Melanie Hasler

Melanie Hasler
nation	Switzerland
birthday	May 16, 1998
Career
discipline	Bobsleigh
position	Pilot pusher (former)
status	active
Medal table
JEM medals (U23) 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European Junior Bobsleigh Championships bronze Innsbruck 2020 Two-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup February 14, 2020 in Sigulda  Overall World Cup two 23. ( 2019/20 )
last change: April 6, 2020

Melanie Hasler (born May 16, 1998 ) is a Swiss bobsleigh driver who is active as a pilot.

Career

The former volleyball player switched to bobsleigh in 2017 and was trained as a pilot. In the 2017/18 season she did not start as a pilot, but was used by Swiss Sliding as a pusher. On November 12, 2017, she made her debut as Martina Fontanive's pusher in the European Cup and together they finished fifth in the Norwegian community of Lillehammer . On January 5th, 2018 she started at the European Cup in Innsbruck as Jasmin Näf's pusher and they finished the competition together in eighth place. They also competed together at the Junior World Championships on January 27, 2018 in St. Moritz, Switzerland , taking 13th place in the "normal" rating and seventh place in the U23 rating.

For the 2018/19 season she switched to the position of pilot and made her debut as a pilot on December 15, 2018 in Königssee in the European Bobsleigh Cup . Together with her pusher Anina Bruggisser , she finished seventeenth on the Königssee artificial ice rink . One day later, she and Sarina Zolliker took seventeenth place in the second competition at Königssee . In Winterberg on December 5th and 6th, she and Anina Bruggisser achieved a top ten place in both competitions with eighth and seventh place respectively. At the end of the season she finished seventh in the overall ranking of the European Cup with 380 points. On February 2, she competed at the Junior World Championships together with Irina Strebel , finishing twelfth in the normal ranking and fifth in the U23 ranking.

For the 2019/20 season, Jasmin Näf , who had already tried herself as a pilot, will strengthen Melanie Hasler's team. In the 2017/18 season, Jasmin Näf and Melanie Hasler already competed together, only in reverse formation. Guests have access Janine Hottinger for Bobteam Hasler. At the first European Cup of the 2019/20 season, Melanie Hasler and Jasmin Näf took fourth place on November 23, 2019 in Lillehammer . After the two finished fifth in the first race in Sigulda on January 18, they achieved second place in the second competition in Sigulda on December 19, behind the Romanian bobsleigh by Andreea Grecu and ahead of the bobsleigh by the German Anne Lobenstein . At the Junior European Championship, which was held at the European Cup in Innsbruck , they won the bronze medal in the U23 class behind the bobsleigh of the German Kim Kalicki and behind the Russian bobsleigh by Anastasiia Makarova .

After winning the bronze medal, Melanie Hasler and Jasmin Näf took part in the Bobsleigh Junior World Championships in Winterberg and the two took 13th place in the “normal” category in the Veltins ice arena . In the U23 classification, they finished fifth and thus just missed a medal. A week later, Melanie Hasler should make her debut in the Bobsleigh World Cup . Together with Jasmin Näf, who was already a pusher in the 2017 World Cup, she started in Sigulda and finished twelfth and last on her debut. At the same time as the World Cup in Sigulda, the European Bobsleigh Championship was held in Race-in-Race and in this ranking they took eleventh place. Through their season results she qualified for the first time in her career for the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships and went in Altenberg at the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships 2020 together with Jasmin Näf at the start and the two occupied the ENSO Eiskanal the 15th place.

Web links

• Melanie Hasler in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Larissa Gassmann: From the sand court to the ice channel: The former volleyball player Melanie Hasler wants to start as a bobsleigh driver. Aargauer Zeitung , December 20, 2019, accessed on April 6, 2020 (Swiss Standard German). 
2. ↑ IBSF European Bobsleigh Cup 2019/2020 ended with Junior European Championships in Innsbruck. IBSF , February 2, 2020, accessed April 6, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Aargau young athlete - from the volleyball field to the bobsleigh run. February 3, 2020, accessed on April 6, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).