Kaillie Humphries

Kaillie Humphries
nation	Canada United States
birthday	4th September 1985 (age 34)
place of birth	Calgary ,  Canada
size	170 cm
Weight	76 kg
Career
discipline	Bobsleigh
Trainer	Stephan Bosch Mike Kohn
National squad	since 2019 (United States) 2003–2018 (Canada)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 3 × 4 × JWM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver Two-man bobsleigh gold 2014 Sochi Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Two-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver 2008 Altenberg team bronze 2011 Königssee Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2011 Königssee team gold 2012 Lake Placid Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2012 Lake Placid team gold 2013 St. Moritz Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2013 St. Moritz team silver 2016 Igls Two-man bobsleigh silver 2017 Königssee Two-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh Junior World Championships silver 2006 Igls Two-man bobsleigh silver 2007 Altenberg Two-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup November 25, 2004  World Cup victories 26 ( details )  Overall World Cup two 01. ( 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2015/16 , 2017/18 )  Overall World Cup foursome 18th ( 2014/15 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-man bobsleigh 26th 13 14th
last change: February 1, 2020

Kaillie Humphries (* 4. September 1985 in Calgary , Alberta as Kaillie Simundson ) is a Canadian Bobsportlerin .

Career

Kaillie Humphries lives in the city of her birth, Calgary, and began bobsleigh in 2002. She trains in Canada Olympic Park , her trainer is Stephan Bosch. In 2003 she graduated from the National Sport School . At first she was a brakeman for three years before starting as a pilot. In the Bobsleigh World Cup , Humphries made her debut in November 2004 at a race in Winterberg as Helen Upperton's brakeman . In Cesana Torinese , both of them achieved their first top ten result in tenth place in January 2005 . In December of that year they missed a first podium result in fourth place in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In 2006 she won silver with Helen Upperton at the Junior World Championships in Igls. From the following season , the Canadian started as a pilot in the European Bobsleigh Cup . Humphries won her very first race in December 2006 in Igls with the push- puller Kaylyn Best . A second victory followed in January 2007 in Winterberg, with Nadine Walker holding the brakes . A month later, she contested her first World Cup race as a pilot in the same place and came in 14th place. At the Junior World Championships in Altenberg she won silver as last year, but this time as a pilot with Jaime Cruickshank as the brakeman. In November 2007 she reached fourth place with Shelly-Ann Brown on her home track in Calgary for the first time a top ten result. In Lake Placid , Humphries drove Brown for the first time on the podium. The first major event was the 2008 Bobsleigh World Championship in Altenberg. In the two-man bobsleigh, Humphries finished fifth with Brown, in the team competition she won the silver medal with the Canadian team behind the German team. In the 2008/09 Bobsleigh World Cup she reached two second places and was seventh in the overall World Cup. At the 2009 Bobsleigh World Championships in Lake Placid, she was again fifth.

In December 2009 , Humphries won a World Cup race for the first time with Heather Moyse in Altenberg. In the races of the season, by the way, she always placed in the top six and came second in the overall World Cup behind Sandra Kiriasis . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , their home country , Humphries and Moyse won the gold medal ahead of their teammates Helen Upperton and Shelley Brown and Erin Pac / Elana Meyers . Before the Winter Games, as a local athlete, she had been able to complete significantly more training runs than her competitors on the difficult track. In the following season , the duo reached third place in the overall World Cup and also bronze at the 2011 Bobsleigh World Championship at Königssee. In the 2011/12 season , three more World Cup victories followed with pushing Emily Baadsvik and at the 2012 Bobsleigh World Championships in Lake Placid, Humphries was first world champion together with Jennifer Ciochetti ; she also won bronze in the team competition. In the 2012/13 Bobsleigh World Cup , Humphries took podium finishes in all nine races of the season, including six wins, and thus won the overall standings ahead of Sandra Kiriasis and Cathleen Martini . She also defended her title at the World Championships in St. Moritz with Chelsea Valois and won the bronze medal with the team again. In winter 2013/14 followed by three more World Cup victories with Heather Moyse and Humphries won for the second time in a row the World Cup. At the end of the season, the duo Humphries / Moyse won gold again at the Olympic Games in Sochi , leaving the US teams Meyers / Williams and Greubel / Evans behind.

For the 2014/15 season, the international bobsleigh federation opened the four-man bobsleigh competitions for mixed teams and Kaillie Humphries became the first female pilot to take part in international four-man bobsleigh races alongside Elana Meyers Taylor. After starting at the North American Cup , where she achieved second place, she was allowed to start in the four-man bobsleigh World Cup in December 2014 and was 15th in her first race in Calgary. Five more races followed with a 14th place in Sochi as the best result of the season. In the two-man bobsleigh, she placed four times on the podium and came second in the overall standings behind Meyers Taylor. At the World Championships in Winterberg , she was seventh in the two-man, fourth with the team and 27th in the four-man bobsleigh. In the 2015/16 season, Humphries finished on the podium in all eight races of the season of the World Cup , taking four wins and winning the overall World Cup with a clear lead over Jamie Greubel Poser. At the World Championships in Igls, she and her regular pusher Melissa Lotholz won silver in the two-man bobsleigh and came fifth in the team competition.

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The native Canadian competes for the US Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation since the 2019/20 World Cup season . The split was preceded by a harassment lawsuit by Humphries against a coach at the Canadian Association. Even under the US flag, Humphries was among the world's best and celebrated several World Cup victories.

Private

Humphries married the British-Canadian bobsledder Dan Humphries in 2007 . The couple is now divorced. In 2019 she married the US bobsleigh pilot Travis Armbruster.

successes

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	train
01.	December 19, 2009	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
02.	December 19, 2011	La Plagne	La Plagne bobsleigh and sled run
03.	3rd February 2012	Whistler	Whistler Sliding Center
04th	February 10, 2012	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
05.	November 9, 2012	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
06th	17th November 2012	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
07th	December 24, 2012	Whistler	Whistler Sliding Center
08th.	December 8, 2012	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
09.	December 14, 2012	La Plagne	La Plagne bobsleigh and racing sledge}
10.	January 11, 2013	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
11.	November 30, 2013	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
12.	December 14, 2013	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
13.	January 11, 2014	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
14th	November 27, 2015	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
15th	December 11, 2015	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
16.	15th January 2016	Park City	Park City bobsleigh
17th	January 23, 2016	Whistler	Whistler Sliding Center
18th	3rd December 2016	Whistler	Whistler Sliding Center
19th	January 6, 2017	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
20th	9th November 2017	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
21st	November 25, 2017	Whistler	Whistler Sliding Center
22nd	January 6, 2018	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
23.	7th December 2019	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
24.	December 14, 2019	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
25th	January 25, 2020	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
26th	February 1, 2020	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina

Web links

Commons : Kaillie Humphries  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kaillie Humphries in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Kaillie Humphries in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results at the-sports.org (English)
• Kaillie Humphries ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Canadian bobsleigh star Humphries will start for the USA in the future. In: https://www.spiegel.de/ . Der Spiegel , September 29, 2019, accessed February 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Jen Reynolds: Watching Kaillie Humphries win gold. Parents rejoice! February 20, 2014, accessed November 16, 2015 .