Maame Biney

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Maame Biney Short track
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday January 28, 2000
Career
status active
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
ISU Short track junior world championships
bronze 2018 Tomaszów Mazowiecki All-around
gold 2019 Montreal 500 m
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 4th February 2017
 500 m world cup 8. ( 2017/18 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 500 meters 0 0 1
 Relay / team 0 0 2
last change: February 12, 2020

Maame Biney (born January 28, 2000 in Accra , Ghana) is a Ghanaian - American short tracker . In 2018 she was the first black female speed skater on a US Olympic team to take part in the Olympic Games.

Life

Biney was born in Accra, Ghana. She moved to the United States at the age of five to live with her father. Biney began ice skating in Northern Virginia when she was six. She started out with figure skating , but switched to speed skating on the recommendation of a coach .

In 2017, Biney won the bronze medal over 500 meters at the Short Track Junior World Championships in Innsbruck . She made her senior team debut later that year when she won the America's Cup in qualifying for the US Speed ​​Skating Short Track World Cup. On December 16, 2017, Biney qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by winning the 500 meters in the US Olympic Qualifications, becoming the second African-born athlete to join the US after Madagascar-born biathlete Dan Westover in 1998 represented at the Winter Olympics.

At the 2018 Olympic Games, Biney did not get beyond her qualifying run in the 1500 meters and was ousted from the 500-meter race in the quarter-finals.

After her return from the 2018 Olympic Games, Biney did well at the Short Track Junior World Championships in Tomaszów Mazowiecki , winning gold over 500 meters, bronze over 1000 meters and bronze in the overall standings.

She won the bronze medal in the 1500 meters at the Four Continents Championships in Montreal in January 2020 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Maame Biney Becomes First African-American Woman To Make US Olympic Speed ​​Skating Team. In: teamusa.org. web.archive.org, 2019, archived from the original on January 12, 2019 ; accessed on January 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Kareem Copel, The Associated Press: Maame Biney looking like the future of US speedskating. In: denverpost.com. 2017, accessed January 19, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ Who is US short track skater Maame Biney? - NBC Olympics. In: nbcolympics.com. web.archive.org, 2018, archived from the original on September 13, 2018 ; accessed on January 19, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Maame BINEY - Olympic. In: olympic.org. International Olympic Committee, 2018, accessed January 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Biney, maame
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian-US short track
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Accra , Ghana