In 2002 Vonetta Flowers & Jill Bakken won gold in the 2-woman version of this high-speed sport
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Determined Skater Makes History With Fierce Charge to the Gold ...  Feb 19, 2006 ... American skater Shani Davis wins 1000-meter speedskating event to become first ... Davis stood out as a rare African-American in a mostly white sport, supported by ... Vonetta Flowers won a gold with the driver Jill Bakken in 2002. ... Davis's journey to this victory was complicated by at least two factors, his...
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Vonetta Flowers - Wikipedia  Vonetta Flowers (ne Jeffery; October 29, 1973) is an American bobsledder. ... At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she, along with driver Jill Bakken, won the gold medal in the two-woman event, becoming the first black person to win a gold medal in ... City Games, Flowers gave birth to twins and took some time off from the sport.
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'14 Need To Knows: Alpine Bobsled - Team USA  Apr 4, 2013 ... HOME; SPORTS ... It is that kind of speed they're hoping to see in 2014. ... who also was an alternate for the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games. ... That will be followed by two days of the women's bobsled, Feb. ... Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers won gold in Salt Lake with a two-run time of 1:37.76.
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bobsledding | sport | Britannica.com  Jill Bakken (front) and Vonetta Flowers of the United States racing down the ice ... the technique of bobbing back and forth to increase the speed of the sled. ... The women's two-person bobsled event made its Olympic debut in 2002. ... Flowers was the first black athlete to win an Olympic gold medal at the Winter Games.
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Jill Bakken - Wikipedia  Jill Bakken is an American Olympic bobsledder who has competed since 1994. As driver, she and partner Vonetta Flowers won the gold medal in Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics for the U.S. Bakken's best Bobsleigh World Cup season finish was second in the two-woman event in 19992000. ... Bakken is a graduate of Lake Washington High School and an alumnus of...
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Who Were The First U.S. Women To Win Olympic Gold In Each Sport?  Mar 24, 2016 ... In 1976, she was the first female U.S. Olympic champion in the sport, taking gold in ... Though Weinbrecht's first sport was figure skating, she found her calling ... She won three world championship medals  silver in 1989 and 1997 and .... Wills dominated women's tennis for much of the 1920s and '30s; her...
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Lisa Fernandez Pitcher 1996, 2000, 2004 - USA Fastpitch Softball ...  Jul 11, 2015 ... Lisa Fernandez Team USA Softball Olympian 1996, 2000, 2004 ... A. I started playing softball when I was 7 years old, for the little miss ... She joined her school's girls' softball team and she and her teammates won the CIF ... The city council named the ball field at Mayfair Park in her honor, ... Jennie Finch
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Bonnie Blair - Athlete - Biography.com  Bonnie Blair is a world record-holding speed skater, a six-time Olympic medalist and the ... She set a world record and won her first Olympic gold medal (in the 500 meters) ... woman to win five gold medals and the first American to win gold in the ... She is the most decorated woman in Winter Olympic history. ... April 2, 2014...
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Synchronized swimming 101: Olympic history | NBC Olympics  Jul 22, 2016 ... Russia won its second straight gold and Japan took silver. ... A perennial bronze medalist in synchronized swimming since the sport's ... For the 1996 Atlanta Games, the solo and duet events were ... Barcelona, 1992. Team USA's identical twins Sarah and Karen Josephson won the duet competition.
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Olympic souvenir - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage - Deseret News  Deseret News and KSL coverage of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games. ... snaps Parra's record with a time of 6 minutes, 14.66 seconds to take the gold . ... Cross country men's 30K: gold, Johann Muehlegg, Spain; silver, Christian .... Biathlon women's 7.5K sprint: gold, Kati Wilhelm, Germany; silver, Uschi Disl,...
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Apolo Ohno - Revolvy  In December 2001, during the U.S. Short Track Speed Skating 2002 Olympic Trials, speed .... Ohno won two gold medals, as well as the overall title at the meet despite .... Fellow American skater J. R. Celski finished with the bronze medal. ... career medals, to tie Bonnie Blair for most medals won by a U.S. Winter Olympian.
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She Has Ruthless Outlook on Game - latimes  Sep 20, 2000 ... SYDNEY 2000 / SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES | LOOKING AHEAD ... Softball: Lisa Fernandez dominates her sport, and she can't even play ... teams at the Olympics used to toss softballs to her mother sitting on a milk bucket in Lakewood. ... Even though Fernandez led the U.S. to a gold medal in Atlanta, she...
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After severely injuring her ankle, Kerri Strug lands her second vault ...  Jessica Ennis celebrates after winning gold in the heptathlon on Day 8 of the ... KERRI STRUG 1996 Olympics - With her left ankle heavily taped after ... She stuck her landing on an injured leg, and won the team gold for her and her ..... Mia Hamm .... first US gymnast to win both that title and the team gold in the same Games...
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jeopardy/338_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Value: $200. Number: 9. RACY LADIES | Though a hot prospect in '80, Beth Heiden was frozen out of gold in this Olympic sport | speed skating. right: Richard.
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Lisa Fernandez Pitcher 1996, 2000, 2004 - USA Fastpitch Softball ...  Jul 11, 2015 ... Lisa Fernandez Team USA Softball Olympian 1996, 2000, 2004 ... Prior to that it was just sports clinic and rec ball. ... She joined her school's girls' softball team and she and her teammates won the CIF Championship. ... 2000, Olympic gold medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics celebrated in Australia where...
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Twenty years later - Atlanta validation for Kiraly & Steffes  Jul 28, 2016 ... With Beach Volleyball making its Olympic debut at the Atlanta 1996 ... a fifth-place by Carl Henkel and Sinjin Smith of the United States. ... a 12-11, 12-6 win in 69 minutes over compatriots Monica Rodrigues and Adriana Samuel. ... Henkel and Smith ranks as one of the most memorable in the sport's history.
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Terry Speed - Revolvy  Jan 29, 2009 ... Australia Fellowship for WEHI's Professor Terry Speed, press release by ... is an American gold and silver medal winning Olympic speed skater . ... At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , McDermott took the ..... German Claudia Pechstein has won nine medalsfive gold, two silver, ..... Bonnie Blair.
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The 'Final Five' U.S. women's gymnastics team takes team gold ...  Aug 10, 2016 ... Thank you #Magnificent7 for inspiring us and being great examples  ... Her teammate, Shawn Johnson finished with a silver medal in the all-around ... of Mohini Bhardwaj, Annia Hatch, Terin Humphrey, Courtney Kupets,...
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Olympics Timeline: 1990s to the Present Day - Infoplease  The U.S. wins five gold medals, all by female athletes: speed-skater Bonnie Blair, ... 13-year-old Fu Mingxia of China wins the platform diving event, making her the ... over the age of 23 are allowed on each team, effectively making the Olympic ... They also win gymnastics, with the help of Kerri Strug, who nails her second...
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Who Were The First US Women To Win Olympic Gold In ... - Team USA  Mar 24, 2016 ... When she earned slalom gold, it was the first Olympic gold medal won by any ... With three women's events  the double National round, the double ... the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, May-Treanor finishing fifth on the beach and ... also two heavily-favored German teams, they ended a 46-year U.S. medal...
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Vonetta Flowers - Athlete - Biography.com  Aug 23, 2016 ... Government Official,; U.S. First Lady,; Women's Rights Activist; (1947) ... Vonetta Flowers became the first black person to win a gold medal at ... In 2002, she became the first black athlete to win gold at the Winter Olympics.