Fabienne Meyer
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| Nationality | Swiss | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
28 November 1981 (age 35) [1]Langenthal, BE, Switzerland[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Residence | Willisau, LU, Switzerland[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st)[2] | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport |
 Bobsleigh | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | two-women | |||||||||||||||
| Coached by |
 Marcel Rohner  Petr Ramseidl[2] | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Fabienne Meyer (born November 28, 1981) is a Swiss former bobsledder who has been competing since 2005.[2]
She scored her first World Cup win in a two-woman event at Königssee, Germany in January 2014. The race also doubled as the women's Bobsleigh European Championship, earning Meyer a gold medal alongside brakewoman Tanja Mayer. Meyer had previously won a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2012.[3]
Meyer won the World Junior Championships in Bobsleigh in February 2008.[4]
Meyer's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 6th in the two-woman event at Lake Placid, New York in 2012.[4]
She competed with Hanne Schenk in the two-woman event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver where they finished in tenth place.[5] She also participated in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Meyer retired from competition after the 2013-14 season.[6]
European Championships
- 2014 European Championships –
Königssee, 
with Tanja Mayer - 2012 European Championships – Altenberg,
with Hanne Schenk
References
- 1 2 3 "Fabienne Meyer's Biography". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 "Fabienne Meyer's profile". SOOC. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ↑ "Viessmann FIBT World Cup and European Championships: Victory for Fabienne Meyer". International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- 1 2 "Fabienne Meyer (Switzerland): season totals". the-sports.org. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "Switzerland's two-woman bobsleigh, piloted by Fabienne Meyer, prepares for the start of a training run at the 2010 Winter Olympics". Yahoo Sports – Eurosport. Reuters. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ↑ "Swiss bobsleigh brakeman Thomas Lamparter ends career - European Champion Fabienne Meyer and Caroline Spahni also retire". Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobagganing. 26 March 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2015.