Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian
Jazmine Fenlator 
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| birthday | August 29, 1985 | ||||||||
| place of birth | Wayne , New Jersey , USA | ||||||||
| size | 175 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg | ||||||||
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| discipline | Two-man bobsleigh | ||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||
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Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian , b. Jazmine Fenlator, (born August 29, 1985 in Wayne , New Jersey ) is an American- Jamaican bobsleigh athlete .
Career
Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian comes from New Jersey and is the daughter of a Jamaican and an American. She studied at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey , where she practiced athletics and set university records in shot put , discus and weight throwing . In 2007 she obtained a bachelor's degree in communication science and, on the initiative of her athletics trainer, took part in a trial training session for bobsleigh. She also holds a Masters degree from California University of Pennsylvania and is studying at DeVry University for a Masters of Business Administration with a major in Marketing .
Fenlator-Victorian started in 2007/08, initially pushing Jamia Jackson and Bree Schaaf in the European Cup and America's Cup . In April 2009, she took part in the America's Cup in Lake Placid for the first time as a pilot and also took part in the America's Cup in the two following winters with changing pushers. At the end of 2010 Jazmine Fenlator made his debut in Park City in the World Cup and finished eleventh with Kristi Koplin . In January 2011 Fenlator celebrated her first two victories at the America's Cup in Lake Placid. At the Junior World Championships in 2011, she was seventh.
In the 2011/12 season, Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian competed in both the European and World Cups and took eighth place in St. Moritz as the best World Cup placement . At the 2012 World Championships , she was tenth in the two-man bobsleigh and fourth in the team competition. At the first race of the season 2012/13 in Lake Placid, she achieved her first World Cup podium with second place. After five more top 10 results - including 3rd place in Igls - she was able to place 11th in the overall World Cup. She finished the 2013 World Championships in eighth place in both the two-man bobsleigh and team competition.
In the 2013/14 World Cup , Fenlator-Victorian achieved another second place and two fourth places. She finished seventh in the overall classification. She took part in the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi and finished eleventh together with LoLo Jones . In the following season she was again second and otherwise occupied ranks between 4 and 9, with which she reached third place in the overall World Cup behind Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphries . At the World Championships in Winterberg she was sixth.
In October 2015, Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian left the US Bobsleigh Federation to start for Jamaica in the future.
Fenlator-Victorian has been part of the Jamaican team at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) since 2016. In the final of the North American Cup of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) in Lake Placid in 2016/2017 , she finished third with Carrie Russell as a pusher, the first podium for Jamaica in an IBSF race. In December 2017 she came 7th with Russell at the 4th IBSF World Cup in Winterberg .
Her goal was to be the first female bobsleigh pilot for Jamaica to take part in the Olympic Games in 2018 and to build a long-term women's team for the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation. In mid-January 2018, Jamaica's Olympic Committee confirmed her qualification as a pilot of the women's two-man bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .
Trivia
Jazmine Fenlator is married to the former US bobsleigh driver Aaron Victorian, who also competes for Jamaica.
Fenlator-Victorian named their group funding campaign Cool Runnings 2 .
Web links
- Fenlator-Victorian in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (English)
- Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile at teamusa.org (English)
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Brandon Penny: US Olympic Bobsledder Jazmine Fenlator To Compete For Jamaica. teamusa.org, October 21, 2015, accessed October 27, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian , accessed January 17, 2018.
- ↑ Dave D'Alessandro: Bobsledder Jazmine Fenlator draws on mom's strength for her Olympic bid. nj.com, November 3, 2013, accessed October 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Preview BMW IBSF World Cup Winterberg - Record number of 26 nations reported for Winterberg , December 6, 2017, accessed January 17, 2018
- ↑ Preview BMW IBSF World Cup: World Cup Final and Olympic Test in PyeongChang - Premiere for Jamaica: for the first time women and men team in two-man bobsleigh , from March 14, 2017, accessed January 17, 2018
- ↑ Preview BMW IBSF World Cup and EM in Innsbruck - Am Rande der Gang , from December 13, 2017, accessed January 17, 2018
- ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day - Cool Runnings II with Power from Athletics ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2018 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. , Notes, January 16, 2018, accessed January 17, 2018
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| SURNAME | Fenlator-Victorian, Jazmine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fenlator, Jazmine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Jamaican bobsleigh athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wayne , New Jersey , United States |