Kim Kalicki

Kim Kalicki
nation	Germany
birthday	June 27, 1997
size	173 cm
Weight	75 kg
job	State Police Officer
Career
discipline	Bobsleigh
position	pilot
society	TuS Eintracht Wiesbaden 1846
Trainer	Tim Restle
National squad	since 2016
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 3 × JWM medals (U23) 3 × 0 × 0 × DJM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver 2020 Altenberg Two-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh Junior World Championships silver 2016 Winterberg Two-man bobsleigh gold 2017 Winterberg 2-man bobsleigh (U23) bronze 2017 Winterberg Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2018 St. Moritz Two-man bobsleigh gold 2019 Königssee 2-man bobsleigh (U23) bronze 2019 Königssee Two-man bobsleigh gold 2020 Winterberg Two-man bobsleigh gold 2020 Winterberg 2-man bobsleigh (U23) German Junior Championships (Bobsleigh) bronze 2016 Altenberg Two-man bobsleigh silver 2017 Königssee Two-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup December 7, 2019 in Lake Placid  Overall World Cup two 16. ( 2019/20 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-man bobsleigh 0 1 1
last change: May 2, 2020

Kim Kalicki (born June 27, 1997 ) is a German bobsleigh driver , who is active as a pilot and starts for TuS Eintracht Wiesbaden 1846. In 2020 she and Kira Lipperheide won the silver medal in the women's two-man bobsleigh at the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships .

Career

Former athlete Kim Kalicki came to bobsleigh at the age of 17 and on November 21, 2015 she took part in her first German championships. She started together with Maureen Zimmer and the two took ninth and last place. Two days later she made her debut in the European Bobsleigh Cup on the track in Winterberg . Together with her pusher Ann-Christin Strack , she took second place behind Sabrina Duljevic's bob . At the end of the 2015/16 season , she finished sixth in the overall ranking of the European Bobsleigh Cup with 438 points. She qualified for the 2016 Junior Bobsleigh World Championship , which was held in Winterberg. She competed again with Ann-Christin Strack and secured the silver medal behind the German team, consisting of Stephanie Schneider and Lisa Buckwitz .

Before the 2016/17 season , Kim Kalicki did not take part in the German championship, but only entered the season with the European Cup competition in Winterberg on January 26, 2017. In this competition she took fifth place together with her pusher Lisa Sophie Gericke . Together with Lisa Sophie Gericke, she also competed at the 2017 Junior World Championships on the track in Winterberg, where she finished third behind the British bobsleigh by Mica Mcneill and the German bobsleigh by Anna Köhler . At the Junior World Championships 2017 there was a separate U23 classification and in this classification Kim Kalicki and Lisa Sophie Gericke won the gold medal. After the Junior World Championships, Kim Kalicki and Lisa Sophie Gericke also took part in the German Bobsleigh Junior Championships 2017, which were held on February 11, 2017 in the Veltins ice arena in Winterberg, and won the silver medal behind Sandra Kroll's bobsleigh.

At the start of the 2017/18 season , Kim Kalicki and her pusher Lisa Sophie Gericke took third place at the European Cup competitions in Lillehammer . The two competitions on November 11 and 12, 2017 were won by Katrin Beierl's Austrian bobsleigh . On January 12, 2018, she and her pusher Sarah Noll were able to secure another podium in the European Cup. On the track in Winterberg they took second place behind Christin Senkel's bobsleigh . At the end of the season she finished sixth in the overall ranking of the European Cup with 410 points. Also this season she started at the Junior Bobsleigh World Championships and finished third with her push-puller Lena Zelichowski behind the Romanian bobsleigh by Andreea Grecu and the German bobsleigh by Laura Nolte .

Before the 2018/19 season , Kim Kalicki competed at the German championships on October 27, 2018 together with her pusher Maureen Zimmer and took fifth place in the competition. She completed her first race of the season on January 10, 2019 in Innsbruck and, together with her pusher Kira Lipperheide, clinched her first victory in the European Bobsleigh Cup. The next day they were able to win the second competition on the Igls bob-sled ice rink . At the Junior World Championships in 2019 they competed together and achieved third place in the normal competition behind the Austrian bobsleigh by Katrin Beierl and the Romanian bobsleigh by Andreea Grecu . As in 2017, there was again a separate U23 classification, in which Kim Kalicki and Kira Lipperheide won the gold medal.

Before the 2019/20 season, Kim Kalicki and Viktoria Dönicke took part in the German push championship in Oberhof, Thuringia, and they both won the bronze medal. At the German championships, Kim Kalicki and Viktoria Dönicke secured second place behind Laura Nolte's bobsleigh and thus the silver medal. She was registered for the 2019/20 World Cup by the German Bobsleigh and Sleigh Association and made her debut on December 7, 2019 in Lake Placid together with her pusher Vanessa Mark , the two of them were able to go straight to the podium and were behind the US bobsleigh -American Kaillie Humphries and the bob of the German Stephanie Schneider took third place.

After Kim Kalicki lost to Stephanie Schneider in an elimination race for the World Cup and World Cup starting place, she started on January 31, 2020 in the European Cup in Innsbruck , which was also used as the Junior European Championship, with her pusher Viktoria Dönicke . The two secured victory in the European Cup ahead of the Russian bobsleigh by Lyubow Tschernych and the Romanian bobsleigh by Andreea Grecu and thereby also won the U23 ranking of the European Junior Championship. In the "normal" junior European championship, in which starters up to the age of 26 are rated, they were not rated. In this ranking, the Russians placed behind them won.

Together with Kira Lipperheide , who is experienced in the World Cup , she competed at the 2020 Junior World Championships in Winterberg in the Veltins-Eisarena on February 8th . The two secured the junior world championship title both in the U23 and in the "normal" classification and thus secured a personal right to start at the 2020 World Championships in Altenberg . At the world championships, the two surprisingly won the silver medal behind the American Kaillie Humphries and ahead of the Canadian Christine de Bruin .

successes

World championships

• 2020 : two-man bobsleigh

European Cup victories

No.	date	place	train	Pusher
1.	January 10, 2019	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh	Kira Lipperheide
2.	January 11, 2019
3.	January 31, 2020			Viktoria Doenicke

Web links

Commons : Kim Kalicki  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kim Kalicki in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Kim Kalicki in the database of the Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland

Individual evidence

1. ^ BSD series: The Young Wild ones - Kim Kalicki. Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany , October 10, 2019, accessed on December 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Results women from the German championship. (PDF) Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany , accessed on December 9, 2019 . 
3. ^ Result women at the German Junior Championship. (PDF) Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany , accessed on December 9, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Results women from the German championship. (PDF) Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany , accessed on December 9, 2019 . 
5. ^ German push championships and international start competition in Oberhof. International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation , October 8, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Results women from the German championship. (PDF) Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany , accessed on December 9, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Bob: National coach René Spies nominated World Cup and World Cup team. Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland , December 30, 2019, accessed on February 22, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Results of the European Junior Championship. International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation , accessed February 22, 2020 . 
9. ↑ U23 European champion Kalicki wins the Junior World Championships in the two-man bobsleigh. International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation , February 8, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 . 
10. ^ Silver for Kalicki / Lipperheide at the Bobsleigh World Championships in Altenberg. Sportschau , February 22, 2020, accessed on February 22, 2020 .