Sandra Kiriasis
Sandra Kiriasis (born 4 January 1975 in Dresden as Sandra Prokoff) is a German retired bobsledder who has competed from 2000 to 2014.
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| Born | 4 January 1975[1] Dresden, Bezirk Dresden, now Saxony,  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Winterberg[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb; 12.8 st)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website (in German) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Event(s) | 2-woman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | RSG Hochsauerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City she won silver in the two-woman event together with teammate Ulrike Holzner. She also competed in the bobsleigh events at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, where Kiriasis (married in late 2004) won gold in the two-woman event with teammate Anja Schneiderheinze. She finished fourth in the two-woman event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Kiriasis also won eight medals at the FIBT World Championships with five golds (Two-woman: 2005, 2007, 2008; Mixed team: 2007, 2008, 2009) and two silvers (Two-woman: 2003, 2004). She won the overall two-woman Bobsleigh World Cup in 2003-4, 2004–5, 2005–6, 2006-7, 2007-8, 2008-9, 2009–10, 2010–11 and won a record 43 World Cup races in total.
Kiriasis retired from the sport after the 2014 Winter Olympics.[2] In July 2014 Kiriasis joined basketball team Nürnberger BC as a fitness coach.[3] In 2017 she was appointed as driving coach for the Jamaican women's bobsleigh team ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, helping them to qualify for the Olympics for the first time.[4][5] However, she parted company with the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation days ahead of the start of bobsleigh training at the Games after she was told she would be demoted from her position as driver coach to the role of track and performance analyst.[6][7]
Career highlights
- Olympic Winter Games
- 2002 – Salt Lake City,
- 2006 – Turin,
- 2018 – PyeongChang, Former coach of the women's Jamaican bobsled team.
- World Championships
- 2003 – Winterberg,
- 2004 – Königssee,
- 2005 – Calgary,
- 2007 – St. Moritz,
- 2008 – Altenberg,
- European Championships
- 2005 – Altenberg,
- 2006 – St. Moritz,
- 2007 – Cortina d'Ampezzo,
- 2008 – Cesana,
- 2009 – St. Moritz,
- World Cup Single Events
- 2000/2001 – Winterberg,
- 2000/2001 – Winterberg,
- 2000/2001 – Igls,
- 2000/2001 – Igls,
- 2000/2001 – Park City,
- 2001/2002 – Winterberg,
- 2001/2002 – Winterberg,
- 2001/2002 – Königssee,
- 2001/2002 – Igls,
- 2001/2002 – Igls,
- 2001/2002 – Calgary,
- 2001/2002 – Calgary,
- 2002/2003 – Calgary,
- 2002/2003 – Calgary,
- 2002/2003 – Park City,
- 2002/2003 – Park City,
- 2002/2003 – Lake Placid,
- 2002/2003 – Lake Placid,
- 2002/2003 – Igls,
- 2002/2003 – Igls,
- 2003/2004 – Calgary,
- 2003/2004 – Calgary,
- 2003/2004 – Lake Placid,
- 2003/2004 – Lake Placid,
- 2003/2004 – Lillehammer,
- 2003/2004 – Lillehammer,
- 2004/2005 – Winterberg,
- 2004/2005 – Altenberg,
- 2004/2005 – Igls,
- 2004/2005 – Cortina d'Ampezzo,
- 2004/2005 – Cesana,
- 2004/2005 – Lake Placid,
- 2005/2006 – Calgary,
- 2005/2006 – Lake Placid,
- 2005/2006 – Igls,
- 2005/2006 – Cortina d'Ampezzo,
- 2005/2006 – Königssee,
- 2005/2006 – St. Moritz,
- 2006/2007 – Calgary,
- 2006/2007 – Lake Placid,
- 2006/2007 – Cortina d'Ampezzo,
- 2006/2007 – Igls,
- 2006/2007 – Cesana,
- 2006/2007 – Winterberg,
- 2006/2007 – Königssee,
- 2007/2008 – Calgary,
- 2007/2008 – Park City,
- 2007/2008 – Lake Placid,
- 2007/2008 – Cortina d'Ampezzo,
- 2007/2008 – Cesana,
- 2007/2008 – St. Moritz,
- 2007/2008 – Königssee,
- 2007/2008 – Winterberg,
- 2008/2009 – Winterberg,
- 2008/2009 – Altenberg,
- 2008/2009 – Igls,
- 2008/2009 – Königssee,
- 2008/2009 – St. Moritz,
- 2008/2009 – St. Moritz,
- 2008/2009 – Park City,
References
- FIBT-Bobsleigh profile, accessed December 9, 2010
- "Kiriasis kritisiert Bob-Verband für Machata-Sperre: "Beschämend und lächerlich"" [Kiriasis criticised Bobsleigh Association for Machata ban: "Shameful and Ridiculous"]. Freie Presse (Saxony) (in German). 4 March 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- "Sandra Kiriasis bringt Nürnbergs Basketballer in Form" [Sandra Kiriasis brings Nuremberg Basketball players into shape]. 2. Basketball Bundesliga (in German). 25 July 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- Scott, Livingston (13 December 2017). "Bobsleigh Team Has Top Level Support". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- Keyser, Hannah (16 January 2018). "Thirty Years After Cool Runnings, Jamaican Women Qualify For Olympic Bobsled". Deadspin. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- Thompson, Anna (14 February 2018). "Winter Olympics: Jamaica's women's bobsleigh coach Sandra Kiriasis quits". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- Grohmann, Karolos (15 February 2018). Stutchbury, Greg (ed.). "Bobsleigh: No reason given for my Jamaica team demotion, says Kiriasis". reuters.com. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- Bobsleigh two-woman Olympic medalists since 2002
- Bobsleigh two-woman world championship medalists since 2000
- Mixed bobsleigh-skeleton world championship medalists since 2007
- List of two-woman bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1995
- NBCOlympics.com profile
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