Kira Lipperheide

Kira Lipperheide
nation	Germany
birthday	February 7, 2000
size	178 cm
Weight	82 kg
Career
discipline	Two-man bobsleigh
position	Pusher
society	TV Gladbeck 1912
Trainer	Heiner Preute
National squad	since 2019
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals (U23) 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver 2020 Altenberg Two-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh Junior World Championships 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)
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup January 19, 2019 in Innsbruck  World Cup victories 1 ( list )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-man bobsleigh 1 2 -
last change: February 23, 2020

Kira Lipperheide (born February 7, 2000 ) is a German bobsleigh driver and former athlete . Together with Kim Kalicki , she won the silver medal in the women's two-man bobsleigh at the 2020 IBSF World Championships.

Career

Career as a track and field athlete

Before Kira Lipperheide switched to bobsleigh , she was an athlete for TV Gladbeck in 1912 . In 2018 she started in the Frankenstadion Heilbronn for her club in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the German junior athletics championships and was able to win the silver medal with the relay. A little later she also started at the German Athletics Championships 2018 in the Max-Morlock-Stadion in Nuremberg and took seventh place with the relay from TV Gladbeck in the final bill. Although Kira Lipperheide was changed to that date already for Bobsleigh she joined in 2019. Both German Junior Championships and in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin at the German Track and Field Championships in the 4 x 100-meter relay from the TV Gladbeck on.

Career as a bobsledder

In 2018, Kira Lipperheide did the same as her club colleague Annika Drazek and switched from athletics to bobsleigh . She became a pusher and since then, like Annika Drazeck, has been part of Mariama Jamanka's team . She completed her first international competition on January 10, 2019 as Kim Kalicki's pusher in the 2018/19 European Cup . In the competition, the two won ahead of Laura Nolte's and Breeana Walker's bobsled . A day later, the two were able to win the second competition in Innsbruck . Shortly afterwards, Kira Lipperheide was allowed to make her World Cup debut as Mariama Jamanka's pusher on January 19, 2019 on the artificial ice rink Bob-Rodel Igls in Innsbruck, where she and Mariama Jamanka reached behind Stephanie Schneider's bobsleigh and Elana Meyers Taylor's bobsleigh the second place.

On February 2, 2019, Kira Lipperheide was again active as a pusher for Kim Kalicki and the two started at the Junior World Championships on the Königssee artificial ice rink . In the competition they took third place behind the Austrian bobsled by Katrin Beierl and the Romanian bobsled by Andreea Grecu . The two Germans were also rated in the U23 classification and were able to win the junior world championship in this.

In the 2019/20 season , Kira Lipperheide was able to win a World Cup race for the first time as Stephanie Schneider's pusher . On January 4, 2020 in the Veltins-Eisarena in Winterberg, the two won the German triple victory in front of Mariama Jamanka's bobsleigh and Laura Nolte's bobsleigh . In St. Moritz on the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina she was able to take the podium together with Mariama Jamanka on February 1, 2020 and took second place behind the bobsleigh by Kaillie Humphries and ahead of the bobsleigh by Stephanie Schneider.

On February 8, 2020, she and Kim Kalicki competed at the Junior World Championships, which were held in Winterberg, just like a year before. They secured the junior world championship title in front of the Russian bobsleigh by Lyubow Tschernych and the Chinese bobsleigh by Ying Qing , both in the “normal” classification and in the U23 classification. This secured them a personal right to start at the 2020 World Championships in Altenberg . At the world championships on the Altenberg sledge and bobsleigh track , the two surprisingly won the silver medal behind the American Kaillie Humphries' bobsleigh and in front of the Canadian Christine de Bruin's bobsled .

successes

World Championship

• 2020 : two-man bobsleigh

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	train	pilot
1.	4th January 2020	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run	Stephanie Schneider

European Cup victories

No.	date	place	train	pilot
1.	January 10, 2019	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh	Kim Kalicki
2.	January 11, 2019

Web links

Commons : Kira Lipperheide  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kira Lipperheide in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
• Kira Lipperheide in the database of the Bobsleigh and Sleigh Association for Germany
• Kira Lipperheide in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Result list of the German Athletics Junior Championships 2018 in the database of the German Athletics Association
2. ↑ U23 European champion Kalicki wins the Junior World Championships in the two-man bobsleigh. International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation , February 8, 2020, accessed on February 22, 2020 (German). 
3. ^ Silver for Kalicki / Lipperheide at the Bobsleigh World Championships in Altenberg. Sportschau , February 22, 2020, accessed on February 22, 2020 .