Lisa Buckwitz

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Lisa Buckwitz Bobsleigh
Lisa Buckwitz IMG 6955.jpg
Full name Lisa-Marie Buckwitz
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 2nd December 1994 (age 25)
place of birth Berlin , Germany
size 176 cm
Career
position Pusher, pilot
society SC Potsdam
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
EM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2018 Pyeongchang Two-man bobsleigh
IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships
silver 2017 Königssee Team competition
IBSF European bobsleigh championships
silver 2018 Igls Two-man bobsleigh
 
Buckwitz with Mariama Jamanka

Lisa-Marie Buckwitz (born December 2, 1994 in Berlin ) is a German bobsleigh athlete . She became an Olympic champion in 2018 .

Buckwitz began bobsleigh in 2013 after she had previously been active as a heptathlete and had also participated in German youth championships for SV Preußen Berlin . She has been a member of the German national team since 2014. Buckwitz is a sports soldier and starts for SC Potsdam .

In 2015 Lisa Buckwitz won a World Cup race in Königssee as Cathleen Martini's pusher . In the same year she became Junior World Champion with Miriam Wagner and in 2016 with Stephanie Schneider . At the 2017 World Cup , Lisa Buckwitz won silver in the team competition.

At the beginning of 2018 Buckwitz was assigned by national coach René Spies to pilot Mariama Jamanka , whose previous pusher Annika Drazek was assigned Schneider in return. With Jamanka she finished second at the 2018 European Championships .

At the 2018 Winter Olympics , Buckwitz surprisingly became the Olympic champion as a pusher for Mariama Jamanka, ahead of the American Elana Meyers Taylor . The actually better rated German bobsleigh with Stephanie Schneider and Annika Drazek landed in fourth place.

For winning the gold medal at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 7, 2018 .

After the 2018 Olympic Games, she retrained to become a pilot.

Web links

Commons : Lisa Buckwitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephanie Baczyk : Portrait Bobfahrerin Lisa Buckwitz. (No longer available online.) Rbb24, September 14, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 21, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rbb24.de  
  2. ↑ Lisa Marie Buckwitz. Leichtathletik-datenbank.de, accessed on February 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tobias Gutsche: Rapid development to become an Olympian. Potsdam Latest News , February 7, 2018, accessed February 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Felix Hackenbruch: Bob gold for the hammer thrower. Der Tagesspiegel, February 21, 2018, accessed on February 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Sensational: Olympic gold for Lisa Buckwitz from Potsdam. Landessportbund Brandenburg eV, accessed on February 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Felix Hackenbruch: Bob gold for the hammer thrower. Der Tagesspiegel, February 21, 2018, accessed on February 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Silver Bay Leaf and Order of Merit. Office of the Federal President, June 7, 2018, accessed on June 7, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Buckwitz retrains to become a pilot - when the pusher becomes the boss. December 10, 2018, accessed November 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Buckwitz, Lisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buckwitz, Lisa-Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bobsleigh athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany