, Nicole works as a part time P.E. teacher and also works as an athlete mentor for the Youth Sport trust. It was announced on 10 August 2010 that Minichiello would miss the 2010-11 Bobsleigh World Cup, including the FIBT World Championships 2011, to a knee injury.
References
- Bobsleigh two-woman world championship medalists since 2000
- Minichiello to Miss 2010-11 Season. at the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (10 August 2010 article accessed 15 August 2010.)
- Nicole Minichello at the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing
- The Sunday Independent (UK) February 19, 2006 featuring Minichiello and Jackie Davies.
- [1] Question of sport
- Sports-Reference.com profile.
- http://www.teamminichiello.co.uk
2000: Germany (Gabriele Kohlisch & Kathleen Hering) * 2001: Switzerland (Françoise Burdet & Katharina Sutter) * 2003: Germany (Susi Erdmann & Annegret Dietrich) * 2004: Germany (Susi Erdmann & Kristina Bader) * 2005: Germany (Sandra Kiriasis & Anja Schneiderheinze) * 2007: Germany (Sandra Kiriasis & Romy Logsch) * 2008: Germany (Sandra Kiriasis & Romy Logsch) * 2009: Great Britain (Nicole Minichiello & Gillian Cooke) * 2011: Germany (Cathleen Martini & Romy Logsch)This biographical article relating to British bobsleigh is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.