Michelle Kelly

Michelle Kelly
nation	Canada
birthday	November 7th 1974
place of birth	Fort St. John , British Columbia
size	approx. 165 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
End of career	2010
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Skeleton World Championships gold 2003 Nagano singles silver 2008 Altenberg team bronze 2005 Calgary singles
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Debut in the World Cup 1996 Overall World Cup 1. ( 2002/2003 )

Michelle Kelly (born November 7, 1974 ) is a Canadian skeleton pilot .

Before her Skelteton career, Kelly was initially a gymnast. She practiced this sport for 13 years before switching to diving at the age of 17, then to football and finally as a brakeman to bobsleigh . This is where she came into contact with the skeleton when she was with the Canadian team in St. Moritz .

She has been competing in the Skeleton World Cup since the first women's season in 1996/97 . She contested her first race in December 1996 in Koenigssee , where she finished third. She won the third race of the season in Winterberg and, alongside Steffi Hanzlik, was the only winner of a race in the first season. In over 40 World Cup starts, she only failed to place in the top 10 once. She was able to win races three times. In the overall World Cup, she placed second behind Steffi Hanzlik in the first season. In 1998/99 she was fourth, 1999/2000 third, 2000/01 and 2001/02 fifth in the overall World Cup. In the following season she won this rating for the first time and was third the following year.

In 2003 Kelly became world champion in Nagano , making it the first female athlete to become world champion and overall world cup winner in one season. In 2005 she won bronze in Calgary . She became America Champion in Park City in 2002 . At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , she was only tenth. From 2001 to 2003 she won the Canadian Championships, in 1998 behind Susan Speiran and in 2004 behind Lindsay Alcock she was runner-up, in 1997, 2000, 2005 and 2006 she was third.

For the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , she missed the qualification. In contrast, she took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and was 13th in her discipline. She then ended her career.

Parallel to the sport of skeleton, she tried her hand at a career as a professional wrestler and, from 2001, took training units in the Hart Submission Dungeon from Stu Hart . For fear of a major injury, however, she gave up the project again in 2004 without having actively played a match.

Web links

• Michelle Kelly in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Kelly on the side of the Canadian Association

Single receipts

1. ↑ The Wrestler: Skeleton Racer Michelle Kelly ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.