Bonny Warner
Bonny Warner 
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| birthday | April 7, 1962 | ||||||||
| place of birth | Mount Baldy | ||||||||
| size | 176 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg | ||||||||
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| discipline | Single seater | ||||||||
| society | US Luge Association | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
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| last change: December 20, 2009 | |||||||||
Bonny Susan Warner (born April 7, 1962 in Mount Baldy , California ) is a former American luge and bobsleigh athlete .
Bonny Warner, who competed internationally for the US Luge Association , was one of the world's best luge athletes in the middle and second half of the 1980s. In 1980 she first came into contact with the sport as a torchbearer for the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid . Without knowing German, she went to Germany and learned the sport there. In 1984 she took part in her first Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo and finished in 15th place. In 1987 she was able to win her only race in the World Cup in Lake Placid . In addition to Cammy Myler and Erica Terwillegar , she is the only American who has ever won a World Cup race. In the overall ranking of the season, she and Gabriele Kohlisch took third place behind Cerstin Schmidt and Marie-Luise Rainer . The 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary were quite successful with a sixth place. She did less well four years later as 18th in Albertville . After the games, she initially ended her career.
In 1999, while on vacation in Lake Placid, she began bobsleigh, the women's competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics in the Olympic competition program. With her pusher Vonetta Flowers , however, she missed qualifying for the games despite good performances in the Bobsleigh World Cup , about third place in the overall ranking of the 2000/01 season .
Warner initially studied civil engineering at Stanford University , later switching to television journalism under the influence of her sport . In 1988 she was awarded a $ 10,000 award by the National Olympic Committee, the money she invested in training to become a flight instructor. She met her husband, a firefighter, when he was one of her student pilots. The couple, Warner has been called Bonny Simi since the marriage in 1996 , has a daughter (* 1998). Even Bill Graham was one of their flight students. From 1990 to 2004 she worked for United Airlines , since then for JetBlue - initially as a pilot, now in management. From 1980 to 1996 Warner was a member of the US National Olympic Committee as a representative of luge and bobsleigh. She was a commentator for CBS Sports at the 1994 Games in Lillehammer , 1998 in Sapporo and 2002 in Salt Lake City .
successes
World Cup victories
singles
| No. | date | place | train |
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| 1. | 1st Mar 1987 |
Lake Placid
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Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid |
Web links
- Bonny Warner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait at cf.alpa.org (engl.)
- Portrait at speaking.com (Engl.) ( Memento of 5 August 2010 at the Internet Archive )
- Bonny Warner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Warner, Bonny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Warner Susan, Bonny; Simi, Bonny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American luge and bobsleigh athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Baldy |