Mariama Jamanka

Mariama Jamanka
nation	Germany
birthday	23rd August 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Berlin , Germany
size	170 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
position	pilot
society	BRC Thuringia
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang Two-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold 2017 Königssee Team competition gold 2019 Whistler Two-man bobsleigh  European bobsleigh championships gold 2017 Winterberg Two-man bobsleigh silver 2018 Igls Two-man bobsleigh gold 2019 Königssee Two-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup December 11, 2015  World Cup victories 5  Overall World Cup two 1. ( 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-man bobsleigh 5 6th 4th
last change: February 1, 2020

Jamanka with Lisa Buckwitz

Mariama Jamanka (born August 23, 1990 in Berlin ) is a German bobsleigh athlete . Together with pusher Lisa Buckwitz , the pilot became 2018 Olympic champion in the two-man bobsleigh .

Career

The daughter of a Gambier and a German grew up in Berlin-Reinickendorf and graduated from the Friedrich-Engels-Gymnasium there. Before her winter sports career , she was a track and field athlete at LG Nord Berlin , first as a multi-fighter, later as a discus and hammer thrower . On May 11, 2011, she achieved her best performance in hammer throw with 48.42 m. On the advice of her coach at the time, she switched to bobsleigh in 2013 as a pusher, and after two years she became a bobsleigh pilot.

For the 2015/16 season she moved from SC Potsdam to BSR Rennsteig Oberhof . On November 28, 2015, she won the European Cup race in Winterberg with Anne Lobenstein . She was then appointed to the German World Cup squad by national coach Christoph Langen and made her World Cup debut with pusher Franziska Bertels on December 11, 2015 with an eighth place in Königssee . On February 6, 2016, she came sixth with Bertels at the European Championship in St. Moritz . A week later, on February 13, 2016, she reached seventh place at the World Championships in Innsbruck with Erline Nolte as the pusher . At the 2017 European Championships in Winterberg, she won the title with pusher Annika Drazek and was second behind Elana Meyers Taylor in the World Cup race that was held at the same time , thus achieving her first podium result in the World Cup. She then became world champion in the team competition of the 2017 World Championships together with pushing Franziska Bertels, the men's bobsleigh from Johannes Lochner and Christian Rasp and the skeleton riders Axel Jungk and Jacqueline Lölling .

Before the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Jamanka's pusher Annika Drazek was assigned by national coach René Spies to pilot Stephanie Schneider , who was considered the more promising German driver. In return, Schneider's previous pusher Lisa Buckwitz was assigned to Jamanka. However, Jamanka and Buckwitz were able to prevail over the competition in the Olympic bobsleigh competition on February 20 and 21, 2018 and became Olympic champions.

For winning the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, she received the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 7, 2018 .

On October 28, 2018, Mariama Jamanka became German champion for the first time with pusher Annika Drazek. In December, she won her first World Cup race in Sigulda, Latvia. With a total of four World Cup victories, Jamanka and her pushers won the overall World Cup in the 2018/19 season and became world champion with Annika Drazek in Whistler / Canada on March 3, 2019 .

Jamanka lives in Oberhof, is a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr in the Oberhof sports promotion group, where she holds the rank of staff sergeant .

successes

World Cup victories

Two-man bobsleigh women

No.	date	place	train	Pusher
1.	December 8, 2018	Sigulda	Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track	Annika Drazek
2.	January 9, 2019	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
3.	January 12, 2019	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
4th	February 23, 2019	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
5.	January 12, 2019	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh

Web links

Commons : Mariama Jamanka  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Mariama Jamanka
• Profile at the Bobsleigh and Sleigh Association for Germany (BSD)
• Profile at BRC Thuringia
• Profile at the Thuringian Sledge and Bobsleigh Association (TSBV)
• Falk Blesken: Erline Nolte and Jamanka experience a crazy bob story. In: DerWesten.de (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung). 3rd February 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Oberhof's cool Berliner Mariama Jamanka with a quick start in the world class. Thüringer Allgemeine , February 16, 2017, accessed on February 22, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Berlin women win Olympic gold in the two-man bobsleigh. Berliner Morgenpost , February 21, 2018, accessed on February 22, 2018 . 
3. ^ Felix Hackenbruch: Olympia in Pyeongchang: Bob gold for the hammer thrower. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 21, 2018, accessed February 21, 2018 . 
4. ^ Medalists. (PDF) In: olympics.org. IOC, February 21, 2018, accessed February 21, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Silver Bay Leaf and Order of Merit. Office of the Federal President, June 7, 2018, accessed on June 7, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Olympic champion Jamanka gets her first World Cup success. T-Online, December 7, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 .