Fabienne Meyer

Fabienne Meyer
nation	Switzerland
birthday	November 28, 1981
place of birth	Langenthal ,  Switzerland
size	168 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Two-man bobsleigh
position	pilot
society	Zurich Bobsleigh Club; Baselland bobsleigh club
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × National medals 1 × 5 × 1 ×
European bobsleigh championships gold 2014 Königssee Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2012 Altenberg Two-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh Junior World Championships gold 2008 Igls Two-man bobsleigh Swiss Championship gold 2013/14 Two-man bobsleigh silver 2008/09 Two-man bobsleigh silver 2009/10 Two-man bobsleigh silver 2010/11 Two-man bobsleigh silver 2011/12 Two-man bobsleigh silver 2012/13 Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2006/07 Two-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2005  Overall World Cup two 4th ( 2011/12 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-man bobsleigh 1 2 4th
last change: July 27, 2014

Fabienne Meyer (born November 28, 1981 in Langenthal , Bern ) is a former Swiss bobsleigh athlete .

Career

Fabienne Meyer contested her first World Cup race in January 2005 in Cesana . In the following season in Altenberg she achieved her first place in the top 10 with sixth place.

Meyer competed in the European Bobsleigh Cup in the 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons . In 2008 she became Junior World Champion in Igls with her push-puller Marina Gilardoni . From the 2008/09 season she returned to the World Cup and was regularly placed in the top 15. At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , she finished tenth together with Hanne Schenk .

In January 2011 Meyer achieved a World Cup podium for the first time with third place in Igls. In the 2011/12 season, she finished all eight races of the season among the best eight drivers and finished fourth in the overall World Cup. Fabienne Meyer and Hanne Schenk won bronze at the 2012 European Championships in Altenberg. At the 2012 World Championships in Lake Placid , Meyer achieved sixth place with Schenk and, in 2013, fifth place with the Switzerland I team in St. Moritz .

In December 2013 Fabienne Meyer won her only title at the Swiss championships when she participated eighth. In addition, she was able to achieve her only World Cup victory in the 2013/14 World Cup season in the last race in Igls with pusher Tanja Mayer and at the same time became European Champion . After eighth place with Tanja Mayer at the 2014 Olympic Games from Sochi she announced her departure.

successes

World Cup victories

Two-man bobsleigh women

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan. 26, 2014	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee

Web links

• Fabienne Meyer in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Fabienne Meyer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Fabienne Meyer's website