Helen Upperton
Helen Upperton (born October 31, 1979 in Ahmadi , Kuwait ) is a Canadian bobsleigh pilot .
Helen Upperton lives in Calgary and is trained by Dennis Marineau . She has been driving bobsleigh since 2000 and has been a member of the Canadian national team since 2003. Before her career in bobsleigh, Upperton was a track and field athlete ( triple jump ). Her past and current pushers have included Kallie Simundson , Nadine Walker , Jill Sallus , Heather Moyse , Jaime Cruickshank and Jennifer Ciochetti . Initially, she mostly finished in the back of the table, and she was among the top ten for the first time in January 2005 in Cesana Pariol . She achieved her first notable placement at the 2004 Bobsleigh World Championship , where she was eighth. The Canadian has been among the world's best since the 2005/06 season. In all seven World Cup races she was among the top ten, in St. Moritz she won for the first time and came on the podium three more times. She finished second in the overall standings behind Sandra Kiriasis . At the highlight of the season, the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , she was fourth and missed the bronze medal with her brakeman Heather Moyse by just five hundredths of a second. She was also successful in the 2006/07 season , finishing in the top four in all World Cup races and fourth in the overall standings. She achieved her worst placement of the season as sixth at the 2007 Bobsleigh World Championship in St. Moritz. At the beginning of the following season , she won a World Cup race for the second time with the first race of the season on her home track in Calgary.
Upperton is in a relationship with the Monegasque bobsleigh pilot Patrice Servelle .
Web links
- Homepage
- Upperton on the olympic.ca website
- Helen Upperton in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
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| SURNAME | Upperton, Helen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian bobsleigh pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ahmadi , Kuwait |