Elana Meyers Taylor

Elana Meyers Taylor
Full name	Elana Alessandra Meyers Taylor
nation	United States
birthday	10th October 1984 (age 35)
place of birth	Oceanside , United States
size	173 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
discipline	Two-man bobsleigh
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 4 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2010 Vancouver Two-man bobsleigh silver 2014 Sochi Two-man bobsleigh silver 2018 Pyeongchang Two-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver 2009 Lake Placid Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2012 Lake Placid Two-man bobsleigh gold 2012 Lake Placid team silver 2013 St. Moritz Two-man bobsleigh gold 2013 St. Moritz team gold 2015 Winterberg Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2016 Igls Two-man bobsleigh gold 2017 Königssee Two-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup December 7, 2007  World Cup victories 16  Overall World Cup two 1. ( 14/15 )  Overall World Cup foursome 25. (14/15)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-man bobsleigh 16 14th 10
last change: January 6, 2019

Elana Meyers Taylor Alessandra (* 10. October 1984 as Elana Meyers Alessandra in Oceanside , California ) is an American Bobfahrerin . She is also active as a 7-a-side rugby player and a former softball player.

Career

Elana Meyers was born in Oceanside, California and grew up in Douglasville , Georgia . Already in high school she worked in various sports teams, including softball, soccer and basketball. She earned a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology from George Washington University in 2007 and a master's degree in sports management in 2011. During her studies, she played on the university's softball team and was appointed to several selection teams. She also played professional softball for Mid-Michigan Ice in Midland , Michigan before switching to bobsleigh in 2007. In addition to sports, she is studying business administration at DeVry University .

In her first season as a bobsledder, she was appointed to the national squad and, as a pusher for Shauna Rohbock , took her first podium in the World Cup in 2008 in Altenberg . In 2009 she won silver again as a push for Rohbock at the World Championships in Lake Placid and in 2010 together with Erin Pac bronze at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver . After the Olympic Games in 2010, she switched to the pilot's seat and achieved her first podium as a pilot at the 2011 World Cup in Igls . In addition to bronze at the 2012 World Cup in Lake Placid and silver at the 2013 World Cup in St. Moritz , she was world champion in the team competition with the US team in these two years. In 2014 she won silver at the Olympic Games in Sochi together with her pusher Lauryn Williams and also finished second behind Kaillie Humphries from Canada in the 2013/14 overall World Cup .

In April 2014 she married the former bobsledder Nic Taylor and has since started under the name Elana Meyers Taylor. In 2014 she was also appointed to the squad of the US selection for rugby 7 for the first time.

In the winter of 2014/15, Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphries were the first women to take advantage of the newly created opportunity to take part in the FIBT four-man bobsleigh. Meyers Taylor qualified as the third of the US elimination races for the World Cup squad and made her World Cup debut in Calgary in December 2014 , finishing in 16th place. In the two-man bobsleigh World Cup, she won six of the eight races of the season, winning the overall standings for the first time ahead of Humphries and Jazmine Fenlator . At the subsequent Bobsleigh World Championships in 2015 in Winterberg , she became world champion in the two-man bobsleigh for the first time with Cherrelle Garrett . In the 2015/16 season, Meyers Taylor only contested four races in the World Cup , winning the last two races of the winter. She also won two races in the European Cup . At the 2016 Bobsleigh World Championships in Igls, she won the bronze medal with Lauren Gibbs .

successes

World Cup victories

Two-man bobsleigh women

No.	date	place	train
1.	0Feb 6, 2009	Whistler	Whistler Sliding Center
2.	0Dec 6, 2013	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
3.	0Dec 7, 2013	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
4th	Dec 13, 2014	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
5.	Dec 20, 2014	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
6th	0Jan. 9, 2015	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
7th	Jan. 30, 2015	La Plagne	La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run
8th.	0Feb 6, 2015	Innsbruck-Igls	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
9.	Feb 14, 2015	Sochi	Sliding Center Sanki
10.	0Feb 6, 2016	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
11.	Feb. 26, 2016	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
12.	Jan. 13, 2017	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
13.	Jan. 21, 2017	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
14th	Jan. 27, 2017	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
15th	04th Feb 2017	Innsbruck-Igls	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
16.	Jan. 13, 2018	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina

Web links

Commons : Elana Meyers Taylor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Elana Meyers Taylor in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Elana Meyers Taylor in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Profile at teamusa.org (English)
• Results at the-sports.org (English)
• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nick Zaccardi: Elana Meyers, Nic Taylor wed in bobsled-tinged ceremony. NBC Sports, April 30, 2014, accessed July 25, 2014 . 
2. ^ Chad Wise: Four changes for Suggitt as Eagles head to Amsterdam. (No longer available online.) USA Rugby, May 2, 2014, archived from the original on October 23, 2014 ; accessed on October 23, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Chad Wise: Suggitt selects Eagles for Guangzhou Sevens. USA Rugby, March 24, 2014, accessed October 23, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Amanda Bird: Meyers Taylor makes history with four-person bobsled World Cup debut, Holcomb leads Team USA in seventh place. USA Bobsled and Skeleton, December 20, 2014, accessed February 14, 2015 .